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fatgirlsaresmarttoo · 1 year

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I’m sick and tired of the men who blame women for the lack of support/ resources for men’s mental health. They act like they haven’t exploited the emotional labour of dozens of women in their lives through traumatizing them with their emotional and psychological problems. They act like every woman has an army of people they can turn to when we’re feeling sad, that we don’t get misdiagnosed and abused by the medical system, that we’re not constantly being gaslit by therapists, counsellors, nurses and doctors. I want every man to feel empowered to better their mental health and be able to express their emotions but please stop oppressing us in the process.

(Edit: Since this is getting a bit of attention, I just want to clarify that I am NOT a radfem! I am in full solidarity with my beautiful trans brothers and sisters!)

To clarify: I was using this definition of emotional labour.

#feminist theory #feminist #marxist feminism #marxist feminist #communist #communism #socialist feminist #socialism

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communistfeminist · 1 year

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Slavoj Žižek on the notion of tolerance and ideology, via @/themindhub on TikTok.

I think this clip applies quite well, not only to liberal anti-racism, but also to liberal feminism and the common perception of misogyny as a personal problem rather than as a political, institutional one based in material reality.

#radblr #radfem #radical feminist #marxist #marxism #marxist feminist #marxist feminism #slavoj žižek

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heterorealism · 1 year

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#weaponized incompetence #men ain't shit #dump him #cooking #gender inequality #wages for housework #marxist feminist #heterorealism #heteropessimism

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homosexuhauls · 1 year

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The Gender Recognition Bill and Equality Law

Communist Party executive committee STATEMENT March 2023 (29/03/2023)

1 The GRR Bill was passed by the Scottish Parliament on 22 December, 2022. The Bill reforms the 2004 Gender Recognition Act (GRA) for Scotland only. It changes the process for obtaining a gender recognition certificate (GRC) for anyone born or ‘ordinarily resident’ in Scotland. It aims to change the basis on which people in Scotland can change their sex in law from one of a shared medical diagnosis to that of self- declaration alone (‘self-ID’) and lowers the qualifying age from 18 to 16.

2 On January 17 this year, the UK government used its powers under Section 35 of the 1998 Scotland Act to stop the Bill receiving Royal Assent. This power of veto can be used in circumstances where an item of Scottish parliamentary legislation is judged by the Secretary of State for Scotland to have an adverse impact on law in areas of policy (‘reserved matters’) for which the UK Parliament and government are solely or chiefly responsible. Similar provisions apply to the devolved parliaments of Wales and Northern Ireland.

3 The so-called Sewel Convention obliges the UK government to consult the devolved administrations when its own proposed legislation impacts on the powers and policies of the devolved parliaments. Ultimately, the UK Parliament can disregard refusals of consent from the Scottish, Welsh or Northern Ireland legislatures.

4 The Communist Party of Britain and its leadership bodies in Scotland and Wales believe that the current devolution settlement must be protected and improved. However, in the case of the GRR (Scotland) Bill, the intervention by the UK government was entirely predictable given the political struggle over Scotland’s constitutional status and the controversies over issues of sex and gender.

5 The flawed approach of the Scottish government over the Bill and its wider effects has been brought persistently to the attention of Scottish ministers over the past four years. During the Edinburgh parliament’s scrutiny of the Bill, serious problems were raised by a range of women’s and other civil society groups who asked for the Bill to be paused so these could be discussed and resolved, as well as by legal and policy experts and other organisations. Yet ministers consistently denied and dismissed the problems being raised.

6 Unfortunately, discussion around the GRR bill has now become so acrimonious and toxic as to obstruct meaningful and respectful debate. The SNP-Green government in Edinburgh’s action has been portrayed as part of their attempt to secure separation from the UK; the Westminster veto – while defending the constitutional status quo and the Equality and Scotland Acts – has been described as taking an opportunity to discredit the SNP and its separatist goal.

7 The Communist Party of Britain believes that the current system for transgender people to gain access to services and achieve safe and legal gender transition requires substantial resourcing. If the aim of this Bill is to make the lives of trans people easier, then it is a failure. The Communist Party supports the right of trans people to live free from discrimination and prejudice. This attempt to change the law does nothing for their access to health, medical, housing, advisory and other services sensitive to their needs.

8 For Communists, the main concerns are about how the GRR Bill (as devolved legislation) interacts with the operation of the 2010 Equality Act (as reserved legislation) across the UK. This is a complex area of law but the crux of the matter rests on two main things.

