That Feminist Dyke

shorm:

scriddlebug:

✿tiny wayward flower prince✿: seriously like enough with the “well trans or cis hate is never ok”…

postpunkwesleycrusher:

seriously like enough with the “well trans or cis hate is never ok” look

i will spend part of next month lobbying for a bill to make sure i can’t be denied housing or fired for being trans* in my state

but cis people hear the words “too rad to be cis” and sincerely think “i am being oppressed by trans* people”

like

no one is ever going to say to you “well you’re qualified on paper but it says here that you’re not rad, and we think that might be disruptive to the office environment, you understand”

no one is going to say “what are you doing in this restroom, you’re not rad” and force you out physically for your lack of radness

nO ONE IS GOING TO START A COURT CASE WITH YOU BECAUSE YOU SLEPT WITH THEM WITHOUT DISCLOSING YOUR STATUS AS A NOT RAD PERSON

THERE ARE ACTUAL SOCIETAL CONSEQUENCES FOR WIDESPREAD BIAS AGAINST TRANS* PEOPLE. THERE ARE NOT ACTUAL SOCIETAL CONSEQUENCES FOR THE PHRASE “TOO RAD TO BE CIS”

THESE ARE NOT EQUAL THINGS

and if you decide the way to express your feelings about someone saying “too rad to be cis” is INVADING ONE OF THE FEW SAFE SPACES TRANS* PEOPLE HAVE TO CREATE FOR OURSELVES AND MAKING IT UNSAFE, JUST OUT OF SPITE, YOU ARE A JERK

YOU ARE A JERK DELIBERATELY DOING A TERRIBLE THING TO PEOPLE 

STOP BEING A JERK

While I agree that cisgendered people are privileged, that still does not make hating on cisgender people okay. In the case of hating on people because of their gender preference, that will never be okay despite if one gets hated on more by the general public or not. In either case, the person being bullied may feel bad.

Why don’t we all agree that hating on a person just because of gender preference makes you an asshole and leave it at that? Let’s just accept each other for who we are and mind our own businesses.

- “gender preference” is a fucking disgusting way of putting it, what the fuck. being trans* is not a ~preference~.

now to address the actual point of your shitty comment:

REASONS CIS PEOPLE HATE TRANS* PEOPLE

• transphobia
• transmisogyny
• misplaced homophobia/misogyny
• being self-centred fuckfaces

REASONS TRANS* PEOPLE HATE CIS PEOPLE

• reacting to the above
• seriously that’s why
• it’s a reaction to a lifetime of constant hatred and belittlement and danger

THINGS THAT HAPPEN WHEN CIS PEOPLE HATE TRANS* PEOPLE

• denial of medical procedures
• refusal to use names/pronouns
• murder
• “corrective” rape
• abuse of all kinds
• eviction
• termination of jobs
• heightened suicide rates
• heightened self-harm rates
• a lot more along this vein
• you get the idea

THINGS THAT HAPPEN WHEN TRANS* PEOPLE HATE CIS PEOPLE

• cis people who haven’t yet pulled their head out of their ass get sad/feel bad
• no seriously that’s it

and then people like you derail posts by trans* people for trans* people and about trans* people to recentre the discussion on you! and that just means that trans* people are cast as ‘just as bad’ for our REACTION TO HATRED THAT DOES LITERALLY FUCKING NOTHING.

So yeah, no, it’s not ~just as bad~ in any fucking sense of the term, and if you feel bad BE FUCKING GLAD THAT THAT’S THE ONLY GODDAMNED RESULT.

biyuti:

ericainchoate:

Word has quickly spread on the web in the last couple of days that Rachel Ivey, a member of the Deep Green Resistance environmentalist movement that holds openly transphobic views as “core” princip…

Spread the word: Trans-exterminationists from Deep Green Resistance, as well as an openly transmisogynist fauxminist conference are coming to Toronto.

omg

ugh.

this is happening in my city :|

going to keep an ear open and see if the venue is announced. i’m rather of the opinion that getting the conference shut down is the better course of action,

but any white trans woman who wants to attend and challenge them, feel free.

