#and her blog said radical feminist

[im-yotsu]

Just saw a TERF interact with one of my posts. Just so we're clear, dni with this blog if you're a transphobe/TERF.

This is a safe space for trans people.

[ftmtftm]

Do you really think its more plausable that a TERF knows the specific details of the Baeddel discourse so well that they can craft the perfect copypasta that refrences all the nuances of internal trans discourse (which I'm sorry but they don't really understand anything about our community) in such a way as to be the maximum level of offensive to the other side than the alternative, that there exists on this site a trans man capable of sexually harassing trans women who disagree with him? I

Are all trans mascs sexual harassers? obviously not. Are you responsible for that guy's actions in any way? No not at all. But I find the inistance that any sexual misconduct or transmisogyny purported to be from a trans masc is an outsider troll to be very off putting from the perspective of a trans woman. I think there is a problem of trans women being treated like sex objects by the broader trans community, (enby's trans mascs etc). The problem will never be resolved if we can't even aknowledge it exists without getting shouted down.

Yes actually because that is what Radfems on Tumblr do and have done and will continue to do for literally the entire time I've been on Tumblr.

Just being completely clear - I mentioned this already but to be extra extra clear - It was not even my original idea that it was probably a Radfem and I've directly said that. I honestly thought it was probably one of the trans guys that white knights extremely hard against the idea of transandrophobia trying to cause shit because of the typing style.

It was in fact my trans fem ex-gf and current very close friend who I still live with, who suggested to me that she thought it was a Radfem. And you know?

Her reasoning combined with my experiences with TERFs actively trying to recruit my friends and I into Radical Feminism because we're actively Feminist trans mascs - it would make a ton of sense.

You have probably not experienced this because you are not a trans masc, but there is absolutely a subgroup of Radfems on this website that try very hard to learn about trans infighting as a way to target trans mascs for recruitment.

Trans masculine people have HUGE targets on our back for Radfem recruitment on this website. It's something I've literally personally seen people fall into and detransition for. Radblr actively loves to target vulnerable, politically vocal trans mascs as recruitment targets, especially doing so by trying to pit us against each other, especially by trying to pit us and trans women against each other.

It's scary as hell. It's also not a new thing by any means. Like, "This has been happening consistently at least since 2015" level of not a new thing. So, I've learned to become very aware of it because I'm a trans masc who is a Feminist advocate who actively studies the history and tactics of Radical Feminism in order to protect myself and other trans people from it.

I'm also sorry, but there was literally an anon like that that went around trans masculine blogs a few months ago. Exactly the same premise but flipped in a "transandrodorks need to be fixed by being impregnated with girlcock" kind of deal. There was an almost immediate "we need to assume this isn't actually a trans fem and assume that it is a troll" response both internally and externally. If any of us had assumed it was actually a trans fem in the same way and projected our pain at trans fems in the same way this is getting projected onto trans mascs...? Could you imagine? The double standard would be insane.

I know this is something coming from a place of our own hurt, but where the hell was any of our support during that? What were we supposed to do besides assume that it was probably a troll? Like those are hypotheticals without real answers, but come on? You know?

Of course anything is possible. No one knows who that anon actually was. And it is an issue the way trans women are sexualized by the community, especially right now on Tumblr. It deserves to be addressed. But not in the weeds like this.

I believe what I believe based on what I know and the thoughts and feelings of people I trust. You can dislike that, you can even disagree with that, but a stranger coming into my askbox with a condescending tone isn't really going to contest my lived experiences or the shared opinion of someone I've known for the better part of a decade that easily.

[redditreceipts]

I've been a very staunch supporter of trans ppl for years. I have learned to swallow my discomfort around some of the things said in those circles. When they said it was transphobic for lesbians to not like dick, I bit my tongue. I told myself, "this is just the loud minority" and to be fair I do think that is the minority but still ... as a lesbian I wasn't even able to talk about people who argued that because "it never happens. No one says that. That sounds like a transphobic lie." And I hate the constant assertions that gender is real, innate, and that everyone feels it. I can't describe my own experiences with growing up as a woman without someone telling me that maybe I'm nonbinary ... no thanks I tried that for a while. I respect everyone's gender, or I want to, but apparently doing that also requires me to put that oppressive structure onto myself and act like it's liberating.

The final snapping point for me was a trans woman telling me that I'm privileged for being a cis woman because I've never experienced dysphoria ... except I have. I grew up with intense thoughts about my body and hating my vagina and breasts. It was never that bad but I would often imagine mutilating. I'm in a better place now but I still feel some discomfort over my body sometimes. And when I expressed this to her, she asked me if I was really cis or was still questioning ...

