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DiscussionJK Rowling is still on fire on IWD
Edit: I left Ovarit because there is a large group here that has no reserve in verbally abusing, demeaning and dehumanizing women who have the audacity to have their own opinions and experiences. This toxic attitude is not only tolerated but condoned as women who point this out have their comments and posts, at best, down voted but more often than not removed by mods in several different circles. A large group of you are acting EXACTLY like the flip side of the coin where the other side is TRA.
I will not walk on eggshells, i refuse to be verbally abused for having an opinion and life experiences that are my own, and i refuse to contribute to a community that thinks its ok to insult victims of horrific child abuse because they recognized their abusive mothers behavior in Amber Heard's. A community that thinks its ok to make fake stories and accusations up about strong women like Kellie-Jay Keen (a racist? really? shame on you) . A community that makes young teen girls feels embarrassed and shames them because they do not have the courage to stand out from their friends and not wear make up or even just shaming women for loving to wear skirts (wtf?). A community that paints conservative and Christian women as the bad guys and bullies them into silence.
I am a centrist, atheist and alternative style person but most of all I am a feminist and i stand for ALL women's rights and I embrace the opinions, experiences and thoughts of people who are very different than me. I appreciate many excellent conversations i had with people of different minds and cultures. We are all women of equal worth yet different and I refuse to be part of a group that does not recognize the value of that and insists on becoming a closed minded toxic circle jerk.
"Someone please send the Shadow Minister for Equalities a dictionary and a backbone. /#HappyInternationalWomensDay"
https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1501181554948775938
The female Shadow Minister of Equalities does not know on International woman's day what a woman is when she was asked on the radio show Woman's Hour what a woman is. How embarrassing and enraging is this?
Edit update 22hCET: The Queen is NOT playing today
Quote tweet to Dodds: "This morning you told the British public you literally can't define what a woman is. What's the plan, lift up random objects until you find one that rattles?" https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1501287100343361537
Some rando asked her if this is the hill she wants to die on: "Yes, sweetheart. I'm staying right here on this hill, defending the right of women and girls to talk about themselves, their bodies and their lives in any way they damn well please. You worry about your legacy, I'll worry about mine " https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1501291633165357056
Passing is not a concept in radical feminism I don’t know why they keep bringing it up as if we invented it.
“Passing as female” is something from the transgender/transsexual world. Passing as female is a goal that some transsexuals have because they despise their own sex.
Radical feminists don’t have a list of things women need to have or do to “pass” as female and thus be considered women. We often talk about the myriad ways that men and women physically differ but only because transgenderists started claiming they could become us.
If you’re a human female adult you are a woman. It’s a simple, liberating philosophy. It’s the trans, traditional and liberal feminist communities that have all these requirements and rules and strategies on what someone has to do to become a woman or pass as a woman or be a “real” woman.
“Passing as female” is something from the transgender/transsexual world. Passing as female is a goal that some transsexuals have because they despise their own sex.
Sex dysphoria in men might be caused by male sexual violence, but I doubt even a significant percentage of TIMs hate their own sex. By and large, TIMs are obsessed with "passing" because it's part of their sex drive -- both the autogynephiles and the gay TIMs who do it to attract men. I suspect the majority of those 5-10% of TIMs who do get their penis inverted are convinced it will increase their sexual pleasure.
(I use sex dypshoria to emphasize what gender dysphoria used to be defined by: the persistent wish to be rid of one's genitals.)
They are always so fucking racist.
And what the fuck is 'gender presentation standards'?!?!?
In this fantasy world where men could ever in a million years pass as women, and somehow despite a million years of humans always being able to tell that WOC are women, we suddenly no longer can.
There is no litmus test. Everyone can always tell when a man is pretending to be a woman. The only women I personally can't tell are actually not men are TIFs who use T and have an apple body type. And I don't think these TIFs should use women's facilities for this reason, even if they are technically entitled to.
god, these people are so fucking dumb lol. how do they not recognize the inherent racism in such comments?? it truly boggles the mind.
Laws against TIMs hurt lesbians?
I really dont think so, bro.
I wish there were fucking laws against TIMs.
I think it's another desperate ploy: make lesbians so grateful for their help they'll want to sleep with them. Even have their children!
The reasoning, if you can call it that, seems to go something like: 'All racists are cis; some racists think some WOC are not beautiful; all cis people think all TW are not beautiful; so, all cis people are racists as well as transphobic.' It's like term logic on acid with a touch of ADHD.
Which leads to the question “So why are you TIMs so desperate for these evil racist transphobic cis women to fuck you?” Which of course he wouldn’t answer because it’s rape by coercion he’s after.