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it's legitimately evil to equate trans women with white people wanting to be black, considering black trans women are often killed because their killers, just like you, view them as pretending to be women. are you even black, or are you just a garden variety racist who throws vulnerable women under the bus? either way, you choose to punch down and enable violence against women who don't fit stereotypes.

Hi! Thanks for your input! However, since you think that men can be women, everything you’ve said to me is invalid and thus I will be discarding it. Men who identify as women are misogynists and are still the oppressors of women. Hope this helps! ❤️

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L.A. Hawbaker, Revenge and (Bloody) Feminism: Hell Hath No Fury Like a Woman With a Mossberg 590

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L.A. Hawbaker, Revenge and (Bloody) Feminism: Hell Hath No Fury Like a Woman With a Mossberg 590

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L.A. Hawbaker, Revenge and (Bloody) Feminism: Hell Hath No Fury Like a Woman With a Mossberg 590

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L.A. Hawbaker, Revenge and (Bloody) Feminism: Hell Hath No Fury Like a Woman With a Mossberg 590

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Is Clytemnestra an Archetypically Bad Wife or a Heroically Avenging Mother?, Natalie Haynes

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Ur gonna make me hate women even more, dumb bitch

Your Y chromosome is showing. Male moment

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Billie Walker, For the Love of Murderous Women / Elisabetta Sirani, Timoclea Killing Her Rapist

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Transphobia is not a decision. Transphobia is hateful. Transphobes are a hate group. “Deciding” to be transphobic based on the actions of a few belies deep-seated hatred and discrimination that is reinforced in a transphobic society. Absolutely abhorrent

Sorry, but I don't oppress any male, even if that male decides he wants to wear thigh high socks and blue lipstick. Males are our oppressors, not the other way around. I cannot discriminate against a male the way you suggest, and I think your misogyny here is more abhorrent than any 'transphobia' you think exists.

Men have always been the oppressors of women. Men have always abused us and raped us and murdered us and my hatred for that abuse will not stop just because the perpetrators put a dress on.

Take care that you don't have such an open mind that your brain falls out, anon. You're acting like misogyny doesn't exist at all. Misogyny is far more real and far more deadly than 'transphobia' and I think you ought to educate yourself rather than trying to antagonize a random internet woman just because she won't bow to your opinions.

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Billie March, For the Love of Murderous Women

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Gabrielle Moss, As More Women Discover Their Anger, I'm Trying to Tame Mine

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Alice Garnett, I’ll Bark if I Want To: On Letting Women Be Angry

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The angers between women will not kill us if we can articulate them with precision, if we listen to the content of what is said with at least as much intensity as we defend ourselves against the manner of saying. When we turn from anger we turn from insight, saying we will accept only the designs already known, deadly and safely familiar. I have tried to learn my anger’s usefulness to me, as well as its limitations.

For women raised to fear, too often anger threatens annihilation. In the male construct of brute force, we were taught that our lives depended upon the good will of patriarchal power. The anger of others was to be avoided at all costs because there was nothing to be learned from it but pain, a judgment that we had been bad girls, come up lacking, not done what we were supposed to do. And if we accept our powerlessness, then of course any anger can destroy us.

But the strength of women lies in recognizing differences between us as creative, and in standing to those distortions which we inherited without blame, but which are now ours to alter. The angers of women can transform difference through insight into power. For anger between peers births change, not destruction, and the discomfort and sense of loss it often causes is not fatal, but a sign of growth.

Audre Lorde, THE USES OF ANGER: WOMEN RESPONDING TO RACISM

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art by Jaye Lara Blunden

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The authors who wrote Madwoman in the Attic return 42 years later, still mad.

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Every woman has a well-stocked arsenal of anger potentially useful against those oppressions, personal and institutional, which brought that anger into being. Focused with precision it can become a powerful source of energy serving progress and change. And when I speak of change, I do not mean a simple switch of positions or a temporary lessening of tensions, nor the ability to smile or feel good. I am speaking of a basic and radical alteration in those assumptions underlining our lives.

Audre Lorde,  THE USES OF ANGER: WOMEN RESPONDING TO RACISM

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Responding like this, as I can’t respond to comments with a sideblog and I don’t trust you guys with my main. I’m responding to you because it seems like you commented this in possible good faith.

This isn’t a decision that I came to lightly. It began with seeing transwomen sending rape threats to my lesbian friends. That’s how I came to radical feminism; radical feminists were the only ones saying that this was wrong. Nobody deserves to be raped, even people you disagree with. Lesbians are lesbians because they don’t like dick. This does not make them bad people. It is not ‘transphobic’ to say that transwomen are male and have male bodies. 

My rage has, from the start, since I was thirteen, been directed at rape culture. I was molested at thirteen and that’s when it started for me. To see people who are supposedly ‘woke,’ then, sending rape threats? I couldn’t understand it. I tried to reason it away - must be just a few bad apples, etc. But there were more and more. And more. And more. Hundreds of sources. I had to come to the conclusion that this was not a few bad apples, it was the whole barrel. I couldn’t get over it. How was I supposed to defend these people when they wouldn’t defend us? Have you ever seen a transwomen advocating for abortion rights without making it about themselves first? 

So I began to speak up. I started gently -- ‘rape is bad always no matter who does it,’ etc. And I got hate. They tried to silence me. They were knowingly defending rapists and trying to silence ME, when I tried to speak up about it. I was horrified. I couldn’t stay in that political movement any longer. Radical feminists were the only ones who agreed with me. Rape is bad, always, end of sentence. Rape is bad. Why is that so controversial? 

I don’t hate trans people. I hate rapists. I hate their ideology that protects rapists. I hate their politics that are trying to erode women’s rights and women’s spaces. I hate males in female sports, in female dressing rooms. I hate the people who nailed a dead rat to a rape shelter. That’s what I hate. I don’t hate random tumblr users who have never done those things and would never dream of raping someone. If you wouldn’t rape someone, and agree that rape is bad, then I don’t hate you and I likely never will. That post was not directed to you or others like you. 

Trans people deserve healthcare, housing, safety, and freedom, but so do we. Their rights should not come at the expense of ours. I am sorry that you disagree with me on this. I am sorry that you feel that I have betrayed you. I haven’t. Pretending that this is not what I believe would be a betrayal to myself and I could not do it any longer. I am a woman, and I support women, and that is what my politics are. That is who I am. 

I hope you read all of this before you decide to crucify me. It was never my intention to hurt you or others like you. 

@acelesbiancroft​