They act like misogyny doesn't exist or something. I just ... I disagree with a lot of radical feminists beliefs or at least I think I do. But for years I have felt like radfems were the only ones even talking about misogyny anymore so idk

Anyway what I wanted to say is that I really like your posts and perspectives and thanks for this blog. I want to learn more and question more and your blog has become a helpful resource to help me start thinking critically about some things

Hey :) thanks for writing to me and sorry for the late answer. 

And yeah, you are totally right. I have also spent such a long time justifying gender ideology because I really wanted it to be right. I’ve excused so much weird behaviour with weird mental gymnastics because I didn’t want to accept that I had been wrong for such a long time. 

The entire “that never happens” thing - and then you show them an occasion where it happened, and they say “well, it doesn���t happen that much”. And yeah, people have suggested me being non-binary as well. I mean, by strict gender definitions I am non-binary because I don’t identify as a woman lmao. Just as the “you’re uncomfortable in your body?? what about fucking cutting it up??!!!!” thing. 

And for disagreeing with feminist beliefs, the thing is that being a feminist is not a package deal. You are not being some sort of heretic if you disagree with certain things, and I know that I am most probably wrong on a lot of stuff myself. If I wasn’t, I would be the first person who is always right in human history. And yes, even in feminist spaces, there is sometimes some sort of imperative to follow every single belief or you are not a “real feminist”. But being a feminist is not an identity, it is an action. It is an action towards yourself, in the workplace, in interaction with other women and men, in your consumption, in your voting, in how you support women in your personal life and how you do political action. So yeah, I would say that it is less important whether you follow every rule of the radical feminist catechism and more important to support women in your life (which includes yourself). At least, that’s my opinion. 

So if you want to learn more, you can look into literally anything Julie Bindel says on Youtube, I really like her perspective. And cool that you’re here! 

[kiefbowl]

In response to your post about recently peaking: I think I'm still very much in the progress of getting into radical feminism, but one of the things that made me start to search it out was the huge discrepancy I noticed online with regard to how for example J.K. Rowling is treated by TRAs compared to any man ever who also has a "bad" opinion. That made me want to look up what so-called TERFs actually have to say, and I had to admit to myself that a lot of it made sense. A lot of things I felt uncomfortable about regarding gender politics and sexwork for example started falling into place as I read through more radfem blogs on tumblr. I want to use my free time this summer to read some proper feminist literature (very open for recommendations!)

I must say I feel hesitant sometimes to go further and actually peak though, because ever since I went on this journey a few months ago I've started to notice the misogyny in many places where I could ignore it before, and it scares me sometimes. I'm worried that if I become to aware the anger I feel about how women are treated will keep growing and I won't know what to do with it.

Sorry for rambling in your askbox! It felt kinda nice to write it all out once, I don't feel comfortable yet discussing all these thoughts with the people in my life unfortunately

Anger can be a very productive emotion if you're willing. I've been watching a youtuber who does recaps of SisterWives, and she said something in one of her videos recently that I agree with but never heard it articulated this way. I'm paraphrasing but: Emotions are like our five senses, they're there to give us information. Then, you have to process that information and decide how to act on it.

The example she gave is if you see someone far away that looks like your friend, but you're not sure - your eyes gave you information, but you have to go look closer to investigate to see if it's really them. If you feel angry, you have to investigate and take some time exploring why, and to what extent, and what you're willing to do about it.

Maybe you've never had anyone say this to you plainly but: I don't see my ideologies as an identity. I don't see my social identities as extensions of my virtue. I'm not afraid to get angry because if I'm angry it's probably something worth getting angry about. As with sadness, or happiness.

Misogyny is scary, but life has many facets, and truth is a worthwhile pursuit. I can't imagine my life another way because I can only be living this life as me, and like every life, it's full of complexities. I'm subjugated, I'm privileged, I'm a good person who has made bad choices, I'm a smart person who can be obtuse, I've been poor but never the poorest, I come from grandfathers who fought in wars and grandmothers who raised children in a bad religion yet they are all so deeply in my heart, and I've had to weigh my values against self serving decisions time and time again to get some of the comforts I have now. I have to live in the world now, and I'd rather live with open eyes despite any pain, because otherwise I miss out on joy. This is my only chance of joy, so I'm taking it. I will never turn my back on knowledge lest I leave joy on the table. Maybe one day, you'll see what I mean. Good luck sis! Thanks for sharing :)

[theoldlesbianwithcats]

you are so real for that response to nansheofearth's comment. lesbians are stuck licking crumbs off the boots of bihet feminist women or queer/trans identified people.

ive been to polilez/radfem events too, and hearing them talk is as alienating as being a homosexual women in queer spaces. sorry i dont want to listen to women talk about how boring their husbands became, or the 4 kids they had with a man before they "became lesbians". it is so alienating as a lesbian, you feel like you truly are a freak of nature, when even other "lesbians" can talk so casually about sleeping with men, so what's wrong with you that your whole being seizes with disgust and wrongness at the thought. or maybe there really is no one like you in the world.

it sucks that even other lesbians make allowances for radical feminist homophobia. our self esteem is so grounded into the dust that we think we need to put up with this homophobia for the "greater good".

your blog has become the go-to for lesbians haha, i check it regularly even if i don't otherwise check tumblr, so i'm throwing in my few cents into the discussion.

