#ts: white feminism

[notyouraryang0dd3ss]

i can't help but laugh every time swifties think Taylor is some kind of rebel or warrior for saying "misogyny bad!!", they talk about her like she was THE anticulture™ and soo oppressed when shes a cisalohet white, rich and usamerican woman.

if someone talks about her as a rioter or revolutionary, that's how you spot white privilege.

-🦇

i wish i was taylor swift oppressed meaning the worst of my problems is being bullied online for my exorbitant wealth i amassed by exploiting my fans. swifties think ts is at the frontier of celeb feminism but the only way taylor swift would lead the revolution is by being pop star marie antionette

[wonho-ssi]

People more mad about Barbie than Gaza... LOOOL

[newagevictorianorphan]

“girl pretty” and it’s a picture of a skinny blonde white woman and “boy pretty” is some random latina off pinterest

[taylortruther]

also re: the racial component of TS/fan base, if you haven't you should watch Alex Avila's video on Taylor Swift, I think it was really well done

this is SO good. thank you SO much for this recommendation.

i really liked how avila noted how masterfully taylor blends authenticity and social normativity - "the reason taylor swift seems so authentic to young girls is because she's conforming to an image [of white patriarchal girlhood] that young women internalized from a young age." similarly, the popular feminism of 2014 (when 1989 was released) was flimsy and did not challenge patriarchal norms, and we see how she made feminism part of 1989's branding.

and he asks a question i often pose: is there anything subversive in idolizing the most popular cultural object? does poptimism (the critique of pop music as a serious form of art) simply reinforce existing power structures??

taylor swift and whiteness

understanding how someone becomes a legend and icon means understanding how they challenge, but also reinforce, the biases in society, which includes race, class, gender, and so forth. and "there IS something deeply white about [taylor's] image" (1:18:33). her image is cultural whiteness! taylor swift's relatability (which is and has always been part of her brand), her social capital, her social normativity, is directly tied to the neoliberal racial philosophy that, instead of calling whiteness superior, establishes whiteness as the norm (1:21:23).

millennials want celebrities to be morally pure. this is a mistake.

also - LOVE that he points out that millennials don't judge female celebrities by their sexuality or modesty anymore, but instead they judge based on political awareness, which is just another way of continuing the "patriarchal history of regulating narratives around women's actions" (1:42:39). avila focuses specifically on millennials here, cautioning us not to consider this a a sign of true political engagement from millennials. as he points out, systems of oppression adapt to our ever-changing culture. when we try to 'cancel' or 'hold a celebrity accountable' for their ideologies or missteps, sometimes it's because they're truly terrible, and other times it's because we hold women to "unrealistic standards of purity." ie, this isn't necessarily real political engagement, it is just another example of judging women. often it's both (pointing out missteps, and also being sexist.)

whiteness again

avila goes on to discuss how white women have long been held up as virtuous, moral centers of american families - and while this is a racist and sexist practice, given that woc aren't seen as virtuous, it also lays the foundation for why white women in particular dominate conversations about politics in the public sphere. it is an Event every time a white celebrity frames their political awakening as a personal, spiritual journey of self-realization. yes, this act is important, because women must learn about their own oppression, and talk about it, in order to educate others.

but when taylor (or any other famous white woman) frames politics solely through the personal, it relieves her of the obligation to critique systemic issues. her own political awakening is all that matters - she must prove her own political purity (instead of sexual purity, as before.) there is a deep problem in society demanding this, rather than larger systemic change, but we'll get to that later.

this personal political purity awakening earns her a lot of goodwill, but her resistance ends with herself. and this is a pattern that we see happen all the time, in what robin james calls "neoliberal resistance discourses" in pop: someone is damaged by oppression (sexism), she overcomes it brilliantly with an awakening (miss americana/lover/denouncing trump era), and she absorbs this goodwill into her brand. these individual damages and awakenings supposedly symbolize society's own awakening and resilience(!). (1:52:48)

