Watch as radfems blame trans women for trigger warning for tokophobics. Also for warning for dissonance and blood triggers related to menstruation.
where?
I saw a thing on my dash when I wrote this post where radfems were accusing trans…
Yeah sorry I agree with a lot of that stuff but find you calling people who say that shit ‘radfems’ offensive because they’re not really expressing feminism if they’re just bashing on people’s phobias, and it’s insulting when people call dickheads feminists and judge us all on a handful of morons who don’t know the meaning of the word. Sorry rant.
“Radfem” is a term they call themselves. And they aren’t independent from feminism. They’re a part of it. They’re the lineage of feminism descended from Germaine Greer (writer of The Female Eunuch) and Mary Daly. They regularly get called on to give feminist perspectives in media that want them (Cathy Brennan got to give comments for the SPLC’s article on declaring the Men’s Rights Movement a hate group. Julie Bindel regularly writes for The Guardian). They hang out in mainstream feminist blogs all the time. They require reclaim the night marches to compromise on trans-inclusivity by not publicizing that they are trans women friendly.
They are the people who expelled trans women from second-wave feminism. They took their position within the movement, and they pushed my (spiritual) foremothers out. They are the people who expelled trans women from the early GLB movement, even going as far as to deny the woman who started the Stonewall riot chances to speak and participate in the commemoration of those riots.
So, no, they’re feminists, and you don’t get to No True Scotsman them out of your movement.
It’s not like the mainstream is free of ableism and transmisogyny either. Ms. Magazine is decidedly mainstream and yet Steinem’s used it as a platform for cissexism from the start, and even now they think that its acceptable to treat trans women’s inclusion in feminism as a topic for debate with bigots. I quit reading Pandagon last year over the ableism.
If you want to expel them from your movement, it takes more than just telling us we can’t call them feminists. You have to first acknowledge that they’re in your movement, and then work to actively remove them. That’s going to be a lot more work than it took them to push us out, and you don’t get to take credit for it without lifting a finger to do anything but type a single post.
Saying “real feminism is better” would mean a lot more if… real feminism were better. :I
I am a feminist, but mainstream feminist discourse/spaces/etc. can be really shitty in terms of cissexist bullshit.
Not sure why I’m adding my thoughts; the commentary above nailed the issue on the head. Mainly that cissexism and the status of trans women’s existence, oppression, identities, and inclusion in feminism are still objects of debate.
I see what you mean but just because they may technically be feminist, it doesn’t mean that it’s their feminism that’s being bigoted, it’s their own views and personalities which has nothing to do with feminism… I’m EVER so sorry I haven’t done a great deal for the feminist ‘movement’ as you call it at the age of 18… But I see it very much as a viewpoint and way of life than a movement. Just like you don’t have to be an animal rights activist to be vegetarian, not wear leather etc… If they were all Asian, you wouldn’t say ‘it’s the Asian way and you need to get rid of their views’ because that’s clearly bullshit… But no, carry on with your generalisations.
I don’t see how pointing out when there is problematic shit in the feminist movement/community etc. (cissexism, ableism, racism) is generalizing? It is trying to make things better. And I mean the feminist movement has a terrible history - racism, cissexism, classism - and certainly still has a lot of problematic shit to work through.
Oh wait are you talking about generalizing radfems
Radfems, as in the Radical Feminist branch of feminism? The one that’s incredibly terrible, transphobic, not intersectional?
Radfems, radscum, not good. Unless you’re a white, middle-to-upper-class cis-woman who really doesn’t care about any other type of woman. :I
No I mean the fact you seem to be making out that so called feminists are worse than the general public… When actually they’re a hell of a lot more for equality of ethnicity/sexual orientation/gender choice…
You’re trying to separate the bad feminists from the good feminists, which isn’t actually possible. They are all feminists; you (in the general sense of the word) just have to admit that feminism as a movement has some problematic shit in it.
Radfems have done much more to harm trans women than the average member of the general public. For instance,
http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2010/09/why-trans-community-hates-dr-janice-g.html
Janice Raymond, whose influence is clearly seen in many radfems today, is a huge, huge part of why trans people find it so difficult to access transition-related care in the US.
Well personally I don’t think trans-surgery should be classed as necessary healthcare just like I don’t think other cosmetic surgery should be… People should accept themselves for who they are in my opinion and if you ‘feel’ like a man and you’re biologically a woman, then act like a guy and shit but why do you need a dick? Again, gender scripts, whichnIS a feminist problem. Anyway, I don’t agree with what that woman says but it was from like 30/40 years ago… So you can’t base feminism on old world views :s
I’m sorry, what.
Go away and educate yourself - seriously, just please do not speak with me until you understand how fucked up the entirety of what you just said was.
Cissexism. Yay.
Sorry go on… Whats fucked up about it? I’m not hating on anyone who feels that way - I don’t think it’s their problem, it’s a problem with society. But go on, feel free to tell me how I’m ‘cissexist’?
I am not obligated to educate you because of my trans status (yay cis privilege). There are many other bloggers and quite a bit of information on the Internet. Communications will now cease.
