Ok Iâm sure there are other women who could articulate this better than me but I think the rise of all the trans stuff and sex work is work etc was a direct backlash to the brief resurgence of feminism that happened around that time... like even though it was pretty non-threatening and largely performative liberal feminism, it still sparked enough solidarity between women and class consciousness to piss men off so they had to find a way to crush it. Every wave of feminism has been followed by some kind of backlash from men, and I think what began in like 2013-14 was a smaller scale version of that. I donât think itâs a coincidence that as soon as women en masse starting talking about misogyny, making fun of men, making art that involved uterus/vulva imagery, etc. all of these things were suddenly transphobic. Even though 2013 male tears feminism wasnât really threatening menâs power, it was still enough to scare men into thinking we might someday threaten their power, and the growing discussion abt trans issues was the perfect thing for them to grab onto and beat us down with. The whole choice feminism/do whatever makes you ~feel empowered~/sex work is work business is harder to explain but I think that was all a direct backlash too
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More fun quotes from the article for those who haven't clicked on it:
"I donât care if somebody calls me giraffe, sir, madam, boy, child, binary, non-binary. I couldnât give a f***. Iâm not gonna get offended, because I know what I am. And I feel like thatâs the place that we need to work to. Not this place of, âI can only be OK with myself if a stranger labels me correctly.â Iâm confused by that."
âIâve been misgendered. I donât care. I got called sir three days ago by a delivery guy. And then they look at me for more than two and a half seconds and theyâre like, âOh, sorry, I thought it was a bloke then.â Iâm like, âItâs fine, I didnât cut my hair and dress like this so everyone could think I was Gwyneth Paltrow.â I am making some choices here. I take responsibility for it.â
âPeople made out like I was really backwards about it, but if we have to state it, itâs almost like having to state that youâve got a disease or something. I swear to God, labelling yourself creates segregation. It drives me mad. The gay community are dying for you to label yourself, and Iâm so confused as to how they think thatâs helpful. Itâs where Iâll always have friction with some part of the gay community, even though Iâm a f***ing gay person. How does that make any sense?â
Iâve said this before but there has never been a single patriarchal society in existence, including and especially the most ultra-conservative ones you can think of, that didnât have an established prostitution culture. And this isnât because prostitution is a counterculture reaction against conservative patriarchal values. Itâs because strict morality codes governing womenâs behaviour donât just confine the women who fit within them, it keeps a class of âfallen womenâ who cannot escape a life of sexual exploitation, by design, helping men categorise the different types of ways they can exploit women. The âwh*reâ is just as much a patriarchal invention as the âmadonnaâ.
@messy-complex thank you for bringing this up because it was something I have been wanting to elaborate on. Prostitution and porn being illegal does not mean they are not being supported and sanctioned.
Many countries in the Middle East have the highest rates of watching porn in the world, Mia Khalifa was banned from visiting Lebanon all while they watched her videos the most. This is because the way that the law is structured, it is that women are punished and criminalised for being in porn while not much is done to actually stop men watching it.
And similarly for prostitution, heavily conservative cultures enforce the laws most strongly on prostituted women. The source of the crime is regarded as women being tempting, so women are punished heavily while johns go unpunished or unmonitored or left with a slap on the wrist. These countries rarely provide any exit service or resources for trafficked women, and often keep them marked out as prostituted women. So these women are forced to remain in prostitution through criminalisation, all while the johns, who are from every level of society from the lowest to the absolute highest heads of state remain untouched. This is by design and is why it is so common for powerful men in any culture to be married and also have mistresses or be a john.
There are male bodies and female bodies. Some claim that one's mind spirit, or soul can have a gender (a meaningless concept based on stereotypes) that is different from onevs body. This is not supported by science. One's mind, spirit, or soul contains (or expresses) one's personality, and personality comes in a wide variety of diverse types, none of which must conform to stereotypes about masculinity or femininity."
- Maria Keffler, Desist, Detrans, & Detox: Getting Your Child Out of the Gender Cult.
