#also to be clear fuck TERFs

[estravenlover]

I was talking the other day with people about how English doesn’t have deferential verb forms and stuff like many other languages do but how in English we still have hierarchical ways of speaking to each other. Obviously race class and gender play huge rolls. Also this is not universal but I notice that at least for me and most women around me that we talk to men in an extremely deferential way that men seem to take absolutely no notice of. I think most men that I interact with have literally no idea women speak to them differently than we do to each other. Even when things are not dangerous, like the other day I was talking to a random man in the grocery store and he was insisting that the Barbie movie already came out, and I know that’s just like factually not true but after he told me I was wrong I immediately agreed with him and continued with the conversation. Like I wasn’t scared of him I had no actual belief he would have hurt me in public because I insisted that the Barbie movie was not actually out yet lol. It was just the first reaction I had to placate him and agree verbally even though I knew it wasn’t true. And obviously it didn’t really matter in that interaction but I do this in my professional life, I do it when talking to strangers, and I even do it when I’m with friends even though I try hard to stop doing it then. It’s my tone of voice, it’s the literal words I say, and it’s even the body language. And it’s not a new idea that women make themselves smaller around men, many other people have said it before and more elegantly but idk crazy to me that so many men in the world don’t know we do this? Like this was also sparked by me working on some internal stuff with men and some white women I work under where I was angry because they seemed to be so dismissive of all the work I put into offering them deference and respect in our interactions and my friend literally had to tell me that they didn’t actually know I was doing that. that’s just how they think I am all the time and how they expect me to talk to them. Which, obviously lol but it was kinda jarring to realize in the moment.

#TO BE CLEAR I don’t think this is an innate thing #this is entirely a learned behavior #I think part of the problem is men not knowing but when I have told men in my life this I have not gotten a lot of positive listening back #lol #so I think as feminists we need to do the work of actively trying not to do this and for male feminists they need to be ready to be able to #be prepared to listen to that and actually speak to the women in their life as equals and not use their social power to demand subservience #again this is my experience but I do think many other women share this #but so often the men in my life demand subservience in subtle ways and this is one of them #but like it doesn’t need to be like this #also I think race plays a huge role #like being brown changes how I interact with people all the time and I’m sure it matters in everyone else’s lives too lol #but I do think white women do this too for men but their experience might be different or whatever in ways I don’t know #idk all a work in progress #ugh English is so limiting and is so focused on catagorization it’s hard to talk about this without it sounding like I’m placing a hierarchy #of other peoples privileges #which I’m not trying to do #life is very complicated and these catagoriyan are not real they are social #but idk I’m just trying to put my experience into words #also to be clear fuck TERFs #I feel like when u talk about feminism on thsi website two weird things happen #TERFs try and claim any feminist discussion as being a terf point…. which like ew no stay away #thsi has nothing to do with gender essentialism and I reject terf logic wholeheartedly #but also some people seems to be reactionary and say discussion of women’s oppression is TERFy??? which is also weird and stupid #terfs don’t own feminism they are a contradictory reactionary group trying to pretend that #but regardless of what idiots on the internet think we need to be able to speak openly about issues that hinder liberation #and this is a small example that I was just thinking about #feminism #my post

[freshbeeth]

u are so incredibly attractive. do you like women

hope this helps

(yes)

#LET ME BE ABUNDANTLY CLEAR. #I DO NOT GIVE A FUCK IF YOU HAVE A PUSSY #OR IF YOU FULLY IDENTIFY WITH ‘WOMAN’ AS A TERM #AS LONG AS YOU ARE NOT A TERF YOU ARE FUCKING WELCOME HERE #also like??? idk don’t be racist??? that’s kind of a given #also don’t be biphobic i am bisexual #but this post is about girls #splasks

[totopopopo]

