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Also, I don't love Transandrophobia for the following reasons (among others).

1. It's a mouthful.

2. My neurodivergent brain can't take the term seriously bc it feels like it has the rhyme time signature of a sea shanty.

3. But really my 🧠 glitches each time I see it and immediately cuts to the song from Bedknobs & Broomsticks, and I end up saying it in my head in the same over the top portentous tone as Angela Lansbury's incantation, TREGUNA MEKOIDES TRECORUM SATIS DEE

And in the corner, a Doc Martens boot starts a-tapping. 🥾🎶

And then things like this start to happen...

(in the melody of the song)

TREGUNA MEKOIDES TRANSANDRO PHOBIA.

​Elocutionary castigation.

TME, TMA, ranked trauma masturbation.

It's not queer, to rate fear, so maddening to see.

The need to deed and cede who's fucked worse by misogyny.

​I don't want half-assed castigatory allocution.

Nor to rehash back/slash, whose struggle is lilliputian

For to smash and crash institution is the key.

​So stash your acronyms and pull out your BFG -

The future can't be saved with Column A and Column B.

🎤 Claim (The point buried in there): linguistic categories are like biological taxonomy - fixed and legible, Violating them is epistemic collapse into absurdity, not creative use. 🤔

🖼️ Frame (EthOs, ethos + OS): written by and for the Tumblr in-group that already finds internet language play suspect, performing exhausted clarity for an audience that wants to feel vindicated, not persuaded. 🙄

🕹️ Game: essentialism & anti-modernism with plausible deniability - borrow the (laughable) authority of biological science to make any categorical flexibility look like delusion, then coat it in enough self-aware run-on monologuing that the conservatism slides down unexamined.

We Will Rise Again: Speculative Stories and Essays on Protest, Resistance, and Hope

I 'lured' my man in with steak, he stayed for the fuzz.

Sounds kinky.

Radical comes from the Latin radix, meaning “root.”

To be radical, you have to go to the foundation of a thing (here: feminism), rip up the old roots that no longer serve, and make space to grow something new.

Treating biological binary sex (Man and Woman) as an immutable category does not shake feminism to the roots, nor does it interrogate some opposite definition of sex that underlies feminist thinking.

It reinforces the same old root system and calls it rebellion.

So, sorry kiddos - you are not radical.

Not compared to feminists who actually did radical work - the ones who challenged patriarchy, marriage law, labor exploitation, sexual violence, and state control of bodies.

Not compared to feminism as a movement - “binary sex is immutable” isn’t a brave new critique, it’s been culture’s default setting for thousands of years.

And certainly not radical in society at large - unless close-mindedness became edgy while I wasn’t looking.

Tbh, all I see here is the same old enemy, essentialism, just wearing a fresh mask.

So I’m coming up with a new word for y'all: femmessentialists.

femmessentialist (noun)

A self-described feminist who treats “woman” as a fixed, innate essence (often rooted in biology or “natural” femininity) and uses that belief to police, gatekeep, or exclude others from womanhood.

By extension, anyone who swaps analysis of power for a sanctified “real womanhood” vibe and calls it politics.

Example sentences:

“Her ‘feminism’ begins and ends at biology - total femmessentialist.”

“The moment the argument becomes ‘real women would never…,’ you’re in femmessentialist territory.”

“They talk liberation but spend all day policing pronouns, bodies, and belonging - femmessentialism with a side of moral panic.”

Related: gender essentialist, TERF-adjacent (often), bio-determinist, gatekeeper

Radical comes from the Latin radix, meaning “root” & that’s the only part you got right here.

Because the “root” in radical feminist does not refer to the whatever tf you’re trying to say it does. I’ve read that paragraph a few times & I don’t know what you are saying what you think the “root” here is. You say “go to the foundation of a thing, in this case, feminism”. So I will assume you mean that root feminism is…. Yeah I have no clue but it certainly isn’t liberation for FEMALE people from a MALE supremacist society.

Anyway I’m assuming you don’t know the definition of radical feminism is because who needs to when you’re attempting to argue against radical feminists. God I wish I had a smidgen of your overinflated confidence going into a fight not knowing what you’re fighting xD.

