“Somewhat recent phenomenon of transandrophobia”
Huh???
Do you think these forces only start existing once named?
Wait. Actually.
Considering how much, in all of these discourses where there are new terms being coined and there’s pushback against that, people have countered that with, “you want to be oppressed so bad,” I almost think that this must be how exclusionist thought operates around words describing oppression.
It’s like they think that, since the words biphobia, aphobia, exorsexism, panphobia, intersexism, and transandrophobia all are new words, these forces couldn’t have existed, and that the only reason we’re trying to coin the words is to try and claim some sort of new oppression against us, as opposed to describe the oppression we’re already facing and have been unable to describe concisely beforehand as a way to bring attention to what we face.
None of these terms have been about trying to say, “uhm actually we want to be oppressed, and here’s how oppression against us would function, now go world and perpetuate this new oppression I’ve given you in order to make me and mine oppressed,” but each time a new word has been coined that’s exactly how it’s been treated:
“Oh, so you want to be oppressed!”
No, we want a word to put to our already happening oppression! You don’t think it’s already happening because of the erasure and invisibility, and not having language to describe what’s happening only adds to that erasure and invisibility. We don’t want to make ourselves oppressed, we want the world to acknowledge that we already are facing oppression.
