TERFs are fucked up. Not an excuse, but as an explanation, they likely think that trans women are reaping the benefits and aesthetics of womanhood without having to suffer through growing up as a girl. They completely dismiss the struggles that trans people grow up with and the fact that trans women also face misogyny.
They are miserable people because misery is how they define their gender identity.
terfs are “feminist” as in they don’t want to be at the bottom of the hierarchy.
but instead of wanting to shatter the hierarchy, they want to preserve it because this way, they get to be above trans women so they aren’t at the bottom anymore.
If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.
This remains the cornerstone of rightist/authoritarian politics. Today, we have replaced “colored man” with trans people and immigrants.
the most real part of this is that trans dudes and nb people aren’t even at the table
As an enby I feel both incredibly seen and incredibly frustrated by how true this comment is
bigotry’s main job is helping people be easy marks
Wow. This one took me a minute to process but it hit me pretty hard when it did. Thanks for sharing it.
Every day I wake up and am reminded of the fact biggotry exists, something shorts out in my brain… Like, I just can’t comprehend how anyone - much less a large group of organized people like the GOP - can possibly care so much about people’s choices that could have zero impact on them.
They must just want to be angry. They want to play victims while they punish others, ironically creating actual victims. These types of people are so fucking sick and depraved, whether they acknowledge it, or not.
Maybe if they had real problems, they’d develop a minutiae of empathy.
Until then, these same people call all of us normal people mentally unstable… Because we care, and we are willing to fight their sociopathy with integrity and honesty.
One of the reasons the GOP is so invested in bigotry, is because it’s useful to their goals. They need a boogeyman. Not only does it act as a distraction as they steal from their base, it also acts as a justification for why they need so much power: to protect you from the boogeyman. They choose minorities because those groups have less power to fight back.
They choose minorities because those groups have less power to fight back.
Only if we’re not unified 😉
That’s exactly the reason why trans bigotry as a “feminist” movement has had so much effort put into stoking it. There’s a ton of dark money from Evangelicals being funnelled into astroterfing to divide progressives by forcing wide wedge issues. They don’t care about trans people, they care about turning non-conservatives against each other so that they can scoop up the disaffected to their cause.
Ten short years ago the average person in the street didn’t care either way about trans people. Sure, they didn’t get much recognition or support from government bodies, but neither did they have this army of self-proclaimed feminists trying to persuade them to kill themselves.
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