(i) ‘Gender recognition’ is both reserved and devolved

9 A system for allowing someone to change their legal sex has to work across Britain as a whole. This is because the legal term ‘sex’ is referred to in hundreds of pieces of legislation which are both reserved to Westminster and devolved to the Scottish Parliament. For this reason, when the Labour government decided to introduce the 2004 Gender Recognition Act it reached agreement with the devolved assemblies/ parliaments that the Westminster government would create a single legal framework for Britain as a whole. To make this possible, the Scottish Parliament passed the Sewel resolution granting consent for Westminster to legislate in devolved areas for this specific purpose.

10 These facts were known by the Scottish government and by civil servants before it embarked on going it alone in reforming the GRA in Scotland. It was always clear that a Scotland-only scheme would mean that Gender Recognition Certificates issued in Scotland would apply only to reserved areas of law. Anyone applying for and obtaining a GRC in Scotland under the new scheme could be sure of their rights in relation to devolved areas – such as the recording of births, deaths and marriages by the National Records of Scotland, or the Scottish NHS – but would have no idea where they stood in relation to reserved areas such as pensions, (most) social security benefits and areas covered by the Equality Act such as employment protection during pregnancy, maternity pay and other important rights.

11 Instead of resolving these issues, ideally in advance of introducing legislation, the Scottish government stuck to its position that the GRR bill had no effect at all on the operation of the Equality Act. They continue to claim it is an administrative change only and there is simply nothing to consider.

12 This is despite a legal judgement clarifying the matter, made on December 13, 2022 (For Women Scotland vs The Scottish Government). This ruling established that a GRC changes someone’s legal sex for all purposes under the 2010 Equality Act. Legal counsel for the Scottish government successfully argued this case in court. Despite this, Scottish ministers chose not to pause the Bill so that the implications of this important ruling could be understood before MSPs had their final vote on the Bill.

13 The face of the Bill may include wording that it ‘does not affect the operation of the 2010 Equality Act’ (a Labour amendment), but this is meaningless because by effect the Bill certainly does.

(ii) The GRR Bill means there would be different legal definitions of sex in Scotland and in England & Wales

14 The effect of the Bill is that the legal definition of a ‘man’ and a ‘woman’ and the people who are included in these categories will be different in Scotland than in England and Wales. In other words, there will be two different legal definitions of sex in operation within the UK. No-one knows how that will work in practice. It has never been examined. It is likely to mean that people with a Scottish GRC will have separate legal identities for different purposes.

15 The effect is to create legal chaos for service providers and organisations in the different countries of the UK and for UK- and Britain-wide organisations. The groups of people in sex-related categories will be entirely different in Scotland on one side and England and Wales on the other.

16 In particular, the UK Gender Recognition Act 2004 focuses on people with ‘gender dysphoria’ – their sexed body causes psychological distress such that medical/ surgical interventions are deemed necessary. They are the only group eligible for a GRC and thereby entitled to change their legal sex on their birth certificate.

17 The Scottish GRR Bill allows anyone over the age of 16 access to a GRC, with no medical requirement. Anyone is eligible who self-identifies into an ‘acquired gender’ and can provide fairly minimal evidence of living in this for at least three months is eligible. Sex offenders and those charged with sexual offences can apply, MSPs having voted down amendments to exclude them. The implications of self-ID as the sole requirement for access to single-sex spaces and facilities are serious when it comes to safeguarding women and children from predatory and abusive behaviour by men who can simply declare themselves to be women.

18 This reform could pose great difficulties for education institutions, sports organisations and other clubs and societies. They have to work out how to meet their legal duties under the 2010 Equality Act and make defensible decisions. They must balance conflicts of rights under the Equality Act and, if they are public sector bodies, fulfil the public sector equality duty and promote good relations between people with different ‘protected characteristics’ (which include ‘sex’ and ‘gender reassignment’). This is not a simple matter, and there are sure to be legal challenges. Navigating complex legislation while managing different legal definitions of sex which contain very different groups within them will not be easy.

19 When these questions were asked as the Bill went through the Edinburgh parliament, the Scottish government said it was up to the Equality and Human Rights Commission to draw up guidance. It refused the EHRC’s request for the Bill to be paused so these issues could be examined. Some argue these changes involve very small numbers of people and therefore the impact will be minimal. However, the wider context of the social transitioning of children in schools under government guidance puts that in doubt.

20 Meanwhile, the Welsh government has announced its intention to assist trans people to gain GRCs without a diagnosis of gender dysphoria; enhance their access to a full range of tailored services; and ‘ban all aspects’ of conversion practices. No Bill has yet been published and it is recognised that powers currently reserved to Westminster under the Wales Act may be necessary to carry out this programme in full. The UK central government has made clear it will veto any Welsh Bill which seeks to assume these reserved powers unilaterally.