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A shoot is not complete and performers not paid until the exit interview, in which performers confirm the acts were consensual. Often, the director who just filmed the scene will interview the performer, asking questions like, âDid you have a good time?â and âWere you raped or abused?â and âWould you shoot with us again?â A performerâs paycheck is held hostage unless they answer âcorrectly.â
This seems like a great way to ensure all performers are happy and videos are consensual, but itâs common for performers to lie in these interviews. Why? Think about it.
If a performer is honest about the abuse they endured on set, they will not be paid for the dayâs workâmany live paycheck to paycheck, so this isnât an optionâand the entire dayâs shoot will be rendered wasted and unusable. This costs the production companies serious money, which in turn means they wonât hire these performers in the future, and will essentially mark them as difficult to work with.
Just read this response to Raven and Nixon from a fellow porn performer
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Remember when Radical Feminists said that obscuring language when it comes to women's health care & abortion would help in the destruction of women's health care & abortion.
If you frame abortion as a "people" issue instead of a woman's issue you can't get mad when men have a say in abortion.
Then this shit happened...
Fucking clowns and idiots. You gender shits are not seeing heaven.
@menalez @ms-hells-bells @ms-gay-frogs can u help boost this
I am a 48-year-old transgender man. I was thrilled when the medical community told me six years ago that I could change from a woman to a man. I was informed about all the wonderful things that would happen due to medical transition, but all the negatives were glossed over. Since then, I have suffered tremendously, including seven surgeries, a pulmonary embolism, an induced stress heart attack, sepsis, a 17-month recurring infection, 16 rounds of antibiotics, three weeks of daily IV antibiotics, arm reconstructive surgery, lung, heart and bladder damage, insomnia, hallucinations, PTSD, $1 million in medical expenses, and loss of home, car, career and marriage. All this, and yet I cannot sue the surgeon responsibleâin part because there is no structured, tested or widely accepted baseline for transgender health care.
Read that again: There is no structured, tested, or widely accepted baseline for transgender health care. Not for 42-year-olds, and not for the many minors embarking on medical transition in record numbers. It is not transphobic or discriminatory to discuss thisâwe as a society need to fully understand what we are encouraging our children to do to their bodies.
Throughout transition, I second-guessed my decisions, but each counseling session and doctorâs appointment amounted to one more push convincing me I could be cured of being born in the wrong body. The truth was that I didnât fit in as a dominant, aggressive, assertive lesbian. The dream of finally fitting in dangled like a carrot: The idea that I could fit in catapulted me to a time much like adolescence, with its drive for acceptance, inclusive peers and the fantasy of being normal.
During my post-operation 17 months of sheer survival, I discovered that transgender health care is experimental and that large swaths of the medical industry encourage minors to transition due, at least in part, to fat profit margins. I was gobsmacked. Each day I researched more and became increasingly appalled. As I jumped from ER to ER desperately seeking help, I realized that nobody knew what to do. Each physician told me to return to the original surgeon. I was trapped like a child with an abusive parent.
My recurring bladder infection not only demolished my body; it started to ravage my mind, too. I stopped being able to problem-solve, and then lost my health insurance when I couldnât work. I spent many nights in the bathroom in too much pain to even make it to the toilet, forced to urinate on the floor, screaming as what felt like razor blades left my body. Rest came only in 45-minute increments that I induced with four shots of vodka, six Benadryl pills and a handful of melatoninâwith only sleep-deprived hallucinations for my trouble.
One night I simply couldnât take it. I wanted to die. I crawled to bed and had another hallucination. My childrenâs lives flashed before my eyes, and I saw the devastation my death would cause them. Right then, I made a deal with God, the universe, whatever you call it, that if my life were spared, if I were allowed to be here for my kids, I would help other kids by ensuring people knew what the experimentation of transgender health care really entails. I remember my whimpers: âGod, an eye for an eyeâin reverse. I will fight with a motherâs passion for others if I can be here for my kids.â
So here I am, a trans man, sifting through my good and bad decisions, and for the first time embracing who I amâwhat I have created, and the life I now lead. It took me 48 years to realize I transitioned because I never wholeheartedly accepted being a lesbian. Our children donât have a prayer to embrace the reality of something it takes a lifetime to understand. Thatâs our job, as parents: to protect them from foolish, lifelong mistakes.
