Radfem on this site: *posts some meaningful insight into womanhood or patriarchal systems or sex based oppression*
People on this site:
Radfems: so you disagree?
People on this site:…..
Radfems:well….?
People on this site:
so, uh … this is a problem
if OP is a TERF it’s probably best to assume that any post they make is spreading transphobic TERF ideology & rhetoric (even if you can’t tell for sure yourself)
so how about instead:
DON’T REBLOG TERF CONTENT and ALSO DON’T ‘STEAL’ TERF CONTENT TO SPREAD IT ON THEIR FUCKINGBEHALF EITHER
this is how TERF bullshit gets spread so far and wide on tumblr, dammit
PS ‘meaningful insight into womanhood’ = ‘womanhood is [secondary sex characteristics of females and mystical feminine sisterhood that doesn’t exist]’ DOn’T BELIEVE ANDOR’S TRANSPHOBIA
also!!!
‘patriarchal systems or sex based oppression’ = ‘anyone amab, no matter what they do or how they present, benefits from the patriarchy’ and ‘assigned sex at birth = your lifelong gender’ and ‘oppression of women is entirely based on having wombs/vaginas/boobs and being non-aggressive/weaker than men’ and ‘womanly characteristics are inherent to aiab>afab and afab ppl’ and ‘afab people are just inherently kinder and sweeter and better than men in every way’ and ‘amab ppl just can’t help being evil rapists’
it’s transphobia with a massive side order of free gender essentialism and sexism and fuuuuuuuuck that
if you see echoes of the behavior of anti-shipping communities in these videos*, you’re not imagining things.
I’ve said over and over again that fandom is a funhouse mirror: a warped reflection of the wider culture from which it springs. it’s not the same, but nothing about it is original or new: it’s just a different shape.
the structure of ‘anti’ communities are a warped, fandom-esque reflection of the structure of much wider & more influential radicalized groups, such as the alt-right (or more directly though less widely, radfems (& subgroups TERFs/SWERFs)).
I hope that understanding how these groups operate & how their structures function will help you protect yourself & your friends from falling victim to them.
(*in this case I was particularly struck by the ‘90% of the alt-right would never call themselves alt-right’ - similarly to how people who behave like antis would never call themselves an ‘anti’ (and increasingly, ‘anti’ communities deny it was ever a self-chosen label).)
