Posts Tagged ‘feminism’
We’ve all heard the spiel. Some have given it during more failtastic times. And even if you haven’t had it directed at you and haven’t said it, chances are you’ve witnessed it. The Nice Guy™ spiel. Most of us have known at least one. Some of us are one or were one. Many of us (women) […]
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Tags: feminism, fuck this fuckery, gender, kyriarchy, patriarchy, privilege, rape culture
Feminist Disavowal Of Cissexism
This post has been crossposted at The Spectrum Cafe I don’t think it’s much of a secret that feminism as a movement (and sometimes even as an ideology) has some troubles. A movement plagued by prescriptive nonsense on a fairly regular basis, it has been guilty of body policing, life choice policing and attacking those […]
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Tags: ableism, bullshit, cissexism, feminism, fuck this fuckery, kyriarchy, privilege, racism
I get a lot of feminists, or really, a lot of cis people in general, who seem miffed about my dissonance as a trans woman. Or, in many other cases, confused. Apparently, a deep psychological or instinctual pain has to… make rational sense. Apparently. This is illustrated best by a statement made by a cis […]
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Tags: cissexism, feminism, kyriarchy, privilege, transgender
I Hate When I’m Right *updated*
Addendum: I’ve heard tell that that there were some assertions Chally was white on twitter, apparently in a convo with me (wtf?). I didn’t catch this (nor can I seem to find the damn tweets regarding it) so I really gotta wonder what the fuck people are smoking to think I was involved in that. […]
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Tags: cissexism, feminism, fuck this fuckery, kyriarchy, linguistics, privilege, rage, transgender
Updated at the bottom (twice), considering the updates only further drive home the point that Shakesville is an enemy to trans women and Melissa can’t handle a privilege call out without crying cis privileged tears. One of the worst transphobic haters in feminist history died in 2010. Mary Daly. I’m not one that gets pleasure […]
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Tags: "ally" betrayal, cissexism, feminism, fuck this fuckery, paradigm shift, rage, transgender
Addendum: After more recent events with Melissa McEwan’s whiny apologism for feminism trying to morally mandate us out of existance and pathetic privilege mongering, as well as her entire site engaging in apologism for her, I finally came to the realization that feminism is fucked as a movement. The rot is in the core, there’s […]
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Tags: ableism, bodily domain, bullshit, cissexism, feminism, infighting, kyriarchy, marginalization, patriarchy, privilege, transgender
Let’s face facts. We are all human and we have limited levels of effort and energy to put into things. Activists are no different. An activist will be unable to address every issue in the world, no matter how worthy, due to these energy constraints. Feminism is, in and of itself, a specialization of egalitarianism […]
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Tags: ableism, cissexism, feminism, intersection, issues, kyriarchy, marginalization, privilege, society, specialization
In tradition of my previous post of building trans women up and decentering cis folk’s oppression of us for a while (as well as avoiding the stress inducing shitstorm of anger toxicity that I get when I let rage consume the fuck out of me, as I have been doing lately), I’ve been working on […]
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Tags: body image, cis, expectations, feminism, gender, identity, kyriarchy, self esteem, self expression, transgender
As a note, this is a general statement for folks with privilege in a given area. Which means it probably applies to you even if the specific examples given below don’t because you lack those privileges. Don’t get hung up on the details, think of the message. I consider this a For The Uninformed post, […]
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Tags: bodily domain, cis, expectations, feminism, for the uninformed, gender, kyriarchy, marginalization, patriarchy, privilege, rape, rape culture, sexual assault, sexuality, society, transgender, trauma, violence
This post was originally published Sept 07, 2009 here. So, today I was responding to a commenter on Alas a Blog regarding Sarah Kohen’s piece on trans folk and feminism. It’s a bit of a transphobic piece, like most feminist material is but that’s not actually my concern here. You see, the piece is speaking […]
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Tags: cis, feminism, how to abolish gender 101, kyriarchy, nonbinary, patriarchy, transgender
