Like of course it’s a TERF post. Of course it is. What on Earth else would it be? TERFs are for all intents and purposes the direct descendants of the “extremely bourgeois WASPs with terrible analysis and unchecked prejudices” wing of both the temperance and suffrage movements, they gotta dig that history
That’s weird! The founders of our political movement were working class women and lesbians.
Who’s leading yours? White billionaires like Martine Rothblatt, George Soros, Jennifer Pritzker, and entertainment figureheads like the Wachowskis, Caitlyn Jenner, Paris Lees, Jacob Tobia and Riley J Dennis.
Of those, one of them (Tobia) is a person of colour. None of them are female. All of them are Waltham.
Some diversity.
And do tell: what was the point of the temperance movement? (Because it wasn’t run by wealthy wasp women, which you’d know if you knew anything about the waves of feminism at all).
And what relation does radical feminism in 2018 have to the suffragist movements of the early 1900s?
You really couldn’t think of even one non-Jewish billionaire huh
Sure I can.
However, these are the ones who have donated, advocated or contributed to trans activism.
Jennifer Pritzker has funneled millions of dollars into trans activism.
The Wachowskis, the same.
Rothblatt, also.
The fact that they’re Jewish is irrelevant; Andrea Dworkin and Shulamith Firestone were Jewish as well.
My issue is with the fact that the trans community has literal billionaires funding it and identifying as trans, while also presuming to present themselves as the Most Oppressed Letter in our acronym soup.
I could just as easily name you a few white nationalist trans supporters, though, if you’d prefer.
billionaire says “i guess not all The Transgenders™ should die actually” now trans people are privileged and terfs are oppressed, we did it everyone
Jennifer Pritzker is a trans woman who donates millions to advocate for the US Military. Not surprisingly, the Obama Administration took steps to open the military to trans individuals like ‘Lady Valour’, Kristen Beck, and trans activists like Chelsea Manning, Autumn Sandeen and Toni d’Orsay.
Martine Rothblatt is the founder of Sirius XM; and also an avowed transhumanist — he started a fucking religion called Terrasem and has a robot doll of his wife — and has his own pharmaceutical company. How convenient.
Soros is a speculator; he isn’t ideologically supportive. He’s a businessman with fingers in many pies; how much do you want to bet some of those pies are pharmaceutical?
So those are the examples. As for the issue of privilege; how many trans women have radical feminists harmed directly? I mean: assaulted, raped or murdered. I want names.
Name-dropping Dworkin doesn’t make this any less antisemitic.
We can name drop more than Dworkin, as the founding members of second wave femininsm were predominantly Jewish. But while we’re at it, here’s a copy of Dworkin’s Scapegoat: The Jews, Israel, and Women’s Liberation.
The Dialectic of Sex was written by the New York Radical Feminist’s co-founder, Orthodox Jew Shulamith Firestone, a former student of a Cleveland-based rabbinical college. Here’s a free PDF link.
Their other co-founder, Susan Brownmiller, emerged from Brooklyn’s Jewish community to say, “I can argue that my chosen path—to fight against physical harm, specifically the terror of violence against women—had its origins in what I had learned in Hebrew School about the pogroms and the Holocaust.” Here’s a free PDF link to her bestseller, Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape
“It’s almost overwhelming to consider the numerous Jewish women who have shaped every aspect of the women’s movementand of American life: from Betty Friedan, who sparked Second Wave feminism (the resurgence of feminist activism beginning in the 1960s) with the 1963 publication of The Feminine Mystique and the founding of the National Organization for Women (NOW) in 1966, to Judy Chicago, who created art centered on women’s experiences in The Dinner Party; from Alix Kates Shulman and Anne Roiphe, who published the first novels of the women’s liberation movement, to Andrea Dworkin and Susan Brownmiller, who protested pornography and violence against women; from Robin Morgan and Shulamith Firestone, who organized women’s “consciousness-raising” groups and published early feminist theory, to Barbara Seaman and Alice Wolfson, who protested the dangers of the birth control pill in Senate hearings in 1970; from Gloria Steinem and Letty Cottin Pogrebin who founded Ms. magazine, to Carol Gilligan and Phyllis Chesler, who exposed gender bias in psychology; from Bella Abzug, who brought feminist politics to Congress, to Gerda Lerner, who created and institutionalized the field of women’s history. The list goes on and on.”
There are arguments against Betty Friedan’s casual racism, class blindness, and obvious homophobia, but she wrote about “having broken through the feminine mystique to affirm my authentic full identity as a person, as a woman, brought me to confront my Jewish identity.” But their significant influence cannot be reduced to Tumblr tokenism because you don’t like exposing the imperialist donation patterns of multibillionaire Pritzker and richest woman CEO Rothblatt.