you won’t see me trying to convince these women that my gender is valid only for them to turn around and hate me because I’m asian.

lavenderlabia:

Five Ways Cis Feminists Can Help Build Trans Inclusivity And Intersectionality

1. Be willing to confront instances of transphobia, cissexism, cisnormativity, cis-centrism, cis privilege and other forms of destructive bias where you find them (especially when you find them within feminist, activist or queer spaces), not through “call outs” or other toxic, self-defeating or abusive strategies, but by taking the opportunity for genuine discourse.
2. Don’t take a purely passive, reactive approach. Rather than waiting for things like someone saying something overtly cissexist, or a trans person bringing up a particular concern, be willing to proactively introduce trans issues, or trans-relevant aspects of broader issues, to feminist discourse. Likewise, proactively treat possible consequences, perspectives and concerns relevant to trans people and trans experiences as being not only significant but essential to all feminist issues and conversations.
3. Don’t assume any given issue is strictly, or even primarily, relevant to cis women. All feminist concerns are also transgender concerns, and vice versa. There are no feminist dialogues in which trans voices “don’t belong”, or to which trans voices have “nothing to add”. There are no social issues related to gender that don’t have consequences for trans people.
4. Proactively seek out transgender voices, perspectives and input on all issues, not simply what you regard as “trans issues” or situations where the value of such perspectives is immediately obvious to you. Come to us, rather than waiting for us to come to you.
5. Don’t treat the larger social conflict of gender as being dialectic or binary in nature. Don’t assume a unidirectional model of gender-based oppression.

These points are expanded on and explained more in the article. Please do read the full piece - it’s awesomesauce.

(Source: soilwitch)

mamamantis:

Radscum are a particularly nasty breed of radical feminist (i.e., those that are scum.) There’s a common misconception that “radical feminism” just means … well, any feminism that is radical. However, it refers to a specific kind of feminism that, in my experience, is characterized by rampant transmisogyny and a fuckton of internalized misogyny.

(To be fair, I’m sure there exist some radical feminists that aren’t scum. I just … haven’t met any.)

Most, if not all (actually probably all) radscum identify with some form of the “Womyn Born Womyn” movement, also known as the “If You Don’t Have a Vagina I Will Never Give Any Shits About You Ever” movement. They actively attack, belittle, and oppress trans women, and treat trans men as disappointments at best, traitors at worst. In short, they are scum.

They also seem to believe that any woman who is not a radical feminist is not smart enough to make decisions for herself. Most of them are anti-pornography, anti-burlesque, anti-femme, anti-heterosexuality, anti- … okay, they’re just anti-women-claiming-their-sexuality. Interactions with radscum in this context usually go like this:

Me: *wears makeup/wears a dress/shaves legs/etc.*

Radscum: HEY! DON’T DO THAT! STOP THAT! YOU’RE SUPPORTING THE PATRIARCHY! YOU’RE COOPERATING WITH THE ENEMY!

Me: Uhm, actually, even though I understand that mainstream beauty standards originated from the patriarchy to oppress and sexualize women, I’m actually doing this as a femme reclamation and a refusal to allow them to dictate my appearance. Also, outside of a feminist context, I just really like how this looks and it makes me happy.

Radscum: NO! WRONG! YOU CAN’T DO THAT! IT WILL ALWAYS BELONG TO THE PATRIARCHY! YOU DON’T REALLY WANT THAT, YOU’RE BRAINWASHED!

So basically what they’re saying is that a woman cannot make her own choices because her opinion will never outweigh a man’s opinion (not using inclusive language here because I’m referring to THEIR bullshit definition of “woman”), and that female-presenting people can never reclaim anything because anything that we attempt to reclaim belongs to men and always will.

Which, uh. Doesn’t sound very feminist to me.

And for people who screech so much about how gender/sex divisions are harmful and evil, they seem very very very concerned with policing who’s a “REAL WOMYN!!!!!!!!” and who isn’t.

Anyway, I’m rambling. Long story short is that they are very very unpleasant people and I don’t like them.

((rebloggable by request!))