Hi anon!

(Anon is referring to that post.)

Thank youuuu, your last paragraph made me so happy 🥹 I'm glad my blog can be a positive lesbian space! Now I'm thinking I should post more beautiful women and gifs from lesbian movies hehe

I totally understand what you mean, that's pretty much how I felt when I went to that lesbian festival (tbh I knew something was wrong when the woman who handed me a flyer at the entrance had super long glittery stiletto nails, I almost left then and there 🤣)

To summarize the first edition of that lesbian festival last year:

First there was a panel on lesbian representation in the media that was derailed to trans males within ten minutes (and even complained about trans criminals being misgendered!), the second panel about intersectionality of lesbians of color had zero lesbian in it, only bi women and trans males

Then there was a lesbian comedy show with two fakebians talking about their ex-boyfriends and making jokes about lesbians' supposed obsession with astrology + a non-binary bi woman who claimed that her gender identity made all her relationships gay (she called herself a dyke and a faggot)

There was a sex-ed booth held by an influencer who had DYKE (yes, in all caps) in her Twitter bio while talking about her het hookups (and throwing a real tantrum when people told her it didn't make sense), she also made sex ed videos on our national tv channel's website where she said that lesbians have sex with men and that men can be lesbians. She has since removed dyke from her bio.

A lesbian bookstore had a booth too, the original owners retired and the new ones are polilez queers who keep promoting books about lesbianism being a choice... Half of the books at that booth were about trans people.

Needless to say, I wouldn't even inflict that on a lesbian I dislike as a prank!

What you said about "lesbians" talking casually about having had sex with men reminds me of a French podcast I listened to years ago that was about bisexual and "lesbian" women who were with men before realizing they were attracted to women. The first conclusion I had was that I couldn't relate at all and felt very uneasy about it. I didn't even dare write my second conclusion back then but it was basically this:

I couldn't differentiate their stories at all. And deep down, they must know this because fakebians use their experiences with men as a way of relating with bi and het women while being mostly hostile to gold stars and finding us unrelatable!

Anyway, this is really long already haha Question for the gold stars: what would be your dream lesbian event? 💃 (apart from being only for actual lesbians, of course!)

[transwrongs]

i think terfs (at least here on tumblr) are very interesting. but like the same way learning about cancer or extinction events or ww2 is interesting.

female separatism. bioessentialism. generally grimy attitudes. and a vehement denial of anti-trans labels while being explicitly anti trans. truly fascinating.

i was scrolling thru one woman’s blog bc i’d apparently reblogged a popular post she made. she was expressing her previous confusion around this new term “terf” and how, upon further research, she found that this term was being used very generally to describe anybody possessing the same fascistic, anti trans ideals. but she also found that she held those very same fascist ideals, but SHE’S not a fascist!! she’s a feminist! a radical feminist. a real biological real-life pure WOMAN, how could SHE be a fascist? no no no it’s the kids who are out of touch!

so now she drifts further and further to the right as she becomes engulfed in this victim/warrior mindset so indicative of fascists. they literally find themselves in alignment with nazis, falling face first into the fact that people are treating them the exact same way they treat nazis and instead of doing some self reflection they rub their face further into shit and double down.

“liberals call everyone terfs the same way they call everyone nazis so neither of these things are bad actually.” or “liberals call everyone terfs, the term has lost all meaning, that means terfs aren’t actually real”. you can see it in real time if you find the right accounts! truly fascinating stuff.

also;;

terfs will be like “lol you call everyone you disagree with a terf. i’m not a terf you’re crazy. what the hell is a terf? you’re crazy. why are you calling me a terf? you’re crazy” and then when you scroll thru their blogs half the posts are blocked bc you have the terf tag blocked and half the posts are tagged with stuff like “terf-safe” and everyone they’re reblogging from reblogs the same posts from the same people who also have a ton of posts that explicitly say things like “terfs are cool actually and they do nothing wrong and i love being one of them.” like yeah… yeah we are all crazy for calling you a terf bro idk where we come up with this stuff. it’s this weird form of cognitive dissonance and/or delusion that borders on malicious intent. i really really don’t know what to make of it.

like i said. fascinating.

[woman-for-women]

Hello ! I was wondering if you had any YouTube creators you would recommend? I have really woken up and gotten into radical feminism recently and am finding it hard to find good trans critical videos that aren’t from right wing nuts 🙄 thank you for the help and your blog is amazing 💕

Hi, and thank you (sometimes I forget to say thank you when people tell me they love my blog).

