What's yer name? Fuck yer name.

kiriamaya:

[content warning for transmisogyny, misgendering, trivialization of rape]

freedominwickedness:

Over the past few weeks, it has become increasingly apparent that many modern day cis feminists do not understand how utterly transphobic second-wave radscum really are. Because of this, cis feminists who claim to be allies of trans women are often ridiculously easy marks for radscum who trick them into tone policing and golden mean fallacies by casting trans women as unreasonable extremists.

Tell me, cis allies, how exactly do you propose we “find compromises” with radscum who continue to argue that our mere existence is an act of rape, murder, and necrophilia?

Let’s take a look at Mary Daly’s 1978 bestseller “Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism”.

The insane desire for power, the madness of boundary violation, is the mark of necrophiliacs who sense the lack of soul⁄spirit⁄life-loving principle with themselves and therefore try to invade and kill off all spirit, substituting conglomerates of corpses. This necrophilic invasion ⁄ elimination takes a variety of forms. Transsexualism is an example of male surgical siring which invades the female world with substitutes.

And Janice Raymond’s 1979 book, “The Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male”. It’s the book that launched that woman’s entire career — an extended version of the PhD thesis she wrote under Mary Daly’s mentorship. It’s also pretty much the definitive radical feminist screed on the subject of trans people.

All transsexuals rape women’s bodies by reducing the real female form to an artefact, and appropriating this body for themselves. […] As the male-to-constructed-female transsexual exhibits the attempt to possess women in a bodily sense while acting out the images into which men have molded women, the male-to-constructed-female who claims to be a lesbian-feminist attempts to possess women at a deeper level, this time under the guise of challenging rather than conforming to the role and behavior of stereotyped femininity.

I contend that the problem with transsexualism would best be served by morally mandating it out of existence.

Or how about a more recent work like Germaine Greer’s 1999 book, “The Whole Woman”? It’s a direct sequel to her famous 1970 book, “The Female Eunuch”.

When a man decides to spend his life impersonating his mother (like Norman Bates in Psycho) it is as if he murders her and gets away with it, proving at a stroke that there was nothing to her. His intentions are no more honourable than any female impersonator’s; his achievement is to gag all those who would call his bluff. When he forces his way into the few private spaces women may enjoy and shouts down their objections, and bombards the women who will not accept him with threats and hate mail, he does as rapists have always done.

Those are all their own exact words, unedited and in context. Now do you understand why we call them radscum?

racismschool:

We need to clear this up once and for all. I continue to see this phrased used, misused and misunderstood. Let’s make sure we are all clear on what it does and does not mean.

It does NOT mean: You, a white person, should never talk with a Black person ever on any topic. This phrase is VERY specific. It is not about EVERY topic. 

It does NOT mean: You, a white person, should not ever talk about racism. You SHOULD talk about it. However, there is a time and a place.

It does NOT mean: You, a white person should not join in on a conversation on any topic ever if Black people are talking.

What it DOES mean: When PoC are talking about race, their experiences BEING PoC or how things affect their lives BECAUSE they are PoC, you a white person, should shut up and listen. This is not an arbirary term that should be thrown around the way that it is. Yesterday I saw a white person tell another white person that they were not to talk about racism TO A WHITE PERSON because it was their job to soley “Shut up and listen.”

NO! NO! NO!

How can you collect your people when they are acting up if you can’t talk about racism? This makes no sense. It has EVERYTHING to do with the GROUP. Everything.

I am currently talking about race but where being an “Ally” is concerned, it is important to note that the “Shut up and listen” phrase is and should be used in other areas. For example, If two Trans People are talking about their experiences BEING Trans People, I have NO BUSINESS jumping in with my opinion on the subject. It has nothing to do with what I do or don’t know about the subject. It has nothing to do with the fact that I agree with every single thing they say or disagree with every single thing they say. It has EVERYTHING to do with me jumping into a conversation where my perspective, no matter how inline I THINK it is with theirs, is different. 

It is not about “Agreement.” It is about perspective. I can’t know what it is like to be a Trans Person. I CAN NOT KNOW. No matter what I do know, what I think I know, I can’t TRULY know. This is why the “Shut up and listen” would be an appropriate phrase for someone to use on me in this situation.

Now, where I SHOULD speak up is this: Straight cis person saying shitty things or even saying incorrect things not meaning to be shitty, I MUST SPEAK UP. If I am ever to call myself an ally, this is the moment that I must speak up.

Comparing oppression is unacceptable and incorrect. When it comes to “Allies” however, there is no compression. An Ally has the SAME RULES no matter the group they ally for. NO MATTER THE GROUP. The rules you have for being an ally for racial justice are the EXACT rules that I have for being an ally to the LGBTQ Community. 

An Ally is an Ally is an Ally. Period.

vizzz:

widdershinsgirl:

I had a feeling bad financial news was coming my way.

It was.

I had a hose break near my water pump and timing belt. This is a $800-1000 repair right when I can least afford it.

I need this car - I can NOT afford to buy a new car this close to my surgery.

PLEASE help. 

Additionally, please signal-boost this.

