I am so, so, SO sick of seeing mostly white TRAs use the history of black women being described as 'masculine' as a defense for why we should allow men to call themselves female.

when women’s public toilets were first built in London (against a lot of sexist backlash!) they were for upper class cis abled white ladies ONLY. Goddamn bathroom cops have been policing femininity since the beginning!

Only having (limited) facilities that exclude poor women and women of color has literally nothing to do with the cops 'pOLiciNG fEmINniNITy' and everything to do with racism and classism.

Black women are called unfeminine because many of us don't possess white features. I'd wager this is less about us being seen as 'masculine' and more about us being seen as 'apes', 'animalistic', or 'undainty'. Which again, is a product of racism, specifically the idolization of Eurocentric beauty standards.

Clearly he doesn't know that many people calling black women 'masculine' aren't Cishet White Heteronormative Colonials or whatever they call dissenters nowadays, it's black men. It's black men who I've heard claim black women are too masculine nowadays because we're self sufficient in many ways and no longer 'need' them. For years I've seen black men paint black women's independence and strength as 'masculine' because it makes them look bad. These are products of misogyny, they are in no way comparable to trans bs.

South Asian women getting made fun of for having body hair is yet another symptom of misogyny, of a society that would rather burn itself to the ground rather than teach young girls their bodies are fine the way they are.

People turn trans bodies into canvasses for them to paint their lurid, paranoid fantasies just like they do to the bodies of people of colour. It’s all the same shit.

Except it isn't. People seeing African Americans as less than human and comparing us to monkeys has no overlap between women who see men as a threat, given the never ending statistics of men's predatory and violent behavior against women. Not to mention the physical strength differences between men and women. (there are no strength differences between races, might I add).

Using yet another marginalized group as a shield to hide behind is not a good look at all. And he did this during Black History Month. What a piece of shit. These comparisons make me so livid.