Unfortunately, I do not really follow many YouTubers who are explicitly radical feminists/gender critical. My best suggestions is:

Sapphic Underground is a lesbian who reviews f/f media. She has a side podcast called Sapphic Talks that is explicity gender critical, but her main channel is fairly light-hearted.

Other than that, I don't have any recommendations. I'm of the same opinion that the YouTube radical feminist content is overrun with conservatives who believe there are two genders because God said so and also women should stay in the kitchen, left-wing YouTubers who read off tweets and Reddit posts to dunk on "TERFs", and self-styled political commentators like Shaun, Contrapoints, and Jesse Gender.

If you've just discovered radical feminism, it's a good chance to also center women and women's art, voices, and perspectives in your life. So apologies to soapbox for a minute and recommend some of my favorite female YouTubers (who are not radical feminists, I just like them and want to share them. I also got too lazy to link everyone, so sorry about that!):

Laura Kampf is a German lesbian who does all kinds of house renovation and building projects. Her 120-year old house restoration series is my reality television.

Nicole Rafiee for funny rants and more informal, chatty social commentary

Kasey Golden for wholesome and cute art.

Vewn for her unique and interesting animation style

cari can read because she summarizes Sarah J. Maas books in an entertaining way so I never have to pick one up (sorry to all my Sarah J. Maas enthusiasts, I still love you guys)

Kennie J. D. has a series called Bad Movies and a Beat where she makes fun of bad movies while doing her makeup. She's so funny and she just covered The Ultimatum: Queer Love

Natacha Oceane for fitness inspo.

withWendy does all kinds of cool sewing projects. I'd also recommend coorlipa and JENerationDIY.

Mina Le for fashion history and commentary

AmandaRachLee if you like bullet journaling

Kel Lauren does design! She takes popular brand logos and merchandise and redesigns them to make them look better.

Jenny Nicholson does fandom and media deep dives. She's a big theme park and Disney person. She has a great sense of dry humor and her 'The Last Bronycon: a Fandom Autopsy' is one of my favorite videos

Micarah Tewers for sewing videos, but also whatever the hell else she feels like, including a funeral for her pet rodent L'Trexa

ANJA for cool paintings and art

Sorry this list got so long, but I love to give a good shout out. If anyone has any good recommendations for anon, don't be shy! Reblog and drop some suggestions.

[judeesill]

radical feminists can’t admit this because it is a completely insane and nihilistic thing to think! sorry if this offends!

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the most generous reading of this is, like, that the sexes are different and have different roles in reproduction. but that's so obvious it's barely worth saying, so i'm forced to assume this means what it says. unequal implies inferiority. patriarchy is literally the idea that those sex differences have social meaning, creating inferiority where nature had only difference. birth control obviously doesn't level the playing field on its own, but the eradication of patriarchy .... would. if you disagree you are admitting you think women's oppression is inevitable. at that point, why bother being a feminist???

EDIT: removed op’s url bc that was thoughtless and rude, sorry! only screenshotted bc I didn’t want to actually start shit, just wanted to complain about a trend that goes far beyond this person and I went about it the wrong way. Shouldn’t have been an asshole at all, but especially not with her url in the post. That said, I was not mocking her blog or anything about her, just the one post, idk her like that! I would hope anyone who agreed with me would not like, aide with me against her. It’s not like that. I just wasn’t thinking. doesn’t mean it wasn’t a dick move but if you’re gonna snitch, snitch right!

Also, I kind of misinterpreted the post. And on some level maybe I did it willfully, because I wanted it to be an example of the real thing that I am actually mad at. that wasn’t fair, and I’m sorry. Leaving up for posterity unless directed otherwise.

[doberbutts]

hey uh i. saw your post on transandrophobia and. wanted to ask you about your version about what the man who coined that term was into because uh. every other source has been less than trustworthy.

of course, i couldn't possibly require someone to explain something to me because I'm too afraid to look into it myself so if itd be too much of a bother then i apologize.

Well it's not really 'my version' because I don't actually know or speak to Saint 🤷‍♂️

But I did investigate the source of the claims and:

Saint was talking about omegaverse and used the shorthand a/b/o to refer to the au genre without the slashes. Which unfortunately bears a striking resemblence to an anti-aboriginal slur used in Australia. Which unfortunately Saint was resistant initially when an aboriginal person protested the use of the term. The context was clear that Saint was not even talking about Australian race politics whatsoever, he was talking about how some trans mascs find omegaverse fics to be very fetishizing and triggering, and words can be spelled the same and mean entirely different things. Said blogger was not satisfied and began saying that Saint was anti-indigenous and specifically anti-black since many aboriginal people view themselves as and call themselves black.

