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[–]MarkTwainiac 14 insightful - 1 fun14 insightful - 0 fun15 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

As we both know, the idea that

Being a 'woman' is now something you simply self-declare

Is a frequent claim of gender ideology proponents. But OP is expressing, and siding with, another key claim that genderists often make: that being a woman is all about adhering to superficial grooming, dress & behavior standards that are rooted in, reflect and reinforce, regressive, sexist sex stereotypes and roles. And that as such, being a woman is something a man can achieve so long as he puts in enough "work" to ape in appearance and lifestyle the sexist sex stereotypes that gender ideologues associate with, and foist upon, girls and women.

According to the values that OP is putting forward, male adults like Blaire White and Gigi Gorgeous have more legitimate grounds to call themselves and be regarded as women than hundreds of millions, perhaps billions, of female adults do. Coz such sexist adult males

understand women [are nothing but a bunch of superficial sex stereotypes] and want to put in the work to become one.

This is a genderist and misogynistic view, not a "gender critical" one. It's also a view that's personally insulting to me, most of the women I know, and many of the women who read and post on this sub.

[–]Doberlady[S] 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

This is a genderist and misogynistic view, not a "gender critical" one. It's also a view that's personally insulting to me, most of the women I know, and many of the women who read and post on this sub.

Exactly, and I agree with you. Sorry I didn't make myself clearer on this. It's unfair and those stereotypes need to go away. But hating those rules doesn't make them go away. It's tough out there for us women because of the genderist and misogynistic views that most people in the world around us have. Men like the neckbeard I'm talking about are ignorant of feminism and the experience of women growing up and living under those pressures. It's like white people on Facebook complaining about how privileged they think black people are. So ignorant about the black experience, yet these white assholes think they know everything and want to believe that racism conveniently doesn't exist. Likewise, some men are willfully ignorant of the negative effects of sexism and their own lifelong patriarchal privileges, even if they "think" they're women.