This is such a weird fucking post to me bc like why would it be weird to have to explain to your kids what a gynecologist is???? There’s nothing sexual about it. It’s a kind of doctor the same way a dentist is. You say hey you know how some people have vaginas? (The answer is yes, even younger kids are aware that some people have vaginas.) okay well people with vaginas and the anatomy connected to that part of the body need to go to the doctor sometimes to make sure that part of the body is healthy, just like they go to the dentist to make sure their teeth are healthy! straight up that’s all you have to say and that’s a conversation you can have with a THREE year old without it being inappropriate or awkward. Because that shit isn’t actually r rated or taboo. It’s actually good that kids know about that. It’s actually a good thing for kids to know about penises and vaginas and health. Seeing as all children have some variation of penis and/or vagina, and are aware of that fact. Sorry that you guys are just fucking puritan freaks who don’t know how to have conversations with kids about normal ass shit bc you’re uncomfortable talking about things that could even remotely approach the conversation of sex. Or should I censor that word for you too.

#terfs DNI btw just to be clear #but also fuck this post is so stupid stop putting it on my goddamn dash

[semi-imaginary-place]

Tolkien's Legendarium in the Modern World

It has been over 100 years since Tolkien first began his work on Middle Earth with the first draft verses of Luthien and Beren's story and the world has changed much in that time. Tolkien never published most of Legendarium until the end of his life he continued to draft and redraft its stories, and this begets the question of what Tolkien would have wished a completed Legendarium to look like and what I would have liked the Legendarium to be.

I personally disagree with most of Professor Tolkien's political opinions. While I do not think he was ever mean spirited, to the grave he carried with him many old fashioned ideas that while not quite bigoted in themselves, underpinned a lot of bigoted talking points. For example after people wrote to him about the troubling implications of his Dwarves on the Jewish people, Tolkien in response changed his depiction and mythology about Dwarves, he genuinely tried to do better. However what he never corrected was the view was that there were inherent differences between the different kinds of people of the world. Giving minorities a positive stereotype is not necessarily a good thing (hardworking, good with money, etc.). It feeds into the model minority myth that pits minorities against each other and acts as a rallying point for white supremacists that X minority is a threat to the white race.

The more racist parts of the Legendarium however are not the Dwarves but the descriptions of the Lesser Men, the Men of Darkness. There exists this hierarchy of the types of Men with the enlightened and European-like High Men such as the Dúnedain at the top, followed by the Middle Men or Men of Twilight like the Rohirrim or most of the other European-like Men, and at the bottom are the Men of Darkness those groups of men who fell under the control of Sauron (note how the European men were wise/strong enough to fight off Evil but the other types weren't) like the Haradrim, the Hill-men and others who are described with racist language that was also used to describe Middle Eastern peoples, African peoples, and really anyone Europeans considered a savage. Yikes, let's just scrub that, it would be impossible to rid the Legendarium of the eurocentrism but I would at least remove the most racist parts. Nor would I want to remove all of the Eurocentrism, Tolkien after all was directly inspired by European literature and epics, that is the literary ancestry of the Legendarium and I would not discredit it.

It is not bad for works to include racism or other sensitive topics, I would instead turn the Eurocentrism present in the Legendarium into a commentary on the ignorance of Middle Earth on the rest of Arda and the woes of a limited perspective. This idea was present in some drafts, that the entirety of the Legendarium was a story told to a human sailor that had washed up on the shores of Tol Eressëa and thus what the audience sees is actually a story within a story, thus making all the biases of the Legendarium the biases of that in universe storyteller. Of what Tolkien ever drafted, most of it is Noldorian history or history recorded by those associated with the Noldor. We barely hear mention of the Elves that refused the Great Journey presumably because the Noldor did not care for the histories of those people, placing themselves (Eldar and Calaquendi) above the Avari. Even the words used to describe groups of Elves are primarily Noldorian (or High Elvish) or Sindarian (normal Elvish) and the Sindar were greatly influenced by Thingol who saw the light of the Trees and Melian who was a Maia. Much of the Lord of the Rings is told from the perspective of Middle Earth (Gondor, Elrond, Hobbits), instead of completely eliminating the racism I would tone it down and make it more clear that the racism present if a product of the in story authors and their perspectives. Another option though I am not as fond of it and it would be harder to do is to lean into the bigotry, confirm that it is baked into the universe and thus lean more heavily into the tragedy that all the character's live in a universe there racism and a lack of free will are inherent parts of the fabric or reality and inescapable (more on this later).