For anyone who isn’t aware how much of their funding has gone to the American military, politicians, and colleges, Women’s Liberation Radio News had an excellent podcast. You can listen or read the transcript: https://wlrnmedia.wordpress.com/2017/08/16/wlrn-edition-16-transcript/
Frankly, I had no idea either the Pritzkers or the Wachowskis were Jewish. It’s not like we made up that they’re rich funders of trans causes.
I feel like if a lot of dysphoric individuals would get a chance to look at actual gender critical theory before being indoctrinated into the new-age trans community, a lot of them would probably be pretty into it.
I mean, who doesn’t want to live in a world where sex is just a bio marker and isn’t something that people use against you? One where you can dress and act as you please without the worry of being too feminine or masculine? Where your identity has nothing to do with your sex and people don’t oppress you based off of it?
That’s the kind of world most of us want. It’s the kind of world that would actually be pretty beneficial to them. Yet, many of them are taught to hate these ideas and instead promote outdated stereotypes. They’re taught to deny basic biology instead of getting rid of this culture that lets people treat others differently because of it. They’re taught that if they try hard enough, they’ll become the person they’re “supposed to be”, when in reality there is nothing wrong with them in the first place other than how society judges them based off of stereotypes.
The trans community sets its members up for failure. It gives them a goal that they’ll never achieve. It gives them this idea that all they have to do is change everything about themselves to fix their issues. Yet, the real problem lies outside of them. The real problem is the idea of gender. The real problem is the patriarchy. They never realize this, and thus they often blame themselves for everything, when in reality, the problem was never one that they could fix on their own.
It’s a sad lie that more and more young people are being taught.
I understand where this is coming from and I agree to an extent
But I’m dysphoric because of my sex. That’s literally the cause of my dysphoria. It is a me problem, not an outside problem
I’m dysphoric because I’m female. Because I have a vagina/vulva. Because I have breasts. Because I have female secondary sex characteristics.
Getting rid of gender won’t change that fact. Getting rid of gender doesn’t change the fact people with sex dysphoria will still have sex dysphoria
@spooky-rad-luka I think you’re right that a lot of people even in a genderless world would still suffer from sex dysphoria but do you think it’s possible in some cases dysphoria develops because of the way we gender bodies. I know many radfem lesbians think their dysphoria developed because of homophobia, being attracted to women made them think they should be men and dysphoria developed from that?
That I definitely agree with
Which is funny because in the tags to your pissy response, you accused me of not having dysphoria.
Which is a funny assumption for a trans person to make about anyone, really.
After all, you don’t know me, how I identify or if I have dysphoria.
(If you had asked, I would have told you that I absolutely was dysphoric as a teenaged girl with a taste for the hard sciences and a sex-drive geared towards women. The difference is that I didn’t transition because I was born a decade before this trend.)
Yea that was a really hyper aggressive response to what seemed to be general questions. General, hey let’s critically think about this, not even inherently directed at you questions. Do you not question anything? How do you plan to prepare for things? To help yourself? If you just say, fuck it, what happens, happens that’s fine. It doesn’t mean others will stop thinking and trying to find solutions. It really is telling, how incredibly defensive you got @spooky-rad-luka
The thing is — those should be standard questions prior to any surgery!
“Are you prepared for…”
I’ve had… so many surgeries I literally just had to stop and count the scars. I’m looking at four major ones to date, with the almost-certainty of a few more to come.
And those were to remove BONE TUMOURS, and I was still asked, every time, if I was aware and cognizant of the fact that these surgeries would affect my body for years down the road.
If those questions upset you, you’re not psychologically prepared for ANY surgery.
Fortunately, these surgeries are elective. You have the time to answer those questions and plan. You can’t get any more female, you know; it’s not like you get girlier with every breath.
So take one or two, and plan your shit.
If you are unprepared for the long term — which is to say, menopause, ageing, the life-long reliance on pharmaceuticals and the very real and present danger of blood clots, cancer, heart disease, liver and kidney damage and strokes, and the subsequent ageing that will necessitate long-term care regardless of your mental status… you’re going to be in for a nasty shock down the way.
Are you prepared to be a 95 year old trans man in a senior’s home, being cared for by Personal Support Workers who may not know, or care, about your gender identity?
If not, how do you intend on addressing that? Let me tell you, “respect my identity!” becomes a lot less demanding when you can’t even shake a cane at them.
Are you prepared for contingencies?
What happens if you move and your pharmaceuticals are no longer provided? What if the supply chain fails? What if the world enters into a decline or a dark age — which sounds tinfoil hatty, but have you SEEN the news recently? We’re in the Decadence phase of empire, and the subsequent phase is Collapse. Rome was eternal… until it wasn’t.
What then?
Do you have contingencies and redundancies?
And are you prepared to address those like an adult?
Because if you’re not… you should hold off until you can. Otherwise, you’ll borrowing trouble with no backup plan, and that’s always bad news.