Hereâs what I could not comprehend before transitioning and what I honestly believe no child is capable of consenting to:
Decreased life expectancy
Increased risk of premature death from heart attacks and pulmonary embolisms
Bone damage
Possible liver damage
Increased mental health complications
Increased chances of mood-syndrome symptoms
Higher suicide rates than non-trans population
12 percent higher chance than non-trans population to develop symptoms of psychosis
Chance of stunted brain development
Much reduced chance for lifelong sexual pleasure
Higher chance of sterility and infertility
No improved mental health outcomes
Not completely reversible
Trans activists tout studies that say medically transitioning gender-questioning children improves mental health. But those studies have often been retracted (and those retractions underreported by the media).
Moreover, no long-term studies have been conducted on children who grow up without the benefit of natural puberty. No studies at all have been done on de-transitioners (people who return to identifying as their natal sex). What are the psychological effects? No one has a clue, and researchers are too often shut down by cancel culture for even raising the questions.
Peer-reviewed studies show a shocking correlation between gender dysphoria and autism, depression, anxiety, eating disorders and other co-morbidities. Additionally, it seems that many of these children are simply gay. Could pushing people on a one-way path to medical transition be a different form of âconversion therapy?â We need to ask and study these hard questionsâfor the good of all children. But weâre notânot in the mainstream media, and certainly not in President Joe Bidenâs new administration.
America is proceeding down its path of total affirmation just as other countries are restoring greater balance. This past December, the U.K. High Court of Justice ruled that puberty blockers for minors are both experimental and a one-way ticket to permanent transition. Finland in 2020 completely overhauled its approach to treating minors with gender dysphoria, prioritizing psychotherapeutic non-invasive interventions and recognizing adolescence as a time of major identity exploration. Sweden is conducting a systematic literature review of the scientific basis of the long-term effects on physical and mental health of puberty blockers and hormones. The researcher who championed the âDutch protocolâ recently called for a rethink, while other research is beginning to show that the current one-size-fits-all status quo is too limited.
So if we are now waking up to the fact that gender dysphoria is over-simplistically conflated with transgenderism, medical treatments have understudied long-term consequences, some are getting rich off transgender medicine and de-transitioners are speaking up in skyrocketing numbers, why are we only making it easier for children to unquestioningly transition?
We now have the obligation to work together to slow trans medicalization of minors until they are adults and have the capacity to truly understand the lifelong consequences of transitioning. As a former lesbian and current trans man, I maintain this is not transphobic. It is actually sensitive and caring to recognize that not just one treatment or pathway is right for all kids.
Therefore, I am currently building a bipartisan army to protect our children, hold the medical industry accountable and educate our president and the rest of society about the dangers of transgender extremism. We must throw our differences aside for a moment; I promise you, once children are safe, we can resume fighting. But until children are safe, nothing else matters.
So, endocrinologists and pediatricians, moderate Democrats and moderate Republicans, radical feminists and evangelicals, lawyers and psychologists, parents and teachers: My hand is out. I will grab yours and turn down no one. Together, we can build a circle around our most precious resource: our children. Help me fulfill the promise I made on the night I almost gave up, to be here for my childrenâand now yours. Whoâs with me?