There's many social issues I could talk about here, but for me what is most blatantly chaffing is the Catholicism. Tolkien's Legendarium is a Catholic work. Professor Tolkien himself was devotedly Catholic and traditionally Catholic, and that undercurrent of Catholicism permeates every aspect of the Legendarium. The Catholicism shows up everywhere from the mythos have a one true god that is a all powerful, all knowing, and benevolent creator, to how weird the Legendarium is about divorce (like a divorce had the butterfly effect causing most of the First Age's problems), discussions of morality and free will are very much made with Catholic theology in mind, the Catholic focus on purity, marriage is a sacred act between two soulmates destined for each other, sex is what makes a marriage real, and divorce is evil. It would be impossible to remove all the Catholicism and have the Legendarium to still be recognizable. As someone who recognizes the sheer amount of cultural destruction Christianity has wrought upon this world, if I were to rewrite the Legendarium, to create its ideal form, I would tone down the Catholic-ness of it though not entirely eliminate it, the question is how.

In the Legendarium, alignment with Eru Ilúvatar's will equates good and to turn away is to be evil. Melkor, Sauron, and Saruman are all examples of this, all three started out wanted to do good, to improve the lives of the people of Arda. For example in the beginning of the universe Melkor wasn't out for destruction and suffering, no what he wanted was freedom of will and choice, individuality. It was in defying Ilúvatar that he was corrupted because Ilúvatar's will is good and to rebel against it is to do evil, good and fix are fixed universal constants in Arda. I personally am fascinated by the inherent existentialist themes present in the Legendarium's cosmology. If there is a fixed path before each person and to stray from it means to become cosmologically evil, what is the moral thing to do? The relationship between creator and created, Elves and Dwarves were designed for a purpose what does it mean to fulfill that purpose or nature? Ilúvatar's Theme as first envisioned was never realized, Arda was created marred, suffering and discomfort are inherent aspects to existence on Arda. Similar themes can be found in other existentialist series such as the NieR games. Elves in Arda are bound to it, they cannot escape their fates even in death, their very essences are tied to the fate of Arda. It is curious then that humans are the sole beings that can escape Illuvatar's will and the fate of Arda, the have what Morgoth sorely coveted, the freedom to individually choose how to live their lives, The Gift of Man. I would keep this aspect even if it does still reek of Catholicism.

This brings us to one of the pivotal events of the First Age, The Finwë Divorce Saga. Tolkien himself wrote that he did not intend the Legendarium to be a Catholic allegory mostly because he hated allegories, but the man was so deeply Catholic that it just permeated everything he created. One could view The War of the Jewels as a cautionary tale of how divorce is evil and will only cause trouble to everyone even if Tolkien did not intend that specific reading, his views on marriage and divorce still leaked through. But Feanor and his family drama is such a keystone to the events of the First Age that the entirety of that era cannot exist without him. What I would do then in a rewrite is shift the narrative blame away from Finwe and Miriel and over to the Valar. The problems that followed were primarily because of the Valar mishandling the situation, not that Miriel and Finwe wanted a divorce. Hints of this interpretation already exist in The Silmarillion and HOME so its not that I would be creating something new so much as shifting emphasis.