Lol I’m very well educated thank you, I know a lot about gender dysphoria and (I know not much) but got an A in the module we did around it in my psychology a level. I’ve known transgenders and never judged them for wanting surgery etc like I don’t judge people who have body dysmorphia and want to change themselves. So yeah, how about you get off your high horse feeling you’re so hard done by when there are much bigger issues in the world. I’m not saying ‘cissexism’ isn’t important but seriously stop making out like its all horrificwhen it’s just as bad as any other problem.
Your commentary speaks for itself.
“One of my classes had a section on it! My two weeks of education are more valid than your entire life of actual experience with these issues!
Also some of my friends are totally transgender!
I don’t even get why you have to be so whiny about this, don’t you know there are starving children in Africa??? “
[warning: racist slur] Feminists .. y’all doin’ it wrong.
If you tell a Muslim woman that her hijab (which she chooses to wear on her own terms) is oppressing her, you are wrong.
If you suggest to a woman that she doesn’t respect herself because of what she wears/does with her body, you are wrong.
If you agree with the use of the slogan “Woman is the Nigger of the World”, although black women have consistently stated their unhappiness with it, you are wrong.
If a non-heterosexual woman tells you she doesn’t like the term feminism because it’s not inclusive and you shun her for her concerns, you are wrong.
If a non-cisgender woman says her problems aren’t addressed and you tell her that feminism isn’t for her, you are wrong.
If you ignore the painfully obvious degrees of patriarchy, misogyny and oppression women of different backgrounds face, you are wrong.
If you derail any woman who is not white and voices her concerns over the mis/under representation of her ethnicity, you are wrong.
(Source: maarnayeri)
Anonymous asked: What are “radscum?”
Radscum are a particularly nasty breed of radical feminist (i.e., those that are scum.) There’s a common misconception that “radical feminism” just means … well, any feminism that is radical. However, it refers to a specific kind of feminism that, in my experience, is characterized by rampant transmisogyny and a fuckton of internalized misogyny.
(To be fair, I’m sure there exist some radical feminists that aren’t scum. I just … haven’t met any.)
Most, if not all (actually probably all) radscum identify with some form of the “Womyn Born Womyn” movement, also known as the “If You Don’t Have a Vagina I Will Never Give Any Shits About You Ever” movement. They actively attack, belittle, and oppress trans women, and treat trans men as disappointments at best, traitors at worst. In short, they are scum.
They also seem to believe that any woman who is not a radical feminist is not smart enough to make decisions for herself. Most of them are anti-pornography, anti-burlesque, anti-femme, anti-heterosexuality, anti- … okay, they’re just anti-women-claiming-their-sexuality. Interactions with radscum in this context usually go like this:
Me: *wears makeup/wears a dress/shaves legs/etc.*
Radscum: HEY! DON’T DO THAT! STOP THAT! YOU’RE SUPPORTING THE PATRIARCHY! YOU’RE COOPERATING WITH THE ENEMY!
Me: Uhm, actually, even though I understand that mainstream beauty standards originated from the patriarchy to oppress and sexualize women, I’m actually doing this as a femme reclamation and a refusal to allow them to dictate my appearance. Also, outside of a feminist context, I just really like how this looks and it makes me happy.
Radscum: NO! WRONG! YOU CAN’T DO THAT! IT WILL ALWAYS BELONG TO THE PATRIARCHY! YOU DON’T REALLY WANT THAT, YOU’RE BRAINWASHED!
So basically what they’re saying is that a woman cannot make her own choices because her opinion will never outweigh a man’s opinion (not using inclusive language here because I’m referring to THEIR bullshit definition of “woman”), and that female-presenting people can never reclaim anything because anything that we attempt to reclaim belongs to men and always will.
Which, uh. Doesn’t sound very feminist to me.
And for people who screech so much about how gender/sex divisions are harmful and evil, they seem very very very concerned with policing who’s a “REAL WOMYN!!!!!!!!” and who isn’t.
Anyway, I’m rambling. Long story short is that they are very very unpleasant people and I don’t like them.
((rebloggable by request!))
“feminazi” vs “radscum”
It’s disgusting to see feminists actually using the term “radscum”. How can you actually fucking justify this when you’re so vehemently against “feminazi”? Do you not understand that they both refer to women (and sometimes men) as less than human because we stand up for the rights of other women?
Where’s the unity?Yes, let’s all unite under the banner of White Middle-Class Able-Bodied Cisgender Heterosexual Western Feminism
How totally inclusive
Also, way to appropriate the fucking Holocaust, you shitweasel.
Feminazi is a term that people who have no understanding of feminism use to dismiss the entire movement for invalid or false reasons. The problem with Feminazi is not that it describes women as “less than human”, the problem is that it appropriates the name of a horrifying, mass-murdering dictatorship and applies it to people who are trying to get equal treatment.
Radscum is a term used by people who know Feminism to describe a certain type of feminist who is genocidal in their cissexism, racism, and also often ableism. It is a name used by those who understand feminism and have a problem with it (or certain elements of it) for valid reasons.
Don’t try and pretend the people calling you radscum are uninformed or oppressive.
Yes, because it’s so fucking offensive, using a mildly insulting term to call out “fellow feminists” for being exclusionary, privileged, bigoted pieces of shit. God forbid!
White Femynism 4eva!!!!
jesus christ people suck so much