🚨 some readers might be getting tired/annoyed at this; i can hear y'all saying "well, what do you even WANT from her omg!!!" just stay with me here. 🚨

she holds a mirror up to society, tho

what avila so brilliantly points out is that... this cycle of damages and resilience isn't helpful. it goes nowhere! and we are all at the mercy of the same patterns as taylor. it's not about taylor, it's about us, and how capitalism commodifies everything, including social movements! including personal 'goodness'! a neoliberal system wants individuals to care about their individual choices and looking like good individuals; it encourages the use of "purity tests" and "commodified algorithmic social movements" to discourage challenges to systemic issues (reminds me of the celebrity blackout situation earlier this year, and conversations we have about politics, well, daily on here.) and the pattern of a person failing politically as an individual is part of this machine. if we're too busy policing individuals for their purity, we won't ever organize together for shared material goals. unfortunately, unlike taylor swift, most of us are not extremely powerful, wealthy, and influential as individuals. she does have more power than us in this regard.

taylor as cultural hegemony

anyway, avila goes on to talk about how taylor had this musical renaissance with folklore, and became more honest about her masterminding her own career in midnights. she has shown herself not just to be a musical chameleon, but a cultural one as well, positioning herself as white teenage purity when the culture called for it (circa 2008-2010), neoliberal pop feminism (1989 -> lover), pandemic escapism (folkmore) - and the culture has become part of her brand, part of her music. music that is already heavily wrapped up in her own life. she is the brand she is the culture. of course she put the work in, and not just anyone could do this. but imo, her whiteness (which, again, gives her this "default" "neutral" background to work with) is part of this success. "sure, she's challenged the institution but all in the effort to become the new face of musical hegemony" (2:06:25.) she challenges systems to assimilate into them, or create them in a way that requires assimilation.

of course, this is all based on her REAL experiences, her REAL life. she is living her own life, and also living it in this metacognitive way that mirrors culture.

but we don't have to hate taylor, actually!

and MOST interestingly, avila closes out by suggesting: it's not actually super healthy to always be suspicious and critical of art (2:17:24.) yes, there is a long political history of "paranoid reading," of critique based on marx, freud, and nietzsche's philosophies. it is the basis of A LOT of our frameworks for thinking about the world, including art.

as i've said before, it's interesting to discuss taylor or celebrities because they hold a mirror up to society. but we can't just relentlessly critique ourselves - after all, the critique is supposed to protect us from being bad! the critique is what keeps us good! and it's why we project so much onto them (the celebrities, or "bad" people.)

this video dove into a term that may be new to a lot of people (i only learned of it recently) - "reparative reading." rather than relentlessly critique art or what-have-you, engage with it in ways that is "affirmative, creative, and caring." this does not mean you toss out critical readings - reparative readings can coexist, and give us hope, optimism, feelings of beauty/appreciation, and affirmation.

for example, it's why -while i enjoy critiquing taylor (or what she Represents) - i am also here to just... have fun. i don't want to linger 24/7 on her emissions, or what she hasn't done, or who she's friends with. it's also why, as a fan of color, i hate that she is often dismissed and minimized to "white musician making music for white women." i find affirmation in a lot of her music, regardless of her race; i find optimism and hope in the way women so deeply relate to her, and how queer fans (also like myself) relate to her! (which avila points out too 2:21:00.) it's why i stopped debunking stuff, because queerness - like any other aspect of the fandom - is such a critical, significant part of why her music is beloved. it's so important for people to recognize that she is more than just 'music for straight white heterosexual cisgender women.'

[squeakyleftsneaker]

Watching Voltron for the 1st Time: S4 (!!) Ep. 4-6.

Cannot believe I'm still doing ts. *FREE CONTEXT CLICK HERE*. Or, if you're not the reading type, I am easily bullied, especially so by middle schoolers. And so now I'm watching this at the behest of a middle schooler. Whoopee. And also now I'm invested in how something has turned out so poorly from such decent potential. Guys I. Somehow. Have reached halfway through. We're done with season 4 now. By the way. I'm just warning you. The headloss on this one? It's going to go crazy. Brace for impact. It starts normal and then spirals out of control.

Tis Peak

Spectacular gimme 80 million of these shitty little Voltron shows

Coran getting a brainworm is so fucking. Wow. This show really understands what kind of depravity I find enjoyable sometimes.

This feels like the kind of deranged nonsense I was hoping for.

VOLTRON ON ICE BRO VOLTRON ON ICE

I have no complaints about the Voltron show episode I think it's 1: perfect and 2: hysterical and 3: maybe they should have Coran do more space coke/worms/acid because this is the exact level of clusterfucker I need.

