Putting bioessentialist up on the high shelf until tumblr users understand that it's not just a word for when someone says genders are different

Bioessentialism is when you assign differences in sex and gender purely to biological reasons. The classic misogynistic one is that women are naturally better housekeepers because the female mind has the traits needed to be a live in maid, caregiver, and cook. This is untrue, men can also do all of this things. However, in society, men aren't expected to do those tasks like women, and henceforth are never taught.

"I, as a lesbian, would rather not date men" is not bioessentialist. It could be bioessentialist, if the argument were to say something like "because men are naturally more violent because of their testosterone." This isn't true! However, there are reasons to avoid dating men like...in general. The dominant culture for men doesn't really teach them to treat women with respect, and this isn't even going into rape culture. Also sometimes a woman doesn't want to be with a man in the first place, and insisting she must is fucking weird!

The different is that bioessentialism creates a world where any differences are engraved in stone as biologically sound. You can't make men less violent compared to women, so you shouldn't try, and pointing it out is mean to men. A lot of feminist political views are demonstrably about societal issues that get lumped under bioessentialism, because those societal issues for a lot of people are maybe just a litttttttle too hard to talk about.

Bioessentialism doesn't provide the room for society to actually work on the issue, and it's how you get "solutions" like gendered sports and the constant fears around the idea of a unisex bathroom.

Bioessentialism just throws its hands up in the air and goes "it's in their balls I guess, nothing we can do about it"

PRO TIP: Anyone trying to sell you a narrative in which a trans woman's previous connection to her CAMAB is ontologically more important than a trans man's connection to his own gender is doing a bioessentialism. Like big time. It asserts that connection to male privilege is determined purely biologically and not through societal means.

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There's also the evil thorn witch who corrupted her in the first place!

ether as severance + “the courtship of kier and imogene” (relationship parallels)

(just so we’re clear, while the kier-imogene dynamic is clearly paralleled with helena and mark, it is also reiterated in cobel and mark, dr mauer and gemma, and even burt and irving to some extent; season 2 has also made it a point to show us that helena and cobel are both victims in their own ways while being perpetrators. it is not a black and white situation and misogyny will get you blocked.)

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Im gonna be so real can yall actually talk about ways we can support trans women in the UK instead of giving all the attention to fucking JKR. I already know that Harry Poter sucks, I wanna know how to actually HELP people. Something something you have to love the oppressed more than you hate the oppressor

trans actual uk - trans led and run advocacy, education and empowerment organisation

fiveforfive - collective fund for trans women and girls and transfem causes

gendered intelligence - trans led advocacy org

mermaids - supports trans youth

akt - lgbtq youth homelessness charity

loving me - domestic abuse service for trans people in england

not a phase - for trans adults

“India, Israel and United States are natural allies. They have one thing in common, all three are engaged in overt, neocolonial military occupations. India in Kashmir, Israel in Palestine, the United States in Iraq and Afghanistan.” -Arundhati Roy

The last time I posted this with the link to the full video for those who might somehow still be skeptical of a decades long fact was in 2023, which is practically yesterday and still screamingly relevant—and explicit.

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My witch wife put olive oil in my bath she says it’s great for my skin :), now she’s adding potato’s and carrots I have such an amazing wife!!!

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