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CattitudeMarch 26, 2025

“Women’s clothes don’t belong to women,” I once said to my now ex-husband Jamie when he began to crossdress. “So I don’t care who wears them.”

I didn’t have the relevant vocabulary yet, but that position was known as “gender critical.”

That put me off immediately. That's not remotely how I understand gender critical. It comes across as feeble liberal wishy-washiness. Of course I'm viewing it from a decade-odd of seeing what AGPs are and loathing them and not seeing any male crossdressing as remotely innocent. Gender critical to me is about not only knowing transvestism ("transgender") is male dominance and sexual perversion, but looking at the oppression of women through sex-role stereotyping in all areas. This is just the most depraved version of it, and it's not even new - men have been doing this for millennia.

DeeMarch 27, 2025

The wording leaves some space for interpretation. I read it as "Women did not create the norms around what women's clothes should look like. Men did that. Therefore, I don't care who wears them." In other words, women's clothes are designed to sexualize and objectify women for the benefit of men. They are part of sex-role stereotyping.

That's not how I understand gender critical either, but it could be part of it.

CattitudeMarch 27, 2025

Could be. I can't avoid looking at it with the eyes of disgust for AGPs though. "What's seen cannot be unseen" stuff.

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