21 The Welsh government also pledges to uphold women’s rights and spaces. Its LGBT Action Plan (2023) claims there is a ‘lack of evidence’ that trans-inclusion would have any adverse impact on women’s single-sex services and facilities and no evidence at all to justify a blanket exclusion of trans people from them. Instead, exclusion from single-sex services should be considered on a case-by-case basis as provided for in the 2010 Equality Act.

22 Heavily influenced by Stonewall rather than by a desire to boost the case for independence, the motivations of the Welsh government appear to be different in this fundamental respect from those of its Plaid Cymru partners and the SNP government in Scotland. Nonetheless, should it choose to go down the same constitutional cul-de-sac as the GRR Bill by attempting to provide for gender self-ID, the same opportunity will be missed to provide and improve services for trans people.

In summary and conclusion

The UK government’s veto of the GRR (Scotland) Bill was entirely predictable. The real issue here is self-ID and the impact of legislating for it.

If the aim of this Bill was to make the lives of trans people easier then it has not only been a failure; it is also proving to be counter- productive.

Anyone gaining a GRC under this Bill would have no certainty about the rights it confers. This is because of the fundamentally flawed approach taken by the Scottish government which, among other things, has meant that specific measures in its Bill have not won broad public support.

The real innovation of this Bill is to legislate for the self-ID of someone’s legal sex, embedding self-declared ‘gender identity’ in law. But when pursued to the exclusion of such considerations as the sex-based rights of women, and the fragmentation of equality legislation across Britain, it undermines the drive to build unity within and between the working class and the oppressed and disadvantaged groups in our society.

The Communist Party is the only political party with a coherent political analysis of sex and gender. Gender as an ideological construct should not be confused or conflated with the material reality of biological sex. Gender is the vehicle through which misogyny is enacted and normalised. Gender identity ideology is well- suited to the needs of the capitalist class, focusing as it does on individual as opposed to collective rights, enabling and supporting the super-exploitation of women.

For these reasons, the Communist Party rejects gender self-ID as the basis for sex- based entitlements in law to women’s single-sex rights, spaces and facilities. The Party will continue to oppose any proposed legislation – whether at Scottish, Welsh or British level – that seeks to enact such a provision.

We call for ‘sex’ as a protected characteristic under the 2010 Equality Act to be defined as ‘biological sex’.

At the same time, Communists are clear that efforts must continue to improve the resourcing of the current system for transgender people to access services and to transition legally, not just in Scotland but across Britain. Together with the defence and improvement of women’s sex-based services and facilities, this is part of the broader struggle for democratic rights, social justice and socialism.

#gender critical #radfem safe #marxist feminist #radical feminism #communist party of britain #not to be confused with the communist party of britain (marxist leninist)#or the new communist party of britain #how bloody confusing

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gay-not-goy · 2 years

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NEED MUTUALS

if you post about:

• radical / marxist feminism

• lesbian activism and other stuff

• jewish activism and other stuff

like or reblog or whatever and we can be mutuals!!

#jewish #jumblr #judaism #jewish memes #female rage #feminism #feminist #radfem #radical feminism #marxist #marxist feminism #marxist feminist #lesbian #wlw #jewish lesbian #jewish feminism

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redditreceipts · 6 months

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One of the worst consequences of patriarchy is unequal pay and the bad working conditions for women. These include:

no maternal leave

discriminatory hiring practices

harassment from higher-ups and colleagues

lesser pay

no or bad healthcare benefits

etc.

Also, the jobs typically occupied by women are paid worse around the world, while oftentimes being more demanding and higher in stress, such as nurses, teachers, cleaning personnel, etc.

Material equality is crucial for women’s liberation!

In the United States, women in unions make higher wages and reduce the gender pay gap significantly. Women in unions on average make 205 $ more per week. The union bonus is higher for women than for men, especially for Latina and Black women: unionized Latinas make 271 $ more per week, while Black women make 175 $ more per week. This effect is also true for Asian and white women (Asian women in unions make more than men lmao)

Unions provide health protection for female workers in precarious working conditions: 84 percent of unionized workers have access to employer-sponsored healthcare, while only 54 percent of non-unionized workers have access to healthcare

Patriarchy is a social construct that was implemented to extract free labour from women. Patriarchy is a justification for lesser pay, worse jobs, harassment in the workplace and a healthcare system that is centered around the male body.

If you want to help women, especially women of color, join a union today!

