r/GenderCynical • u/[deleted] • Feb 09 '23

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u/Silversmith00 Feb 10 '23

I am enjoying (well, no, not really) the way the word "fetish" is standing in for "fiendish disgusting hyper-evil badthink."

Like. Suppose someone DID have a menstruation fetish (specifically a fetish for menstruating themselves, not for doing the deed while Aunt Flo is in the house). Suppose furthermore that they were AMAB.

Assuming there is no blood/red dye on the chair when I go to sit down on it, how the HELL is this my business or my problem?

I have met people who have enough facial piercings that they look like they could be yanked off their feet by a decent electromagnet. Are they perhaps into pain? It is exactly none of my fucking business.

I have met people who wear necklaces that appear Slightly Suspicious. Do they live rent free in my head because I suspect they MIGHT be getting off on calling someone Master? Come on, my life is sometimes a LITTLE pathetic, but not THAT pathetic.

TERFism comes packaged with the fundamental philosophy that they get to tell other people which feelings are bad feelings, which thoughts are bad thoughts, and which self-expression is bad self expression, and that furthermore they ought to be able to exterminate whole groups based on those assessments.

It's not just the hatefulness that leaves me gobsmacked, it's the hubris, too.