This would also necessitate making the Elves less Catholic as Elf culture is very Catholic. Because Elven spirits (fea) are tied to the fate of Arda they are immortal so long as the world exists, unlike humans when Elves die their spirits do not leave the world, so their loved ones and partners are not truly gone. To each elf, they have one true soulmate and thus their marriages are eternal, until the end of existence. I would just get rid of this or at least tone it down, remove some of the mysticism or marriage being a literal magic bond. For one I feel what the Elves do takes away the true joy and uniqueness of each romantic relationship, that it is something people chose, that people chose each other and they could have chosen differently. I think Tolkien wanted to highlight the unchanging eternal nature of his Elves, because to support divorce would mean acknowledging that people and feelings change (just like his marriage, yes I said it, in their later years John and Edith lived lives that little to do with each other even if they shared a house). There is something to believing that because each soul is inherently and immutably good, every single person can be saved no matter how far they fall because its impossible for that base nature to change. I do not believe that, but even if it were true (which would fit the cosmology as discussed above), that does not discount all the "surface" level changes a person can undergo. Take Maedhros one of my favorite characters for example, even if he had an unchanging immortal soul or whatever Catholics are calling it these days, his behavior changed. Maedhros had all the set up of a classical hero (eldest son of a storied and prestigious lineage, skilled at both pen and sword, a diplomat, a leader, loyal, determined), and his story is about him failing to become that hero and just becoming worse over time to where by the end he's killing innocents and people fighting against the great Evil, and he commits the ultimate sin of killing himself (also suicide being a sin is very Catholic).

Other's have discussed the problems with depictions of women in the Legendarium but to cover a couple major points, the Legendarium just lacks women there are barely any female characters, and of the women present it's like they are only allowed to act within the bounds of traditional European femininity. Take for example Luthien who is probably the single most powerful non-Maia in the series (well she is half but she's counted among the elves), and yet her power in the story manifests solely through traditionally feminine domains like weaving. This on its own would not be a problem, women are allowed to like feminine things and Luthien has a lot of agency within her story, the problem is that there are so few women in the Legendarium and they are all like this, what powers they have always coming from the feminine sphere.

And of course because the Legendarium is a Catholic work the concept of purity is tied to morality and applied to women. Through reading many different drafts and letters Galadrieal can likely be suspected of being one of Tolkien's favorites. Her role in the Swearing of the Oath and First Kinslaying at Alqualondë vary drastically between drafts. In earlier drafts she sided with Feanor and the Noldor and though she did not swear the Oath of Feanor and thus doom herself, in these earlier drafts she is counted among the leaders of the Noldor revolt and like them is exiled from Aman. In other drafts she alternately does not participate in the attack on Alqualondë or even fights with her mother's brethren the Teleri against Feanor's forces, in some she crosses the Ice with Fingolfin's forces and in a particular draft she has nothing to do with the Exile of the Noldor and comes to Middle Earth by her own boat for her own means the timing just so happens to coincidentally line up. Generally in later drafts Tolkien bends over backwards to make exceptions for Galadrial so that she commits less sins and remains pure, he removes her rebellion against the divine and associations with the Exiled Noldor and thus retcons the most interesting aspect of her character in order to keep her unstained. This is one of two time where I have a strong preference for earlier drafts of the Legendarium (the other is draft epilogue where The Lord of the Rings ends with Sam looking back before closing the door as he hears the whisper of Aman on the wind). Those later drafts do a massive disservice to her character. Galadriel's whole character arc is that she starts off a headstrong, prideful, rebellious princess who want a kingdom of her own because she wants the power to rule over other people and through the devastation of the First and Second Ages she mellows out to become one of the wisest people in Middle Earth who would look power in the face and say no, who rules to serve and protect the people in her kingdom. Galadriel is so much more if Tolkien allows her to make mistakes when she was younger, to carry the guilt of what she enabled and allowed or perhaps participated in and have that weight shape her for the better. Then her actions in Middle Earth become not about how she was always good and pure, they become about redemption and taking the marred and the ugly and making something worthwhile out of it.