Loverboy Lance, Allura being Keith (they really are bros) SHIRO THE HERO I'M CRYING BRO THIS IS GREAT LOVERBOY LANCE I'M HERE FOR IT

Space Cocaine is one hell of a drug guys

At least Lance is being a good emotional support dude for Allura. I WISH THEY DID THIS BETTER BRO BUT HEYO HE'S NOT HITTING ON HER AND INSTEAD BEING SUPPORTIVE WE LOVE BASED FEMINISM-PILLED LANCE

The Nadir of Entertainment

Hey Voltron you don't get to ironically joke about Hunk always being the butt of the joke when THAT'S WHAT YOU DO UNIRONICALLY

Minor note I would pay actual money to have seen the Blade of Marmora or Lotor or like, the rebels reacting to the shows lmfao

Bro I'm ngl I tuned out like. 10 minutes of episode 5 and I am nawt about to rewatch ts. I tuned back in and they were STILL talking about their plan. Man. Maybe this whole overabundance of exposition is STUPID

We're spending so much time just explaining a damn plan and we don't bother to do

Episode 5 of 6, which is, I cannot stress this enough, OVER 15% OF THE SHOW, is just pure exposition and very little is happening. Bro.

EPISODE SIX IS ALSO ALMOST ALL EXPOSITION

"Something's wrong" BRO WE COULD'VE BEEN HERE MUCH SOONER AND GOTTEN HERE WITH FAR GREATER STAKES

On god I genuinely HATE that Allura needed to be coaxed into using her magic but whatever ig when we get a win for Lance being a feminist now we must get a loss on HAVING WOMEN BE GOOD AT THEIR JOB. WHICH ALLURA OBVIOUSLY IS

Bro are they planning on addressing Keith's little sewer slide mission? Like. What??

That came out of NOWHERE dawg. I'm. WHAT???

I AM FR JUST BLINKING. WOW WHAT A WAY TO END THE SEASON BET THEY'LL NEVER SPEAK OF THAT AGAIN

TANGENT here on character ethnicities. I think it's a mistake to generally give this show much credit for ~representation~ given how all the characters are written The Same and the fact that besides Allura and Keith, their backgrounds have absolutely 0 bearing on the show. It is funny to me that Allura and Keith are also the only two of the main cast with non-white VA. Hm! Inch resting! I will unpack that further at another point because this show is FRAUGHT, not only with the existing tropes and genre conventions of a lot of space sci fi, but also plenty of other shit.

Am I particularly. PLEASED that the 3 most narratively hurt and screwed up characters so far are the OBVIOUSLY JAPANESE guy (because his name is fucking Takashi Shirogane there's no ambiguity there lmfao. 3/4 of the other earth paladins are ethnically ambiguous) and the 2 characters that are aliens and not voiced by white people? NOPE! NOT ONE BIT! And I worry it will get WORSE.

That said there's also just a total lack of development for our Ambiguously Brown (thus far at least) characters so.

Really how Inch Resting that the only character that gets to fulfill what she set out to do so far is Pidge. Who is unambiguously. Respectfully. Whiter than pure cocaine.

AND ANOTHER TANGENT about Altea for a moment. I do understand that the writers may not have INTENDED anything by having a hereditary monarchy that made a superweapon be their edenic pre-war state. But the implications of that are. Rather gross to me.

AT THE SAME TIME Altea can be deeply flawed with a lot of capacity for underpinning horrors in governing structure and STILL have their eradication be an insurmountable and colossal evil. Because ALL people have great capacity for evil. There is not one person whose fundamental relation to others would not be irreparably altered when given unlimited power. That doesn't make the loss any less great. The loss is of something irreplaceable. The loss is so vast and incomprehensible because it is a loss of PEOPLE.

No people is perfect. To claim that is flawed, it is disrespectful to us all! No people deserves to be flattened, to be homogenized, to be made a monolith. But regardless of perfection the loss of one? The deliberate and total eradication of a people is ALWAYS and MUST ALWAYS be considered a great evil. And the total eradication of a people must NEVER be framed as the result of what Those People did. Because it NEVER is. No matter what Altea did or was, their eradication was NOT their fault. Altea could've been a bit awful or rather wonderful and it DOES NOT MATTER because ultimately it would have ALWAYS been an unforgivable evil to eliminate them entirely.