Scott Newgent is active with Trans Rational Educational Voices (www.TReVoices.com). Twitter: @ScottNewgent.
in light of the texas abortion ban hereâs a reminder to stop debating what counts as a human, baby, or life with pro-lifers because that is not a debate you can win. you can not win a philosophical debate about what counts as a person, and you will not change their minds.
what can be proven is that in no situation under united states law is an individual legally obligated to lend their body or organs for the sake of another life.Â
4.5 million people each year are in need of blood transfusion, the entire process of donating blood takes a little over an hour, itâs free, and a single pint of blood can save up to 3 peoples lives, but there is no legal obligation or requirement to donate blood in place.Â
it is illegal to take organs from deceased peoplesâ bodies without permission. CORPSES. bodily integrity is prioritized by law, even after death.
it doesnât fucking matter whether a fetus is a person, whether a fetus is alive, whether a fetus has a soul. it literally doesnât matter. pro-lifers set up the argument through that lens (hence their name) to evoke empathy and pity and take the focus away from the actual process of pregnancy, which changes a personâs body FOREVER. that is not an exaggeration. whether the pregnancy is complicated and high-risk or totally smooth sailing, the birthing person will physically never be the same. if theyâre lucky, theyâll come out of it with weight gain, differently shaped breasts, and changes to the cervix/vagina. if they arenât, thereâs a fucking laundry list of potential complications that could arise, that may eventually fix themselves, need surgical or therapeutic intervention, or never go away, like varicose veins, separation of the abdominal muscles, incontinence, prolapse, diabetes, postpartum depression, and chronic pain, just off the top of my head. and this makes no mention of the very real possibility of income disruption, as well as the financial cost of giving birth, and the chance of fucking death, which is even higher for underserved communities like black women.
there is no basis for a governing body forcing an individual to lend their body or organs for the sake of another life. that is the argument. period the end.
Femininity ruins little girlâs childhoods. It kills our curiosity and tells us there are certain things boys will always be better at. It polices our behavior so we donât get dirty and explore the way boys are allowed to. It restricts our movement and denies us play, as any girl who has been stuck in a dress while her brothers get to play can attest to.
Femininity breaks girlsâ spirits. It teaches us that whatever boys do to us is our own fault for provoking it. It teaches us to view our own selves in relationship to male judgment.
Femininity teaches girls to diminish ourselves. Pride is a masculine quality and women who display it are bitches and cuntsâa feminine woman does her work quietly and does not ask for a reward.Â
Femininity teaches girls to be endlessly giving, endlessly selfless. To prioritize others and sacrifice yourself is what is expected. A woman who has an abortion is evil, selfish, for not sacrificing her body the way femininity obligates her to do.
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It happens so often that women freeze and forget the magic word.
Pilots freeze and crash their plane and it's a tragedy. Armed police panic and shoot the wrong person and it's the stress of the job. Doctors get overtired and prescribe the wrong meds, and it's the pressure and the hours.
But women who stupidly believe their man loves them and cares for them and has their best interests at heart and who go blank, forget the safe word or even cry and beg for him to stop? Entirely their own fault. No benefit of the doubt. Definitely not his fault for prioritising his orgasm over her bodily integrity, physical and mental health.
It's a massive headfuck, to realise the person you love just raped you, so I hope the redditor has someone to lean on. But her boyfriend is a rapist and he has zero respect for her. Trusses her up like a turkey and fucks her simply because she can't stop him.
We already have a safe word. No. Trying to make any other word into a safe word is just a way to take our original no away from us, and of course we risk losing the new language, getting it confused, freezing or forgetting it. But she did remember the real no, and why on earth does there ever need to be a different word? As if no isnât hard enough already, why does saying no need to be made more complicated? Look at all the complex rules (that require an entire website cheat sheet) of how she should avoid saying no and âruiningâ the scene for her boyfriend by not enjoying her role in his rape fantasy. Note that there is no institutionalized language for the consequences of violating consent - no automatic rules everyone just accepts and follows that labels him being a rapey opportunist. Thereâs no âsafe breakerâ label she can attach to him, no âwolf lawâ that outcasts him, no âbad player reportâ website she can turn to. These rules are not equal in assigning responsibility, and thatâs not an accident.
Just stick with no. It means no. Itâs a complete sentence and a universally understood safe word.