#shes not even a radfem but shes pretty rad

[shinra-makonoid]

I skimmed "rad-ical" radfem's latest response, and she's just... She straight up says trauma can change your sexuality, and that somehow "sex-based trauma" is the reason for both that and people being sexist with who their doctors are (i.e. demanding a doctor of a certain sex. Funny how demanding your doctor fit a certain demographic is bigoted when it's stuff like, not wanting a certain race, but somehow justifiable in the case of sex. Even tho many use the same justification. Fear and whatever the demographic they don't want being a source of "trauma" for them).

She also, for some reason, thinks men view childbirth and breastfeeding as disgusting and uses that to justify insisting women's lives AREN'T valued more than men due to, ya know, being the only ones who can gestate a human being... Which, no. I have actually never met one that finds either disgusting (I've even met some men who find breastfeeding, for one reason, sexy. Likely cuz they were pervs imagining themselves in the baby's place, but yeah). Usually when I see people complaining about a woman breastfeeding, it's either someone really old... Or a woman who thinks her male partner will stare at the other woman's tits while she does it.

She also goes on a tangent about how you supposedly didn't read either study and they actually prove her right. Among many many many other things you'll see once you read hers. It's honestly tiring. She even tries to keep her amicable act, which again makes me certain she is a damn sexist because at this point she was already hurling insults at me. It's clear she has a favorite between afab and amab in terms of who she lets challenge her ideals without resorting to childish bullshit.

Good luck if you keep arguing with her. Something tells me she's not going to stop misreading what you're saying and arguing based on that misreading. That seems to be her thing.

Pretty much this.

In regards to studies, what surprises me is that we both read the second one, but she seems to understand something different than me from it? I'm just a bit puzzled about that, I'm pretty sure I didn't miss something. It makes it coherent with everything else.

But yeah, she might never reply and all, I'm fine with that.

#nerdylilpeebee #ask

[menalez]

like i believe havekat ran a radfem gossip blog at one point and i remember when i pointed out that whoever ran said blog has me blocked so i don’t show in the notes, she unblocked me on havekat soon after and suddenly i showed in the notes. that’s when i realised she was running that gossip blog which btw was 90% or so about me, saying the vilest things about me. but ofc we could argue it’s all a weird coincidence and totally not her. when i was fed up with her racism & bullshit & spoke against her (after side eyeing her for 2 years and trying to see the best in her, to no avail) she blocks me on havekat first and THEN rad-bad soon after, which again confirms to me that they’re the same blog. she even straight up admitted to that blog (rad-bad, yiya-whatever-etc) being hers after commenting on my post on tyler oakley… i had no inkling before then that she ran havekat. and now after all this, she projects the type of shit she does (like send in anons about me and partake in anon harassment via gossip blogs that she created) onto me. i don’t know who she thinks she’s tricking bc she did not put much effort into hiding who she is, even revealing her full name and then pretending her white girl selfies are some mysterious ex gf she finds pretty, but i find her trying to pin it on me suspicious.

#the only ppl buying it are ofc TRAs because she knows theyre the more profitable ilk in the end so ofc why not blame it on an ~evil terf~ #why not pretend ur perpetual victimhood is ongoing n that im stalking u? might as well right?

[radhyena]

Even though JKR isn’t a radical feminist, I think the reason so many rads are so into her is not just standing up, but we can relate to her in a lot of ways.

I was hovering around radfem spaces for years, and I remember when her first essay about trans women dropped. Everyone was outraged and I read it and… it was a good essay. Very nice. I mean very nice. It sent others spiralling into a moral panic but she barely scratched the surface.

Pretty much every other rad I’ve had deep conversations with has started this way. Obviously not all but it’s a pattern, trying to accept this new knowledge of gender criticism while trying to spare peoples feelings, that’s trained into most women so until we break out, we try to find the happy even ground.

But then the backlash starts. For JKR it was so much vitriol and abuse, no discussion just hate and rape threats and death threats.

So she got more radical. And she got meaner because why wouldn’t she? Why would she stand with a community that at worst is actively sending her threats or at best tolerating and excusing her abuse

I used to feel bad about being mean as a radical feminist and sometimes I still do struggle with that. But most times I don’t give a shit because I got this way because of how poorly I was treated by TRA’s. And this was before I went full TERF either.

I think the story of society creating a monster and then condemning its existence is such a female thing.

#radblr #jk rowling

[radicalfembabey]

🤝, 📚 , 💕 and 👀 for the radfem ask game?

🤝 - What introduced you to radical feminism?

