fattyatomicmutant:

The only reason terfs try to insist on things like male socialization and biology is they want to appear to people that their hate and disgust is justified, and hopefully they use these talking points to drag people along by inciting on their emotions and the like.

Funny thing tho: you apply actual feminism to each point and it falls flat.

Male socialization? Baloney, because there’s lots of examples of kids growing up under single moms with varying degrees of gender representation.

Biology? DNA may be a blueprint for morphology to some degree, but nature is far too weird to apply just two things to describe everything.

TERFs also tend to believe “male socialisation” is fixed at birth, effectively that babies assigned male are born abusive. under this model the patriarchy isn’t even a set of ideas or a choice to uphold a broken system, it becomes an inbuilt feature of the human race that can’t ever be defeated. which is terrifying.

It flies in the face of every other psychological theory of socialisation, has never been peer reviewed or considered as actual science. and the obvious: babies don’t seem to even have thoughts until a few weeks after birth, and the system of gender that babies are immersed in takes a lot of time to learn.

it’s really nothing but recycling the brain sex argument. I’ve never heard of a radfem who can admit that socialisation could ever be malleable, or even fixed at a certain age after birth because that might mean admitting the existence of trans people who realise they’re trans in early childhood. I haven’t even seen radfems consider the thought that people could receive a different socialisation in different cultures with different ideas if gender. they’re effectively claiming the gender framework in the western world is a timeless universal constant, and at this point it’s interchangeable with their “the Patriarchy is found on the Y chromosome” theory.