Study on The Psychology of Gender Critical Feminism

strawberryfields4evr · 2020-09-01T23:33:04+00:00

Lmao

strawberryfields4evr · 2020-09-01T22:33:00+00:00

Fucking great, a neighbour. Unhelpfully the Merseyside police are woke as so I doubt they'll do anything. Last year "Carol Lea" tried beating a woman in a KFC car park with a hammer. Nothing happened to him really either.

strawberryfields4evr · 2020-08-12T11:06:05+00:00

In the UK it takes forever on the NHS waiting list

In fact that's what we count on in MH services. It's not gone unnoticed by some clinicians in the NHS... we hope we can do enough good work with people so they come to the realisation on their own what the issue is. This is the only situation I'm so thankful for the waiting list to otherwise give people a chance to think it through

strawberryfields4evr · 2020-08-06T11:34:17+00:00

As a social worker, this hits the nail on the head for me. Very attachment-y, not gender dysphoria. "Please notice me. Please approve of me. Please be nice to me."

strawberryfields4evr · 2020-08-06T11:31:17+00:00

I've been personally boycotting them for years because of shit like this - The Body Shop too. I am sure the bubble is going to pop for them eventually, they are horrific to their employees.

strawberryfields4evr · 2020-07-29T17:53:54+00:00

I'll never forget the first time I realised that men don't even see me as a human being with thoughts, feeling, emotions and a personal world of my own. Just a walking pair of tits.

strawberryfields4evr · 2020-07-25T10:31:41+00:00

I'm thrilled my Trek knowledge has come in handy for once! Haha. :)

strawberryfields4evr · 2020-07-24T07:50:37+00:00

I've thought about this a lot and I think a more apt comparison would be to the Cardassians at least as far as their judicial system goes. The ruling of every criminal trial is a guilty verdict with the purpose of the proceedings being not justice, but bringing the offender to recognise the power of the State. Dukat once told Sisko that Cardassians love watching justice triumph over "evil" when Miles was on trial on Cardassia. It seems like TRAs are keen to give more and more power to the State over private citizens to ensure their opinions and expressions of self are within their predetermined guidelines and punish those who don't. That's on top of the social costs of being "cancelled" for having the majority opinion.

strawberryfields4evr · 2020-07-24T07:25:28+00:00

I find the willful misunderstanding of the fact that they made this apology because Rowling has a legitimate case for libel - NOT because she "can't take criticism" - absolutely maddening. There's a billion other places she could attempt to sue if it was about the criticism.

strawberryfields4evr · 2020-07-24T07:22:43+00:00

There are four lights.

strawberryfields4evr · 2020-07-23T07:07:48+00:00

Just proof it's pure harassment, they're not getting any rise out of people that aren't on Reddit

strawberryfields4evr · 2020-07-15T12:56:31+00:00

They had me in the first half not gonna lie

strawberryfields4evr · 2020-07-14T12:30:37+00:00

1000% yes they are. It's horrific, dehumanising and cruel. But there's negative language across the board towards detransitioned people. I wish people wouldn't refer to them as mutilated.

strawberryfields4evr · 2020-07-14T12:25:44+00:00

Such ignorant people, if they knew their history they'd know that term has been around for ages. But it just shows off their narcissism - everything is about them and in reaction to them.

strawberryfields4evr · 2020-07-14T08:40:06+00:00

This (sadly) is one of the reasons I've considered removing myself from the organ donor list. I don't even know if putting in my will that my organs must go to a female XX person would hold up.

strawberryfields4evr · 2020-07-07T18:25:00+00:00

I just donated, thanks for sharing this xx

strawberryfields4evr · 2020-07-07T18:11:47+00:00

All important considerations - after I made this post, I had a bit of a browse on Facebook to see if there were any female-only PCOS groups. To my dismay, lots of them are for "ovary owners," "ovary havers" and the like. I just think it would be important to have a space - which at this point is TBD - to be able to talk about the symptoms and coping strategies that work. I do think a lot of the things spoken about in these spaces might get muddled up in radical feminist discourse - it's easy to tell someone to "rock the facial hair" when it's not you not getting jobs or dates or whatever because of it (a personal experience of mine, which is not representative of everyone of course). I wish I had website building skills, that would really come in handy!

