#sex role stereotypes

[taylor14firefly]

"The idea of ‘gender’ arises from the oppression of women. Gender comprises the behaviour and appearance norms required of men and women. Femininity is the enforced behaviour of the oppressed, that is women, and includes humiliating clothing norms of high heels, depilation and body exposure or body covering, the restriction of body movement, taking up little space. It is based upon the false idea that women’s brains are somehow different from those of men in ways which make them suited to such appearance and behaviour and make them rightfully subordinate and more suited to doing housework. Masculinity is the behaviour of the powerful, and includes taking up space, the expression of confidence and control of boundaries in the form of striding, wearing dignified clothing, and not cleaning the toilet. Gender comprises the behaviour of two groups of people in a hierarchy of oppression, the subordinates, women, and the dominants, men."

—Sheila Jeffreys, Enforcing men’s sexual rights in international human rights law (pp. 2-3)

#radical feminism #gender abolition #sex role stereotypes #gender roles #sheila jeffreys #femininity #beauty culture

[intersexfairy]

people are discriminated against - sometimes violently - for their sex traits. but not in whatever fucked up and bigotted way radfems mean that. sex and gender are different things, despite people acting as otherwise.

and there is no set of privileged sex traits. it's all dependent on what traits an individual has/doesn't have, how they identify/express themselves, and how they're perceived. any one of those things being "off" can lead to discrimination in relation to sex traits.

so as a trans intersex person, i sincerely wish this is what "sex based discrimination" referred to. it's something anyone can experience, and it's not fucking fair the phrase is taken on by bigots pretending to be fighting for women's rights.

#ifairy #trans #intersex #transphobia #intersexism #nonbinary #gender binary #sex binary #gender roles #gender stereotypes #gender identity #gender norms #queer #lgbt #lgbtqia #queerphobia #gender nonconformity #sex nonconformity #gender nonconforming #sex nonconforming #feminist #intersectional feminist #intersectional feminism #queer feminism #trans feminism #transgender

[valeriesolanasapologist]

The quoted tweet:

They are....so close to getting it.

Instead of letting go of "being feminine enough", they just stick their head further into the sex stereotype extremes (and anyone who doesn't tick off "enough" of the right boxes for either "gender" should ID as an amorphous paper doll????)

#radical feminism #radfem #sex roles #sex stereotypes #performative femininity

[sad--fem]

wow the trans community is so radical and progressive.... no longer are you beholden by the antiquated notion that if you're a man you must be masculine, and a woman you must be feminine! now, if you're masculine, you must be a man, and feminine, you must be a woman :) much better!

#i think about this a lot. i really just went from a dominantly sexist societal understanding of gender/sex roles #to the trans community which has morphed ever further into reinforcing those exact same roles but in reverse #its the same shit with a new coat of paint! #god! #if you're trans and reading this before you get all pissy at me in the reblogs 1. i know this is a simplification. thats how joke's work #2. really really think long and hard about how you and the people around you continue to uphold the stereotypes and gender roles #you are claiming to free yourselves of #text #detrans #gender critical #detransition #radfem safe #terf safe

[rosesradio]

wondering if the mutuals would actually try to fight me if i spoke my truth about the barbie movie…

#listen listen listen #it was just an acid trip…and while i agree with the messaging Of Course it just felt a little too on the nose #also was not a fan of the ‘in the patriarchy in barbieland the Barbies are being brainwashed ! there’s no other way they’d want to— #stay home and be a boring housewife !’ when like…it’s a perfectly valid choice. & feminism is about a woman’s right to choose #also something something cellulite something something #it felt like there were like a million stereotypically sized Barbies (like a size 2 or xs or whatever)— #& like 1 or 2 plus sized ones & like that was it. it feels like that for most movies these days but like where’s the medium/large girls yk #i didn’t like how they made ken a villain like i thought he’d have more of a fun/enjoyable role But I understand why they did it like that #also they never mention boys also play with Barbies? I get it’s probably more common for girls because Society but the movie was— #very sex-divided imo. and at the risk of a dad joke it kinda put girls and boys into boxes (ba doom crash) #overall between the catching the barbie plot and the stopping the Kendom plot and the ‘i wanna be a human’ thing at the end— #it’s like they were trying to put several different things together & it shows #i feel like people don’t feel comfortable talking about what they liked & didn’t about the movie because they’ll be accused of not liking— #its messages. but that’s not true for me anyway. i liked the messages and the aesthetic & all. but the way it came together was just…:/ #rose.txt