THANK YOU IN ADVANCE.

i will create a donation poster for you today like i did for Kiri a while ago.

in the meantime, followers, please donate to her?

vizzz:

brainbytumblr:

jojobear11 replied to your post: notice how i did not send that question anonymously. also, try reading some bell hooks or judith butler or something? and stop telling women what to do? also lol at you saying my boyfriend isn’t smart because he’s dating a woman who wears makeup, doesn’t shave, and doesn’t let assholes like you say shit like that and get away with it. you’re not really one to judge people based on their intelligence, i’d say.

Lmao!!! What man wants to be with a woman that is just as hairy as he?Women who shave are doing a basic task that goes with being feminine. Why is it a crime for a man to want a woman to be feminine?

Lol didn’t you get the memo? What men want is irrelevant. We’re nothing. It’s all about teh womynz! 

it’s not a crime to be attracted to feminine people. the problem comes in when you start telling ALL people to change themselves to make them more attractive to YOU, regardless of their personal taste.

what men want isn’t irrelevant. me saying it’s ridiculous for you to tell women what to do isn’t because you don’t have a right to be attracted to femmes. you do. but you also have to realize that not everyone is a femme, you know?

it is so typical for people like you to read responses from women and somehow get the impression that women are taking away your rights by saying that they don’t personally want to shave their armpits. dude, i don’t exist for your personal enjoyment. lots of people do shave their pits. date those people. don’t tell other people what to do. god, it’s so fucking simple. 

side note: i am femme as fuck and i don’t shave my armpits. shaving is not a prerequisite for being femme.

vizzz:

man i just love it when people use the word “biological” when they mean “cis” and then get all pissed when someone explains why that’s problematic.

“STOP TRYING TO CATEGORIZE ME. HE’S A MALE. THIS PC SHIT IS GETTING OUT OF HAND”.

please talk to my friend ben who graduated with a masters in gender studies from cambridge if there’s a fucking problem. the stuff i’m saying here, i’ve learned from him and his blog. check it out, you might learn something.

1.) the word “biological” doesn’t really make a whole lot of sense here. are you talking about chromosomes? because not all cis males are XY, not all cis females are XX. the fact that you read it in your 9th grade biology textbook doesn’t mean that you’re an expert, SORRY.

2.) identity is a part of biology… so like, calling someone “male-bodied” and “female-bodied” is fucked up because if you’re a male, you’re male-bodied, regardless of what you were assigned at birth.

3.) refusing to use a word to signify that someone is cis if that’s a relevant part of the conversation, and saying “no, he’s just normal”- please don’t do that and then wonder why people are shitty and unaccepting of trans people. 

vizzz:

tiffany-leeanne:

marfmellow:

vizzz:

marfmellow:

vizzz:

but seriously though… the fact that i explained to marfmellow that what she said was messed up wasn’t me being “hateful”. it was explaining, in a completely non-confrontational manner, that the words she was using were problematic and marginalizing. then i suggested some other phrases that would be better- “assigned male at birth” and “cis” instead of “biological”. 

of course, now all kinds of people are making that standard ass argument that i’m being too PC and the fact that i say something when i come across someone being oppressive makes me “hateful” and a “hypocrite”. someone telling you when you’re being oppressive is not them oppressing you. i’m not restricting your fucking life at all. i explained that the word “biological” in reference to cis people is problematic and should be used sparingly.

every time an issue of race or gender comes up on tumblr, people always use the “well, the definition of racism is ____ and the definition of cissexism is ______ and i don’t think i’m doing that so i’m not cissexist/racist/whatever”. clearly you’re not expressing fear of trans people, that’s not what the fucking word means. you’re using words that imply that being cis is “normal” and being trans is “abnormal”, which perpetuates the oppression of trans people.

it’s not like i messaged her and was like “go fuck yourself you stupid asshole”. i replied to her post and suggested other terms to use instead, and it started a shitstorm.

anyway, i’ll just say again what i always say in these situations: if someone tells you that what you’re doing is fucked up and oppressive, and you, being aware of this fact, continue to do it anyway: it becomes your fucking problem. you have every right to be an idiot. go right ahead. just don’t be surprised if people call you out on it.

I identify as someone who is biologically female, that doesn’t mean I’m the RIGHT type of female or a BETTER type of female, I am implying that I was born with female genitalia, that is all. If that offends you, I am sorry. I don’t talk too much about gender or pronouns or anything like that on here and if you’ve been following me for years then you’d fucking know that. If it’s cissexist, then so be it. I’m fine with you thinking that. 

the word “biological” in reference to being cis is problematic. biology encompasses gender identity, so even someone who identifies female, and was assigned male at birth, can be “biologically” female. you’re cis.

the fact that you identify that way does not make it less problematic. and yeah, i have been following you for years, and i have never seen you say shit like this, so that’s why i’m especially surprised and bummed out by it.

continue to be bummed man, you’re not the first to love and leave me. 

I think this whole argument is dumb. People are people. It doesn’t matter.

thank you for your valuable input. jk.

yes, all people should be considered equal. too bad institutionalized cissexism and transphobia, and internalized transphobia (yes, someone can be transphobic without ever uttering the phrase “i hate trans people”) make that equality not a reality. if someone says something that contributes to the oppression of trans people, like marfmellow did, i’m going to say something. if it’s a problem, maybe just don’t do that shit.