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Men's Health magazine. How to choke a woman. I don't want to live on this planet. by our_team_is_winning in GenderCritical

[–]Lemonade_Masquerade 13 insightful - 6 fun13 insightful - 5 fun14 insightful - 6 fun -  (0 children)

"I like to strangle women!"

"Dude, WTF?"

"Nonono, I like to strangle women so I can get off"

"Ooh, okay. That's fine!"

Oh look, it's "black lives matter is racist against white people", but about men. Again. Weird. by GrendelsScaryMom in GenderCritical

[–]Lemonade_Masquerade 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Non binary folxes just identify as people who don't need to use bathrooms.

Oh look, it's "black lives matter is racist against white people", but about men. Again. Weird. by GrendelsScaryMom in GenderCritical

[–]Lemonade_Masquerade 11 insightful - 3 fun11 insightful - 2 fun12 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Bad: Separate intimate spaces by biological features that are the cause of the vulnerability of one of the two groups

Good: Separate intimate spaces based on super special, indefinable inner feelings.

Children's news website apologises to JK Rowling over trans tweet row by [deleted] in GenderCritical

[–]Lemonade_Masquerade 14 insightful - 3 fun14 insightful - 2 fun15 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

I have literally had a TRA chime in with "NOT ALL WOMEN MENSTRUATE" after I said that "not all women menstruate, but only women menstruate." I stg some people are just talking bags of rocks.

We've reached peak crazy. by [deleted] in GenderCritical

[–]Lemonade_Masquerade 14 insightful - 3 fun14 insightful - 2 fun15 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

I'm going to call my eyes, ears. Not all ears are hearing organs, sometimes ears are the seeing organs! Anyway, some people are deaf so not all ears can hear. Can anyone come up with a definition of "ears" that includes all hearing organs and excludes all seeing organs? I'm so oppressed for having to continually spend my emotional labor explaining this simple concept!

Oh look, it's "black lives matter is racist against white people", but about men. Again. Weird. by GrendelsScaryMom in GenderCritical

[–]Lemonade_Masquerade 18 insightful - 1 fun18 insightful - 0 fun19 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Women are the privileged class. Classic MRA tactic

Ricky Gervais defending biology... Who knew! by vitunrotta in GenderCritical

[–]Lemonade_Masquerade 13 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 0 fun14 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Ricky Gervais is a coward who spouted TWAW at the slightest pressure during the JY drama. I appreciate him clearing the very low bar of pointing out the absurdity of JY's story, but that is a VERY low bar.

"Survivors Must Fight For Trans Women Too" (as an aforementioned survivor, this made me so angry!) by greenish in GenderCritical

[–]Lemonade_Masquerade 15 insightful - 1 fun15 insightful - 0 fun16 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Fuck you for taking advantage of victims of male violence! We don't owe you shit. How dare you try to gaslight us and then claim it is righteous activism.

Fae is not happy. Fuck capitalism and people who won’t learn neo pronouns by Chunkeeguy in GenderCritical

[–]Lemonade_Masquerade 7 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

My pronouns are 3 hours of peaceful silence, please respect them.

If we are banned, r/EntitledBitch, r/FuckYouKaren, r/pussypassdenied and all porn subs should be banned. by RIP_r_GenderCritical in GenderCritical

[–]Lemonade_Masquerade 14 insightful - 1 fun14 insightful - 0 fun15 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Of course women get to be the mascot of entitled customer despite men be just as, if not more, shitty to customer service employees. The amount of grown men I've seen throw hissy fits over the slightest thing going wrong...

Intersectionalism is the worst thing to happen to feminism. by medium_tomato in GenderCritical

[–]Lemonade_Masquerade 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Fucking THIS. This "women are allowed to cry, men aren't" is such bullshit. We aren't taken seriously when we cry, we are "over emotional" and "hysterical." I mean, sure, I guess little boys are told to "man up" when they cry, but that's about it. The entire world takes men's emotions more seriously than women. After all, look at that sad rapist. He feels bad for getting caught making a mistake! Let's not ruin the poor man's life!

I'm a crier. I can't help it. My mother would spank me if cried about something she deemed "unimportant" and it didn't make me less of a crier as I got older. It just ramps up my anxiety when I feel tears coming on now and I cry harder because I get more upset by the fact that I am crying.

Avoid “Giggle” app. See tweet by [deleted] in GenderCritical

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

The name is 100% of the reason I didn't bother looking into this app at all.

Intersectionalism is the worst thing to happen to feminism. by medium_tomato in GenderCritical

[–]Lemonade_Masquerade 21 insightful - 1 fun21 insightful - 0 fun22 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Woke circles use oppression points like currency. It's no wonder they want to try to cheat the system as much as possible.

