hi
i saw a article post about how lesbian bars aren't dying out their just improving themselves by being more inclusive..
then they're not really lesbian bars anymore are they? they are literally dying out or having to "improve" their inclusion to avoid being deemed terfy or transphobic and getting run out of business. really, can lesbians not have one thing to themselves anymore?
From incel to trancel
It’s not like I was ever an expert on the trans experience or anything but this whole “do i want to have a gf or be the gf (or bf)” thing, despite being so common now, seems relatively new. I think it’s because, classically, trans people were usually same sex attracted, but now a high percentage of them are opposite sex attracted. The porn brain rot is also probably a huge contributor to this phenomenon.
“bi lesbians can’t be real because lesbians aren’t attracted to men”
did you forget that not all bi people are inherently attracted to men
That’s nice and all but lesbians are female homosexuals.
and yes, op, all bi people are inherently attracted to men. that’s like…how it works.
Almost every day I think about how if you raised a daughter exactly, precisely like a son, it would be seen as vaguely progressive, but raising a son exactly, precisely like a daughter would be seen as sexual abuse.
It’s been pointed out before, but the latter is literally a feature of horror movies. Funny how we know exactly how fucked up feminine socialization is the second it’s forced on boys instead of girls.
So,,, being a "cis white" lesbian automatically makes you a TERF? Wow.
they need to add markers like "cis" and "white" to make it seem more justifiable, because they know saying "lesbians are all terfs" won't be met too well.
woman: acknowledges misogyny for one single second
the world: why are you talking about misogyny instead of literally every other problem on earth also why do you want everyone who isnt a woman to drop dead
This might feel like a reach, but in Susan Douglas book that’s a history of baby boomer feminist pop culture, she talks a lot about both 1960s news shows and sitcomes disparaged the women’s movement in exactly this way.
On the nightly news it was serious reporters and commentators who suddenly cared A LOT about the Civil Rights movement when they could use it as a serious counterpoint to the selfish and silly whims of white American housewives. They also, for some reason, elevated “the scourge of highway billboards” as slightly below civil rights but much, much more important than feminism and something that it would behoove white housewives to focus on instead.
In sitcoms (she especially references Green Acres), the joke is that, again, a spoiled housewife discovers feminism and has the narcissistic gall to act like SHE is oppressed. Fortunately, her comical insistence that she and her husband flip chores proves to her that men work much, much harder than women and she was only able to complete the Men’s Work by secretly hiring a man. The biggest running gag on this show and others was the foolishness of women comparing their “sexism” to the real oppression felt by black Americans in the south, to those suffering under Communism, to the starvation in the developing world.
So, I guess plus ça change, etc
i feel like i remember a study floating around here showing that sex can be accurately determined facially with something like 98% accuracy– does anyone have a link to it?
every way i can think to phrase it for google leads me nowhere
Not sure if one of these is the article you’re looking for - they use the term ‘gender’ but I think it’s quite clear they’re talking about sex:
- This one states that sex is almost 100% accurately recognized when adults are subjected to a test.
- While this one is about facial feminization surgery, it states that “cisgender male and female control frontal images were correctly identified 100 percent and 98 percent of the time, respectively.“
- This one is about facial-recognition software, and also uses the 98% statistic when applied to ‘cisgender’ people.
Thanks so much!
Anonymous asked:
fuckyeahcaroldanvers answered:
Well, first of all, I’m use they/them, but thanks so much for misgendering me!
You wanna talk about how Muslim women and and woman-aligned people are treated? Fine, we can talk about that.
We can talk about how the Quran was revealed in 632 AD, saying how women are equal to men. (“And their Lord responded to them: ’…be you male or female - you are equal to one another.’” [Quran 3:195])
We can talk about how in the 16th century, western men were still debating if women had souls.
We can talk about how in 632, the 1st century, Muslim women had the rights to choose who to marry, to divorce, to work, to educate and be educated, to have their won inheritance, to their own land and property, to have their own businesses, to participate in combat, to half their husband’s wealth, to have their own opinions, to have custody of their children, and on and on and on.
We can talk about Muslim women’s right to have a voice in government. Tell me, when did the USA give (white) women “equal participation in the political process,” or voting? 1920. Muslim women have had that since 632.
We can talk about how Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Turkey, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, and Senegal have all had female Presidents or Prime Ministers. How 1/3rd of Egypt’s parliament is female. How in the lovely USA, we haven’t even had a women vice-president yet.
We can talk about the hijab, niqab, abaya, and burqa, how they’re mainly worn to protect women from leering men, and to allow women to interact freely in public without people being able to judge their bodies or looks and only having their minds and personalities to make judgements off of.
