#if you are a terf. don’t be that

[crtter]

#noticed this post was made by a TERF so get stolen idiot #and in case she sees this: ​if cats could understand the kind of hate you stand for they’d avoid you forever. you don’t deserve cats #animals #cats #eepy #seepy #eepying #iz sweepy #soooo eepy #kittens #sleepy

[walnutsupreme]

btw since there’s like triple the amt of u there was before i’m gonna do a little housekeeping and say this very loudly: u have to be as transgender as possible and you have to do it as incorrectly as possible all the time. any inquiries can be directed to my ask box

#fuck terfs and ppl who perpetuate terf content 👍 i don’t care how far divorced you think your marauders au is from jk rowling #this is like my main big thing ^ #normally i’d weed transphobes myself but i also got like. maybe 1 follower every few months before this. so

[cloudabserk]

I can't believe you're a guy...your arts are way too cute and adorable to be from a male. I thought you'd promote violence or objectification of women or something male like that. Are you gay? You must be. Straight guys don't have this much taste

so did they have to teach you how to act like a freak in some sort of special academy or are you just like this naturally

#on the off chance you don’t understand why this would bother someone: do not say this weird gender essentialist terf shit to people

[acowardinmordor]

Fucked up thought as I do material spec: transmasc Eddie Munson who gets bullied and called a guy because of how he dresses and acts (transphobic so bad they looped back to what Eddie wants on accident) dating Steve post S2, who knows and supports him, but still has to misgender his bf in public until they can get out of Hawkins. Eddie fails again, they get in a fight about whether they should leave, and aren’t broken up, but aren’t really together as S3 starts. So when Eddie visits Scoops, Steve is so happy to see him that he calls him Eddie and he/him in public, just like the bullies, and can’t explain to Robin, who is absolutely pissed that Steve is treating her Eddie like that.

#steddie #I always love when Steve is *processing confusion* : immediate support #Eddie wants to be called Eddie? sure thing #‘what’s trans?’ Steve’s not sure #but that’s his boyfriend eddie #who he has to call his girlfriend #because his boyfriend asked him to #also don’t @ me #the shit you do to stay safe in unsafe areas is ridiculous #also there’s a weird confluence of feminism and trans experience #that predates terfs #where feminists were advocating for a woman’s right to wear pants #and have short hair and muscles #to be typically male looking without being less of a woman #so in 85 Robs first thought is probably to defend Eddie’s right to be any kind of woman

[borf-borfs]

some of y’all genuinely rb shit like

How to spot a TERF (most common dogwhistles!!!!)

Number 1: they post about WOMEN’S RIGHTS 😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😰😰😰😰😰😰😱😱😱😱😱😥😥😥😥😥😓😓😓😓😓🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢

#like bro just cus someone is passionate about women’s rights doesn’t mean they’re a terf 💀 #just say you don’t care about those issues and move on #terf has just become a buzzword at this point #me when recognising the oppression of women makes me transphobic 😡😡😡😡😡

[our-transmasculine-experience]

I need to be publicly perceived as a guy asap.

so true

#terfs please i beg of you don’t find this one #transgender #lgbt #lgbtq #queer #trans #transmasc #trans guy #trans man #ftm #trans boy

[feminist-bitches-only]

Hey @ trans inclusive radical feminists, how do y’all beat the terf accusations while also talking about sex based oppression as a form of misogyny? I literally highlight my support of trans people in my bio and my pinned post and just got hit with a terf accusation :/

#I’m thinking maybe it’s because I will reblog posts that discuss good feminist concepts without checking to see if the op is a terf??? #or is this just not possible to do at all if you talk about sex based oppression as a major player in misogyny? #like I don’t wanna stop posting or reblogging posts that happen to discuss some issues between trans tumblr and feminist tumblr #ex like claiming the Billie eilish must be trans since she dresses in a gnc way #because like that’s a terribly misogynistic way of thinking and needs to be brought to peoples attention #but I literally never imply that trans people on the whole are the issue like there are gonna be misogynists and bad apples in any group #no matter their identity #so like what do ya do to not have people mistake you for a terf? #is it just bc people knee jerk react when they see radfem inspired non transphobic feminist takes because they have experience with seeing #radfem informed posts that are transphobic? #tirf #trans inclusive feminism #trans inclusive radical feminism #trans inclusive radical feminist

[xbuster]

Now I’m thinking again of that dumb post I saw on this website saying that yaoi is defined by homoerotic violence and yuri is defined by longing or yearning or whatever so like. By that definition MayaKuro would be lesbian yaoi.

