Thinking about Maria MacLachlan's (PeakTrans) latest video and how she excellently described the process of a feminist left-wing women (like JK Rowling) becoming critical of the trans movement.

At first, you are basically in what she called a 'blissful ignorance'. Your opinion of the trans movement is "live and let others live". Then you start to notice little things that are just plain wrong, like men stealing trophies from women and lesbians being told they are not allowed to tell on a dating app that they are into females only.

So you decide to voice your opinion. You say something like, "I have nothing against trans people who just want to live their lives, but i find this [particular thing] harmful and unfair". You are assuming and fully expecting in your blissful ignorance, nothing more from it. Maybe a bit of debate, but mostly understanding since all these points you made are good points after all, and this is the self-proclaimed feminist LGB+ "be kind" brigade so the rights of women and gay people should matter, right?

Instead, you receive abuse. Not just any abuse, but misogynistic abuse, threats, doxxing, lies, twisting your words, and attempts to make you lose your lifelihood.

First, you are shocked, but then you start to feel angry. Angry and betrayed. You start to wonder how many others like you have been shut out and silenced by trans activists. You may start by looking up "that one woman" who you think was not entirely treated fairly, but you had earlier decided to accept the trans activists' version that she is just "a bigot".

You find out that despite trans activists vehemently claiming some things never happen, they do happen. They just willfully ignore them. You find out people criticising trans movement are feminists, LGB people, concerned parents, medical experts, and even trans people themselves. Trans activists just lie when they claim they are far-righters and conservatives. You find out they do not want trans people dead. It is the trans activists who send them death threats and show up to their events to "punch terfs".

And you become angrier, so you decide you will not be silenced. You decide to talk more and raise more awareness. The more you criticise and the more you share, the more abuse trans activists send to you. And the angrier you become.

Then the useful idiots see your anger and are convinced you are just a hater that should not be listened to. Why else would you be so angry?

whisper girls on pinterest being based.

Profanity and Misogyny

"Motherfucker", "cunt" , "bitch", "Whore" etc. are words that are so commonly used in colloquial language that one almost forgets the nuance attached to them. In almost every language there exist a myriad of swear words that refer to the degradation of the female vagina. A woman's sex is seen as her badge of shame and if she has control over her it then she has become astray from the path of the virtue.

"To insult a man, you insult his woman". I remember awkwardly shuffling in my seat, getting very uncomfortable when male peers would call each other "motherfucker" or "cunts" so casually. A woman much older than them was reduced to her sex, a tool to insult their friends. My sex- the organ that I was born with- was a sign of weakness. If you are meek or a coward you are a "pussy". In my language, I could never find the word equivalent of vagina, for it was too sexualised to use in society. Before I was even old enough to understand the workings of my body, a organ that I had been born with was left redundant to its function to please a man-villified by porn.

"Fuck" is seen as an insult because men consider sex a defiling act that takes away the dignity of the woman. Another misogynistic implication is the term "deflowering"; having sex takes away her innocence. After sex, the woman is not a human to them but a "cunt". The sexual paraphernalia of a woman is associated with purity. There is such a huge emphasis that is put on the concept of virginity, because it brings control to the patriarchal society over a woman's autonomy.

The sexual liberation of 70s was brought as a rebellion to these norms- young women were groomed into thinking that sex is empowering. Hookup culture also emerged as an aftereffect of the sexual liberation. The politics of a woman's sex is argued all day while the male penis remains as a neutral organ despite having been a tool to oppress women.

Sex is a completely neutral act of pleasure that is neither degrading nor empowering. However, this statement would only exist in a vacuum. Men use sex as a form of violence upon women-rape is a political tool. For women to take back control of their sexual autonomy, they must acknowledge the politics of sex-or lack thereof. Selectively choosing whom you are having sex with is the first step.

I implore everyone to stop using degrading profanities that have misogynistic connotations. When others around me --especially men-- use these swear words, I ask them why their insults always involve a woman to be degraded and humiliated. Not acting as an accompalice to patriarchy, not keeping quiet against the patriarchal violence and spreading word against misogyny is the best silent mutiny.

Ladies give me strength as I finally sum up the courage to confront my TIM brother on his misogynistic posts about JK Rowling

Putting her brilliant response aside, women have literally died because society treated us like smaller men. Women have different symptoms of diseases, need doses of medications that account for our metabolism, and have unique conditions that are in desperate need of further study. Arguing that biological sex has no importance just sets us back. Women are a biological class and we exist, and we matter.

crazy how “i’m just a girl” went from this iconic lyric from a song that literally says

“oh im just a girl, all pretty and petite, so don’t let me have any rights” “the moment i step outside, so many reasons for me to run and hide” “just your typical prototype” “im just a girl in the world, that’s all that you’ll let me be”

to becoming the libfem bimbo slogan

when people talk of female socialisation they’re not saying there is one universal female experience that all women have that is exactly the same… they’re saying that in every society women are socialised into a role that is intended to ensure our subjugation and keep us subservient to men. and all women share in this experience, despite its infinite variations cross-culturally: we are intended to be second-class citizens and that’s easier to maintain if we are socialised as such.

hey guys if you’re planning on making a vaguepost on the dashboard can you message me with the details and some of the lore behind the vague post you’re making. a vaguepost for the dash and a detailedpost for me. because i like to know what’s going on. if you do this i will automatically take your side because you’ve done the right thing by letting me know what’s up. thanks in advance ❤️

I can't unsee the "trans women are womanhood tourists" thing. That's exactly what it is. You're the tourist that comes over in the offensive stereotyped outfits, inserting yourself into our culture when you have 0 understanding of it, and start trying to make it about you. But more than that, like a tourist, when it benefits you, you can just return home (to presenting manhood) for your own safety. Like a tourist you're here to enjoy the ""fun parts"". You don't care what the locals go through because it doesn't affect you. We don't want tourists dictating what our lives and experiences are. We live here full time, you don't.

A huge part of trans gender ideology is preventing “thoughtcrimes.” You can’t ask questions and are supposed to ignore things that go against your better judgement. A decade ago when trans stuff became more mainstream in the US the mantra was (and I even repeated this mantra to others) you don’t have to understand you just have to accept. Because yeah, when you first learn about it the whole “born in the wrong body” thing (which I know is now outdated) really doesn’t make sense. Instead of trying to explain it (because it can’t be explained) the messaging was always about how much trans people are suffering and how grateful we should be that we don’t understand it. And now with the whole “don’t assume gender or pronouns thing” we’re asked to pretend that we can’t tell what sex someone is and to try and reprogram our brains that subconsciously, since infancy, determine if someone is male or female. Every time I hear someone unironically say “a woman is defined as someone who identifies as a woman” I lose brain cells. And I used to do this too. Does it not concern people that this is not a definition and literally a meaningless string of words? Why have we all decided to abandon logic and grammar and common sense for this one issue? Why can’t we acknowledge that a movement or a philosophy that can only exist if we don’t think about it to hard and if we grant special exemptions from logic it maybe shouldn’t exist…

Why are y'all so funny 😭

when I discovered radical feminism I felt like some kind of invisible camera angle shifted from filming me to filming from my point of view

“If Taylor Swift released Dylan’s song you all would be eating it up-” Taylor Swift would never write a song like that in a hundred million years hope this helps

I think every teens/20s girl who wants to get “top surgery” should have to speak to women who are status post double mastectomy. listen to them all talk about the limitations on their range of motion. neurological symptoms in their arms. chronic pain. phantom pain. see the way scars actually look.

"B*tch and C*nt aren't misogynistic slurs, everybody uses them all the time!"

Okay hear me out: misogyny is also everywhere, all the time