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She Finally Peaked
Around 4 or 5 years ago I was speaking to the only lesbian in the village, a 68 year old butch woman, about the transgender issue. I thought she would have known all about men calling themselves lesbians, the erasure of women's spaces, men calling themselves women being placed in women's prisons, and everything else that was going on. I was wrong. She said "transwomen" were no threat to lesbians or other women. She was shocked at my transphobia. I never brought up the subject with her again......until last night.
Last night we were both volunteering at the same place and we got to gossiping. We somehow got onto the subject of the rainbow flag, and I said how many lesbians I know can't stand the rainbow now because it isn't about LGB anymore. She said, "I know, it's all about the transes now." I was gobsmacked.
I prodded a bit further and it all came out. Transbians, AGPs, men in women's prisons, etc, etc, etc. She hated it all. Everything she had disagreed with me on 5 years ago she was now complaining about. Another volunteer, a man of 71, joined in the conversation just as we got to AGPs coming out when their wives were pregnant or when their daughter's hit puberty. He asked why that was, so I explained about period fetish, pregnancy and breastfeeding fetish, schoolgirl bra shopping/pillow fight fetish etc, and told them all (there were others who had stopped to listen by then) about paraphilias. We concluded with a discussion on how some in the trans lobby want pedophilia to be treated as a sexual orientation like LGB. The shock on their faces was something to behold. By the time the discussion had ended at least 4 volunteers between the ages of 62 and 74 had been well and truly peaked.
It took 4 years for the only lesbian in the village (now 72 years old) to discover, through her own experiences, that transgenderism had erased her already small community and made her lonely life just that little bit worse by making lesbian spaces extinct in our state. It took maybe ten minutes to get the other three people up to speed.
Sometimes it is the people we thought would be easy to peak that are the most resistant to common sense, and those we figured wouldn't want to know about the subject that are the most interested.
After spending the entirety of last weekend with a conference room full of terfs, I couldn’t agree more. I haven’t smiled or laughed so much probably in all my life. They hate us cause they ain’t us (and never will be no matter how much they let pharma experiment on them or unethical surgeons butcher them).
I wish I could meet other terfs at conferences like this. I feel so lonely in my beliefs sometimes. Sigh
That sounds like a dream! You’re so lucky to know stunning & majestic terves in real life!!
How appropriate! I just recut my terf bangs! 😂
I need to know what these are so I can watch for them in the wild!
Oh it's just a silly joke...TRAs seem to think that all TERFs have super short, straight-across baby bangs. So they'll often refer to them as "terf bangs" as yet another way to mock women.
Cuz, y'know, I really give a shit what some transcel keyboard warrior thinks. 💁♀️
Me too. I used to not love being a woman, I was fully on the nonbinary train before it was cool, but now that I know the most misogynistic men on earth want to be women and will never be, I couldn't be happier I have something no amount of money or power will give them. Edit: thanks terfs for showing me the way!
Me!
I can't imagine suspending disbelief indefinitely and living in a world of denial. Thanks, no thanks. I'd rather be here.
Yes!! I'm a radical feminist but don't give a fuck if some delusional TRA calls me a terf, it's a badge of honor at this point.
I know it’s not an accurate term but I’ve come to embrace it. I’ve been called a terf for any feminist statement so I’m not afraid of it anymore.
I love being a terf too! I embrace the term - I do exclude transwomen from female everything & I do gatekeep womanhood & I'm proud. I love being female & my female body. And I love being truthful & honest & brave & not giving a fuck about being nice & kind. Fuck them. Fuck the troons, the handmaidens, the wokebros. Viva la terven & all truthful people who stand for reality & fairness. We shall overcome!
Hell yes, sis!!!
I totally wanna make a banner that says “Viva la Terven” on it now! 😹😹
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"We were terfing out together" or "he's a big TERF like me."
🤣🤣🤣 Yes! Love when it’s used as a verb, lol. My other favorite variations are “tervery” (such as, “She committed tervery,”) terfin’ it up, surfin & terfin, etc 😂😂
Proud radical feminist! I reject the term T*rf for the same reason I refuse to be called "q'eer" because it's a slur. I am proud of standing up for truth, LGB people, women and children and for standing firm in reality and logic despite it putting me "on the wrong side of history". This is the first issue I've spoken out on that has made me truly unpopular with my friends and peers, I'm proud of myself for standing up for what's right even if it leaves me feeling alone!
T*rf and transphobe are a badge of honor at this point. Those words are less than meaningless, their outright lies. 💁🏾♀️
I reject the term terf and choose feminist instead, but I agree with every other sentiment.
I understand why some women here don’t want to embrace the term :) I still think it’s a slur of course when others use it toward us. People just use “terf” so negatively though, but I think being a terf is something to be proud of!
I just think it's not accurate. My feminism doesn't exclude women who attempt to escape womanhood.
Testicle Exclusionary Radical Feminism, anyone?
This is absolutely perfect, haha. It’s extremely frustrating how the label phrases it as “trans exclusionary” when in reality what they mean is “male exclusionary.”
Yes!!!!
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I know it’s not accurate; merf is accurate though, but by now terf is already ubiquitous.
This. "Terf" was a term invented by a TIM to describe feminism because he wanted to appropriate it, implying that there were two kinds of feminism : the "right" one, which puts women's issues on the back burner while it busies itself with the wants of men, and the "wrong" kind, which puts women first and teaches them that they can say no.
"Terf" is not just a misnomer (none of us excludes TIFs, they exclude themselves... While still benefiting from progress feminists have made), it's a useless term since it's posed in opposition to libfems... Who are simply not feminists. Feminism does not center the needs and pleasure of men. That's literally its antithesis.
I've used "terf" IRL two or three times out of practicality and I don't like it. We shouldn't make concessions for TIMs and we shouldn't let them define us, not as women, and not as feminists.