These questions, by the way, are for you to answer. This isn’t a quiz, I’m not grading shit. But answer them honestly, and see what that tells you.
China is putting Uyghur Muslims into Concentration Camps
This is one of the greatest attrocities and oppression taking place in the world today yet still it is one of the least talked about issues. It’s estimated possibly over 2 million Uyghur Muslims have been put into these concentration camps which China calls “re-edcuation camps” and the goals is to wipe out and clean them from their cultural and religious identity. They have built dozens of these camps with fortified walls and barbed wire fences which they hide from the world media.
China sees Islam as an ‘ideological disease’. Many of the people put in these camps don’t make it out alive due to to the harsh living conditions inside. Many leave behind children who are then sent to government run orphanages and are brainwashed from a young age removing their cultural and religious identity.
Uyghur Muslims can be arrested and put in these camps for the smallest of reasons and every step they take is monitored by the authorities. Facial recognition cameras and high tech equipment has been deployed in East Turkestan turning it into a complete surveillance state. This isn’t fantasy or ‘fake news’. This is happening now in East Turkestan. Don’t let history repeat itself. Share and let the world know the truth.
please boost this!!!!
I believe every word here because I remember China’s infiltration in African countries especially Uganda. Forcing the women to marry Chinese men and give up their culture as a way to maintain tight control of their minerals and resources. The Chinese are the new colonizers but they are getting away with because no one is aware of it. They are being a lot smarter about it and thus history repeats itself. Please spread awareness about their literal concentration/ death camps.
not to be a party pooper but to say Chinese are the new colonizers is slightly problematic and ignorant as many of asian states have been affected by Chinese imperialism since forever
If a man crosses and disrespects your boundaries, there’s no need to be nice anymore. He’s shown he clearly doesn’t give a fuck about your feelings so return that energy and see how he likes it
I love how literally every great male “genius” in the world was a raging, shameless misogynist, but as soon as Valerie Solanas wrote the SCUM manifesto, everyone who conveniently ignored the misogyny of the “great thinkers” suddenly found themselves in a rage over ONE fucking book that vilifies men. Pathetic. Society only notices this shit when it happens to men. Where were all of you when Aristotle said “as regards the sexes, the male is by nature superior and the female inferior, the male ruler and the female subject” ? Or how about when Nietzsche sharted out this misogynist garbage “what is truth to a woman? From the very first nothing has been more alien, repugnant, inimical to woman than truth – her great art is the lie, her supreme concern is appearance and beauty” ? I could write an entire dissertation on the misogyny of the so called “great thinkers” that everyone is forced to learn about and respect. But ONE book that flips all of that over onto men is the final straw? Fucking please lmao!
hot take: most radical feminists want nothing but the best for trans people, they just have different ideas about gender nonconformity and socialization and they get death threats for it
While the death threats aren’t okay at all, it’s still not okay to treat trans women like cis men, impose transphobic bathroom laws, tell trans women they aren’t lesbians, etc. Transphobic radical feminists can tell themselves they’re not transphobic all they want but to the rest of is it’s the same thing as a “traditional marriage” believer claiming they’re not homophobic. They absolutely are.
Hi!
I’m a lesbian — you know, an actual female homosexual who is only attracted to other female homosexuals — and am thereby allegedly ruining the sanctity of marriage!
Allow me to chime in, because I was just so appreciative of your using my right to get married — that I fought for and was spat on and disowned by family members for — to a trans individual’s entitlement to female spaces.
I’m really glad you brought up bathroom access laws, though!
I mean, it’s important to acknowledge that the man who originated them is a convicted child sex offender who is currently serving time… as the President of the Board of the Charlotte LGBT Chamber of Commerce.
It’s also important to note that the CLGBTCC was not only aware of this paedophile pushing for male access to female restrooms, they supported him, and gave him the position of President. I’m so glad to know he had that support. It’s so hard for convicted sex offending felons to reintegrate into the community!
And of course, there’s also the evidence from Target that subsequent to their gender neutral bathroom policies, sexual assaults increased — including voyeurism!
And then there’s the instance where the University of Toronto went gender-neutral for about a hot second… until two women were sexually assaulted and recorded showering.
And there was the instance of Jessica Hambrook, who took up a bed in a domestic violence shelter in the dead of winter… this, despite being a convicted child sex offender! No surprises when Jessica Hambrook turned around and assaulted two women (one of them Deaf) and a child. The women were so frightened of Jessica that they slept in their swimsuits to make sexual assault harder.
But by all means! Please do compare my right to coparent my child, visit her at school, and make medical and financial decisions on behalf of my wife…
To a program created by a convicted paedophile, that has already contributed to the victimization of women and girls.
I know this police cadet, who I met in class, tell me how many times in our small town with one target the huge increase in peeping toms in restrooms. All because of one company making their women’s restrooms based on gender identity instead of sex reality.
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