[uter-us]

I've been thinking about how one time when I was like maybe eight yrs old i think, this very old woman (I think she might have been a nun?) told me I was an "old soul." and at the time, I told my mom that maybe i "used to be a boy" like in a past life or something. that was in reference to the fact that I exclusively wore clothes from the boys' section and disliked most feminine things. I was routinely called a tomboy.

and uuggghh I think about that and like while ik me saying that wasn't so detrimental or anything, it just makes me sad that I was a GIRL and still perceived myself to be "acting like a boy," almost like there's some "boy" in me and that must be why I dressed/acted like one. cuz like NO I was acting like a girl! because I was a girl! and if that's how I'm acting, then I am inherently acting like a girl because I AM ONE. yk?? THIS IS HOW A GIRL ACTS!

like everything I did was exactly something a girl would do BECAUSE I was a girl. (it had nothing to do w proximity to some past-life boy)

#gender roles r so apparent ugh #radfem #radical feminist safe #male socialization #female socialization #sex based oppression #gender abolition #gender critical #radical feminism #terfsafe #radblr #gender roles #gender stereotypes #not j a reblog tag

[variousqueerthings]

caroline cossey, sandra caldwell, elizabeth coffey, you truly have been doing the most. 

#queer stuff #trans stuff #trans history #movie history #am thinking about what it takes to be considered a *correct* woman and how these three artists have three different stories #cossey was outed after her small role in a bond film -- coffey has been out as far as i can tell her whole life -- #caldwell i think came out in 2015 after a long career #watching videos about rita moreno -- and one thing that struck me was her linking her experiences with racism to homophobia #as well as racism faced by others which led her to civil rights #there's a part of this that also talks about stereotyping of roles -- ex. reading *hooker* roles with more *accent* #and am of course reminded of how pretty much every trans woman has played a sex worker (often one who dies) #racism and transphobia goes hand in hand #these notes are a completely different post but sometimes ive gotta write down where i was at whn i had thoughts

[thorne1435]

I think it took me so long to realize I was attracted to men too because all the men where I live...kinda suck. Or at least, they aren't my type. They're all so angry and bigoted and that's dreadfully unattractive to me.

I think if I had met more anxious prettyboys and intellectual stoners around, let's say, my 7th grade year? I might've figured all this bisexual shit out way sooner.

#It kinda sucks too because I know well enough that it's not who they are that's bothering me #it's the patriarchal idea of masculinity that's bothering me. #and I do think it's somewhat misandristic of me to dislike what they're (unwillingly) raised to be like #but only insofar as I ignore the social factors at play and assume this is an inherent trait of men rather than a patriarchal one. #sort of like how it's not misogynistic to hate the stereotype of Dumb Women Doing Shopping #but it *is* misogynistic to hate women because of the stereotype of Dumb Women Doing Shopping. #y'know? #anyway this one kinda got away from me #what im saying is that im quite fond of men who have renegotiated their personal idea of masculinity #those men who have outright rejected toxic masculinity and traditional ideas of The Patriarch as a household role. #and if i had met more of those men when i was a kid maybe i would have less internalized misandry #and less resulting queerphobia towards males as a sex including myself as a trans woman: these things are often related.

[chaotic-history]

"Deo erexit Sade"

#too like the lightning #i was enjoying this scene and then donatien had to come along and ruin it 😐 #i do like though how the ✨gendered✨ society as opposed to the society that supposedly doesn't see gender; is the one that allows people to #be identified as the gender they want. #i had a whole rant after that but i reloaded the ducking page and don't want to retype more. so. #short version is; the society in tltl is just performative in regards to gender; bc they still see gender and there's likely still unconsci #-ous stereotyping that goes on bc of what sex people look like even though they don't openly acknowledge it and call everyone by neutral pr #-onouns #and it's a similar kind of performative to the “allies” who call all trans people 'they' even if that isn't the person's preferred pronoun; #which is still misgendering; the same way it's misgendering to call dominic 'they' instead of 'he' since that's clearly what he prefers #like yeah abolish gender stereotypes + roles and feel free to personally abolish gender; #but also there's always going to be people who enjoy having a gender/binary gender #like idfk what gender is but it's not /just/ a social construct even though certain elements of it are

