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Basically I think a lot of White ppl think the antithesis to racism is "Black people are inherently Cool, White people are inherently Lame" and it's just very hard to convince them that this is also extremely racist lmfao

It's the combination of "seeing a racialized group as Fundamentally Inherently Good is still dehumanizing and you aren't seeing them as people" and "your self-flagellating White guilt is extremely annoying for the people of color around you to deal with"

anyway. I think the problem with a lot of "women's" spaces is that their logic of oppression is based in superstitious bioessentialism rather than the actual logic of how oppression works. so they exclude women who are incredibly more oppressed than them on the basis that something about a person's body makes them dangerous, rather than something about their position in society

so you have women's shelters, institutions based on the logic of protecting people who are oppressed by of the systemic and societal structures of sexgender, which exclude those who are most oppressed by the structures of sexgender, ignoring all data that shows just how vulnerable we are

this is TME privilege at work. to be TME is to either have access to male privilege, or to have access (if at times limited and conditional in the case of trans men) to the institutions and resources meant to protect those who don't. trans women have neither of these things

I understand the logic of including trans men in women's shelters, as the project of these shelters should really, in my opinion, be about protecting those oppressed by the structures of sexgender--aka, everyone who isn't a cis man--despite the naming. however, it's telling that a recent post I made about "afab only housing" was quickly derailed from "trans women are explicitly being discriminated against" to "hey, trans men are sometimes not allowed access to these spaces either!" to "trans men are afab, so they should be allowed into women's shelters, but trans women should have to remove their genitals or stay on the street"

the logic underpinning the inclusion of trans men in these spaces is often a bioessentialist logic that excludes trans women, which I think is part of why many of us are wary and combative about arguments on why trans men should be included in "women's" spaces. what these arguments should be based in is, in my opinion, exactly as I said: protecting those oppressed by the structures of sexgender

These orgs seem to have genuine difficulty reasoning about how risk factors in our society work in a material sense. Like it's always made about who is ontologically predisposed to do harm, rather than who has the opportunities and the incentives.

every demographic of man on earth has a sizable portion who will say harm towards women comes from every other demographic of man except for theirs. the thing you’re perceiving as misogynistic danger is really something else, often something socially marginalized, so what does that make you for noticing it? if you don’t hear from women in these demographics you can safely assume they agree with the men; it’s more comfortable than wondering what is done to the women who disagree.

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Love all the yanks in the notes going like "yuropoors don't understand in the states we have use our cars everyday or else we would DIE" yea right I'm sure the good folks in Laos, Peru, Senegal and Rwanda understand that they can just use footpaths and widespread robust public transport to compensate for their petrol prices being like twice as expensive as in the US. They would understand that the US is the only place in the world where car ownership is a life-or-death trade and the only place in the world where unemployed disabled people need to get groceries. Those folks probably have higher wages than the US too so in the end those higher petrol prices even out, right?

"male/female socialization" is such a stupid and useless fucking framework. newsflash dipshit, everyone is socialized to think of women as lesser. where the fuck do you think "girl math" came from

why is the idea of systemic oppression directly rewarding people for perpetuating it so unbelievable to everyone. like people do not exist in a vacuum we exist in a society. men are misogynistic because it is in their best interest to be misogynistic and to actively fight against it requires them to sacrifice their privileges for the good of other people with no reward but knowing they are doing the right thing. women can also be misogynistic because they can be afforded some smaller privileges over other women for doing so. staying in line lets them keep a higher position on the pecking order over the women who don't. it's all about self-interest and systems rewarding people for perpetuating them. any framework that refuses to address this is doomed to fail and completely useless for anything other than attacking other minorities. genuinely why is this controversial *remembers people enjoy attacking minorities* ohhhh