#phallophobia

I am a cisgender woman. I know what it's like to be wary of some men.

I am not and will never be anywhere as terrified of people with penises as TERFs. The way they write their little screeds online, it feels like the mere mention of a penis somewhere in space and time would make them faint. But somehow they got even worse: they've just devolved into straight-up dick paranoia. They genuinely seem to think that every cisgender woman they don't like is a trans woman in disguise; every trans woman is a predator waiting for an opening; that all trans men, no matter their circumstances, are deluded and require conversion therapy; and at the end of that terrifying, warped list is their incredible fear that every person with a penis is a rapist.

To them, because power corrupts, and they see penises as a form of immutable power, that means every person attached to a dick is corrupt absolutely. They're so deeply removed from reality that I don't know how any of them exist outside of their homes. I literally cannot fathom being this terrified and obsessed about penises. It's beyond me. It's like HP Lovecraft level eldritch terror but for meat flutes. That's where they are.

Can you imagine being that terrified? That your fear of a sex organ throws you into frantic fanaticism? That you have to forcibly remove all cisgender men from any form of childcare because you're convinced they can't help but sexually assault children? That you would ally with fascists and Nazis solely to remove anyone with a penis from entire parts of public life? That you would whole-cloth forget that cisgender women are also capable of and routinely responsible for a good share of sexual assaults?