Two black bloggers caught wind of the callout and started harassing Saint, block-dodging when he blocked them for being annoying, sending anons and dms and being increasingly aggressive on his posts. These bloggers are notorious for denying POC their identities and they did call him white several times before being corrected that he is, in fact, not white. At some point he posted saying Biden's Juneteenth announcement was too little too late and an empty gesture (which I agree btw as a black man myself, literally I don't even get paid holiday pay for it and my job is proceeding as normal so what did it actually accomplish besides lip service and more annoying bank holidays???) and they started accusing him of speaking over black people and when he blocked them *again* for that it was that he won't listen to black people.

Aka tumblr's worst whisper down the lane session because now he's dubbed as a 'violently antiblack racist' when what he did was... use an acronym that also can be a slur if the context isn't 100% clear.

In the midst of all this the original blogger that took issue with him also found his password-protected nsfw roleplay blog where he was engaging in kink-heavy roleplay with a trans woman partner. The kinks were misgendering, forced masc, cnc, and detransition with the trans woman receiving. According to a later explanation by Saint, it was *her kink* that he was performing for her, and he stopped long before being "found out" because it was becoming uncomfortable for him to continue.

In any case, it was an example of someone screenshotting someone else's private, consensual sex life that they shouldn't have seen in the first place let alone put in front of a huge audience (with minors included) in the format of a callout. Whether or not you agree with his sexual preferences is not up for debate here: the heart of the matter is that people are mad that he had ultimately consensual sex with his partner because it's not the kind of sex they think people should be having. In other words it's this meme:

Except instead of Jesus it's 'judgemental assholes on the internet digging through your private life looking for something to be mad at you about'.

Lastly there's new discourse floating around that he 'admitted to being a terf' which is actually kind of hilarious because uh, no he didn't. And also a result of tumblr's worst whisper down the lane session because that's an [untrue] accusation about a DIFFERENT trans guy who once said that he discovered the feminist spaces he occupied as a minor prior to finding out he was trans were not trans friendly, and he left those spaces once he found out, but it gave him insight to how terfs become radicalized because the first instance of the word 'trans' in their discourse was also the only red flag he got before he got out. So... it's not even about Saint at all even though people are saying it's him, and the guy it IS about is also being wildly misrepresented.

Again, that's not 'my version' that's 'I reviewed the facts of the case and the verdict is: it's all very stupid'. I did at one point ask for further proof of any of this than what I could find and basically just got 'source: trust me it really happened' so 🤷‍♂️

Come on folks. I'm black. Why would I have anything to do with a guy who is *actually* anti-black?

[intothewings]

Anon who sent the Wordpress link Lol! I won’t post because I don’t have the time nor interest to read all of that mess, and I don’t want any rude messages being sent to her blog page under my name. They’re entitled to their opinions and stalking. It seems that whenever radical feminists come across a lesbian that is not one of them, they go through an existential crisis and try to gang up and find reasons as to how a lesbian could not be a feminist. Omg! Maybe she is transgender, maybe she sent her own questions, maybe she isn’t actually a lesbian, or has a separatist page. Please find a hobby! 😭 It’s clear to me that they’re upset and speculating because I said things they don’t agree with and I’m not apart of their movement. I understand that some people truly cannot handle when others think differently from them, so I’m not really offended by anything they said. I know if I had said something in favor of radical feminism, they would be cheering me on. Hopefully everyone gets outside for some fresh air today, if not they can just keep creating intricate imaginary storylines I guess, to each their own! Thank you for the message!<3

[sisteroutsiders]

Please Read: Message to Followers

This blog has a small following and is relatively new—I tend not to pay attention to its followers because it isn’t my main blog. But I scanned through them recently and noticed that there are some who espouse beliefs aligned with trans-exclusionary radical feminism. I will address this.

I would like to emphasize that this blog is not a safe space for anyone—it is a brave space wherein Lorde’s words challenge us to struggle together and embrace our differences as a source of power against oppressive systems. This means that while I support rigorous debate and criticism and struggle with issues and theories about liberation and oppression, I cannot allow it to go unsaid that I wholeheartedly am in solidarity with trans and gender non-confirming communities across the world.

Audre Lorde’s work is often appropriated or taken out of context—not just with brief quotes that occlude the meaning of a larger text, but also with ahistorical and anachronistic applications. The context in which she wrote was one where she was pitted between a Black Liberation movement that at times was homophobic and sexist, and a woman’s liberation movement that was often racist and classist and sometimes homophobic (depends when and where you went). Lorde’s work deals heavily with the material conditions in which she lived, something that is worth acknowledging.

I won’t pretend to speak for Lorde because I am not an expert. But I know that she spoke out against biological determinism of gender and sex identity when she co-signed the Combahee River Collective Statement. I know that she explored and felt deeply the connections between womanhood and bodies in her reflections on her mastectomy in The Cancer Journals and A Burst of Light. I know that she also spoke out against pornography and in favor of the erotic as a source of female knowledge. I also know that in the same essay, she wrote,

“Beyond the superficial, the considered phrase, ‘It feels right to me,’ acknowledges the strength of the erotic into a true knowledge, for what that means is the first and most powerful guiding light toward any understanding. And understanding is a handmaiden which can only wait upon, or clarify, that knowledge, deeply born. The erotic is the nurturer or nursemaid of all our deepest knowledge.”

