April 2012
Some radfem blog keeps using the term...
roomtogrow:
…I can’t, I just, I have lost the ability to “can”, what is air, BasedGod take me home…
This is the most fucking stupid shit I have ever seen.
Sexualities are cissexist.
escapefromdadmountain:
That’s the realization I recently came to, and it’s kind of a no-brainer.
Henceforth, let there be no mistaking, it’s not men I’m interested in, it’s penises. Men, women, other, if you have a penis, there is the possibility that I would want to have sex with you. That’s not to say that if you don’t have a penis that it’s completely off the board, but I prefer penises to...
March 2012
The April Fool’s Day gag I want to do if I can ever put together enough dysphoria resistance: Spend a day as a drag king.
Blanket reply
tal9000:
woh-battameez:
“But we’re not asking you to mourn her”
“She wasn’t as cissexist as Mary Daly though”
“Must you hate all white people everywhere?”
“You know, her essay Compulsory Heterosexuality is still pretty valid today, plz don’t even try to deny it”.
My reply to all of the above and all variations are:
[Kitty resting its head on its paw. Text reads, “Hmm, let me think...
I Am REALLY Sick And Tired...
freedominwickedness:
… of having to deal with people who insist that ideological purity overrides everything.
I had the privilege of attending one of the most elite private universities in the United States, and I am really fucking good at academic work. As in “good enough to impress a Nobel Laureate into hiring me to work directly for him”. There are very few people in the world who can match...
Reblog if you still remember an insult someone...
I remember a lot of the insults I’ve told people as well.
And I regret most of them.
kiriamaya:
lucypaw:
widdershinsgirl:
lucypaw:
widdershinsgirl:
Goddamn motherfucking TERFs are whining about my clothes. Goddamn motherfucking asshole shitbirds.
What the hell? Such bullshit.
Apparently, “a t-shirt and khakis” is “sparkly teenage bullshit.”
LOL TERFs as fashion experts. Fail.
Waitwaitwait — I thought TERFs would prefer us to wear t-shirts and khakis, since...
lucypaw:
widdershinsgirl:
Goddamn motherfucking TERFs are whining about my clothes. Goddamn motherfucking asshole shitbirds.
What the hell? Such bullshit.
Apparently, “a t-shirt and khakis” is “sparkly teenage bullshit.”
Goddamn motherfucking TERFs are whining about my clothes. Goddamn motherfucking asshole shitbirds.
Fifteen Minutes To Fame: I am posting my... →
smirkingbenevolence:
amydentata:
goddessofnature:
transstingray:
cortisoldeficient:
teachthecontroversy:
askheroicsonic:
Heterosexual
Pan-romantic asexual.
Pan-romantic Pan-sexual
ablehablehh? lesbian-ish
Mostly lesbian? Bi-curious? Mostly…
Lesbian, possibly bi-curious.
I’m not sure that the term “cissexism” accurately conveys the exterminationist politics practiced by many cis people toward trans people. It is not merely a politic of paternalism and diminution, as we see in many sexist practices and places, but one of outright extinction.
Daily Pagan News: Silly, Ignorant Goddess... →
pagannews:
In a recent opinion piece published in the Pagan Studies journal The Pomegranate (link), graduate student Caroline Tully contrasts two different views concerning how to interpret the archaeological finds at Çatalhöyük: Position 1 On the one hand there are the silly, ignorant “Goddess…
Embracing ourselves is harder than it looks.
kiriamaya:
sharptonguecharlie:
kiriamaya:
Here’s something that I’ve known for a while, but have been loathe to really accept (and btw, please hear me out before you decide I’m wrong and bad):
The fundiegelicals kinda have a point when they say that us queer folks are “destroying” marriage, gender, and the traditional family. Yes, it’s true that gay marriage won’t cause straight divorce,...
freedominwickedness:
kiriamaya:
In the early eighties, there was a report, written for the US Government, called Technology on the Social and Ethical Aspects of Transsexual Surgery. This report argued that transition-related treatments were medically unnecessary. As a result, consideration of federal and state aid for trans people was dropped, and private insurance companies quickly followed...
‘We’re Done Hiding’: A First Lingerie Line For... →
blackenedbutterfly:
jadepichette:
fuckyeahgenderstudies:
“If the images above seem completely ordinary to you, then Chrysalis Lingerie has done its job.
The first collection from this new NYC label represents something of a breakthrough in alternative fashions: the perfectly-named Chrysalis is the first lingerie line designed for, and by, transgender women.”
Image source
I felt weird...
Medical Ethics, Janice Raymond, and the Modern...
gcvsa:
Kiriamaya is reminding everyone tonight of the paper authored by Janice Raymond that was commissioned by the National Center for Healthcare Technology, titled “Technology on the Social and Ethical Aspects of Transsexual Surgery”, and I would like to offer some additional commentary and background, because this information is not as widely disseminated as perhaps it ought to be.
The...
A Concise Explanation Of Sex And Gender
freedominwickedness:
Sex
Genetic: Genetic sex is based on the presence or absence of a functional SRY gene. An active SRY gene causes a fetus to develop as male and the absence of one causes a fetus to develop as female. However, it is important to understand that there are many many recorded conditions which cause the SRY gene to be present but nonfunctional or atypically functional. In these...
freedominwickedness:
yanbasque:
edoro:
freedominwickedness:
edoro:
PS: Gender IS a social construct. It is one hundred percent socially created. You can tell because gender roles and even the number of genders and what those genders are differs pretty wildly across different cultures.
Intrinsic properties don’t do that. If gender were an intrinsic property of a person, it would be...
Binding Affinity: Ugh. →
charlesbukowski666:
bindingaffinity:
charlesbukowski666:
Contacted UChicago today. They do not cover trans* surgeries.
