#steampunkette

hello, sorry it's taken me a second to answer this ask.

thank you for your kind words, and praise of my content :) it's definitely disheartening to see transphobia so prevalent—i know what i do here is only a drop in the bucket against harmful real life issues.

Thanks so much for reaching out, I actually really appreciate it.

I want trans people to be safe. Honestly, the point of this blog is to try and build a bridge. If we can get Terfs and radfems to understand that fundamentally, we are on the same side of this fight, then maybe we can bridge the gap a little. Get us to be less hateful to each other online. Trust me, I'm absolutely and completely invested in trans people's safety, I want all of us to be safe and sound as possible, and feel respected for who we are and cared for. Not hated and ostracised in any way.

Terfs and Radfem ideology have done a lot of harm to trans people. I understand that. You have a right to be angry. Heck, I am angry about this too. Trans people live in an unsafe world. And this division in our ranks is massively contributing to this unsafety.

Women and women-aligned people also often live in an unsafe world. Other genders do as well. We need to listen to experiences from everywhere.

We aren't each other's natural enemies. It saddens me that there's so much anger and hate. We need to change the way we interact with each other online. This isn't even just about Terfs and trans people, it's everyone. The tone of much online discourse is disgusting. Dehumanising, even. It makes everyone feel unsafe. I'm trying to change that, in my own little way.

Thank you so much for this ask, I hope it makes Lock mad <3

@steampunkette (who I can't seem to tag for some reason 😠) and I have been talking and we're working out the kinks of a new type of feminism that blends theories from several other types of feminism.

Disclaimer: maybe this already exists I don't know. The only branch of feminism that was ever solidly defined for me was radical feminism, and the radfems I knew always brushed off anyone who disagreed as a 'libfem' or not a feminist at all, so I never got a good sense of what liberal feminism actually entails. If there is already a word for this, cool! If not, also cool.

Operating under the assumption that the latter is true, I'm brainstorming names for this!!

List under the cut so I can keep expanding it. Feel free to reply/reblog and add on other options.

Shared on Facebook. Reblogged on Tumblr. If I had a Twitter or Instagram I'd share it, there, too. You kick ass, Kat!

hmm... you'd have to educate me on it, because i've never heard of this. i'm certainly open to it if you'd like to inform me!! i think i know which post you're referencing here [X]?

as far as i currently am aware now, there are only two sexes (and any form of intersex is a variation in one way or another), whereas gender is infinite because it doesn't truly exist (whether one considers that valid in any given discourse discussion or not, no matter the morality behind it). i'm also slightly skeptical on the innate reality of theory and/or study coming from a specific culture, as that immediately gives away signs of it being a social construct (especially if it's as old as 1800+ years due to likelihood of it being outdated by now). if it can fundamentally prove with irrefutable evidence that there are four other existing sexes along with the primary two we know that are explicitly biologically different in its own separate category from male and female altogether, by all means i won't deny it.

now, that's not to say that judaism and its studies of law are invalid, fake, wrong, whatever. i'm also not jewish so i would not like to speak on it, as not only am i uneducated as i previously stated but i am also not one to purposefully overstep when it would be wrong and is truly not my place to. all i'm suggesting here is that biology/nature and culture aren't the same and can't effectively mix well, which i'm sure you'd inherently agree with on its own for as simple as that statement is.