My point is that as a black lesbian feminist theorist, scholar, and activist, she is a complex figure with opinions and perspectives that don’t necessarily align with any singular ideology or belief. She resists easy classification, but this opens her work up to appropriation.

I know that one of the central messages of her work is how interlocking systems of oppression work against oppressed people to erase our differences into a singular deviance, or they allow us to cannibalize ourselves through infighting and a refusal to give up access to oppressive power. Lorde imagines a different power, one that is sourced in difference, one that feels those differences as a fount of knowledge and a fundamental necessity of liberation.

I don’t know what all this means in the context of this blog and a few of its followers who support trans-exclusionary radical feminism. But I will reiterate my support for trans and gender non-conforming communities and my commitment that this blog be a space where different experiences of womanhood are not erased or demonized or misrepresented. People who disagree with these tenets are always welcome to unfollow.

And to finish, I would like to say that Audre Lorde told her students in a poetry workshop, “Don’t mythologize me.” She said this originally to encourage her students to continue writing and creating on their own and in their own communities, and that they didn’t need her to continue the work. And I think it applies here as well. Take that as you will.

-J. ( @slowtides )

[flower-zombie-rob]

Dearie you are the dense one for still pushing the lie that J.K. Rowling compared all transgenders to Death Eaters. If you bothered to actually listen to her, she compared the violent and autocratic behavior of people sending her death threats to the Death Eaters. You have some real nerve saying that radical feminists are thick-skulled when you cannot think critically and let your hatred of J.K. Rowling allow you to hear what you want to hear.

I would, once again, like to reitorate that in what context is conparing people to nazi allegorys correct in any circumstance?? If you give me an example of why this is an appropriate comparison in any context, ill listen, but as far as im aware a woman who spends her time actively hating transgender people and spreading false information about them comparing gay rights activists on twitter to fictional eugenicist murderers should be given this benefit of the doubt that you give her.

Also, she had done a plethera of things that her fans are ignoring and giving her this same benefit of the doubt idea of. She actively encourages the dead naming and outing of transgender children to their abusive households by supporting the british governments choices on that matter, in the past she has supported small businesses that sell anti-trans propaganda pins and merchandise, She has attempted to retcon her characters to be gay in an attelpt to be "progressive" while saying that there werewolf curse in her books(a thing that is pretty damn awful and that the antagonist werewolves try to spread among people) is an allegory for HIV(do i even have to explain what that is a bad thing to say??).

I call JK Rowling fans dense because they constantly choose to ignore and deny the fact that she makes her beliefs about transgender and gay people very clear constantly. People who hate her are not making things up, theyre taking what she says and the ways that she says and recieving it in the way that JK means it.

She did not compare all transgenders to death eaters. That is not what I said. Read some more and get that comprehention up "dearie." I said what was accurate, which was that she described lgbt rights activists who attack her as death eaters which are allegories for nazis and that is something she has openly said in the past. She could have said people who attacked her and she could have said people who sent her death threats but she did not. She chose the word's "trans rights activists" and "lgbt rights activists" to describe the people who attack her which actively antagonises all people within that bubble who fight for their rights and disagree with her points.

As with normal jk Rowling fans you believe that every valid criticism of hers is someone spreading a rumour because they simply don't like her but I think you fail to realise why people don't like her.

People do not hate jk Rowling because she fights for womens rights. People hate JK because she is attempting to tear down the trans and gay rights that people have fought for their entire lives for and she is a middle aged straight cis white woman using her massive fanbase to do so. If you really This have the reading comprehension that you are assuming you do in this ask I would please inform you to go and educate yourself on the ways the ways that JK Rowling's actions strongly affect not only trans youth but queer and even poc ans jewish youth today. Also, please stop reading JK rowlings twitter as your source for feminism information, people don't write genderist theory essays every day so you can ignore all reason and listen to JK rowlings version of feminism.

Thank you.

Also for someone who claims to be a radical feminist you certainly aren't against the idea of addressing someone is dearie in a patronising sense, a traditionally feminine patronism uzed against women by older men regularly. Thank you for making me uncomfortable too!

Also also, for someone so passionate about this "dearie" youre very shy in telling me your blog name and url with anon on. Almost like you dont want people to know youre a radfem. Almost like youre ashamed of it. How quaint. I on the other hand am not in any way afraid or ashamed of disliking JK and working to tear down the lies and rumours she spreads about an ultimately marginalised community of people who are attacked from all corners by the influence of people like her.

If you follow me, god help me, please unfollow because i dont want a supporter of a woman who refuses to even acknowledge and be held accountable for her transgender discrimination anywhere near my blog, which is a safe space for all. Please promptly and ploitely get off my blog, thank you.

