help, after 16 years Ive become a hockey blog 😅

this one?

no more gendered dress codes. no more gender markers on passports, driver's licenses, ids. i'm not talking about "adding x" or "adding a third category" i'm talking about no more categories, period. why does the government need to know what my genital situation is? why does the government feel the need to assign me a sex on the basis of genitals? why does the cop who pulled me over need to see an m, or an f, or an x?

no more "gender is a social construct, sex is the thing that's binary." sex is not binary. abolish the idea that it is. normalize conversations about intersex traits. being intersex is natural. the sex binary is a thing imposed by the state.

no more gendered sports. if you really care about equity, sort people into categories based on skill level and athleticism, not gender or sex. the concept that there are only two sexes and that one is inherently weaker than the other is pseudoscience. the male/female hunter/gatherer dichotomy is not based in fact, and is a product of modern sexist cultural biases. one gender is not inherently subservient to the other. people are not inherently different on the basis of sex or gender. it is just more complicated than that.

the concept of multiple genders and sexes beyond the man/woman male/female dichotomy has existed as long as humans have existed. the sex binary only serves to benefit the patriarchy. the gender binary only serves to benefit the patriarchy. continuing to impose it just controls (and harms) the people it forcibly categorizes.

Im a picky picky person who knows what they like and I use the filters liberally. But it's a pain to put it in every time I accidentally close my Ao3 tab or I wander into a new fandom. I'm well aware you can favourite a single tag, but I'm talking multiple tags included and excluded.

Thanks for your time and thoughts!

If you want to look up the same filtered tag again and again, the easiest way is to bookmark the results page. The URL has all of the filters in it, so reloading that URL will give you the latest results with all of the filters applied.

sidenote: it's possible to throw an error by applying too many filters just because it hits the max length of URL allowable by the browser

It allows you to search for something, add all your filters/exclusions you want on it and then save it, and then with one button have it tell you if there are any updates to that filter and how many. Really helps with rare things that get maybe one update a week and you're constantly refreshing them...

No??????

Our patriarchal society doesn’t consider trans women to be “real women” because they aren’t women who were assigned female at birth. But the patriarchy also doesn’t consider them “real men”, either! Because they aren’t properly performing their assigned sex/gender role! Male privilege does not just come from being assigned male at birth, you must also perform manhood the way society tells you to perform it. This is like, feminism 101 y’all.

Now, many transphobes do call trans women “men”. This does not give trans women male privilege. That label of manhood isn’t being given as a privilege, it’s being given to do harm. It’s misgendering, for one thing. Additionally, when transphobes call trans women men, they’re specifically calling on all the negative stereotypes about men in order to HARM and MARGINALIZE trans women, not to assign them PRIVILEGE. This is part of transmisogyny. These stereotypes aren’t true about cis men and they aren’t true about trans women either.

Trans women don’t fit into the patriarchal sex/gender binary. They aren’t following the rules. People assigned male at birth are supposed to be men and conform to society’s expectations of a man. If you don’t do that, then you don’t get male privilege. Period.