We can talk a out how the Western world has twisted our clothing into “women have to cover up because they’re indecent!” and women and feminine-presenting people get attacked and have their coverings yanked off, either because of Islamophobic hatred or misguided attempts at saving us.
We can talk about how I’ve had my hijab ripped off twice, both times by white men, once outside my community’s masjid (the Muslim place of worship.) And oddly enough, my clothing didn’t stop me from breaking one of those men’s noses when he went after my sister. Just like it’s never stopped me from going to school, or playing sports, or doing anything a white woman or woman aligned person could do.
We can talk about how outside of the masjid, where men and women are required to cover their heads, I’ve never once been made to wear a hijab.
We can talk about how the only people who have lectured me about dressing modestly were non-Muslim teachers and other educators.
We can talk about how people want to preach about how Muslims think women are indecent, when western schools freak out when a girl shows her shoulders.
We can talk about my cousin who once made a joke about women belonging in the kitchen and how out of thirty people in the room, the only person who laughed was his white friend. How his father immediately corrected him.
We can talk about how the first university ever, the University of al-Qarawiyyin, was founded in 858 by Fatima al-Fihri, a Muslim woman. How despite that, the summer I was thirteen and taking extra courses at the community college, an instructor praised me for joining even though “I know Muslim parents don’t let girls have higher education.” I had to look her in the eyes and ask who she thought was paying for my classes.
We can talk about the Prophet Muhammad (s.a.a.w.) who denounced all forms of enslavement of women, and assisted women in issuing their rights to exist freely.
We can talk about people who rush to condemn Muslim men for hurting the “defenseless” girls, then turning around and making jokes about raping and hitting women.
We can talk about the “saviors of Muslim women,” talking about how they’re so oppressed, they don’t get to make their own choices.
We can talk about how these people completely ignore anyone who says they’re wrong and call them brainwashed. Because of course millions of women have been coerced into believing in a tradition that views them as subservient, what other explanation is there?
We can talk about how patronizing and infantalizing this is, how it denies Muslim women and woman aligned people agency and puts our “saviors” on a pedestal. “We need to be their heroes! Because obviously they can’t fix their problems without the aid of white people!”
We can talk about how it’s true that Muslim women suffer from misogyny. How there are Muslim men who think of women as lesser, how some Muslim women are forced to cover themselves and marry. Because guess what? There is no culture that is exempt from misogyny and sexism, gender discrimination is a problem everywhere. But you cannot call an entire culture and religion inherently misogynistic, that is in no way true.
We can talk about how somehow there’s this incredibly untrue idea that Western cultures have “progressed forward, and sexism doesn’t exist here, only in other countries and cultures.”
We can talk about how if people want to help Muslim women, all that is needed is for them to listen to us and follow our lead.
We can talk about how Muslim women and woman aligned people do not need white people to save them. We have always been capable of helping ourselves.
There are a lot of conversations to be had about the treatment of Muslim women, if it’s something you want to discuss.
But the thing is? People who talk about how oppressed Muslim women are generally don’t.
You want a deflection from your misogyny, “You think I’m bad! You should see how Muslim girls are treated.” You want an excuse for your Islamophobia, “We need to criticize Islam, they treat women awfully!” You want justification for western imperialism, “These wars are necessary! We need to save the poor girls!”
You don’t care about Muslim women and women aligned people.
Stop pretending like you do.
- Mod S
This is the third goddamn time I’ve seen this heaping pile of bullshit on my main’s dash. It has 14,400 notes. Fourteen thousand notes for this apologia for an ideology promoting misogyny, gendered violence, and rape. Progressive and Feminist™
website tumblr dot com will genuinely rush to the reblog button for any post that presents Islam as a cuddly and cute religion that is great to women.
Like, where the fuck do I even begin? How do you respond to something so removed from reality? Mohammed denounced all forms of female enslavement? He owned sex slaves. And raped them, unless y’all feminists want to argue that slaves gifted to a foreign warlord can consent to sex with him. Slaves such as Maria the Copt, who bore Mohammed’s last child, Ibrahim, who died in infancy. But hey, let’s be fair to the guy, he was just practicing what he preached. The Quran explicitly allows men to rape their slaves, regardless of whether they are married or not (more than once). Not that it’s a big deal. I mean, there are no Islamists today who keep sex slaves and rape them, right?