#they’re dumb definitions though don’t any of you ever think ‘hey that’s a good point’ #it’s like a terf definition

[minty-mumbles]

What an excellent day to remember that trans women are people and trans men are people and nonbinary people are people, and all of them deserve bodily autonomy, human rights, and love

Peace and love on planet earth 🥰

#and if you don’t remember one of those things then go die in a Yule Log fire #and get the HELL off my blog #like I am literally trans wtf #don’t you dare find enjoyment in my creations if you are fundamentally agaisnt my exsistance #also merry Christmas Eve to those who celebrate #except terfs

[freshbeeth]

hey it's me FreshBeeth

hello lesbians (and others) thank u for following me i love u all

i do a lot of shit online you should follow me on my:

YouTube Channels (Main / Highlights + Playthroughs / Music)

Twitch (i stream every wednesday evening)

Twitter (fuckass app but alas)

Discord Server (in its infancy, sorry if it's dry)

TikTok (i rarely post there but nevertheless)

Instagram (art/photography)

Spotify (i have a lot of Black artist playlists that you should listen to even though it has nothing to do with splatoon)

or don't i'm not a cop

ANYWAYS BEAUTIFUL TRANS + DISABLED + RACIALLY MARGINALIZED PEOPLE ARE WELCOME HERE THE ONLY THING I WON’T ALLOW IS BIGOTRY AND HATE 😘

#if you’re wondering if you count as a ‘beautiful X person’ you do. sry i don’t make the rules #unless ur racist or a terf in which case YOU ARE UGLYYYYYYY GET OUT OF MY HOUSE #freshbeeth #splatoon #splatoon 3 #cosplay

[mintharasthrone]

more “gay” pages posting complete homophobic garbage claiming bisexual women are lesbians

#tra homophobia #drop the t & b #of course there’s a comment calling us actual lesbians trans/biphobic 🙄 #all lesbians are terfs bc homosexuality is only real if a woman is a feminist or political like what kind of homophobic logic #they think they’re so different than het men who argue all lesbians aren’t real and want a male and piv #the obsession with also equating toys to wanting a man is never ending #and i remember the poll here that showed most lesbians of course want to eat pussy most of all #and bi women wanted to use toys #like lesbians don’t want anything that looks like a dick when they have sex only bi women do and i know from experience #why the fuck would we #i wish people would stop fucking obsessing over and disecting how lesbians have sex and why #they always have to make it about males and dick #it’s socially acceptable to make creepy perverted comments always talking about or mocking lesbian sex #bi women are like why do lesbians hate us? you literally are with whole ass men calling yourselves lesbians and dykes and bonding over how #much you hate real lesbians and insinuating we aren’t real and can be fixed with conversion #therapy #people hate us so deeply for loving only women and only the female anatomy #they genuinely believe we can’t be happy being homosexuals and bring up toys as some kind of proof #the same people who can’t make women come unlike us

[seaglassmarbles]

“gender criticals” using misogyny to trans-vestigate cis women will never not be funny

what’s even funnier is that these pictures have been used to prove this point before and they are STILL falling for it

#terfs hate women #anti terf #anti radfem #gender critical #if you don’t look like a pleasure doll to terfs then you MUST be a man

[verberation]

The world needs more wounded butch knights, grimly shouldering duty, wandering from lonely town to lonely town in the name of a saint no-one remembers, drinking in the darkest corners of a tavern, fighting with a shield in one hand and wielding a broken sword they cannot bear to replace in the other. The world has broken them upon it but still they keep going, accompanied only by their nameless horse, their impossible burden, the memory of the soft touch of the queen they love in a way that no knight should feel for their liege.