[girlscience]

me: is happy because i put they/them pronouns on my companies benefits website and my boss saw and talked to me about it and how i want to handle it and letting other people at work know and it is good and i'm happy with all the decisions

also me: well. i shouldn't feel happy about this sooo let's go look at terf blogs to remember how terrible i am for not thinking i'm a woman even though i'm female and i'm being stupid and i just want to distance myself from womanhood because of misogyny and trauma

#for a while i was doing really good #i wasn't on tumblr as much. i wasn't looking at manosphere videos or terf blogs #i wasn't looking at anything at all that had to do with gender #but i started again and like. i came to some good conclusions in the middle there about my body #but now that i started again i feel awful again (shocker) #the thing is like. there are some things that i see on terf/radfem blogs i agree with a lot #like clothes and personality and stereotypes and gender roles don't make gender i really really believe that #and i am very aware that i experienced things growing up that i wouldn't have experienced if i was male #so i do think sex based oppression exists. #but i don't think all men are evil and i believe in personal and bodily autonomy so i think people can define themselves however they want #and they should be able to do whatever they want to their bodies #but that doesn't change that i still don't fit with a lot of women i know. that doesn't change that my ideal body isn't female or male. #but what if that's just because of trauma and opression and the fact i'm gnc???? like fuck i don't know #and there's no way for anyone else to tell me because no one can get inside my brain and figure it out for me #i'm just so fucking tired of this. i've been going back and forth and back and forth on this since i was like 12 #and i'm just so fucking done

[taylor14firefly]

"The solution to an oppressive system that puts people into pink and blue boxes is not to create more and more boxes that are any colour but blue or pink. The solution is to tear down the boxes altogether."

—Rebecca Reilly-Cooper, "Gender is not a spectrum"

#radical feminism #gender abolition #gender #sex role stereotypes #rebecca reilly cooper

[ace-but-not-a-pilot]

A large portion of my targeted advertising has decided that I am in need of a plethora of vibrators, and is very obviously targeted a desperate and horny bottom

#which I pretty much am #in every aspect but the sex I fit that stereotype #and if I were to have it eventually for some reason that’s probably the role I’d take #also hella tmi

[crazyalien87]

the "gender ideology" goldmine

wow. I didn't read the whole thing, but basically, this "compcis masterdoc" says that gender = gender roles, thus woman = feminine & man = masculinine. wtf. on the one hand, that is incredibly sexist. on the other hand, this was clearly with good intentions (it doesn't say that gnc people have to have dysphoria or be uncomfortable with their body or transition), & only as a reaction to sexist society. the underlying message seems to be "anyone should be allowed to be as masculine &/or feminine as they want." that's a very good message.

however, they have it backward. conservative sexist people say "women are female & female people morally should be feminine, thus women should be feminine also" (& vice versa for men). however, the writer of this thinks that conservatives are saying "women are feminine, & female people morally should be feminine, thus female people should be women". this is incorrect, however, it is a reasonable response to growing up in a society that is just drenched in gender roles. I mean what can u expect after always hearing shit like "women have to wear dresses & makeup & be housewives & sensistive &... & men have to wear pants ^ cologne & be breadwinners & strong & stoic &..."...? after a while, I can see how it would sound like "women are this", not "women should be this".

fundamentally, they agree with gender critical people in that people should be allowed to be gender-nonconforming. however, they rather find comfort in these roles, rather than wanting to abolish them altogether. they just want to pick their own category.

however, I do not think we should define trans people as this. it is confusing. as I have said, woman & man are sex-based words. we already have words for gnc people, such as tomboy, femboy, crossdresser...it would make more sense for trans to mean someone who wants to change their sex, such as transsexual. this is why some people want to use words such as transsexual, transsex, & transX (nonbinary transsex) instead of transgender. wanting to change one's physical body (often due to dysphoria) is very different from being gnc, though they may be intertwined for some people. it is confusing to combine the two. this "masterdoc" combines signs of bejng gnc or repssing being gnc, with signs of gender dysphoria, even tho these are quite different things

#commentary #gender #gender roles #sexist stereotypes #sex roles #sexism #misogyny #sexist society #we live in a society #feminism #gender ideology #transgender ideology #radfem #gender critical

[ballistic-goat]

