✿ women of many trades ✿

If you’re willing to accept that cis/trans, perisex/intersex, white/racialized, and such are useful terms. Then why do you refuse to do so for tma/tme. Well, I know why, but I want to hear you admit it’s because you don’t actually think trans women are oppressed.

can ppl pls reblog this version

Well damn. I was also like wtf is this stupid slime tank and then I read the rest and my mind got blown

insane how many of you will just assume that a trans woman has a penis, and that it wouldn't be something she might have any dysphoria about

maybe "hegemonic women" is overselling it but it would be nice to have a term for the class of women the patriarchy sort of values/protects in comparison to those of us who it just uncomplicatedly wants dead. cis white women are living very different lives from the rest of us and I wanna call them "heg women" or something lol

cause terfism is extraordinarily heg woman behavior. just absolutely reveling in the power of their tears to influence the forces of patriarchy against marginalized women

"if we get rid of assigned sex then how will the state know who to protect?" 🫵 heg woman

like I wanna call them cis women but frankly they seem to be overwhelmingly white too. I can only guess not a lot of racialized women are under any kind of illusion about the patriarchy wanting to protect them. likewise I don't see a lot of disabled women thinking this way either. no, I think heg women by and large are the ones engaging in this kind of weaponization of their perceived fragility. the patriarchy has built them a gilded cage and they guard it fiercely

This is actually so interesting to read- it’s from 2012 but its full of the same anxieties, even some of the same phrasing that many of the guardian’s later pieces on transness use. really hammers home how much of the terfism that emerged in the late 10s was middle class mothers angry at a loss of control over their adult children- whether that be their bodies or their friends or their opinions- and making that everyone’s problem because they have the power to do so

Also just the classism of her associating tattoos with “vest tops, dogs on chains, broken beer glasses”; like, just say you hate poor people

idk girl whenever ive seen someone marked red on shinigami eyes ive seen posts in support of transandrophobia on their blog. and i think its quite worthwhile actually to have a tool that also works to mark a transmisogynistic hate movement

makes sense. money isn't really an issue but i should be saving so I'll probably wait unless i get bored or a friend wants to go with me

Trans women know more about being women than trans men do.

at this point a lot of you would cheer if terfs started pushing to relabel bathrooms as "afab" and "amab"

the arguments for "afab only" spaces are identical in both form and function to terf bathroom arguments, the language used is just "progressive"