Yeah, not going there.
Are there any universities that actually do?
(I’ve heard the University of California system does for employees, but I’m pretty sure…
As of 2012-13 (next school year), the University of Minnesota does.
When you strip down everything that socially defines woman but has exceptions (and not just exceptions wearing the label “trans”), you actually end up with the realization that the only thing that matters is being able to look in the mirror and say, “I am a woman.”
Fuck you, Tumblr.
I want to burst into tears when I put fingers to keyboard.
“What would it look like if the LGBT movement had a racial justice agenda? Well,...”
– Moving Beyond ‘Gay Is the New Black’: NOM’s Divisive Racial Politics and the LGBT Movement’s Need for a Racial Justice Agenda
(via queerdesi)
Dammit, body.
You don’t even HAVE a uterus. Stop it!
GET THE FUCK OUT: On Women's Universities →
cloudnoise:
fuckyeahgenderstudies:
poison-symic:
A recent article on Roanoke.com attacks Hollins University — one of America’s oldest and best women’s universities — for requiring that trans male students transfer out of the university within one semester of beginning gender transition. The…
this makes me pretty nauseous.
it just feels like more evidence that the gendered university...
freedominwickedness:
GET THE FUCK OUT: On Women’s Universities
cloudnoise:
saltmarshhag:
cloudnoise:
fuckyeahgenderstudies:
poison-symic:
A recent article on Roanoke.com attacks Hollins University — one of America’s oldest and best women’s universities — for requiring that trans male students transfer out of the university within one semester of beginning gender transition....
“The racist smear campaign against Trayvon Martin, the unarmed black teen shot to...”
– White Supremacist Hacks Trayvon Martin’s Email Account, Leaks Messages Online
This makes me absolutely fucking SICK. I can’t vocalize properlly how fucking sick this makes me.
and it proves to me more than ever that this entire fucking thing is steeped in *white supremacy* and not “white...
Forever paranoid that I annoy every person I talk to.
polerin's Law of Suck
polerin:
People suck, except when they don’t. #lawOfSuck Corollary 1) Everyone sucks sometimes, so most people suck most of the time. Corollary 2) Given that most people don’t want to suck, but end up doing so, not sucking takes effort. Corollary 3) Most people don’t try to not suck, and don’t realize they suck.
Dear white cis pagans, #occupiers, radicals and...
lindentea:
None of this “but we must tolerate intolerance or else we’re just as bad as those evil Christian Republicans!” or “but we have to give ~both sides~ a voice so people can decide for themselves!”
no
let me just stop you right there
The whole rest of the world is a safe space for transphobia and white supremacy. We are under no obligation to make special concessions for those with...
I have mixed feelings about Adrienne Rich passing. I recognize that her poetry and activism meant a lot for a lot of people - myself included. I also recognize that like so many other feminists of her era, she contributed actively to the specific culture of shame and revulsion toward trans women. Latter-day regret can only do so much to modify actions at the time which were by any standard pretty...
Adrienne Rich and "Amy Ray Syndrome".
inchoaterica:
point of fact: Adrienne Rich was a transphobe:
“…Janice Raymond cited Rich in the acknowledgments section of her 1979 book The Transsexual Empire, writing “Adrienne Rich has been a very special friend and critic. She has read the manuscript through all its stages and provided resources, creative criticism, and constant encouragement.” In the chapter “Sappho by Surgery” of The...
Second Wave Radical Feminists
freedominwickedness:
As the passage of time sweeps away the blind adulation of their followers and the march of social justice tears down the vast mountain of privilege they stood upon, our generation and generations to come will see the second-wave radical feminists of the 1960s as they truly were.
It will be understood that they were morally bankrupt quislings who eagerly embraced rabid...
I’m putting together an OC cosplay costume for CONvergence this year. Theme is “generic video game heroine.” Expect me to show LOTS of leg for this!
Ellie Ranting: alright let's go through this again →
i-sauntered-vaguely-downwards:
having a vagina does not make you a woman
it makes you the owner of a vagina
period, full stop, end of discussion
as such not all folks with vaginas are women
having a vagina is not a requirement for being a woman, a real woman, or ‘doing female right’ or…
angrytranschick:
the vitamin d supplements I’ve been told to take are FIVE THOUSAND PERCENT OF MY RECOMMENDED DAILY ALLOWANCE
If it helps any, the RDA of most micronutrients is “enough to prevent acute nutrient deficiency.” This is most visible with Vitamin C - Even though the FDA puts a “tolerable upper limit” of 2,000 mg per day of Vitamin C, Linus Pauling took...
waitnotforthememories:
flutterlobo:
setlasorstostunning:
corianderp:
tychosexual:
suddenly ponies
pinkie pie- white. bottom heavy,fairly tall, TONS of hair. just jolly and bouncy and cute.
rainbow dash- african american. short, sleek, aerodynamic. wants to be a pilot, but for now kicks ass on rollerblades. her hair is a mohawk that emulates her mane
applejack- white. ‘sturdy’ is what...
“What do we do when we see our heroes have feet of clay? Do we recognize this for what it is, a point of darkness in a life otherwise of light? Do we let the darkness overwhelm the light? Or do we edit it from our vision so they can be spotless again. The answer tells much about our view of ourselves.” - why am I sounding like Trevor Goodchild right now?
gcvsa:
tal9000:
Something Something.. Oh Whatever.: jethroq asked: So what are good alternative terms. “Trans* erasure”, for “ciswashing” at least?
widdershinsgirl:
polerin:
dumbthingswhitepplsay:
cis washing doesn’t even make sense at all, period
Trans * erasure isn’t the same thing as what people were trying to express with ‘cis washing’. TBH I’m not even sure why the hell we need a...