When I was a little girl, I thought I should've been a boy. I didn't fit in with the other girls I knew and I didn't fit in with what I was told a girl was supposed to be like. Eventually, when I was 10 or so, I started thinking that I was a girl because I had the body of a girl. And as such, the other things people told me were clearly unnecessary to be a girl - they were all made up BS. That line of thought helped me with accepting myself for a very long time. But back then, I only knew of mainstream feminism, and as it's narrative quickly began to change around gender, I found myself trying to reconcile that old thinking with this new one about identification. I didn't want to be hateful or anything. I knew after all, how bad it was to feel like you couldn't be yourself due to your gender. But that old lightbulb moment I had as a kid, it stuck with me. I'd talk to an enby friend who explained it to me like, "I am nonbinary because I like feminine and masculine things", and all I could think was, "that is the most misogynistic thing I have ever heard". I'd read trans people talk about how stereotypes were good, actually. I saw a kids book about how a tomboy girl was actually a boy. All of that, while they still claimed that gender roles were bad. It was like I was going crazy. When I found radical feminism, and they viewed things in that same way, it was freeing. I didn't feel like I was doublethinking no more. I want to destroy gender roles, destroy gender itself. That doesn't mean biological sex will vanish. But the rest, the other "made up bullshit", it must go. (also I used my own boots to make this picture. It's one of my favorites I have made so far)

#gender abolition #i stand with jk rowling #radblr #radical feminist safe #radical feminists do interact #radical feminists please interact #terfblr #rad fem #radical feminism #terfsafe

[neechees]

Negative & racist depictions, tropes, and Stereotypes regarding Native Americans in Road to El Dorado.

Mayaincatec: The film homogenizes multiple Indigenous cultures cultures into one, specifically and mainly Maya and Nahua cultures, with the story being based on a mythical place set in Colombia.

Mighty Whitey: the basis of the film comes from the Spanish lie and myth that the Indigenous Aztec population worshipped them as gods, with the city of El Dorado doing the same with Miguel and Tulio, who use this to trick Native people to steal gold from them.

Oversexualized Native Woman: Chel’s character has overemphasis on her sex appeal and sexuality, with her character design being very revealing and exageratted on her chest, hips, and thighs. There is little to no exploration of her character outside of her sexuality and servitude towards the White characters. She does not pass the Aila Test and is a near opposite. Chel is a perfect example of how many Native female characters are sexualized

Evil Shaman: The Native religious leader Tzekel-Kan is demonized as evil & plays a heavier role as the main antagonist instead of the famed genocidal colonizer Hernan Cortez. Tzekel-Kan being enslaved by Cortez at the end is depicted as a “good ending”.

Demonized Spiritualiity: connected to the above, all scenes depicting traditional Mesoamerican spirituality/religion or practices are shown as evil, barbaric, savage, scary, and associated with the main antagonist.

White Saviors: El Dorado is saved by the main White protagonists, the idea to destroy the gates to the city is Tulio’s idea, the warriors of El Dorado are portrayed as helpless and no match for the Spanish conquistadors despite Indigenous Mexican warriors going toe to toe with them, and winning against them in various battles in real life.

Whitewashed Colonialism: Cortez, despite being one of the worst colonizers in history, serves as a minor, secondary antagonist & his evilness is only vaguely implied, and never explained why it (his actions) is bad. Cortez has the same goal as Miguel and Tulio (to steal gold from Indigenous people), but the protagonists aren’t shown as bad for doing it. Colonization is essentially excused (& is never explicitly named as harmful) as long as the colonizers are “nice” about it.

There’s likely some other stuff I’m missing but these are some of the big ones that are shown in this film, & its depictions of Indigenous Peoples are extremely harmful. I also don’t wanna see anybody trying to defend any of these with somehow implying “Well it’s not ACTUALLY racist or harmful because-” etc etc save it for a vague post and take our inability to see criticism of racism within a movie you like elsewhere.

#road to el dorado #the road to el dorado #dreamworks #animationedit #animation #justin's edits #indigenous targeted racism #ndn #native american

[dunesofpriam]

I think part of the reason that "misgendering" a trans person is seen as such a horrific crime is because transgender ideology upholds sexist gender roles and steeotypes.

Under a gender critical theory, saying a trans man is a woman is no different than saying a female horse is a mare. It goes no further and implies nothing else. But when you attribute certain aspects to sex, then suddenly calling a trans man a woman implies a whole host of other things- now its something to be offended at.

Rather than remove the stereotypes from the sex, trans ideology has removed the sex from the stereotypes.

#feminism #gender critical #trans #gender ideology #gender #transgender #radblr #radical feminist safe #radical feminists do interact