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Gender Critical Feminism
Feminism is the movement to liberate women from patriarchy. We stand up for the rights of women to control our own bodies as individuals and to control women-only spaces as a class.
Women are adult human females. We do not believe that men can become women by 'feeling' like women or 'identifying' as women. We condemn the erasure of females and female-only spaces, the silencing of critical thinking, the cancelling of feminists and critics, the denial of biological reality and of sex-based oppression. We oppose the 'cotton ceiling' and the pressure on lesbians to have sex with men. Women are oppressed to exploit their biological sex characteristics, and women have a right to a movement that is about their own liberation from that oppression. We resist the redefinition of both "women" and "feminism" to make them serve men.
"Women do not decide at some point in adulthood that they would like other people to understand them to be women, because being a woman is not an ‘identity.’ Women’s experience does not resemble that of men who adopt the ‘gender identity’ of being female or being women in any respect. The idea of ‘gender identity’ disappears biology and all the experiences that those with female biology have of being reared in a caste system based on sex." –Sheila Jeffreys, Gender Hurts
"Men often react to women’s words—speaking and writing—as if they were acts of violence; sometimes men react to women’s words with violence. So we lower our voices. Women whisper. Women apologize. Women shut up. Women trivialize what we know. Women shrink. Women pull back. Most women have experienced enough dominance from men—control, violence, insult, contempt—that no threat seems empty." –Andrea Dworkin, Intercourse
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It's probably a passive aggressive action, but it's still one of the biggest threats to men. I'm not disagreeing with you, just adding my thoughts.
It's the only power we have against men. Stop doing things with them. Stop dating them, living with them, having children with them and allow them to pass their family name onto the kids even though we're the ones who have to be pregnant and give birth and do most of the childcare. Shut them out of it all and put them in their place.
THIS this this. This is what I've realized. Men tell us 100 different ways that literally the only thing they value us for is sex. Most of them don't even want kids. They just want sex with no consequences, and they'd be happy to never interact with a woman outside of that in every other area of their live. We should stop giving them the one and only thing they want and force them to change. You can't view women as human? Fine, no sex for you. I think things would change fast if women started emotionally and sexually completely shutting men out.
It's almost as if men interpret us not doing things with or for them as oppressive.
Their complete sense of entitlement over our bodies and our labor is disgusting.
That's because men are parasites.
All this. I know so many self-supporting Japanese women who don't marry for exactly those reasons, and one man who had a male coworker take paternity leave (it was a big deal and well-supported, but no one wanted to be "the first guy at the company to do that").
Trans issues are definitely becoming a thing, but it's very much imported from the Anglosphere.
Transgender is very medicalized, with the whole "born in the wrong body" type imagery. The official term for it is (or was) 性同一性障害 (sei douitusei syougai) which is "gender identity disorder" and people cling to this medicalization, I think partly because as mentioned gender roles are so enforced, and so by having this disorder somehow it's "okay" all of a sudden to transgress them.
There was a season of 「3年Ｂ組み金八先生」("3rd year B class Kinpachi Sensei" which is a show about a great teacher who imparts life lessons to the students, been running off and on since 1979) which featured a TiF kid as the main "problem child" of the season, super sympathetic, the ending episode the triumph of graduating wearing the boy's uniform, all this. That was when I first thought, oh, this is coming to Japan also...
A lot of the language now is imported from English, so you got your トランス・トランスジェンダー (trans/transgender), also just ジェンダー ("jenda-") generally since the word 性 (sei) usually refers to biological sex. But the usual "explanation" ends up being "the sex of my heart/feelings doesn't match the sex of my body" which is highly annoying from my POV.
Most of the medical terms are translated from English. I notice though that what used to be called 性転換手術 (sei tenkan syujyutsu) or literally "sex change surgery" has gotten a new PC translation 性別適合手術 (seibetsu tekigou syujyutsu) which is directly from "gender confirmation surgery," so that kinda lets you know how things are trending.
Just like in the US, there is talk of doing away with some sexist practices or unnecessary (IMHO) gendering or splitting up of people by sex for irrelevant activities, but what's annoying is, it's always about "we have to do this for the precious TRANS CHILDREN" -- what about the regular girls who want to wear the pants uniform, huh?
Also just like in the US, the T got lumped in with the LGB, so there's "LGBT" as a unit, and it's all part of the term "GSM" which is "gender and sexual minorities" which gets translated as 性的少数者 (seiteki syousuu sya).
And of course, the T is super monopolizing all the talk around the LGBT. And this talk is all over various more left-leaning commentaries I like, which kinda has me down.
Japanese for the most part doesn't use third person pronouns at all so at least that part isn't a "thing."
ETA: I should add, for the curious, that in order to change your sex on your family register (i.e. the ultimate form of ID) in Japan, you have to have full SRS, not be married (so if you are married, you must divorce), and no kids under the age of 20. So most of the well known TiMs haven't actually changed status.
This is fascinating. My sense has been that the whole gender crazy is largely an Anglosphere/western issue (in part because this is a serious first world wankfest ... when you're worried about civil war, famine, etc you don't really have time to take your fetish this seriously, and in developed non-western societies postmodernism, which is necessary for the 'women's brain/soul/spirit in a male body' to happen, never caught on the same way) so it's really valuable to get this perspective. Much appreciated.
Japanese politicians are really out of touch. They think they can keep pressuring women to conform. But they can't force them to marry and keep playing their oppressed traditional role.
The majority of politicians around the world are out of touch with reality though. That's why one advice my dad gave me was, "Don't marry politician." lmao
Japan has the worst record for number of women in political leadership in the G20. Even as other Asian countries advance (however slowly) in terms of women’s issues, it is stagnating.
Plus, it’s got a right-wing nationalist government in power that wants women to just marry, shut up, and do their patriotic duty as baby machines. I love it that Japanese women are like “hard pass.”
There is another manga that is a realistic look at what it is go trans and travel to have SRS in Thailand, it is 「生まれる性別を間違えた」 ("I was born the wrong sex" basically). By an author 小西 真冬 (Konishi Mafuyu) who is a TiM.
It's pretty pro-trans, as you'd expect, with educational vignettes between chapters explaining trans dogma and various specifics about medical procedures.
However, it's got some fairly blunt for the genre slices of realism, specifically a section pointing out that usually TiMs don't pass and it's highly likely you won't get accepted "as a woman," there is discrimination, etc, and in those scenes the more realistic depictions of a non-passing TiM are kinda right on. The rest of the book of course is drawing people as they see themselves, so it's kinda a wake up call section.
Anyway I am not sure if the book exists in English, I found it worth a read, as someone who has read around the topic for ages. The info in the book is pretty much the standard advice and experience story you can find around the internet as well.
Is this manga a criticizing or celebrating transgenderism?
Korean radfems are super hardcore though, it's pretty admirable.
I know some women in Japan, and they have a keen sense of this bullshit based on what they already have to do to protect themselves and their children from exploitation (for instance, walking the local kids to school to keep them safe from creepers photographing them).
I was just reading through the hashtags on Twitter! So proud of our sisters in Japan.
https://twitter.com/unsleepfish/status/1296647079368900608
Thank you for linking this! I've been looking for something like this forever.
And then libfems will call them uneducated
Typical western colonialism. Libfems think they're enlightened and people from other countries just need to learn to be like them.
I love this. It's good to see them call a spade a spade.
my Japanese-American friend feels similarly as well
YES. Women all over the world should starve men out. Give them NOTHING.