What's the deal with TIFs?

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[–]our_team_is_winning 28 insightful - 1 fun28 insightful - 0 fun29 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

I'm in awe of your weightlifting ability. And pregnant! As for TIF, I honestly did not know there were so many these days. I feel like it's men who enabled the whole AGP thing, but at the same time it might be other men who shut it all down if TIF intrude on their spaces too much. It would be nice if women had a say in any of this, but the only women I see in "power" (I mean politics or the boss of a company or such) seem to be hardcore libfem champions of TiM. Cutting off healthy breasts -- that's just mutilation. I don't see how it falls within medical ethics to do that. To me, it's a more extreme version of cutting. My friend's daughter went through a disturbing period in her teens, sneaking off to put slashes all up and down her arms. I guess it makes the person feel "in control" (?) to be able to self-harm? I used to be anorexic, and for me I got a "rush" out of being frightfully skeletal and then lecturing other people for eating at all. I was honestly disgusted by people who ate. I wonder if TiF have a similar level of disgust toward women who have any female traits. It's like they want to disappear, so they want you to disappear too? Sorry you've had so many encounters with rude TiF. I wish they could understand that misogyny, facial hair, shaved heads, whatever still doesn't make a woman a man. It just seems to make a hateful woman. Please let all this insanity stop soon.

[–]msteacherlady[S] 17 insightful - 1 fun17 insightful - 0 fun18 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

I wish it would stop soon too! I started teaching right when the self-harm baton was being handed from anorexia to cutting. Now I'm witnessing the trans thing with girls taking off. I still remember when a favorite student of mine "accidentally" let her sleeve slip and I saw the marks. I got counseling on it and they got her help. Still in touch with her and she is living her best life, it's really wonderful to see. But you see, I can't make that intervention with this trans shit. The first official trans boy in my class had the team of counselors meeting me ahead of time to warn me about pronouns, deadnames, and the problem of the unchangeable photo still in the system that showed her very much presenting as a girl. Had to carefully watch all documents and keep my computer screen from snoops or be sued. But you can't express concern like I used to, because I'd be the asshole. It's very hard to safeguard kids these days.

Oh, side-note, a family friend has a TIM boss who loves warmly "educating" people, but when he can't answer a question, draws a line and chastises the asker for stepping over a boundary before recommending resources for self-educating. By golly that person is a whole post for another day!

[–]our_team_is_winning 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Excellent post and tragic. You see students hurting themselves and you're supposed to intervene. Keeping young people safe is the responsibility of all who work with them. Yet mutilating their bodies and participating in delusional fetishes is NOT on the list of self-harm. Unreal. She cuts her arms = warning sign, needs help. She has lost twenty pounds in the last three weeks = warning sign, needs help. She comes to school with bruises all over her = red flag! Get this girl help! She wants to cut her breasts off = let's celebrate her transition!

[–]msteacherlady[S] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

There are so many things that bother me about the trans movement, but I have to say this is the thing at the top of my list. I feel so powerless. The SWERF crap gets to me as well. My school is a hub for foster youth, and they are heavily targeted for trafficking. No joke we get notifications of incidents where our girls were accosted or contacted and it happens at least a couple times a year. One of our students was actually taken a few years back. It was awful. I'm truly afraid our ability to intervene is being eroded.

[–]our_team_is_winning 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

My school is a hub for foster youth, and they are heavily targeted for trafficking.

That breaks my heart. And knowing the men who would pay for an abused, underage girl are out there roaming freely, standing in line behind me at the supermarket..... how can any of us feel safe?

[–]msteacherlady[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

That's another layer that really gets to me. The horror of so many vulnerable girls getting taken guts me the most, but it sickens me that it wouldn't happen at all if there wasn't a demand for their bodies. I don't know any exact statistics, but if every man themselves haven't patronized a trafficked prostitute, then they must at least know someone who has. So many men I know and trust swear they would never buy sex and don't know anyone who has, but they have got to be lying.

[–]our_team_is_winning 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The male sex drive needs to be toned way way down. Imagine being a slave to your penis 24/7. Part of me is disgusted by sex doll robots, but at the same time, maybe they'll save lives? What's sad is a lot of women believe sex workers are there of their own accord and just "regulating" the industry makes it all well and good.

[–]msteacherlady[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I seriously think some men get into such a bad habit of treating libido like sneezing and farting. Pair that with objectification of women and well, here's the sad result.