Archive for the ‘activism’ Category
Words and Offense
A lot of people seem to be under the impression that I am “politically correct”. This is an odd impression for many reasons, not a few of which relate most to political correctness’ nonsensical application to all sorts of things and the fact that no one can fully agree on a definition for the phrase. […]
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Tags: communication, kyriarchy, linguistics, privilege, slurs
Crossposted at The Spectrum Cafe Identity. It’s deeply personal and for the most part we go way out of our way to protect it. Not just our own but others as well. At least when identity policing and erasure isn’t going on. It’s one of those sacrosanct inviolable rules of the Alphabet Soup community (GLBTQQIAsomethingsomethingetc) […]
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Tags: cissexism, erasure, identity, monosexuality, polysexuality, racism, sexuality, trans
Crossposted at The Spectrum Cafe I’d like to leave a note here that one can use bisexuality to mean more than two genders attracted to provided the why for it isn’t binarist or cissexist. Because the base definition isn’t inherently cissexist, there’s a lot of leeway to play with the word as an identity without […]
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Tags: binarism, bisexuality, cissexism, erasure, monosexuality, polysexuality, sexuality
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
Dating And “Disclosure”
Crossposted to The Spectrum Cafe. There’s a funny thing in the United States (and in a few other places too). It’s called a right to privacy. It isn’t perfect. After all, any right will have some limitations to account for clashes of rights. But for the most part, we all have a right to not […]
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Tags: bullshit, cissexism, fuck this fuckery, privilege, society, transgender
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
Allies. Supporters. Helpers. People who work with you in alliance, to aid your interests. No doubt they’re important. Alliance is what gives us the numbers we need to fight back against systemic oppression. We can’t go it alone, obviously, so we recruit people to the cause. Alliance is not just giving lip service. In fact […]
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Tags: bullshit, cis, cissexism, fuck this fuckery, kyriarchy, privilege, pseudoallyfail, 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
Some Words On “Making Peace”
Edited for clarifying links to the AMO communication style post. Making peace is great. No one wants to be at war constantly. The battles are tiring, there’s always casualties, and often you’re stuck doing things that you may not be pleased with to win. And then there’s the people who confuse “making peace” with “stop […]
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Tags: cissexism, drama, infighting, issues, kyriarchy, marginalization, transgender
