This Is Misogyny

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Hi! My name is Kaylix, i am transfemmasc agender, and intersex. My pronouns are It/its. I won't be linking my main blog here but I am part of a system.

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This blog is about misogyny and how it affects people negatively. Misogyny is the hatred and oppression of women and femininity. This blog is inspired by others such as @this-is-phobia-discrimination, @this-is-antitransfeminity, @this-is-anti-masculinity, @thisisexorsexism, @thisis-intersexism, and other such blogs. If you want your blog mentioned here, let me know :) Blogs like this one [link]

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Our tags are: #this is misogyny - misogyny related posts #not misogyny - not misogyny related #transmisogyny - oppression towards trans women and fems #homogynephobia/lesbiphobia - oppression towards sapphic fems #gyne-monosexism - oppression towards m-spec fems #gyne-amatonormativity - Oppression towards a-spec, non-partnering, or non-monogamous fems #Transgynephobia: Oppression towards transfems or people perceived as transfem. #gynequeerphobia - oppression towards queer femininity/feminine-perceived queers; intersex fems, transfems, etc. #gyneracism: Oppression towards BIPOC fems #misogynoir is a subset of this directed towards black or brown fems #gyneableism: Oppression towards disabled fems #gynesizeism: Oppression towards fems of specific body types (typically fems who are fat, but could apply to skinniness or height.) #gyneclassism - Oppression towards fems who are not economically privileged

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When someone says they dislike a male-lead band or singer, they're normal about it. They simply say that it's not their thing. Sure, perhaps the band is controversial, but that's a reason as of why they dislike it. And they're okay with people listening to them.

But when someone says they dislike a female-lead band or female singer, they're not normal about it. They have to constantly repeat as to why they find the music annoying. Add that with "it's basic and boring!" "only annoying wome- I mean, people, like this song!" "well she's problematic so it's a valid reason!" (It can be true, but even then, why don't you have the same hatred energy with the "problematic" male bands/singers?).

I can say that people who are like this also finds the female fans of the male-bands in question annoying too (just look at how they treat K-POP fans for example. The majority of K-POP fans are girls btw!), but my main point is about how people can't be normal about disliking a singer or band that happens to be a woman.

Is there something I’m missing?

And the second she brought up it was a gift for BIL they all stopped being shitty “Oh! It’s for your boyfriend!” Because it made so much more sense to be for a man and not a short girl

It was in fact for both of them so they can store their tools easier.

like,,,, and you think women WERE considered human???? in so many places women aren’t considered human TODAY. like can people pleeeeease please please learn that misogyny has plagued our societies since the very beginning and has never stopped, and misogyny is a deep and real serious threat to women’s lives???

i am so incredibly sick and tired of people treating misogyny like it’s no big deal, like it’s just “how things are”, like women cannot be or aren’t oppressed simply for being women. why does everyone seem to think as soon as a woman is white, or cis, or experiences any other form of privilege, that suddenly she cannot possibly be oppressed in any other way shape or form. that suddenly all the misogyny she has ever experienced is erased. like misogyny isn’t “as bad” as other forms of oppression. it boils my fucking blood. misogyny is deeply traumatizing!

Where I typically see it is in the TF2 community when some people talk about how "Spy would actually love Ms. Pauling as a daughter and is just horrible to and hates Scout because he's a boy" and in the TADC community with the people that depict Kinger being wonderful to Ragatha while abandoning Caine.

It's really just...not very funny or endearing actually to think about characters being negligent to their children because of their gender

It also simultaneously grossly misrepresents what a "girl dad" actually is, and brushes off how harmful it can be to both the golden daughters and these neglected and abandoned sons

Actual "girl dads" tend to treat their daughters more like property that they have to "protect from the corruption of boys and dating". They're the dads that get so involved in their daughters dating lives that they can become an actual obstacle to the relationship, similar to boy moms.

There's a lot more to the emotional abuse caused by fathers being "girl dads" that's not coming to me off the top of my head but I'm sure others can add on

But yea I'm just really sick of it being thrown around as this cutesy fun trait when it's actually harmful

and a good example of this is Jane/El from stranger things, even the show runners themselves did this, she had no remaining personality from the previous seasons other than hopper and Mike.

An example I recently experienced was that I was reading up on psychosomatic tics, and every scientific sorce I found talked about how "psychosomatic tics are common in girls, specifically teen girls, because they watch tic videos." People treat psychosomatic symptoms as if it's the same as saying youre faking it actually. Psychosomatic symptoms are real, and happen because the body is experiencing problems, these problems aren't being fixed and are being ignored, so the body sends a symptom you cant ignore.

Now if theyre right, and psychosomatic tics are most common in teenage girls (which I doubt as I wouldn't be surprised if theyre not properly testing women and girls), teenage girls are often ridiculed, and have their symptoms ignored. Often told actually your problems arent that bad. So if it is true, it would make sense they get them more. Not just because "they watched some tic videos".

this is misogyny, ableism, and ageism

The Dandy’s world ask reminded me of this.

Basically, Haru is the love interest of the main character, Legoshi. Juno is also briefly a love interest, but starts showing more interest in the deer character - and a popular shipping partner of Legoshi - Louis.

Most of the hatred, I feel, is directed primarily at Haru. Especially since Louis and Juno never actually get together, despite liking each other. But I do still see a little bit of hate Juno here and there. Most of it is directed at Haru though.

People misunderstand Haru. She’s often criticized for being cruel to the main character when she’s actually justified in her actions. The only “cruel” things she does is explain why she, as a rabbit, is scared when he suddenly stops answering his phone or gets into an argument because she’s not sure if he actually wants to be with her or not. Some of the criticism is directed at her sexuality and the fact that sex is a big part of her character. People slut shame her because she’s slept with a lot of men—even though that doesn’t matter, Legoshi doesn’t mind, and it’s not like she’s cheating on him??

People don’t treat Pina that way. Yes, I see some little pieces of criticism about the way he treats women here—and there is valid criticism (although personally I feel like there’s a discussion to be had on polymisia on the writer’s part. He seems to genuinely like the women he gets with and I don’t like the fact that him wanting to be with multiple women at one time being framed as something greedy on his part [I’m not referring to the fact that he’s doing it without any of the women’s consent—that’s obviously bad—I’m talking about how his specific desire on its own is framed by the writing] but I digress. That’s kinda a rant for another day)

Ugh, sorry for the rant, I’m just tired of people being mean to Haru and Juno. Generally, the fandom is actually kind of okay, but I have seen some rancid takes with these two….