âSomewhat recent phenomenon of transandrophobiaâ
Do you think these forces only start existing once named?
Considering how much, in all of these discourses where there are new terms being coined and thereâs pushback against that, people have countered that with, âyou want to be oppressed so bad,â I almost think that this must be how exclusionist thought operates around words describing oppression.
Itâs like they think that, since the words biphobia, aphobia, exorsexism, panphobia, intersexism, and transandrophobia all are new words, these forces couldnât have existed, and that the only reason weâre trying to coin the words is to try and claim some sort of new oppression against us, as opposed to describe the oppression weâre 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, âuhm actually we want to be oppressed, and hereâs how oppression against us would function, now go world and perpetuate this new oppression Iâve given you in order to make me and mine oppressed,â but each time a new word has been coined thatâs exactly how itâs been treated:
âOh, so you want to be oppressed!â
No, we want a word to put to our already happening oppression! You donât think itâs already happening because of the erasure and invisibility, and not having language to describe whatâs happening only adds to that erasure and invisibility. We donât want to make ourselves oppressed, we want the world to acknowledge that we already are facing oppression.