Éowyn the one character who noticeably steps beyond the boundaries for women, gets shoved back into traditional femininity at the end of her story, choosing to leave the battlefield to tend hearth and home. Now this likely was not intentional on Professor Tolkien's part. What he intended was a continuation of his anti-war stance seen throughout his works. World War I was brutal and massive shock to the world, recent innovations in technology made killing easier and faster, so while not the bloodiest conflict in history it was an abrupt wake up to the traditional modes of war. Soldiers went out and were slaughtered, most of Tolkien's tight-knit friend-group died in that war. On the battlefield Tolkien found no glory or honor, all he saw were the horrors of war, the human cost and the purposeless suffering inflicted. His anti-war stance can been seen most clearly outside the Legendarium in The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son which is a dialectic between an veteran soldier and a new soldier. Within The Lord of the Rings we see this is how Sam in the true hero of this story, in how hobbits value peace and good food over war or politics, in how the best men like Aragorn and Faramir are peaceful and would rather choose the pen over the sword. We see this most strongly in "The Scouring of the Shire" which arguably is the most thematically poignant part of The Lord of the Rings, because the a person's story does not end with the battle, sometimes war never ends for some people, and yet there are things worth fighting for in this world. War is terrible, but sometimes we have to fight to protect the simple good things in the world and it is not some destined hero that will save us but ordinary people rising to the occasion together. However it is incredibly conspicuous that the only major female character shown on the battlefield was the one forced to carry this narrative of putting down her sword to take care of a household. There are dozens of men in this story that fight in the War of the Ring and we do not see any of them retiring from fighting and choosing domesticity. It would have been so powerful if Tolkien chosen her brother the war chief Eomer to carry this message, imagine if it were him who came from a warrior culture and becomes warrior-king who chose to put down his sword and forswear fighting. So yes I would have rewritten Eowyn's ending, let malewife Faramir have his kickass girlboss wife. Let Eowyn's arc be her fielding herself out of despair and a desire to prove herself, and her character development learning that she is more powerful than she thought and that she will continue to wield the sword in service of Rohan, her people, and in service of peace.

Now I have typed some 3000 words about what I would change and why so let me end on some of the things I would keep the same for I love the Legendarium dearly and I would preserve far more than I would change. I would keep the hope and love that is written into these stories. I would keep that there is beauty in this world, there is good in friends and family. I would keep the awe and wonder for the natural world, that mountains and forests and streams can be their own characters. I would keep the sense of magic, not in the sense of spellcasting and sword and sorcery style magic, but that wonder and joy for the world that makes everything magical. I would keep that life is a journey and all you have to do is take the first step out your front door. I would keep the believably that this is just an untold forgotten history and like it there are still many mysteries in the world. I would keep the wide scale of continents and forces beyond us moving to their own stories. Tolkien crafted the Legendarium out of love, from that first poem about the woman he was in love with, to his love of philology stories and creation, Arda was made with love. In the Legendarium is deep love of the world, the natural world and the people that inhabit it, in here is hope too that no matter what evils plague the world there is still good there too in the hearts of the most ordinary person.

#tolkien #silmarillion #tolkien legendarium #lotr #lord of the rings #the hobbit #eowyn #i love the catholic elves i hate the catholic elves im using the catholic elves as a chew toy #just to be clear since tradwife tumblr of all groups has found this post #christianity is the religion of western imperialism bigotry and hate #also terfs can fuck off

[hobbinch]

Note how the terf in the last reblog talks about narcissists/sociopaths. Trauma recovery isn't learning how to identify the baddest ones and keep them away from you or lock them away forever. That attitude is a direct descendent of the asylum system and an arm of white supremacy. You might feel like you're keeping yourself safe, but your fear is being used as a justification to commit human rights abuses.

If you think you're one of the good guys in that paradigm, please understand the difference between you and a Covert Narcissist™️ is someone willing to interpret your behavior in the worst possible faith.

#tbh i also believe anything short of prison/psych abolition is antithetical to feminism #how can anyone think theyre helping women who suffer the most while believing theres a whole class of people who are irredeemably evil #like of course thats a common terf/radfem stance considering their views on trans womanhood #but like oh my god its just so clear how willing these women are to fuck over other women even cis ones #to uphold their worldviews #ableism/ #transmisogyny/

[mitzirockerextendeduniverse]

‘the barbie movie is transphobic because it ends with barbie going to a gynaecologist’ is such a performative ally take. apparently we transes are so fragile any indication a woman might have a vagina is so offensive it cannot be borne

#mine #barbie #to be clear: terfs fuck off #but also you sound like terfs parodying trans people when you say that #it’s something out of the babylon bee #complaining