This show fails to explore that. It fails pretty fundamentally at that because it gives us SO LITTLE exploration of power dynamics and has so little nuance. There SHOULD be exploration of the fact that a superweapon is a symbol of peace! There SHOULD be exploration of the fact that the Galra as an empire created this culture of blood purity and did AT LEAST one genocide. There should be exploration of the fact that like. There are deep structural injustices on every level in this show

IN FACT THE SHOW SHOULD DIG INTO THE MILITARISTIC STUFF GOING ON ON EARTH BECAUSE. WOOF. WOOF BRO. But they won't because it's a show made for children that doesn't have any guts to actually explore this in a way that you could make acceptable for children. Child soldiers, peacekeeping superweapons, a genocidal empire, I could go on. All of this is. So very fraught.

TANGENT THE THIRD: I also feel several kinds of ways about Haggar and we can get into that later because I feel like it's so. Ugh. To have someone from the victimized people be the one corrupted by this Pure Evil entity and then ultimately collaborate with her patriarchal husband to eradicate her people is so. UGH. That's... UGH. It makes my skin CRAWL. I will have to write all of this up in greater detail eventually but. The gender stuff in this show is. Ugh.

TANGENTS COMPLETE none of them are written to be articulate or even well expressed and I will defo regret the wording on all of them in like 2 days because I like to word things with intention and not just word vomit but I needed to word vomit so I figured I may as well put them there

[zot3-flopped]

You know the whole discussion on twitter about beyonce at that christmas superbowl halftime show has me thinking. I mean i see so many racist tweets that essentially say beyonce can‘t sing country because she isn‘t country and they can‘t even bring a proper reason. And now in my head i‘m comparing it to how easy taylor actually had it but she still complained while beyonce keeps her head high and does what she does. I mean taylor complained about how the industry and the people are so unfair to her but beyonce is from a proper country music country, born and raised. And the only difference between why most are ok with ts singing country and beyonce singing country is the skin color. Ts had the perfect start up to be any artist she wants- white, blonde blue eyed. That is what most country music listeners want and comparing this to the dislike for beyonce in country mainly because she is a poc and even lil nax x and other black country singers have to go through this hurdle. It just makes me think how much of a priviledge taylor swift had from the start mainly cause of her features and how she was welcomed with open arms but she still found a way to complain, meanwhile beyonce makes a talented delve into country and gets met with racist tweets and hate and you don‘t see her complain. But only one promotes herself as a feminist (psss we all know taylor thinks feminism is all about her, only be nice to taylor, she can only complain about her struggles even when they weren‘t struggles, if a woman gets hated on by her fanbase, who cares- it isn‘t ts herself so why should she care)

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[kvtnisseverdeen]

I don't follow any ts drama, what happened with lady gaga?

so taylor commented this on lady gaga's tiktok that referenced her song down bad and addressed pregnancy rumors:

now the comment itself is fine, of course women dont owe anyone an explanation regarding their bodies but this is legit just white feminism. so much has been happening regarding women (i.e. abortion rights being taken away, palestinian women suffering, butker's misogynist speech) and she has said nothing. like nothing at all. but came to gaga's defense (which is only because lady gaga mentioned her song lol lets be real)

and she's not super active on social media anymore unless its to promote her new variants or whatever. but there's been such a lack of interaction with fans it's just kinda ridiculous. but girl, use your social media for something good!!! speak up about palestine!!!!! interact with your fans who legit contributed to you being a billionare!!!

her silence on palestine is the worst thing ever and she's just adding salt to that wound with shit like this

[notdefendingtaylor]

absolutely fucking bleak. and lest you think you it's just kayla getting racist harassment from ts fans, or just one or two people being racist on social media, i was on twitter for .2 seconds and closed out because there is no healthy discussion about these topics, just people showing their racism and weaponized white victimhood. if someone says anything that approaches critique of ts, they get their own photos reposted to appearance shame them, or completely racist dunking on their country of origin, something i saw before realizing this disgusting hellscape is not somewhere i want to be.

marketing feminism as ethnocentric white victimhood has calculably damaged our society

[notyouraryang0dd3ss]

https://twitter.com/NFL_DovKleiman/status/1794055791265161261?t=KDEUMIag1p-WhPz0SesgAg&s=19

i don't even know what to say. can't they see she's rotten to the core & doesn't care for anyone except for herself?? and that her 'feminist' front is only that — a front??????

edit: i decided to add the vid for more context:

the saddest part is this is still an upgrade from matty healy, who joked about jacking off to black women torture pornography. like some swiftie is probably defending this saying “at least he’s a regular misogynist” 😭 and she’s probably into this too honestly given her tradwife music adjacent in folk/evermore and speculation of her ending it with joe alwyn because he didn’t want to get married really makes me think she’s romanticizing his misogyny as just husband jokes he’d make when she’d become his housewife.