[feral-radfem]

sucks that your pinned post is still menahet 😓

My pinned is a piece of art by Red Katherine that Menalez simply reposted. A piece of art that has a message that I agree with and feel like it's looked over a lot in radical feminist spaces. Ironically by you as well, it seems. My feminism includes menalez even if every negative thing y'all are saying about her is 100% true. I don't know what's so hard to understand about "all women." I've said this to tras and I will say it to y'all too. It's weird when y'all get so personally invested in strangers online.

I'm not like a big menalez fan like some radfems are or anything, but I'm not going to exile her because she may be lying about being gay. Honestly other oppressions that are not misogyny are not the focus of my political movement.

I don't give enough a fuck about any of y'all to try to sleuth out your sexualities to begin with. I think y'all would care less too if y'all stopped using them AND accepting them as appeal to authorities in the first place. This goes for all other identity claims any of y'all have too. You could all be lying about everything, this is the internet, I don't know you and I dont know menalez. Everything yall tell me about yourselves is all Schrodinger's truth to me, and I don't care to open the box.

This is a political blog about the systematic misogyny women suffer, stopping its spread, and eliminating it from cultural norms. It's not about which of these women who are helping me achieve this goal are actually lying about Niche little bits of their personality and Life to get internet clout. If that's the case and she is lying, mildly annoying at best. If it's not, you are all the mildly annoying assholes among us. I don't care either way. Not my monkeys, not my Zoo.

[itstokkii]

Hate to be that person that sounds uneducated, but in light of what recent events exactly? Again, hate to be that person 😅

Hello! There's 2 events I'm specifically talking about here.

One blog had agreed with a headcanon that South Korea was America and North Korea's love child. She depicts North Korea as the mother that eventually worries about her child taking over her position and therefore "killing her," so she chooses to kill him instead and live longer, which starts the Korean War. There's many issues with this that I speak about on my post about it, as well as @kimetsunozushi69, @tianshiisdead, and @irithnova 's posts about it. This blog did apologize, but continued to deny she ever blocked @kimetsunozushi69 when they were the first blog to speak about this. Eventually, she deleted her account, and a friend of hers accused us of pushing her to do so, which was never our intention and was done of her own accord.

The second incident is one where an artist drew China with slit eyes and when confronted by @kimetsunozushi69, who is ethnically Chinese, about it, refused to acknowledge it was racism, said things like "be proud of your yellow skin" and accused them of whitewashing themselves. @peonycats pointed out that exaggerated ethnic features are used to distinguish the good guys from villains a lot in media(think of aladdin and jasmine vs jafar and the royal guards and how they're drawn). This artist got political and eventually brought up issues such as the Tiananmen Square Massacre and the human rights abuses of Uyghur people in Xinjiang, both of which the CCP is responsible for. This artist seems to be blaming @kimetsunozushi69 and @peonycats for the crimes the CCP committed simply because they're ethnically Chinese, and used these horrible events to somehow "win points" in this argument, by saying "i may be racist but your government is committing human rights violations so your opinion is invalid!" She took this a step further by drawing an Uyghur oc, basically using their suffering in real life as a way to "win points" in an online argument.

@peonycats had also found that this artist was transphobic(called the term TERF a slur, when it's just used to describe radical feminists that refuse to include trans women in the fight because they didn't go through the same struggles that afab women have. basically sending the message that "no you're not a real woman" which is transphobic) and islamophobic(she generalized all Muslim men as rapists).

The same person that accused us of being puritanical in the first incident also sided with the artist in the second incident and also refuses to listen to us. She has a track record of generally not listening to minorities as well.

I believe that's all! If anyone sees something missing feel free to add on.

Edit: I'm including this information so you know who to stay wary from, not to send any death threats or anything!

but the OP from the first incident is the deactivated ladycolumbia-liberty and the artist from the second incident is unhonestlymirror. the blog that took both of their sides was myrddin-wylt. so please block them! It not only helps you not have to see their posts, but they will not be able to interact with you. additionally, blocking can also show solidarity and that you stand with the POC fans of this fandom. when we slowly isolate these people from our fandom circles, these circles will become safer spaces for everyone!

[ilikekidsshows]

Not sure I agree with that last anon. First off, feminists are actaully the most likely group to listen to men's problems than any other group. Tbf not every feminist does that, like man haters and Terfs are a different stories, but feminist who know what they're talking about have a broader view than "man vs woman" and understand that everyon esuffers under patriarchial standards, just in different ways. Non-feminists and especially your typical "dude bro alpha males" will absolutely make fun of any man having any feelings that aren't anger. I'm a man and I speak from peronal experience here.

