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Alright so someone on tiktok sent me a link to a compiled list of arguments against proshippers and so I wanted to put a sort of brief response of my own thoughts of each point.
Long post warning!
This isn’t TikTok, Facebook or Twitter.
Queer Slur Heritage Post
holy shit it's such an honor to be in a heritage post
they murdered me without warning last October!
Where in the world did the argument that trans men don't experience misogyny ever come from. Did you guys not see the word "trans" at the beginning of "trans man".
There's a reason that I'm talked over and infantilized in cis man dominated spaces. There's a reason that there isn't a single person like me in my STEM department. There's a reason that I am forever terrified of forced pregnancy.
I sure as shit don't feel benefitted by the patriarchy, and surely neither do trans women. It's almost like we both experience systemic misogyny in both similar and completely different ways. Hm.
just so we're clear, replacing patriarchy with a matriarchy would be just as bad because it's the same exact thing. it's a power structure. it lends to systemic abuse.
equality doesn't mean "one gender is better than the other". equality means all genders are on the same playing field. no one gender is better, or worse, than the rest.
women are not inherently kind. women are not inherently charitable. women do not inherently have other peoples' best interests in mind. women are not inherently gentle and nurturing. women are not inherently smarter or dumber than any other gender. women are people, and that means that women are varied. chasing men of that pedestal and placing women there instead will create the exact same problems.
you can run around saying "women are just better than men" but you're doing the exact same thing that's being done to you right now, and that's not how you collapse the structure. you're just taking the same abusive power structure and painting it pink. enough. equality means we are all on the same level. equality does not mean one gender is superior to the rest. got it?
pathetic affirmations (button sets, part 2) by Claire Thompson
oh no you're getting grool all over his face...
happy new season day!