#editing tags to say: FUCK OFF TERFS #THE BUTCH IS TRANS MASC DYKE HE THEY IN A BUTCH WAY #WOE: AN ACTUAL UNDERSTANDING OF STONE BUTCH BLUES BE UPON YOU #butch knight #TRANS RIGHTS #lesbian knight #writing #i would give my right arm for this #Don’t make me write this 😭😭😭 #i have too many things to write as is #also but if anyone knows any books with these characters please tell me! #fantasy fiction #knighthood #lgbtq+ #terfs get blocked #queer

[glitter-soda]

I find it depressing to think about the future, when the majority of people stop thinking being Queer™ is cool and trendy. They’re going to be laughing about how “cringe” they used to be while women and LGB people are stuck cleaning up the mess they made.

#y’all are destroying female protections and lowering the population’s acceptance for gay people #and you don’t care because you can easily toss this all aside when you’re done ‘exploring your identity’ or whatever #terf safe #radfem safe #trans misogyny #trans homophobia #q slur

[terven-queen]

If I see someone on here being like “terfs fuck off and die” or “terfs are stinky” or “OP is a terf, beware,” I send anonymous praise of terfs to them… just to be a little annoying. 😇

#terf positivity #proud terf #radblr #radfem #radical feminism #terfblr #<3 #radfems are awesome #terfs are the best women #just some facts 📠 #no I don’t have a life… why do you ask 😅

[litres-of-cocaine]

you people don’t know what death of the author is.

it’s from Roland Barthes’ essay of the same name about the viewpoint of academic interpretation. the essay argues that literary criticism should base itself around the reader’s interpretation rather than authorial intention. essentially saying what the author was TRYING to convey is irrelevant in comparison to what the text ACTUALLY conveys. there is some debate about the value of this method, but it is almost universally preferred by academic literary circles.

crucially, it does NOT refer to amputating a writer from the ownership/creation of their work for whatever reason. so people claiming death of the author to justify buying harry potter stuff is just plain wrong. what they are doing is (unsuccessfully) separating the art from the artist which is a dumb as fuck concept anyway but also notably different to what death of the author is.

death of the author does have some relevance to jkr if we are thinking about her attempts to retcon/add/change elements of the books outside of the narrative (i.e. on twitter and even on pottermore to an extent), as it problematises the literary norm to decenter authorial intention that has been a standard since Barthes’ 1967 essay.

(this does get tricky though if we are thinking in terms of popular culture rather than academic standards, as authors commenting upon their work and elaborating on the world their characters inhabit is a perfectly acceptable thing in modern publishing. i would say jkr’s excessive interest in exerting control over her fiction does encroach upon both lines, however, as she tries to alter the potential interpretations of her work without any textual basis and problematises academic interest as well as just the leisure associated with understanding)

this is mostly in response to people saying that death of the author doesn’t work when the author is alive and /no/ you are thinking of ‘separating the art from the artist’ which is a separate but not unconnected idea.

what annoys me about this is that it not only completely misuses death of the author but also suggests that separating the art from the artist can ever work. (it does not).

although they might seem fairly similar they actually assume completely different things. decentering authorial intent does not mean that the artist is unconnected to their output. if we were to analyse The Importance of Being Earnest, ignoring Wilde’s own experience with living a scandalous double-life would be short-sighted. we can’t isolate literature from their contexts and death of the author doesn’t try to do that. The implicit attributes of Wilde’s life seeping into the play’s narrative is a fact and we can talk about that without considering what Wilde intended. What Wilde wanted in his narrative is irrelevant, whether he intended the parallels to his own life is irrelevant, the fact that these similarities are there is interesting. The artist is the creator, a very significant factor in the text’s construction, but they don’t get to decide what their text means with any more authority than the next person.

if we ‘separate the art from the artist’ this is negated. suddenly we cannot analyse the text with any kind of seriousness as the foundations of the text have disappeared. you cannot separate jk rowling from harry potter because so much of the text is built upon white english middle class sensibilities. what we write and how we interpret what other people write is based on our identities, and who we are. you take that away the book might as well be empty.

so yes separating the art from the artist doesn’t work in jkr’s case because it never works, and what you are talking about is definitely NOT death of the author.

if someone wants to buy crummy wizard hats then they should go for it, but pretending that you’re safe from blame is ridiculous .

#if you are going to do something bad knowing it’s bad accept it #don’t try and pander your way out of it #do it!!! accept that human beings do shitty things!!! #and if it makes you feel bad about yourself - good. don’t do it next time #jkr #jk rowling #harry potter #death of the author #separating the art from the artist #terfs suck also 👍 #hope this helps #long post #discourse