And honestly I'm so tired of people complaining about how feminism ruined the show bc Mari has more screentime than Adrien. Astruc wouldn't know feminism if it hit him in the face. He just fails to understand that feminism is not "woman strong man weak". Adrien is the focus of most plot lines because he's Marinette's main motivator to do anything. Astruc based her entire personality about liking a boy. Doesn't sound very feminist to me.

The Adrien abuse not being followed more is also not the result of feminism, it's just a quirky little accessory for Adriens character so the fandom doesn't entirely forget he's here. Hell, Adrien being an abuse victim is like the number one reason why he is so popular in the first pace. Gabe's an ass, Adrien is sad, the audience feels sorry for him. There's no substance, no complexity, no overcoming any complicated emotions. And that's not because feminism, it's because the writers have no idea what being abused actually means, especially how the actions of the abusers get constantly excused. Not only Gabriel, but also Audrey and Jagged who abandoned their kids get away scot free. The writers don't care about abuse victims or giving them a character they can relate to, they just use it as a character trait because they don't know how else to make a character likeable and symathetic. It has nothing to do with any narrative about how "white men are predators" or whatever.

I'm guessing you saw my posts as merely a chance to rant about fandom tendencies that get you peeved, but next time, please just say so, instead of trying to make it sound like I said something I didn't. Like, I get it, the Anon messaging me made it sound like they thought the Miraculous crew were radfems, which I also highly doubt. But also note that this message you sent really reads like you're saying I said or implied something like: "feminism ruined Miraculous" or "feminists treat male victims of abuse worse than other people", which I absolutely did not. I'm a queer feminist, but I'm not exactly running a social justice information blog here. Not everything I say is going to sound perfectly eloquent, but my response in that post was literally less than 200 words; you can spend more time reading it if you're going to send me an essay saying things I was trying to say but with more words and defensiveness and countering arguments I didn't make.

I should probably say this: you're not wrong but that doesn't mean I'm wrong either. Yes, feminists are more likely to listen to and advocate for male victims than other parties. HOWEVER, it is still an undisputable fact that many feminists (note: I never said all) hold the belief that men can never be victims, and that attitude is not only present in radical feminists. I don't like it either, but some feminists are jerks and we can't deny that fact. Still, the main point I was trying to make was that this attitude is not tied to feminism or anti-feminism to begin with; it's a more universal societal bias.

I agree with your point that Miraculous doesn't necessarily have anything to do with denying male victimhood, as I said: the writers don't need to villify Adrien in order to not focus on his story. I was merely stating that the subconcious bias around abuse makes it very easy for the writers to just go: "there isn't really a story here." It's true that the Miraculous writers really don't seem to grasp just how much parental abuse happens in their story, which means that the underlying bias we can see in the show might actually be about parental abuse, rather than male victims specifically. While Kagami is getting support over her situation, Chloé isn't, so it might not be tied to the victim's gender. Still, there is clearly a bias in the show's writing where the abuse present in the story isn't being taken seriously as abuse.

I even agree that Miraculous being a girl power show is not some great failure of feminism, even when some issues with the show come specifically from it being a girl power show. "Girl power" is just the most basic way of making a show that's designed to get girls to like it, and it often doesn't lend itself to nuanced storytelling. Girls being the target audience doesn't make this show feminist; it's just what the creators think appeals to girls.

It's just kind of pathetic that all these problems are becoming more prominent specifically in the seasons the showrunners are trying to tell us are going to be more mature and emotional. Not that raising the rating by one bar is that big of a difference, really.

[hadeantaiga]

Incoming discussion about radical feminism:

If you've popped into the radfem tag recently you've probably seen posts from this user. They are run by the Radfem Coalition, an actual organization. They have links to their website, to meetups, and to Discord servers.

If we are to believe the assumption that radical feminism is not inherently transphobic, not inherently bioessentialist, etc... Then one would expect that a blog like this would have NO transphobic posts on it, correct?

But. If radical feminism IS inherently transphobic, or if the ideology has been infiltrated by transphobes inside and out, then we WOULD expect there to be transphobia.

So it begs the question. Does a blog, run by a large Radical Feminist organization, contain transphobic material?

I'll give you three guesses, and the first two don't count.

Brand-new-uterus and cherrifem are both TERFs. I don't use the Shinigami Eyes extension so the names aren't red, sorry for that.

The post reblogged is a "debunking" of the Impact blog's posts about detransition facts. Cherrifem "cites" without linking her source, so who knows where that information is from. Radfemcoalition does not refute anything said in the post. The post ends by calling trans people "TRAs".

The next post is a very long list of book recommendations. Look at that username: terfectly. This blog, run by a radfem organization, is directly reblogging from open TERFs. Many of the books on this list are openly transphobic.

Conclusion: This organization's blog, which represents Radical Feminists, is reblogging transphobic posts. it is openly reblogging from TERFs. The Radfem Coalition organization is openly transphobic.

Radfems, you are represented by transphobes.