But Mohammed’s era was a long time ago. Muslims in the modern era are far less misogynistic, as OP kindly points out. For example, Egypt, a fucking military dictatorship, has women (15% not 1/3) in its pointless parliament, which exists solely for show. And, like, hello? Benazir Bhutto? Who succeeded her father Zulfikar as Pakistan’s PM before being murdered? Clear proof of Islam’s long history of female rulers. (All… nine… of them?) Only a fool would describe the feminist paradise of Pakistan as in any way oppressive to women. Why, it is practically Scandinavia. OP has a solid point here. Kind of weird how the presence of female rulers = feminism for those countries, though, but women being queens ruling entire empires in Europe gets reduced to “in the 16th century, western men were still debating if women had souls” (that’s actually a myth and not even from the right time period but thanx 4 playing)
OP has an even more solid point when they say that Muslim women have had the right to vote since the 7th century, because the expansionist (dare I say imperialistic?) caliphate was obviously known for its universal suffrage and female leadership. (I mean… is this a serious post? Is this something that OP truly believes? Really?) And as OP suggests, Islam gave women many rights that they didn’t have before, like the ability to own businesses and inherit money. What’s that, you say? Mohammed’s first wife, who was his boss before Islam, was able to do all that in pre-Islamic Arabia with no apparent issue? Well, uh, she doesn’t count. Life was very terrible for women before Islam. Islam fixed great oppression. Just, uh… just trust me on that. I mean, doesn’t a religion that explicitly states that a woman is worth half a man in both legal and monetary terms speak for itself? It’s called feminism, Brenda, look it up.
And the Quran. The Holy Quran. OP says that 3:195 states that women and men are equal. It does not. It simply says that one comes from the other. In fact the Quran specifically says that men are above women and that men are in charge of women and women deserve to be beaten if they are disobedient, an ayah that I will now quote word for word from fucking quran.com:
Men are in charge of women by [right of] what Allah has given one over the other and what they spend [for maintenance] from their wealth. So righteous women are devoutly obedient, guarding in [the husband’s] absence what Allah would have them guard. But those [wives] from whom you fear arrogance - [first] advise them; [then if they persist], forsake them in bed; and [finally], strike them. But if they obey you [once more], seek no means against them. Indeed, Allah is ever Exalted and Grand.
But remember, kids, you can’t call an entire religion sexist! Why? I don’t know, OP makes the rules, not me.
And you have to appreciate OP’s desperate attempt to turn criticism of Islam into a guilt-inducing rant about imperialism. Because there are no white Muslims, of course. And because all critics of Islam are white, and because there are no critics of Islam from Muslim countries. All criticism of Islam is due to Western imperialism. There are no ex-Muslims. And there is certainly no history of Islamic imperialism. Listen and repeat. Feel that guilt? Good. Now reblog this defense of a religion you know nothing about. Ahh… much better. Guilt: relieved.
But hey, let’s chill out for a second and back up here. OP says that they’re free to do whatever they want and so there is no misogyny in Islam and any women or girls suffering under Islamic rule are just the victims of random guys being awful, it has nothing to do with Islam itself. I mean, women are literally forced to wear hijab in a theocracy based entirely on Islamic law, but it has nothing to do with Islam. Just listen to OP’s soothing words and let the guilt flow over you, then press the reblog button.
(PS: shoutout to the “Islam invented universities” myth that we’re all taught in first grade, which is, of course, false; the Moroccan university is the oldest university still in existence, if one considers early madrasas to be “universities”, not the first one to exist by a thousand years or so. The first woman did not graduate from al-Qarawiyyin until the twentieth century, btw; it was funded by a woman but none could attend for centuries. How liberating!)
Thank you!!!!!!
If I have to hear “Islam is feminist” one more time I’m gonna sceam
Newsflash, libfems, no patriarchal religion (which is fucking all of them) is feminist!
All Abrahamic religions are patriarchal. All orthodox religion is patriarchal. And all of them are oppressive.
its so fuckin evil to tell lesbians “its bigoted to reject someone for being trans :/” because of course that is her reason??? transwomen were born as men. they have a male body. so yes, its their fucking transness. their maleness. the two are one and the same here, u dont have to be a “terf” to agree with that. many transwomen refer to themselves as “mtf trans”….. so. the maleness causes the transness… and by definition lesbians arent attracted to males.
but since ppl view transness as a marginalized identity comparable to being a racial minority, they know that saying that shit sounds like you are a bigot. when in fact it is just a reality lesbians cannot change abt themselves and shouldnt have to try to. it is NOT comparable to refusing to date other marginalized groups at all because sexuality is about SEX. biological sex is the ONE FUCKING COMMON BOUNDARY. it is so EVIL and manipulative to paint this as bigotry i am losing my mind lol
If a zebra felt like a whale would that make him one ?