anyways taylor swift takes the crown for being the most selective feminist celeb ever 😭

[ghostsofharrenhal]

Taylor Swift demands Jack Sweeney stop tracking her jet - The Washington Post (archive.org)

^ Link to the article without paywall

This honestly does it for me. After all the TS oversaturation the past year (and yes, I did enjoy Eras and supported her music until Midnights; Lord knows I've listened to her since I was a preteen), I'm surrendering my [casual] Swiftie card. I've tried to like her as a person/brand (brand is the better word) but now I cannot dissociate her image from her music anymore (I can't "kill" the artist from the art anymore).

How she straight-up acted in the Grammys (the Celine snub then PR cleanup, making the awards show all about her, the strategic announcement of TPD, I could go on objectively but yeah) might just be the tipping point already. And who am I, right? What's one less listener? What's one less woman who denounces TS's white feminism and performative/selective activism?

I've ignored the M*tt H**ly debacle, the Ice Spice tokenization, the Olivia Rodrigo royalties issue which I knew against my will, the Person of the Year hot water, the brat pack upgrade featuring Republican Lana Del Rey, the 'self-made' origins myth debunked, the rubbing elbows with Mahomes, the ever-growing rabid fanbase out for blood, and so on, so on.

As a person of color I just want these things out. If 'feminism' is enabling this billionaire to get away with her crimes (yes, she's a climate criminal now for me, what with using her jet as a taxi to see her newest boytoy across the globe), then I'm not seated. If 'feminism' is shrugging off her response or lack of action towards the fan, Ana Clara, who died in the Brazil leg of the tour, then I am speaking now.

I guess, it's finally been exhausting always rooting for the anti-hero.

[joesalw]

“She should have understood he is a human being first and even respect the fact that he wanted to build a name on its own, by not using her.”

I genuinely believe this ties down to the type of white feminism or just TS feminism ™️ she seems to practice, she has become The Man ™️. Which is essentially that whatever toxic behaviour she may exude (and is also seen on men very often) is great because she’s a woman and that’s empowering.

So by her having the power (at least from the professional and economical standpoint) on the relationship it might be justified for her to expect her partner to be known for her only, and consequently having his career to be on a second place (this one being prolific or not) and its supposed to be seen by us as some sort of super empowering, girl boss, trailblazing move when in reality is just the same issue but on a pink bejewelled trenchcoat.

spill

[comradekarin]

That last ask you got here, just reminds me of the fact that while TS fandom claims to be all about feminism and women supporting women, it surely lacks intersectionality and it SHOWS and this is in great part because that’s the kind of advocacy they get from the celeb they worship, that’s why is dangerous to just pander to one kind of feminism as if everyone had an universal experience, when it couldn’t be further from the reality, we need to have those conversations we need to learn from one another and whoever has a privilege, should make good use of it to uplift those who can’t at the moment

Yup!! That’s basically the point I’m trying to hone to be honest. Again, I absolutely believe we should support female artists in the music industry, especially when they will be held to higher standards than other male artists (even in that area we can have a conversation about the dynamic race plays between male artists, too). However, it’s imperative we discuss how Taylor and her fans only use feminism to tell other people they can’t be mean to her, or critique her. Are these group of people the minority in the fan base? Maybe, sure. But should we sweep it under the rug and let it fester just because it’s the minority? No.

Do I believe the average Taylor Swift stan is normal and doesn’t hate black women? Yes. I believe there’s a lot of them who just enjoy her music and don’t feel the need to bash other black female artists in order to prove how much better Taylor is. Nonetheless, there’s still a large group of her fans who claim to support all women but will not hesitate to degrade and shut out the voices of woc making valid criticisms against Taylor. Just look at the Matty Healy situation. A white woman’s partner is exposed for making disgusting racist comments about black women, and the responses are not “this powerful rich white woman is continuing to date this man and is being complicit through her silence, which is enabling his repulsive behavior and she needs to be held accountable” but instead “we need her to stay away from this bad man!”. Yes, because the image and reputation of this white woman is more important than the dangerous rhetoric her partner is spreading about the same women she claims to support! Yes, because this white woman can have a collab with the same woman (ice spice) her boyfriend was making racist remarks about and everything is ok! Yes, because it is the white woman who is the victim here, and if you can’t see that you’re a misogynist!

