backlash against allo- and monosexual relies on the belief that /everything/ is a privilege-oppression dynamic. not everything is that clear-cut. the dynamic between binary trans ppl and nb ppl, for instance. or that ppl who are physically disabled and ppl who are neurodivergent both face ableism – but in v different ways, and can be ableist towards each other. allo just means “not a-spec.” monosexual just means “not attracted to multiple genders.” they dont imply a privilege-oppression dynamic.

lesbiantiope:

exactly.

harleyismyhero:

amtasical:

shamelesslyunladylike:

beatlesliveonforever:

radiant-humble:

blackvulva:

thentheysaidburnher:

blackvulva:

thentheysaidburnher:

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?!Β 

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 β€œpockets” 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 β€œtreatment” 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?

thewinddrifter:

The past few days i’ve been thinking a bit about far right and fascist trans girls, due to some twitter threads where i’ve seen them pop up.

The thing is about fascist trans girls or other gay/lesbian peeps of that type is that they fundamentally believe the REAL champions for their rights are facists. That left wing trans politics are detrimental to the normalisation of transgender people.

But in other words, they really only bought into their posturing and willingly surrendered their identites to have them weaponised by abusers who convinced them they’re fighting the good fight, while admonishing the very existance of identity politics as purely a lefist thing, despite their entire place within right wing circles being nothing but identity politics.

It bothers me to my core, not because i think all trans girls should be on the same page. But because we know what fascists are like

These people don’t have an iota of respect for trans people. You wanna talk about how SJ spaces are often performative, they ain’t got SHIT on fascists. Their entire online presence is a performance. Their very ideology calls for it.

Bluster, lies, abuse, gaslighting. All the stops that makes fascism work. Their respect for LGBTQ+ rights is just that. Performance. Gaslighting. And abuse. If you don’t straddle the line perfectly, your identity suddenly doesn’t deserve that respect they oh so graciously claim to afford you. Once you say the wrong thing, they get to see first hand how deep their respect for them is. It’s not even knee deep.

Β They’ll nod and agree that they support your right but still go on and say you’re a harmful influence on the fabric of western society. When you actually see how facists treat trans women, they treat them purely as objects. They’re either fetishised fuckdolls, meat shields, or weapons.

The smart ones hide this under a thin veneer of appropriated social justice terms.

I feel like some of these fascist trans women willingly but often unwittilngy give up their identity away to act as buffers, cudgels and walls for people who want to use them to get a leg up on modern socio-political discourse. They’re weapons, nothing more.They convince them they’re the ones really fighting for their safety, their identity, that they’re the true force of normalisation. They give up their identites for weaponisation without even knowing they’re just tools, while holding their head up high as if they’re somehow above identity politics.

In order to be a fascist trans girl, you have to forego absolutely every single bit of respect you have for your own identity. Or if not yours, the identity of others as it is ultimatley easier to sacrifice other trans women if you get to have your place as β€˜one of the good ones’.

It just disturbs me to my core that it seems like more and more of them are shifting away into a camp that on any other day, would organise campaigns to force them to commit suicide.

I think at it’s core, the reason for this is a drive for survival. A friend of mine wisely pointed this out on twitter, it was something that i always felt was the most likely truth of the matter.

They think if they just fit in, assimilate within a destructive culture, they’ll be off scott-free. Better to be by the Devil’s side, than in his path. It’s self preservation.

Terfs do not kill. The violence against trans women is done at the hands of men. This is male violence. And these males are not influenced by radical feminism? Like wtf? How can you be so misogynistic that you blame women for men’s misdeeds? The entire point of radical feminism is addressing the way women are oppressed on the axis of biology. Why are terfs more dangerous than violent men?

terffighter:

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”