[shopliftingforjesus]

infinitely frustrating to me that the same people who say “you have to be nice to mormons and jehovas’ witnesses bc theyre in a cult and when youre mean it just digs them in deeper” are so ready to mock and laugh at tradwives, as if these women arent in abusive relationships and dont need help. the relationships between these women and their “off-the-grid” husbands will inevitably end with the woman being badly harmed, and the youtube shorts mocking them are utterly lacking in compassion and imo actively harmful to any kind of feminism. not even to mention these women are what, 18 or 19 when they get into this shit, aka the age when most of us are dumb-as-fuck contrarian shitheads, and yelling at them about how wrong they are is obviously not going to change anything. you dont have to like them, and in fact i think most of them are probably pretty shitty people, but if youre a leftist, you should think that even shitty people dont deserve to be abused. that 22-yo dumbass tiktoker is going to be a battered wife by the time shes 30. regardless of her political lean or personal virtue, she doesnt deserve to be a battered wife and she deserves compassion—even if its just enough compassion that she trusts there is some group of people who will protect her after the horrible mistake shes made.

#fuck off cj #if a single person responds to this i will probably regret writing it publicly bc internet discourse is terrible #but god i hate seeing this shit #horrible both in terms of morality and ethics #and praxis #like great job making it clear leftists dont care abt people who have made a horrible mistake when theyre a young adult #feminism #tradwives #terfs fuck off #srsly terfs fuck off bc youre in the same boat having been taken in by a hateful cult #and youre not welcome to speak on this #and mostly bc i dont want to interact with you #youve set feminism back 30 years #and i dont wanna deal with hateful bullshit #but im getting off topic #mostly just #ugh #and also feminism

[moesartblog]

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#I just saw a post that pissed me off #it is so frustrating seeing posts complaining about lesbians being ‘forced’ to have sex with men #like I’m so sorry but uh lesbians lesbians and men have been sucking and fucking men particularly queer men since time in memoriam #and that doesn’t make them not lesbians and doesn’t mean they were necessarily forced to do it eaither #and this is not talking about the cases where that does happen #queer people of all sorts fuck and date and it will not fit into a neat box that makes you feel good every time #I hate the rising of Porto terf/radfem/transphobia rhetoric and the gender essentialism shit #sorry I’m rambling this is frustrating #also how fuckibg insensitive to bring of conversion therapy in relation to lesbians and gay men fucking each other consentually holy fuck #obviously if someone is being a fucking pushy ass and saying all lesbians should fuck men that’s awful and that person should be shunned #but I see these reactions to people just gleefully talking about the messy queer relationships they have or want to have or see #and people who do the whole nmlnm bullshit getting their emotions in a bungle #if you don’t like these opinions of mine please feel free to leave and block me #this may have not been coherent at points and is definitely vague posting about a specific post but it bothered me so much #forgot to mention the biphobia in it too #also I wanted to make it clear the cases where lesbians are pressured into sex with people they don’t wanna have sex with is Bad like it is #never EVER acceptable and the people who promote that need to be strung up #but this is not about those situations

[jewishfalin]

It is really disheartening how exclusionary and gatekeepy the lesbian community can be at times tbh. So much discourse is just pointless and not to mention can also be really tough on lesbians who are in the process of figuring themselves out.

#please no one be lesbophobic on this post i am a lesbian myself im just disappointed seeing shit other lesbians say sometimes #there is just so much pointless discourse and im sick of it ! who gives a shit! #and i know a lot of the issues are because terfs have twisted and spread lies about lesbian history #and even a lot of lesbians who say stuff like terfs fuck off and that theyre trans friendly n stuff still fall for terf propaganda #constantly #and let me be clear this is not to say lesbians and the lesbian community as a whole are bad or transphobic ofc! #i myself am a lesbian and also trans #i am just kvetching about problems within the community i notice #non lesbians please do not use my words to be asses about lesbians thanks

[undeadhousewife]

I love pointing out everyone wants to fuck older men here but no one says shit about older women, only to have people be like well yeah? What about HER! and then show me pictures of older women who clearly have had a shit ton work done, on the website that absolutely shits on the idea of having work done.

