so I just realized something.

earthmoonlotus:

I’ve seen some TERFs in the past saying shit like “if you don’t want us reblogging your posts, don’t post things we might like” and similar sentiments that disregard the boundaries of people who don’t want their posts reblogged by TERFs. That would be super messed up in and of itself, but wanna know what makes it even more messed up? The fact that TERFs often claim that their whole movement is about boundaries.

They claim that they’re TERFs because they care about the boundaries of “””females””” (by which they mean cis women and other afab people) who don’t want to be around “””males””” (by which they mean trans women). They claim they’re TERFs because they care about the boundaries of (cis) lesbians who don’t like penises, because according to their narrative, trans activists want to force all cis lesbians to interact with penises. On top of this ridiculous nonsense, they put some legitimate feminist boundary-related concerns into their narrative (such as pregnant people’s legitimate need for bodily autonomy and boundaries relating to their own bodies, and the need to end rape culture and protect women’s boundaries regarding sexual consent), but spin these concerns to make it seem like trans women somehow perpetuate and benefit from the current system that fights against these needs. Many times, I’ve seen TERFs essentially claim that the purpose of their movement is to fight to enforce women’s boundaries. (And by “women” they mean afab people.)

And yet, the fact that they completely, shamelessly ignore the boundaries of many tumblr users (most of whom are “””female””” by TERFs’ standards) who explicitly state that they don’t want TERFs interacting with their posts shows that they don’t really care about boundaries as much as they might like to think they do. They only care about them when it suits their agendas, or when they can spin it to suit their agendas. They claim that boundaries are the most important thing in the world when they can make it seem like trans women’s existence violates them, but they completely ignore explicitly-stated boundaries when they feel like doing it, claiming that it doesn’t really matter.