So I’ll ignore whatever point you’re trying to say “root” means in radfeminism. & tell you what the definition of radical feminism is. For next time. Save you the trouble of a google search.

“Root” means to address the root cause of our oppression, which is sex based. (plus misogyny being in a patriarchy ofc is like the result & tool of males oppressing female people). Radfeminism acknowledges that being female is the basis that males have been oppressing us since the beginning of time. Thus, addressing the root reason we NEED feminism, is to eradicate societal misogyny. Which misogyny is so deeply embedded in every aspect of society this would likely mean full societal overhaul.

So yeah. Root means a female liberation movement is for females! Because society was built by males who forbade women to participate, & exists today with males being societies default.

Happy I could put in the very hard yards to define what you are arguing against seeing as you couldn’t apparently. Amazing.

“Sorry kiddos you are not radical”. Well you literally just tried to explain to us that radical in radical feminism means root & now you’re using it as an adjective. Okay.

“Not compared to feminists who actually did radical work” what. I mean of course you don’t know what radical feminists believe or do. So I didn’t expect anything less. But if you spent one second outside of your bubble to learn what radfems believe in you’d know that.

“Binary sex is immutable” correct 👍 hence why radical feminism is a female liberation movement.

“close mindedness” oh yeah. Radfems, close minded for (checks notes) um wanting female liberation from male supremacy.

“The same old enemy essentialism” oooh boy I love this talking point gender ideologues think they have. Gender ideology relies on bioessentialism to even exist. Bioessentialism means that there are biologically predetermined personality or traits. Such as “presenting masculine & having these stereotypical masculine traits means you are a male” that is what OOP is saying- there is no way to be male or female outside of biology. So unfortunately for transactivists, that is what gender is. Bioessentialism.

Because being female is a neutral state- everything OUTSIDE of being female such as hobbies, interests, personality- doesn’t make someone a woman. If you think it does- you are a bioessentialist, congratulations. 🥳

1. I just addressed

2. No such thing as womanhood. Shared experiences & being able to relate to one another due to shared experiences from say, being female? Sure. But womanhood is a social construct & to suggest it’s a tangible thing is stupid because it isn’t.

I’ll also throw in the fact that”divine feminine” stuff is not a radfem belief. In case you somehow meant that

“Real women would never” unless it’s “real women would never have or have had a penis” or “real women are female” then we don’t say that. We can point to male vs female socialisation to explain some disparities outside of that (such as sexist stereotypes, & being shoehorned into one or the other). But I’m being gracious because you 🫵 are the bioessentialist remember.

& again, biology thing, see above in my paragraph abt being female is a neutral state.

& last but CERTAINLY not least: “talk liberation but spend all day policing pronouns bodies & belonging”. I refer to males with male pronouns & female people with female pronouns. It’s called the English language & being able to describe something accurately. I would not point at a cat & say look at that dog. Acknowledging sex using correct pronouns is not “policing”. AND maybe if males were not shoving themselves into a female liberation movement & actively reverting sex based rights then maybe we wouldn’t have to talk about yall meddling entitled asses. If you don’t want the female liberation movement to discuss the males trying to say they are women & should be included in the female liberation movement- then stop fkn doing that.

Policing bodies? Women & girls are female that’s it. Radfems advocate for abolishing gender & advocating for gender nonconformity AGAINST sexist stereotypes. Which remember you 🫵 the bioessentialist (& previously the DSM 5) regard as what a woman or what a man is. & no, calling a male a woman because they present feminine is not “gender nonconformity”. That is doubling down on sexist stereotypes.

But then again, I see @myth-0s “learned how sex worked from Gundam Wing and DBZ yaoi/slash fic, and used double-colon emotes copiously. ::blushes::” which is information you could not waterboard out of me. So I suppose bad takes comes fairly easily.

Also, respectfully - since you took the time & stimulant energy to engage with a detailed rebuttal - I want to make sure the quoted text from my post is actually readable for everyone.

Tbh, I’m not sure if the wavy background/low contrast is something you chose or how Tumblr rendered it, but a solid color background behind the text and stronger contrast would fix it.