Like I get the demographic here is younger but I can not stress to you enough how much ANYONE in the public eye has had work done and also that as much as you all clap back about letting women age you sure as shit aren't in to it realistically.

#Also if it needs to be made clear #Terfs can fuck off this post isn't for you

[ghost-of-someone]

literally just saw some radfem bullshit on my dash, & then when I went to their blog to block them not only was it full of anti-trans half arguments & accusations of other people being childish, but one of the very first posts was about how a certain show would be better if one of the main characters was a young woman instead of an old man because they "don't like old people"

#there is no point to this other than i'm pissed and tired of having terf bullshit pass my dash #i feel like i'm gonna have to get that eye thing because i don't super vet the blogs i interact with casually #so as long as they're not immediately anti queer i usually don't notice #and then i've got fucking radfem shit in my 'based on your likes' feed #all because i interacted with feminism stuff that - without the anti-trans lens - seemed totally fine #& like terfs are already shitty people but i feel like the anti older person sentiment just further highlighted the fact that #terfs are just shitty hypocrytical people who play the 'poor me boo hoo you're all childish' card & act like they're so fucking superior #& that any trans folks are terrible #and then turn around and spout all kinds of bigotry #but it's okay i guess because they've got a vagina <3 (& experience the exact same kind of misogyny that tons of us do but they're special) #ALSO #I learned what 'moid' means and you guys are fucking assholes #men are not just mindless sex freaks you fucking cunts #& the fact that you think that just shows how warped your sense of the world is #you 'hate the patriarchy' but aren't interested in actually dismantling it #how could you when you don't even view half of the people involved as really human! #fuck off #terfs and radfems aren't welcome here and you can all kick rocks #i try my best for this to be a queer friendly space and i want that to be clear right fucking now #if anyone who follows me has bothered to read this please let me know if i've accidentally reblogged something from the 'drop the t' crowd #i am not the golden standard queer or whatever the fuck the term is #but i dont ever want someone to think that i'm part of that crowd

[heydragonfly]

hm. just gonna say this cause a terf just followed me and I ain’t fucking with that: if you’re a terf you can suck my entire asshole, you vapid cunt! if your feminism doesn’t include trans women then you’re not a feminist at all!

#go suck a rancid dick! #I blocked them but I can’t remember if tumblr functions enough for that to mean they also can no longer follow you #and i’ve been getting an influx of followers lately and just gotta Make This Shir Clear #sorry just got especially mad bc ofc they’re terf shit was hidden even though all the initial dog whistles were there #and used ahistorical bullshit to justify their bullshit #oh you’re a biology grad student? congrats you’re still a fucking moron who’d get clowned in any history seminar! #GAH #missing when I got 1 new follower every 3 months and barely had to check this shit #I usually don’t even check but they had one of those terf dogwhistle icons

[belovedblabber]

Actually, thinking about that post about how it’s easier to hate nazis then to love Jews etc., and it did make me think about a similar (in terms of sentiment, I don’t want to imply that I’m saying these things are the exact same and can just be swapped in terms of how they function) situation I see a lot with how so many cis people who are trying to be good allies focus like 90 or so percent of their time on hating terfs and being like “punch a terf!” “fuck terfs lol!” etc. and so little time on trying to listen to trans people, uplift trans people etc. It’s very easy to jump on the wagon in terms of shouting those sentiments, often with good intentions (and very often, let’s be real, for clout as well), but then a lot of the time so little of that energy is turned to actually trying to do any work on your own internalized transphobia, and to trying to support, listen to, and uplift trans people. I see a lot of cis people shouting “fuck terfs” but then turning around and refusing to learn from and engage with actual trans issues past the surface level performance of anti-terf rhetoric. I’m not saying that saying like ‘fuck terfs!’ is a bad thing, obviously. But it does often seem that people will engage in that aspect of rhetoric without making any attempts to be actual by allies and uplifters of the people they claim to be supporting. 