(ss not mine)
*viciously shaking this shoulders of this clown* WHAT DOES BEING A WOMAN FEEL LIKE
even by tra logic, that definition also fits men and literally every other 'gender' they believe in, rendering it useless
This is what is happening to a nurse in Canada right now after she publicly expressed her support for a children’s author/crime author/screenwriter/philanthropist.
Anonymous asked:
Where I live, homosexuality is illegal and if caught engaging in it, the best case scenario would be going to jail, the worst case is being torn apart by an angry mob. Even with all of this, gay people still exist. We have secret meet up places that look just like cheap regular coffeeshops on the outside, where I was able to meet gay men, lesbians, bisexual people and the rare transvestite or two (who were proud of being gay men that would dress up in feminine clothes behind closed doors). I’m not well off, and neither are these people who frequent these places, most do not speak english and only use regional social media, most do not even use terms like lesbian or gay (since those words in our language are just slurs), they just describe themselves as their attractions: I only like men, I like women only, I don’t mind either. But do you know who I’ve never met ? A demisexual. An asexual. Someone nonbinary. Someone who wants to be referred to as a tree. Here I am, in a place where homosexuality is illegal and frowned upon, and gay people still exist: in secrecy, in hiding, in danger, but we still exist. So where are all the others ? The others I see being the loudest about being a part of the lgbt community on the internet ? The others who said they’ve been here since the start alongside us, fighting. Where are you ? Aren’t you supposed to exist as well, naturally and outside the influences of the internet ? I don’t see you.
misgenderer answered:
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Anonymous asked:
I think the mcelroy brothers themselves have kind of put themselves into a position where they kind of have to be submissive to their fans. Very early in their careers before they got really big they released an episode of mbmbam where they made fun of furries and got harassed relentlessly over it & it almost ruined their careers, until they released an apology in the next episode & promised they would examine their bigotry and be more open minded or whatever, I think it really set the tone for their career. They've obviously changed their public personas a lot, esp Travis who went from joking online about wanting a fat Latina maid to cuddle him to being whatever insufferable tra thing he's being on twitter these days. That's my personal onion anyways lol
radgoblin answered:
Agreed 100%. I think this is why Griffin doesn’t really do social media except to promote his projects. He doesn’t want to put himself out there for people to pick apart his words and intentions. I’m sure it’s much more comfortable to have the safety net of editing between you and your audience, especially when your audience is scouring every sentence for something to be critical of.
And there’s so fucking much riding on their shoulders now. They have MBMBaM and TAZ, but they also have so many ancillary podcasts with their wives, with their friends, and even one of their wives has her own podcast with her sisters. It’s not just their own financial well-being and reputation at this point. It’s their entire extended family’s. They have so much more to gain by trying to be squeaky clean and as inoffensive as possible and so much to lose if they slip up.
And can we talk about the very uncomfortable position Sydnee McElroy is in? She’s a medical doctor with a podcast about crazy medical beliefs and practices of the past like blood letting and lobotomies, but bc of personal (her sister is a they/them) and public pressure she has to be supportive of the trans cult. It’s definitely possible to hold such an extreme cognitive dissonance but for such an intelligent woman to simultaneously have a show discussing horrific medicine of the past, and then turn around and support shit like puberty blockers which result in 20 something year olds with severe osteoporosis, mastectomies of perfectly healthy breasts, SRS which is frankly barbaric and doesn’t reduce suicide risk or the need for psychiatric treatment, and HRT and it’s attendant health side effects and risks - it’s just insane.
i think it’s important to reiterate that there is simply no way to support the idea of people being able to “transition” to male or female without simultaneously empowering the homophobic belief that there is a workaround to being gay. you can’t uncouple this. you either end up saying there’s a way for us to become sexually compatible with the opposite sex, or you suggest it’s possible for us to transition out of being homosexual
radfems who are american citizens,
the situation of the immigrant women and girls in detention– women fleeing from femicide in countries that the united states destabilized only to be locked up, raped, and sterilized by the u.s. government– is one of the most pressing feminist issues of our time, and it is all of our responsibility to raise awareness to and fight these human rights abuses.
reblogging this post again cuz this is still a major feminist issue. ice agents are r*ping children at the border, women are being incarcerated for fleeing femicide, or dying in the desert trying, or dying from covid in the camps. and they cant apply for asylum because asylum law doesnt allow you to apply on the grounds of persecution based on sex, gender, sexuality, and and violence/poverty/discrimination that was directed at you for it. and as u.s. citizens it’s our job to stand up to our govt which has created the conditions south of the border and around the world that have led to poverty and male violence so that there’s less violence in these countries in the first place.