Definitely could use some more empathy. The ability to say "your situation and my situation are different and we have different needs" is missing from so many of these people's mindsets. It's like they think their feelings and experiences are universal. Spoon theory was also my first thought. I had only heard it from people who use it when talking about mental health for so long before I found out that it was a concept for disabled people. "Trigger" has gone through a similar process as it was specifically a PTSD term before it became a word for "generic thing that makes me uncomfortable."

I am so uncomfortable with how much those circles promote self-diagnosis for mental disorders, for this very reason. Many mental illnesses are normal thought processes taken to the extreme. That's why so many people can read a list of vague symptoms and think "Oh, that's me!" in the same way you can read any random horoscope and feel the same way.

It seems very related to how they don't appreciate the need for clear language. They only use language to express their subjective experience. If men can be women, then "spoons" can apply to any mental illness you want. If penises are female, then getting bored sometimes can be ADHD.

GC is about protecting BOTH women and trans! by Overdrive in GenderCritical

[–]Lemonade_Masquerade 17 insightful - 1 fun17 insightful - 0 fun18 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Like, I don't want trans people to die or have less rights for however they want to express their gender. But really, I want to nothing them. I want them to fuck off and leave us alone. Maybe I could have extended some energy to them if they actually were allies for women's causes. But since they actively are fighting against what I am most passionate about, then idc what they do.

I don't even believe men "playing" with the things women are expected to do by society is innocuous. It could be, in a vacuum. Maybe it will be in a post-gender role world. But for an example, the cosmetic industry makes its money by encouraging women to be ornamental, many times to the point of damaging their health. Men "playing" with make up supports the practice without any of the real harm that it places on women. I'd rather focus on normalizing women to be free to be natural and not needing to be pretty for men, before supporting men's freedom to play with their gender.

What is a woman? They stopped responding after I inquired further. by 11mile_house in GenderCritical

[–]Lemonade_Masquerade 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I have never heard a good answer as to why a penis can be female, but a "feminine brain" can't be male.

After taking over the lesbian subs on reddit the TRAs are going after the gay guy subs now. by [deleted] in GenderCritical

[–]Lemonade_Masquerade 3 insightful - 4 fun3 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

I stg "Hello, I am trans (fuck TERFS) and was wondering what kind of yarn I should use in the scarf I'm knitting. It's the trans flag colors btw!"

What is a woman? They stopped responding after I inquired further. by 11mile_house in GenderCritical

[–]Lemonade_Masquerade 42 insightful - 9 fun42 insightful - 8 fun43 insightful - 9 fun -  (0 children)

Once I asked how was I supposed to teach my 4 year old about what "women" and "men" are so they can make an informed decision as to whether they are a woman or a man. Like, ELI4 what a woman is. (Because, I only want the best for my daug...uh... pre-gender indentified child).

I basically got told to ask her what she felt like and affirm it. But how can she make that decision without knowing what they are? Oh no, I was being deliberately obtuse and woman and man can mean whatever it you want it to mean. 🙄

The Karen/Becky meme has officially gone too far by Camberian in GenderCritical

[–]Lemonade_Masquerade 20 insightful - 2 fun20 insightful - 1 fun21 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Shrew, harpy, nag, bitch, witch, uppity. Different terms, same misogyny

(Saidit) PEAK TRANS I: Please continue to share your stories!! by Irascible-harpy in GenderCritical

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You won't hear an argument from me. 🤷🏽‍♀️

(Saidit) PEAK TRANS I: Please continue to share your stories!! by Irascible-harpy in GenderCritical

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I've been over the peak for a while, but since this is a new space I'll share.

The Women's March and the pussy hats.

I'll say I was never very TRAish. Discrimination in medicine and pregnancy/motherhood have always been my pet causes within feminism and it's hard to separate that from biology. But I did think that trans people were this small, niche group of mentally ill people who were just trying to get by. And even when I did see some nonsense about how "TWs are biologically female" I assumed it was some dumb Tumblr teen thing and I figured they'd grow out of it. Because it is just insane! It's so obviously not true I didn't register it as a threat. Maybe I was always "peaked" just unenlightened about the depth of the whole movement. From the first time I heard a story about a man knowing he was a woman because he played with Barbies I couldn't shake the feeling of sexism, but again, mental illness isn't rational and anyway it's not like other men aren't sexist. Anyway...

/2016. A disgusting, oafish, idiot misogynistic narcissist was elected the president over a woman (feelings about her aside, there was a lot of emotion about the first woman president at the time). It was bleak times. Women were angry. Enter the Women's March. I was a little cynical about it at first if I'm honest, but then I saw the waves of pink worldwide. For the first time, women were coming together to celebrate being women. It was pretty touching. Especially because of how depressed I was about the election. But look, here are the women of the world coming together to remind everyone we are here and we have power. "Pussy hats" because of the words of the actual elected president.