Taylor’s silence during the wave of transphobia, the criminalization and banning of drag shows, the uptick of hate against black women, and so much more just makes sense when you look at the company she keeps. Didn’t her team try to sue a journalist for stating Taylor constantly toes the line with conservatives and white supremacists a few years back? Just look at the CO2 emissions drama where everyone was like “man I hate privileged white millionaires” and then she dropped an album and everyone forgot? Any critique for Taylor is met with these responses: A) Taylor isn’t the worst apple out of the bunch so why is she getting attacked like this B) Y’all would never do this to male celebrities so just say y’all hate women C) Why is Taylor blamed for the actions of other men or D) [justifying anything Taylor has done].

So, what you’re saying is correct anon. We can not talk about feminism and supporting “all women” while also trying to lump the struggles of all women into a single category. The initial Feminist movement itself excluded other women of color, it was something only meant for white women. White women have a level of privilege over other women of color, and we can’t pretend they don’t because they’re just “women, too”. White women and their fake white tears have done so much harm to marginalized communities, especially my own black community. I want this conversation to actually mean something, for it to be a moment of self reflection, for it to actually be about supporting, advocating for, and uplifting the voices of all women. I don’t want this talk of “support all women” to only be brought up when someone attacks your white fav.

[xextinctxqueerx]

Hi tumblr, this is my first post and also collage. What does it mean? It's really a message to queerphobic feminists, basically saying "Your hatred to queer people isn't radical in fact it's quite common and your anger towards "kweer feminism" as I saw one call it won't protect you from misogyny because at the end of the day we're all women!" The purples and white were colorpicked from the chevron queer flag and the stars in the back are a nod to ol "S.T.A.R." (street transvestite action revolutionaries) I hope ts means something to you ( ◜‿◝ )♡

[jewishbarbies]

I'm so glad to see the convo of TS White Feminism getting reignited due to that tik tok. I love seeing all the different opinions and people just stating facts. Of course the Swifites are trying to call these people mysigonistic and the clap backs by creatures are so good!

it's honestly so telling that her white feminism is only ever truly called out by black women. they take so much heat and they're not even mean about it half the time, they're just pointing out the obvious. but the white girlies get SO upset and start hurling slurs in the comments. it's so disgusting. but i'm happy it's getting called out.

[unbotheredalwyn]

Ginny and georgia is a Netflix show and a few years ago they made a joke in one episode where a character said "You go through men faster than Taylor swift" and Taylor got mad about it on Twitter. Swifties harassed the black actress who said the line (but of course didn't write it....) and ts didn't say anything about it and let it happen

And swifties harassed Travis' ex cause.....she's Travis' ex, and she apparently needs to know Taylor is better than her and Travis is happier with her (also I think she tweeted something about her needing to be careful with him and it got swifties mad)

Didn't he cheat on Kayla? That's why she warned Taylor?

Wait no he cheated on a girl named Maya with Kayla and she warned Taylor. Didn't she also get hate if I'm not mistaken?

I genuinely feel sick thinking about swifties attacking people of color. Not only outside of the fandom but also fans speaking out against Taylor gets called the most racist shit.

I am white I will never know how the people of color feel. And they don't deserve any of the shit they get sent for standing up to a white billionaire who only stands for feminism when it suits her.

There's artists doing more for women's rights like Ariana grande and Olivia Rodrigo. Taylor's too much of a wuss. She's busy making the 473884472839 remix of you're losing me to care. 🙄

[butchifiedcatfish]

We are trying to find stuff about weaponised femininity (the act of weaponising femininity as a way of power) and so many things we see about it are always just “its good! use it to your advantage!” when it fails to understand why weaponised femininity is used. Weaponised femininity is almost always used by white non-queer women as a way to frame themselves as a victim or the good guy. Whenever someone defends TS using her gender, that’s weaponised feminism. Cis women claiming trans women are too strong for their sports and is an unfair advantage, thats weaponised femininity. When a white woman falsely claims a black man as a rapist, thats weaponised femininity. White woman claims shes being harassed by a black woman for no reason but shes black, weaponised femininity.

Weaponised femininity isnt a woman using femininity as a power to be trusted in the world. Its used by most often a non-queer white woman who claims herself as a victim using racial and/or queerphobic prejudices that society has