#do…do they KNOW that this rhetoric exists to put lesbians in danger and only increase our vulnerability to predatory men

[thisismisogynoir]

Choke on glass, actually.

#lesbian #lesbophobia #it’s only us they do this to #because they can’t accept that we’re not into men #the bold-faced lesbophobia is so atrocious #and this was even before elon musk took over #the good news is that just about everyone in the comments disagrees lol #but they’re still being called terfs by people who think lesbians can be trans men #and that non-binary male-aligned identities can be lesbians too #and one person even said “remember guys if she says she’s a lesbian don’t give up there’s still hope!” get shot actually #do…do they KNOW that this rhetoric exists to put lesbians in danger and only increase our vulnerability to predatory men #who want to correctively rape us #of course they do they just don’t care #they don’t care about us #they never did

[knightofraguel]

okay fuck it, i posted this in a reblog but im still pissed off and jkr just keeps being shittier so here's my take that no one asked for on jojos bizarre TERF shit:

so im a trans man who hangs around with lesbians for the most part. im a survivor of abuse (i get to check yes down the whole abuse type sheet you get with new therapists so that's fun), abuse from a man who was... ill just say in a position of power, when i was young and before i knew even what being transgender was. i grew up with a conservative family, fox news over dinner, self proclaimed progressive, "boys are just naturally better at math," surrounded by purposefully useless men type of conservative. i grew up with the "hairy man in a dress" stereotype, with p much zero discussion of queer people ever. i was raised with a lot of the rhetoric jkr is spewing, and with all of this being said, with such similar beliefs told to me for so long, with how long i agreed with them...

Joanne needs to grow the fuck up. she got comfortable with the conservative's shroud of early 90s progressive politics and never gave it a second thought past there, never questioned that if you're born with a female reproductive system that you are a woman and experience sexism in a way only "real women" can. and you wanna know why, with her dumbass takes on trans men, i can be sure of that?

AS A TRANS MAN I EXPERIENCE MALE PRIVILEGE, JUST AS TRANS WOMEN EXPERIENCE OPPRESSION AS WOMEN.

intersectionality is essential to feminism, because the concept of gender (which is the social application of sex) applies to all of us in complex ways which highlights the underlying systems of abuse at play (also of note is that intersectionality especially includes racial politics due to absurdly increased abuse of WOC in comparison to white women, but as im white i dont feel that its in any way appropriate for me to speak for POC).

as a passing trans man i experience, and now for nearing the majority of my life have experienced, white male privilege. i have legal and medical discrimination to deal with, but lack much of the social female experience of discrimination. a non passing trans man (as i once was) may experience all levels of female oppression, laced with the active dangers of transphobia which often increase the amount of female targeted oppression (ie aggressive catcalling, increased threats of violence and the casual reminders of possible violence, and people feeling entitled to grope your body, often claiming that they're checking to see if its "real," which for me started in school).

equally, trans women experience the social oppression that other feminine presenting people do, alongside the discrimination of being trans, all the way down to medical discrimination, but instead of being told "go on the pill" by the doctor for everything wrong with you it tends to be more "we dont know enough about long lasting effects of hormone therapy, so let's lower your dose since there doesnt seem to be anything *physically* wrong with you :)" (which the lack of medical understanding of hrt stems majorly from the medical field overall ignoring women during medical testing, but that's easily enough for its own post).

it's not about genitalia, it's never been about genetalia, feminism is about stopping the oppression that people experience for being women, and to end the way that femininity is shamed while simultaneously being idolized as The Single Way A Woman Is Allowed To Exist. it's about how being seen as a woman puts a target on your back, how women are constantly in danger, how that fear is fostered by our culture telling women that they can't save themselves from that danger, while that exact same culture dismisses those dangers once the damage has already been done.

i could say this about most TERFs, but if jkr put even the tiniest bit of genuine, openminded thought into the beliefs that she holds onto so tightly, she could probably come to these conclusions on her own. but until she grows up and chokes down her pride she can choke on my dick

#seriously joanne can eat shit until and unless she decides to change her shit fueled mentality jkr long post trans women are women and trans