strawberryfields4evr · 2020-07-07T16:28:26+00:00

Yeah, I deleted my account months ago because it felt like there was no way to contain ourselves in one space. And I kind of thought the spaces on Reddit would be a fallback... so much for that! Personally, I haven't seen it but I believe racism exists within the community. This has been a long-standing issue in gender critical spaces (my involvement only goes back to 2012 though so I can't speak to prior to this) because lots of people who are gender critical aren't radfem-aligned and even then... if anyone else remembers the white supremacist/Nazi person from Tumblr, can't think of the name, she decided she wasn't a radfem after all. I think it's important to keep our eyes peeled for it.

strawberryfields4evr · 2020-07-07T15:10:50+00:00

They've "won" the battle, but we'll win the war. The clock is ticking for them on how long people will put up with the gaslighting and self-censuring.

strawberryfields4evr · 2020-07-07T15:09:14+00:00

I actually really like the sound of that. There's plenty of space here to discuss sociological studies here but it would be great to have a place to discuss pure female medicine. I really like the Twitter accounts that keep track of studies that are "only in men" or "only in rats" - I wonder if that's another, separate idea too.

strawberryfields4evr · 2020-07-07T14:39:42+00:00

I thought maybe a weekly stickied thread might be a good way to do it? I'd love to take part!

strawberryfields4evr · 2020-07-07T14:31:22+00:00

Spinster is based on open source code from Mastodon and is part of the Fediverse network. You can see posts from Gab which is a huge hub for white supremacists. If you stick to posts within Spinster, I haven't come across anything like this personally. It would be really helpful if you could identify posts and/or posters so we could get to the bottom of this.

strawberryfields4evr · 2020-07-07T13:59:33+00:00

I am so absolutely disgusted by all of this. We just need to encourage women away from that subreddit as much as possible. I would never recommend it, so we just need to build up supportive communities elsewhere. If we tell people to stay away I'm sure that would make them more curious of what's going on. A huge part of having PCOS for me is "feeling like a man" and feeling like a broken woman as a result of my disease. I will talk about my body parts as and when I want to.

strawberryfields4evr · 2020-07-07T13:54:54+00:00

That's great! I have PCOS and haven't used the subreddit in years because I found it quite alienating. If you need an extra pair of hands, let me know.

strawberryfields4evr · 2020-07-07T13:52:54+00:00

That's great! I wonder if we could make a big list of them as the new "sister subs" - just wanted to put feelers out before I created anything myself.

strawberryfields4evr · 2020-07-06T16:59:15+00:00

When I was sixteen, I was groomed by a TiM who was twenty. He took clothes from me, told me he loved me, and assaulted me multiple times. He tried to convince me I was trans as well - he said he wanted to look like me as a woman and it would be easier for him this way. I've always been sceptical of trans right activism but I only came upon radical feminist literature in college. I can honestly say it saved my life and made everything make sense.

strawberryfields4evr · 2020-07-06T16:00:49+00:00

It wasn't so long ago TRAs were invading that sub and trying to convince women that it's an intersex disorder. I have PCOS myself and there's absolutely no evidence whatsoever that this is the case. They just want to capture as many people as they possibly can. And proof as well they are narrowing the boxes of what a woman can be.

strawberryfields4evr · 2020-07-04T17:14:34+00:00

There's a lot of money to be made right now from antagonising and the entrapment of women in compromising situations in videos divorced of context (see Karlos Dillard). It discredits the anti-racist movement as when there are actual instances of racism, will people believe it then? How does it always end up being women? I think someone is going to end up dead because of this trend

strawberryfields4evr · 2020-07-04T16:42:35+00:00

And one for phalloplasties as well. I think those are just as gruesome. The huge amounts of flesh taken off arms to form a neo-penis shook me, nevermind the rates of necrosis.

strawberryfields4evr · 2020-07-01T12:38:09+00:00

Whoops! I am bad at using the search tool. Deletion underway!

strawberryfields4evr · 2020-07-01T12:37:28+00:00

Thank you for your work on this - I hope you decide to publish it somewhere else. One thing we could improve upon from the original subreddit was racism. I felt like the "womanface" comparisons were really damaging and a lot of our black sisters were put off by it. I've always felt it was kind of cringe and took away from any points being made. Radical feminist spaces need to really confront this head-on. I hope GC WoC can create a space here for themselves too.

strawberryfields4evr · 2020-07-01T12:31:32+00:00

It's no surprise - tech companies are all about being the most woke until it comes to getting their employees to stop groping women or paying them the same. It's all performative. Once the tides start turning in years to come, they will have much to answer for.

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