My partner has low vision and had trouble reading parts of it. If it’s on my end, tell me and I’ll try to adjust it. 🙏

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I finally got one for Xmas 2 years ago and he keeps getting better with age.

Radical comes from the Latin radix, meaning “root.”

To be radical, you have to go to the foundation of a thing (here: feminism), rip up the old roots that no longer serve, and make space to grow something new.

Treating biological binary sex (Man and Woman) as an immutable category does not shake feminism to the roots, nor does it interrogate some opposite definition of sex that underlies feminist thinking.

It reinforces the same old root system and calls it rebellion.

So, sorry kiddos - you are not radical.

Not compared to feminists who actually did radical work - the ones who challenged patriarchy, marriage law, labor exploitation, sexual violence, and state control of bodies.

Not compared to feminism as a movement - “binary sex is immutable” isn’t a brave new critique, it’s been culture’s default setting for thousands of years.

And certainly not radical in society at large - unless close-mindedness became edgy while I wasn’t looking.

Tbh, all I see here is the same old enemy, essentialism, just wearing a fresh mask.

So I’m coming up with a new word for y'all: femmessentialists.

femmessentialist (noun)

A self-described feminist who treats “woman” as a fixed, innate essence (often rooted in biology or “natural” femininity) and uses that belief to police, gatekeep, or exclude others from womanhood.

By extension, anyone who swaps analysis of power for a sanctified “real womanhood” vibe and calls it politics.

Example sentences:

“Her ‘feminism’ begins and ends at biology - total femmessentialist.”

“The moment the argument becomes ‘real women would never…,’ you’re in femmessentialist territory.”

“They talk liberation but spend all day policing pronouns, bodies, and belonging - femmessentialism with a side of moral panic.”

Related: gender essentialist, TERF-adjacent (often), bio-determinist, gatekeeper

Aside from all the bs politics, the words themselves are already slap in the face 👋 because you can't assign gender, you can only (arguably) assign sex.

And sidebar wtf does assigning sex really even mean?

It mean's some random doctor looked at your genitals when you were born and played cosmic sorting hat based on what they saw in that moment. They do NOT check your chromosomes, they do NOT check your hormones (testosterone vs. estrogen) unless they think something else is wrong.

So really, we should be calling it:

"SRDGMSAB" --> "Some Random Doc Guessed My Sex At Birth." 🤨

Or, to make it a bit easier to actually say...

"GSAB" --> "Guessed Sex at Birth" 🤔

When it comes to gender, no one, not a doctor, therapist. parent, teacher, priest, or sky daddy can assign you your gender.

Gender is phenomenological.

You experience gender.

You construct it, adjust it, and continually update it in small (or sometimes big) ways as your understanding of your own identity evolves - in and of itself, in relation to other people, in relation to big cultural categories.

Think of it like being on Zoom.

You see yourself in the zoom window (self-perception), and you see all of the other people in the room seeing you at the same time (social legibility - how you presentation fits into the established categories that society uses to organize itself.)

Together, these two forces create an unending feedback loop where you constantly re-imagine, re-interpret and re-adjust your internal self-image based on:

A: How you see yourself, individually and in relation to other people and/or social categories.

B: How you believe other people read you, categorize you, and treat you from their end.

When these things don’t match, you get dissonance.

And people do what people have always done to balance dissonance under pressure: they adjust as much as they can with what they have available.

Clothes. Voice. Posture. Behavior. Binding. Packing. Hormones. Surgery, whatever.

But none of that has anything to do with “AFAB” or “AMAB” anything. It's survival math.

In this man's 46 year long career, through everything, he has NEVER spoken about politics. He has NEVER spoken harshly to anyone. He has NEVER performed songs with heavy swearing or forceful lyrics. This man guest starred on My Little Pony as "Cheese Sandwich," the only other party pony as fun as Pinkie Pie!

When THIS man stops laughing, we are in trouble.

But, let me give you my assurance that these forecasts and predictions are all based on solid, scientific, documented evidence. 🧪👨‍🔬

So you would have to be some kind of moron not to realize that every single one of them is absolutely true. ✨

Where was I?

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[someone should def finish the rest of the song for Al's new era] 👹