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Welcome to the new Gender Critical! by radfemanon in GenderCritical

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

This is exactly what happened to me (except for me I found GC after JK Rowling's tweets just a few weeks ago)! I am subscribed to a bunch of video game subs, some craft-type subs, some related to various religious and spiritual practices, and a few other odds and ends related to my interests and hobbies, and really only just lurked on all of them...for years. I think my very first post ever was to GC.

Welcome to the new Gender Critical! by radfemanon in GenderCritical

[–]bekkilyn 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Just a short while ago, I considered myself to be a progressive, but now I don't believe I have any sort of political label. Now I understand the far right-wingers who claimed that the left was authoritarian. I thought they were just projecting because they are basically bordering on fascism themselves, but the latest JK Rowling incident opened my eyes to a lot of things.

But I agree. While it's fine for GC (and good marketing) to have a presence on major public platforms, the only "safe" place to have a more permanent home is one in which you have ownership. Basic business advice for entrepreneurs so that Facebook falling off the face of the earth doesn't mean your business does the same.

Welcome to the new Gender Critical! by radfemanon in GenderCritical

[–]bekkilyn 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Well everyone has to start somewhere. Hopefully by continuing to look in, you will come to know that just because a biological male takes hormones or has a few surgeries, he is always and ever will be, a biological male. His genetics and many internal and external structures will never change no matter how much he wants it to happen. He will never truly know or understand what it is like to be a biological female and live in an actual female body, he will never know or understand the cultural socialization that biological females experience every moment of every day since birth. His view of what a woman is entirely based on stereotypes of what men believe women are like.

That's why transwomen are not women. They are transwomen, but they are and ever will be males. And there is no such thing as a cis person. Cis is a term that is being used to erase women as if actual women are only a small, insignificant category among 97,000 other "gender identities" that we can somehow all just wake up and "decide" to put on that day.

Welcome to the new Gender Critical! by radfemanon in GenderCritical

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

I was just thinking while hanging up laundry about how I'm a long-time member of a Christian forum that leans evangelical conservative, and I'm always arguing on behalf of women over there against those who (falsely) think that it's scriptural for women to be subservient to men, and at MOST I've gotten a couple of warnings here and there for "goading" over the course of the few years I've been over there, and then to be banned by a "tolerant" liberal reddit group for not even posting ONCE.

Welcome to the new Gender Critical! by radfemanon in GenderCritical

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

I just got perma-banned from a Reddit group I've never once posted in for being a "TERF". Ironically, the group calls itself "WitchesVsPatriarchy" (I have very broad interests in spirituality and religion), so being curious, I looked at their rules and here is their definition of Patriarchy: "Any post or comment displaying signs of toxic masculinity, homophobia, transphobia, racism, classism, ableism, or otherwise enforcing the Patriarchy, will be removed and users may be banned."

Wow, nothing about SEXISM anywhere.

Very telling.

Edit: Oh and I sent them this reply! (Though I don't expect anything to come of it)

How ironic that your sub is "versus" Patriarchy and yet you went out of your way to ban biological women opposed to Patriarchy, women who have been fighting for the rights that we women have enjoyed for decades now (and are being eroded), banning and attempting to silence women in favor of those who have every interest in keeping the Patriarchy firmly in place, regardless of whether they are currently in pants or a skirt. Men are privileged because of their biology, not because they've "identified into" it. If you think trans men have all the privileges of biological men, best think again. And biological men don't lose those privileges no matter how many hormones they take or operations they undergo. The fact that you've banned someone who has been a feminist fighting the Patriarchy now for over 50 years is very revealing. No "TERFs" indeed! You may as well have allied yourself with the Patriarchy.