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fatgirlsaresmarttoo · 1 year

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When certain Feminists make a point of saying that they are “a feminist that loves men” in an attempt to coddle men who believe that women advocating for themselves is a personal attack against them, only creates further division. By saying that, you are going against hundreds of feminist sisters who do NOT hate men but are constantly being accused of such by men. You are contributing to a harmful and hateful narrative.

#feminist theory #marxist feminist #socialist feminist #marxist feminism #feminsim #feminist #communist #communism #marxist leninist #marxist #marxism

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misespinas · 1 year

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I'm convinced men point to Aileen Wuornos as “THE female serial killer” (instead of Juana Barraza, for example) is because she is the embodiment of women they hate.

Many people would use the excuse that they point to Wuornos because she is American. There are more than a handful of examples of female serial killers in America who have killed more people than Aileen Wuornos ever did (Christine Falling, Genene Jones, Nannie Doss, Belle Gunness, etc), so she is not special in that regard.

People would argue that her method was just so unspeakable. Most female serial killers murder by poison or similar less violent methods than their male counterparts. Her method of killings was by shooting her victims, which is not very atypical of female murderers.

Aileen Wuornos is singled out as “THE female serial killer” because she was a lesbian, she was a prostitute, and she killed when she knew she would be r*ped.

It is undisputed that Aileen was most likely raped by the first man she killed, Richard Mallory, because he has a history of s*xual assault and rape. People scoff at the idea of a prostitute being raped, but every time you make a person decide on food for dinner or not having sex with you, that is rape.

These men view her as “THE female serial killer” because she is the embodiment of women that are subhuman to them, yet they still believe they deserving of sex from.

Aileen Wuornos was mentally ill; she had a psychopathic personality and likely had ASPD and/or BPD as well. She was severely s*xually abused as a child. There are definitely red flags of someone who would become a disturbed individual, I'm not arguing against that. I'm just asking, “Why do they focus on Aileen Wuornos?”

Reason 1383929 I hate “true crime communities”

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goatgodsworld · 2 years

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You know what got me so disgusted with transphobia doesn’t matter who it’s from. Fetishization. I re-read hating man and though I don’t agree with Andre Dworkin a lot she got some things right. Jessy Gender made a video on trans bodies only being for cis people. We can not exist in comfort, transition can never be for our own comfort. We do it to ‘’trick’’ cis people, to ‘’seduce them’’…Our bodies are hated yet lusted over by these kinds of people. Since everything we do MUST be for cis people.

This of course is the typical talking point for trans fems though it’s used almost the same amount against gay trans men. The ‘’pervert’’ stereotype has always been used to justify hate against different groups for several years. I see that this is also no different for trans people.

We are not in ‘’a proper frame of mind’’ to study medicine, politics, etc…and are pushed out of these fields especially trans fems, into sex industries by force. People act disgusted and revolted when they see our bodies yet watch bodies like ours on adult websites. At the start may be due to my own internalized transphobia I thought maybe stuff like this was actually ‘’a problem’’ but the more I learn the more I know that this isn’t the case. It’s just post-talk justification for bigotry.

#feminism #feminist #queer #intersectional feminism #marxist feminism #intersectional feminist #anarchofeminism #transgender #trans #intersectionality #marxist feminist #terfs dont even look at this post #asexual #aromantic

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missmisandrytabletalk · 2 months

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I hate it that soft porn and female nudity has become a norm on every social media platform. there's not been a single time I haven't had to see that bizarre promiscuous content surrounding teenage girls having their nips and bosoms out & don't even get me started with those comment sections which is full of those porn addicts constantly thirsting over them. though the most abominable thing is seeing those young women feel empowered in their own objectification and feeding those incels with exactly what they seek from women. what they fail to understand is that the liberal feminism itself is a hoax and reeks of internalised misogyny. i mean now look where are these young girls and women really heading to? plus these female celebs in the west infuriates me even more for promoting and glorifying the use of OF. and guys.. have you seen the trending shows on netflix recently? i mean more than half of the content is about male sexual fantasies and 365 days-ish eroticas. ofc the male audience is flourishing on such platforms. so appalling and a really high time for us to actually do something about this obnoxious filth taking over the internet.

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bolshefem · 1 year

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Serious request for trans rights activists

I will rescind my critiques of gender ideology immediately if you can define “woman” for me without defining it by the word "woman" (tautology) or without basing it on misogynistic sex roles constructed for the domination of women

I doubt anyone is going to take me up on this but worth a try.

#fuck terfs #trans #mtf #radical feminist #radical feminists do interact #radfem #gender critical #gender ideology #radblr #marxist feminism #marxist feminist #dworkin #womens liberation

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