@Ian Betteridge reversing women’s emancipation is one of the main goals of the whole transphobia thing. Lots of us have been trying to warn cis people for years, but nobody takes us seriously. 🤷🏻♀️
@goatsarah It always seemed bloody obvious to me. Biological essentialism never ends well for women, and fancying it up with questions like "what is a woman?" was an obvious tactic to define women as, essentially, breeding pods who should do nothing except have babies and be subservient to men.
@Ian Betteridge The misogynistic men who use the "what is a woman" question think it's a total gotcha until they get the answer: someone who covers their drink when they walk into the room.
@goatsarah it never ceases to amaze (terrifying) me the amount of extra steps that are required to remain alive as a woman in our world - like not walking alone at night, not being alone in “weird dark places”, etc.
nice talk, time to go be the predatory alpha male that I was destined to
almost related: I went to CCC this year (a hackers conference in a tiny nutshell) and omfg it felt like paradise. There were all kinds of people wearing literally anything they could ever imagine - from cross dressers to furries to a random dude wearing a lamp hat with leds as a… well… hat!
gender lost all meaning before my eyes, and everyone was able to fit
@goatsarah (I live in greece and having long hair here might be enough for someone to assume you’re female. sexual preference is still considered a problem and let’s leave the discussion about trans people for the next decade)
@goatsarah Likewise, the anti-abortion movement's longer-term goal is banning hormonal birth control, which I am afraid dovetails a little too well with the campaign to ban HRT for trans people.
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nice talk, time to go be the predatory alpha male that I was destined to
almost related: I went to CCC this year (a hackers conference in a tiny nutshell) and omfg it felt like paradise. There were all kinds of people wearing literally anything they could ever imagine - from cross dressers to furries to a random dude wearing a lamp hat with leds as a… well… hat!
gender lost all meaning before my eyes, and everyone was able to fit
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Well, I am Cancer by Sun, Moon, & Venus... so maybe that tracks
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