Transwomen the demeaning way in which they view what it is to be female and how it can be damaging to women.

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[–]VioletRemi 45 insightful - 4 fun45 insightful - 3 fun46 insightful - 4 fun -  (2 children)

When they are thinking about "being a woman", they not even think about middle class privileged "cis" women. They are thinking about some weird fantasies and sexist stereotypes they saw in movies and porn. I heard a lot of times from TiMs that "it is so easy for you women to live, you just flirt a bit and get any job, any payment, any man" (yeah like i care about getting man as lesbian) and so on. They are seeing women as someone more privileged than men, who have everything, can do anything. And when those TiMs transitioning - they really getting anything they want, anything they demand, going to any spaces they want and laws are bending before them...but that is not because they are women. It is because they are middle/high class men, who even before transition held a lot of power. Especially when there situations like - women for years were asking small funding for women crisis center, while transwomen got their in few months with five time more fundings.

Whole gender/queer theory is just one huge sexist stereotype about men and women. So all it can bring is just misogyny and LGB erasure.

[–]sisterinsomnia 22 insightful - 1 fun22 insightful - 0 fun23 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

A great realization for me in your first paragraph! Yes, I have noted that many (not sure what percentage of TIMs) believe that women get cosseted, fed chocolate all day long, have sex every fifteen minutes, and live their lives thinking of nothing but makeup and underwear. I was never quite sure if that was just a form of AGP because some of it sounds extremely sexist and AGP is sexist, or if it is some other kind of psychological reaction to toxic masculinity or something similar.

But your point about trans women perhaps getting reinforced in those beliefs because many people are extra kind toward transgender individuals rings really true. They think they are treated with such kindness because they are women now! Well, reality will come knocking on their door when novelty wears out.

[–]Complicated-Spirit 16 insightful - 1 fun16 insightful - 0 fun17 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It’s not just TIMs, it’s a page from the misogynist’s playbook.

“Women have it so easy because they can just flirt and get whatever they want.”

(Notice how they only think that their particular brand of attractive, sexy women are “women”. Other women don’t exist. They’re not really women OR people.)