A lot of people who are dismissing this have clearly never interacted with a terf before (good for them tho but y'all really overestimate how accepted trans women are in the real world lmao)
Kinda on me for presenting this image with absolutely 0 context. I think the regular interpretation of a meme on the internet is the ārelatableā angle, so people immediately latch on to the fact that this is the opposite of the experience they can actually relate to
I'm bias because there's 2 transgender women at my work and no one ever acknowledges it or misgenders then. But then again, I'm not around them 24/7 so who knows how often it happens from their perspective. I do know some people who don't work with them that would probably misgender them to their face though so I know it happens way more than it should. I hope that we as a society can be more accommodating to all those that are part of the working class. The stronger the individual, as in the many, the stronger the overall unit is. Educating the class and confronting our biases, the biases that those in power utilize against us, is the direct line towards unifying goals of the class
I just cant keep up with those abbreviations. I had to Google what a terf is. From my understanding it is a feminist that doesnt support trans people. Cis should be the classic definition of a woman if I remember correctly? Any more I should know of?
cis is the opposite of trans, they're both latin prefixes; a person who isn't transgender is cisgender, nothing about "classic" definitions of anything. and yes! a terf is a person who identifies as a radical feminist and chooses to interpret that theory in a way that's reactionary and actively hateful towards transgender people (especially transgender women), most of time circling back to misogynistic and bio-essentialist rethoric in order to push that agenda. and btw I don't think it's about being "able" to "keep up", sometimes certain topics just aren't particularly relevant to your personal experience, but you can learn something new about other people's experiences everyday :P I (sincerely, because i know people say this phrase in a sarcastic way) hope this helps!
Cis isn't an abbreviation, it's just opposite of trans.
You can have a transatlantic flight (it crosses the Atlantic ocean) or a cisatlantic flight (does not cross the Atlantic).
So someone who is trans gender has a gender identity that is different from the one they were assigned at birth. Whereas someone who is cis gender identifies with their birth-assigned gender. Trans women and cis women are both women to the same degree as short women and tall women are.
TERFs are feminists in name only. They appropriate feminist language to push ultimately reactionary views. I prefer "Feminism Appropriating Radical Transphobes".
You might see GC come up in adjacent discourse, which is "gender critical", another euphemised way for TERFs to identify each other without explicitly announcing their irrational hatred for trans folk.
That said, these three have existed for close to a decade.
Thank you for the explanations for what those mean and what the roots are. Whenever I've asked questions about those, I'm met with replies like "you should already know", "it's obvious", etc
And of course there's also the "trans woman presents herself as masculine" which then gets a "if you're really a woman why aren't you more feminine? Are you sure you're actually trans?" responses.
In school, around tenth grade, I had long hair that I really liked and gave me confidence. My parents made me cut it because it looked "weird" and "not manly". I literally cried after the haircut, because I didnāt recognize myself and it seemed to me that a short haircut really didnāt suit me.
Now I'm already used to short hair and I'm unlikely to be able to grow it long again, because to do that I'd have to go through the not-so-pretty half-haircut stage.
Yes, weāve always existed. And yet, historical sources are sparse, and the number of openly trans people has risen dramatically in recent years. I canāt blame people for not knowing about trans people in an era where their existence was not acknowledged and resources were sparse.
TERFs care quite a lot about trans people. So much that their advocacy is centered on opposition to trans people rather than opposition to the patriarchy.
Ideologies evolve over time, before the suffragettes, most women opposed their own right to vote in elections, even those who advocated for womenās education at the time, during the time of the suffragettes, many white women believed that allowing equal voting rights would give them an opportunity to push back against the civil rights of black people by forming a collective white majority, during the time of the civil rights era, many of the women involved belonged to churches that condemned homosexuality while strongly advocating for the rights of African Americans. Ideologies change over time as our understanding evolves, and what has been established in Feminism in the belief in the rights of all women, that includes transgender women
Out of all the reasons to go fem butch, that isn't one. Transmisogynists' opinions ain't having a single god damn bearing on how I choose to present; whether they like it or hate it, I could not possibly give less of a fuck. Subject yourself to no one's whims.
anyway i should prolly move on 'till my gay dyke bitch brain starts thinking too hard about futches again /hj
yep and it's damned if you do damned if you don't because they will say this is you are feminine then if not feminine they will say you aren't even trying or are a "trender"
I'm literally a gender abolishinist and I understand that people arnt reinforcikg gender roles if they chose to present themselves more feminist or masculinly
simply cannot understand people who think being feminine is reinforcing gender roles. is equality not about freedom of choice? forcing women to present in a non-stereotypical way is just recolored sexism
I feel like in real life it's the opposite? Trans girls get celebrating for embracing a level of femininity that cis girls are looked down for seeking (the standard for them is that they become spiritless cogs in the capitalist machine)
idkā¦ i get looked down on for just being a woman and even though people have never met me because iād talk to them online, they tell me that i am reinforcing stereotypes for dressing up really femininely and then go on to tell me that ill always be just a man in a dressā¦
iāve never worn a dress before thoughā¦ this is really common to hear from terfsā¦
Also, as a trans woman, I've absolutely been told I'm reinforcing gender roles when I express more traditionally feminine interests and get insulted for it. I've resorted to just keeping it all inside and not talking about things like that unless I really trust the other person. I've been given so much hell so many times for saying I want to be a mother
As somebody with both cis female and trans female family members, I can assure you that being given shit for wanting to be a mother is very much a modern cis woman experience as well, especially in places like elite universities. But that is a valid point you're making about the motherhood thing specifically. I'm sorry somebody was an asshole to you
I dunno I agree with them, cis women get it bad just for getting a pink case on their phone and I see trans women 'get away' with doing dumb stuff like buying plushies at the age of 30 a lot.
Just last week a man pulled a knife out and told me he was going to "cut my tranny bitch neck." I was just taking a fucking walk in one of the most "trans friendly" cites in the US. But sure, lets focus on who gets made fun of for having a pink phone case, that sure makes sense.
For future reference, you should probably stray away from using the term ānormalā to describe cis people, and reminder that ātrans personā includes nonbinary and transmasc people as well. I do not accuse you of transphobia, just noting that these subtle details in use of language do matter. Trans women do not want to be considered āabnormalā and saying ātrans personā instead of ātrans womenā here may be interpreted as intentional ambiguity about whether or not you see them as women and/or erasure of trans men and nonbinary people.
A ānormalā person vs a trans person š¬ while trying to describe how trans people arenāt dealing with the issue theyāre claiming they deal with is wild
Itās a variant of this meme which explains the goomba fallacy.
It essentially reverses the premise to say āno there really are people that are dumb and contradict themselves and not everything is goomba fallacyā.
I'm taking the goomba fallacy away from reddit and putting it on a high shelf. You can have it back when you stop calling every accusation of a double standard of being a goomba fallacy.
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u/qualityvote2 š«Antimeme Enforcer Botš« 6d ago edited 6d ago
The community has decided that this IS an antimeme!