And to be clear, I’m cis. And this isn’t me trying to be like “well unlike OTHER cis people I GET it” because no, I have many times had harmful shit I’ve had to unlearn, and I am sure I will continue to learn things and fuck up and need to self examine. This habit of talking the talk without walking the walk is just something I’ve noticed, and something I myself have done in the past. It’s a lot easier to say a trendy (within you know, many leftist circles etc.) slogan than to do actual work, and I think that this is something cis people, including myself, need to keep in mind

#i hope i am not out of line with this post #like don't hesitate to call me out over smth i've said here if i'm saying anything in ignorance #this is just something i've noticed a lot among leftist cis people #i think there's also something to be said for how just spouting these slogans leaves people open for indoctrination #BY terfs to be clear #because if you spout a slogan without ever examining the why behind it #and without engaging with the issues it represents #it leaves you open to being taken in by terf rhetoric if someone over on twitter or whatever comes in to say #'oh well you know ACTUALLY being gender critical us-' bla bla bla #etc. #if that makes any sense #like obvi one would hope that people have the critical thinking skills to intuit why terfs are bad without having to do a lot of work #and thinking on it #but a lot of people to lack those skills #and i have seen people who have previously had 'fuck terfs' blaring out #shift over into being like 'oh actually maybe terfs have a point' or whatever #and it's wild #and kind of speaks to how surface level and performative a lot of purported allyship is #you know? #again if I'm saying anything in ignorance here please feel free to say so but this is just something that I've noticed #in my own personal experience

[percyjacksonfan3]

Sincerely, why do you believe a man who cuts off his dick and has to clear a constantly "dilated" neovagina - literally full of fecal bacteria that smells just like you think btw - is entitled and sane enough to creep into the same bathroom as you? Does that sound like someone with a healthy soul enough to not be a complete lunatic pervert when you pull your panties down in the stall? That is the implication in your bio.

Hey uh... I sincerely have no idea what the fuck you're talking about or what in my bio has led you to sending me this, but even if you are just a random troll filling people's inboxes this seems like TERF rhetoric which is super fucking gross so how about you go away now

#why can people not be normal? i ask on tumblr where we are all completely insane #but at least we're the good kind this is just... yuck #how about we let ppl clean their neovaginas in peace okay? #and stop caring so much about what other people are doing in bathrooms #fun fact! all the people who have made me feel unsafe or threatened in or near a bathroom has identified as male so... #yeah anon your experience and mine are not the same #fuck off now pls #tw transphobia #the only reason i didnt delete this is bc i havent posted any fuck terfs things in a while #clearing out the inbox #also wtf why are you talking about smell?? pls seek help and stop thinking about other peoples privates

[ssaltlicker]

People will be like no im not lesbophobic i just automatically categorize all lesbians as violent evil predatory misandrists and will frame everything they say as violent and hateful without actually learning if its accurate first. I also assume anyone that uses or includes lesbian-specific terms in their identity irl or online is evil. Why would that be problematic in any way

Terfs rot in hell btw

#maybe if you see a lesbian with any opinion as them being evil bloodthirsty predators #thats a problem. idk #to be clear. transphobia is wrong. clearly #lesbians can be transphobic. and thats wrong #not ALL lesbians are transphobic. #straight women and bi women can also be transphobic. #which is forgotten. conveniently #most terfs ive seen have been bi or straight which makes sense given statistics #but no one does this shit to them! because it isnt fucking about transphobia! #theres trans lesbians that are also hurt by lesbophobia #but why think about that? #when you can demonize an entire minority! #nothing wrong abt that

[nicollekidman]

Abby P*yton th*mas opinion piece RIGHT there on the main page as I am scrolling thru the NEW YORK TIMES about his Louisa may Alcott shit 😭😭😭 I screamed

omg thank you so much for asking! the answer is no 🥰🥰 nyt opinion section literally the most lawless bottom of the barrel section of the internet and i’m so serious. be gone peyton you’re not getting me heated on christmas eve

#to be CLEAR terfs fuck OFF #but can peyton also fuck off with this like shut up you ahistorical kinny weirdo #i’m too sexy to read it god bless us every one