Genderists stole it from us and made it about keeping “cishets” out instead of straight people.
Ace people are not and will not ever be LGB for being ace.
I vote that we all start posting in the “ace discourse” tag about how we don’t want straight people in the community. I suggest creating our own tag?: “Terfs against ace inclusion” or something similar.
Post the similarities between “gay” and “lesbian” trans people(Straight GNC people) wanting in and ace people wanting in; such as neither of them experiencing same sex attraction and both of them needing to be included above actual LGB people.
Goal: Ace exlusionists realize what we’re doing is good and help us fight the trans cult.
I bet if we can get enough genderist ace exlusionists to join our cause, we’ll be much more able to get the homophobia and lesbophobia of trans and ace people wanting to be in the community to be much more well known.
Please Please Please Reblog this and spread it around radfem spaces! I think this could possibly actually work if it takes off!
Oh, I’d be more than happy to.
TERFs are out here trying to “take back” aphobia. Spread this shit like wildfire.
Where’s the “Don’t compare us to our oppressors” racket now lmao lmao lmao hahahahahahahahahHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
One feminist psychological definition of objectification is the combination of 1) extra scrutiny of women, leading to the 2) breaking down of visualizing women into discrete body parts, which 3) leads to mentally processing them more as a collection of organized objects than people.
I think it’s clear that trans women not only receive this sort of treatment from society (being explicitly broken down into body parts [‘sorry abt your dick’]), but also that people who pride themselves on subjecting trans women to extreme scrutiny in order to pick apart their individualized body parts to ascertain their assigned sex are enacting the exact definition of patriarchal and misogynist objectification
So you use the word “psychological” and think it’s enough to be tagged under psychology? I don’t see any psychology here.
Pdf version that explains the first paragraph of theory here, Study summary here. Sorry since ya know this is on my personal tumblr blog and I was on my phone, I don’t usually have footnotes to my thought processes.
But also I feel like you have no right to be condescending about psychology when this
is yr bio? Good luck on being both ill informed and a bitch tho
people who follow terfs for their feminist posts and insight and pretend that they just agree to disagree on the trans issue are saying transmisogyny is an acceptable character trait
ok since i’ve decided to be #real on this blog now: fellow lesbians who are not trans women, we need to do better. and that means applying a lot more critical thinking to the “not all lesbians are terfs! stop calling lesbians terfs!” argument. it’s completely true that many (non trans woman) lesbians AREN’T terfs, and many actively work against transmisogynistic ideals in themselves and in society, but a lot of lesbians ARE terfs or blatantly transmisogynistic! and a lot of terfs (and transmisogynists) are lesbians!
the lesbian community has a massive history of transmisogyny. lesbian activism in the 20th century was rife with it. cis lesbians created events and movements that SPECIFICALLY excluded trans women from attendance or membership. a huge part of the reason transmisogyny is so associated with lesbianism today is because so many lesbians are transmisogynists.
sure, that’s not true for you — you support your trans sisters whenever possible, you listen to what they have to say, and you’re openminded and forward-thinking and you catch your ingrained prejudiced thoughts and squash them before they reach the front of your head. but it’s true for MANY lesbians. you have heard the jokes, you have heard the casual hatred, you have heard the actual rhetoric about bodies and falsehood and the word “female.” i have, too. we don’t get to separate ourselves from it just because it’s disgusting. yeah it sucks when your people are stereotyped as nasty and hateful but that doesn’t give any of us a free pass to say “that’s not ME, I don’t associate with it, and therefore you must drop the attack entirely, you terrible human being.”
there is logic behind those beliefs. there is a historical precedent for expecting (non trans woman) lesbians to be transmisogynistic. and yes, many nonlesbians and non trans women do not bring up these complaints because they actually care about trans women, but in the long run that doesn’t actually matter as much as making sure the lesbian community’s history of transmisogyny is addressed so that it might be rectified. call nonlesbians out for stereotyping lesbians as evil or predatory or gross for the million other shitty reasons that nonlesbians do that, but do not shrug off accusations of transmisogyny. face them, understand them, and work to eradicate them from the roots.
Cellulite is a female secondary sex characteristic and should be celebrated as a rite of womanhood, not despised or eradicated.
it’s really a secondary sex characteristic?!
It is. It has to do with the way our bodies network fat. Female bodies create sort of a mesh network to support fat (female bodies are MUCH more hardy in times of stress) and it can present as delightfully lumpy. More than 90% of women have visible cellulite, but all women store fat in this manner.
why did no one tell me this?!
You know why
Spread this. I only just started to see mine and I started to freak out a bit. More people should/need to know about this
Here’s an illustration of the aforementioned difference in fat storage.
Men’s lattice pattern collagen threads holds subcutaneous fat in a way that, when the skin expands because of the fat storage, it expands evenly. Women’s “pockets” expand unevenly when we accumulate fat, creating that orange peel effect. Our storage pattern means we can healthily store more fat than men. Like a woman with 25% body fat is average, a man with 25% body fat is chubby. Because of that, like OP said, women are hardier in times of stress or famine. It’s also one of the reasons why our bodies can survive pregnancy, which is a massive energy demand on our system.
And there’s absolutely NO “treatment” for cellulite that will work. They are all bullshit designed to separate you from your hard-earned cash. It’s a secondary sex characteristic, it’s perfectly normal and it’s not going away no matter what you do. Like I’m very lean myself and I work out 5~6 times a week, and I still have cellulite. Someone giving a woman shit for having cellulite is akin to giving her shit for having skin. It’s just a mixture of misogyny and corporate greed.
Love your lumpy skin, ladies. It means you are a badass surviving machine shaped by millenia of evolution.
I did not know this, and I pride myself on knowing shit like this.
Op is a terf
they must know that this happens to trans women right. the way we store fat changes. i have cellulite all over.
it’s amazing, every time TERFs talk about secondary sex characteristics they affirm our womanhood when they think they’re denying it? you could google how HRT affects the body but they just don’t?
women perpetuate just as much violence against trans women as men do. if u dont think terfs and their ideology harm trans women then you and i arent seeing the same thing
mod bird
“we don’t attack trans women we only justify and normalise it”
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.
despite all the deceit and distraction people make out of it… the kind of transmisogynistic reactionary ideologies that many people have.. does definitely have negative consequences for all lgbt+ people, including cis lg people.
a lot of people will often pretend that their ideology is about the preserving of cis lg people.. but imo, the way people stigmatise epicene or androgynous traits, or things that break off from straight or cis norms…
has rarely distinguisher on a societal level for who it fucks over. by this i mean.. if you antagonise people for dressing in ways that do not conform to what gender they are perceived as by people in general..
then that antagonism will have consequences that will not distinguish between various lgbt+ people.
to put it simply… your transphobia will hurt cis lgb people too, as a lot of aspects of cissexism manifests in similar ways to heterosexism.
and i feel it does not really help that these reactionaries often align themselves with the kind of crowd that would support conversion therapy, sodomy laws, and any laws that discriminate against The Queers..
let’s be real here.. if you fail to be intersectional and inclusive of all lgbt+ people, you’re not really helping any of us… and you’re probably just contributing to stigma and oppression by antagonising us.
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