Yeah, that couldn't last though. No one wants to see women showing how powerful they are. So all of my "women-friendly" hobby groups started drawing lines in the sand. Pussy hats were transphobic. Talking about abortion or periods in regards to women was transphobic. What? WHAT? Obviously the "pussy" comment was about women? Trump wasn't talking about grabbing TIMs by the girldick? And wait, girl dick? You don't even need to medically transition or even want to transition to be trans? Lesbians are bigots for being lesbians? What is happening? You don't even need to BE DYSPHORIC? Being "cis" is a privilege. You are trying to CALL ME PRIVILEGED for being FEMALE? Kids know their GENDER AT AGE 3? PUBERTY BLOCKERS?

I finally decided to Google "TERF" because of how many people saying completely reasonable things being called out as one. I finally found where all the sane feminists went and haven't looked back.

Trans glorifying on tumblr is worrying by Deaurkk in GenderCritical

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

I never used Tumblr. I have no idea what went on in Tumblr, but so many Tumblr kids are fucked up.

It's so funny to me that Reddit is claiming TERFs were brigading different women's subs (like r/PCOS and r/pregnancy) like there weren't radfems in those subs to begin with by Irascible-harpy in GenderCritical

[–]Lemonade_Masquerade 57 insightful - 2 fun57 insightful - 1 fun58 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Most people know what a man and woman are. Most people just don't realize how much the trans community is trying to deny that sex exists.

r/terfisaslur, r/GenderCriticalGuys, and r/LGBDroptheT all just got banned by [deleted] in GenderCritical

[–]Lemonade_Masquerade 13 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 0 fun14 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

ActualWomen is gone too.

"how do I report these women talking amongst themselves on a different site" by gparmesan in GenderCritical

[–]Lemonade_Masquerade 30 insightful - 2 fun30 insightful - 1 fun31 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I'm glad I just wore the clothes I could afford from the Hot Topic bargain bin and some eyeliner. Kids today are out here getting mastectomies.

what happened on r/PCOS in screenshots by gparmesan in GenderCritical

[–]Lemonade_Masquerade 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They really underestimate how much women outside of their barricaded echo chambers tend to be... kinda terfy. You know, being female and all and knowing that being female has a non-zero impact on their lives.

Cult expert identifies mind control techniques used in hypnotic porn which convinced detransitioners that they were trans by raslyana in GenderCritical

[–]Lemonade_Masquerade 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Hypnobirthing is relatively popular. It's self-hypnosis though. If you meant actual hypnotists I'm not sure about that.

Who is out with their hairy legs this summer? by materialrealityplz in GenderCritical

[–]Lemonade_Masquerade 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I have anxiety about my natural legs. I don't really -care- if anyone notices, but I guess that's what makes anxiety irrational. Honestly, the best thing to help get me over my initial fears was having a daughter and being really motivated to let her see hairy legs as normal and okay. Thick, black, sasquatchesque hair, too. Beaches and swimming pools were easy for me. Shopping was harder. And I still wear pants when visiting family, which has been the hardest for me. (Pre-pandemic, of course. Right now I'm just settled in for perpetual lock down)

I just hate that I know people see it as not just weird or unusual, but disgusting and dirty.

How can liberal feminists argue that sexism exists if they deny biological sex exists? by [deleted] in GenderCritical

[–]Lemonade_Masquerade 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Exactly. And because it's -femininity- that's oppressed, not females, it's obvious how TIMs can use that to their advantage. It's funny, because they always talk about femininity in a way that's more closely related to homophobia than misogyny. "I was always discriminated against for wearing make up!" That's a male thing. Women are pushed -into- make up etc not for doing it. It is devalued because it's seen as feminine, but it's not the same experience.

It also works in their favor because it's easy to paint radical feminists as just as discriminatory for our anti-femininity views. They're individualists, and none of them seem to be able to tell the difference between a criticism of a system and a personal attack. So "I think choices are not made in a vacuum. I think that society has an influence on our decisions and our decisions have an impact on society" gets the response "Why are you shaming me right now?" It's not the things themselves, it's always us. Men liking a feminine thing won't make it accepted. It'll just be seen as something for men. Computer programming is a great example. Or it'll be like cooking, expected by women at home but high paying chefs tend to be men. In the art world, women do crafts, men make art. The only continuous thread is that if it is associated with women, it's less important. After all, if women can do it, then it must be easy. It's unimpressive.

So RIP the Subreddit that saved me from being trans. by blahblahgcer in GenderCritical

[–]Lemonade_Masquerade 12 insightful - 13 fun12 insightful - 12 fun13 insightful - 13 fun -  (0 children)

A man who plays female characters married to a woman who plays male characters? Welcome to the queer(tm) community! Please get your updated pride flag (now including the trans flag shoving itself into the rainbow) at the door. Feel free to act as superior to those "cishets" as you desire. Enjoy your stay.