[small tw for sexual violence mention] Okay this is gonna sound kinda weird but I first started seeing radfem takes on Pinterest! In like late freshman/early sophomore year of high school I was getting a lot more politically conscious; I had just taken AP Gov during the 2016 election, so it was a bit of a 0-60 kind of year for that. I remember scrolling through my feed looking through different posts related to reproductive rights and male violence, and a loooooot of posts that convinced me for a while that the libfem idea of gender was the "right" one.

I was a pretty raging TRA for a few months, but by the end of junior year I had been seeing more radfem takes - that just sort of happened by default when I saw gender-related posts, and then I started intentionally seeking them out to gloat about how dumb the radfems were. Then radfem posts started making a hell of a lot more sense than libfem ones.

I made this tumblr account and didn't even post anything, just really quietly followed some radfems on here and started looking through their blogs for a more comprehensive overview of radical feminist beliefs and also to see if anyone happened to have PDFs of radfem theory (again, all I really had to go off of was Pinterest, so not exactly the pinnacle of academia). In particular, I was looking through @rad-chocho 's posts, and saw one that was just a metric shit ton of TIMs expressing their desire to sexually harass, violate, or even brutalize and impregnate radfems. I peaked immediately, found all the radfem theory I could've wanted in a very convenient Google folder, started actually posting on this lovely blog, and haven't looked back since!

📚 - Any books to recommend?

In terms of radfem or related texts, I can't recommend "Invisible Women" by Caroline Criado-Perez enough. It's about 400 solid pages of statistics and research that dive into just how deeply misogyny is ingrained in societies worldwide, to the point that we don't even notice it the majority of the time. I would also totally recommend "The Myth of the Female Brain" by Gina Rippon; she's a highly esteemed neuroscientist and this book pretty much destroys the idea that a brain can be scanned and categorized as belonging to a man or a woman, and why. It's decently dense, and there's a lot of technical jargon, but she does an excellent job of explaining what terms mean and why it's important!

For other nonfiction texts that aren't radfem-related, if y'all are interested at all in paleontology, I've been really loving "Dinosaurs Without Bones" by Anthony J. Martin! It talks about trace fossils like footprints and burrows and how we can use these fossils to reconstruct what the lives of dinosaurs might have looked like, migratory patterns, predatory or pack behaviors, and a whole slew of other stuff. He even goes into these really vibrant narratives trying to imagine a holistic view of what the age of the dinosaurs might have looked like, based on trace fossils found during the same eras! Definitely not everyone's cup of tea, but if you're a bit of a dino nerd like I am, you'll love it!

I have a love affair with fiction and I've been reading a ton of specifically lesbian fantasy! I've absolutely loved "Gideon the Ninth" and its sequels by Tamsyn Muir; she's hilarious, the worldbuilding is INSANELY interesting, and its a very slow burn about lesbian space necromancers, but if you're not ready to cry your eyeballs out of your skull then maybe wait on this one. I also really enjoyed our classic lesbian fantasy "The Priory of the Orange Tree" by Samantha Shannon, but that one's a maaaaajor commitment - like 800+ pages, with a lot of fascinating worldbuilding to understand - so definitely keep that in mind!

Also, if y'all have any recs for me, please don't hesitate to tell me!! I'm always looking for more material ❤️

💕 - Fave mutual?

Definitely on the @rad-chocho train today; I'll always be very grateful to have found her blog, and she's very sweet and knowledgeable!

👀 - Fave radblr blog you follow?

Gotta give it to our beloved @opabiniawillreturn , seeing her deactivate TRAs with a single application of the Socratic method never fails to make me laugh!!

#long post #thank you for the ask!!! #❤️❤️❤️

[kiefbowl]

here's what I think happens around here in "radblr". Okay so like something will happen that will send a wave of peaking, and all these new girls and women are super energized to consume as much internet culture as possible around the mysterious ~radical feminism, especially since so many of them have been actively denying themselves even the possibility of looking at any "terf" blogs. So then they unblock all these blogs, and they don't really know how to find radical feminism blogs so they just start looking at any high profile blogs that are "know terfs", right? But a lot of those blogs are not always high profile because they write constant qaulity analysis and engage in meaningful discourse, some of us just happen to have some pretty funny posts that got popular. and then these funny posts end up on alllll our blogs and then all these new comers who know 0 things about radical feminism all perceive "radblr" as this big group of terf women and we all know each other and are all good friends and mutuals making these funny posts when really any woman who breathes is a terf now, and then you get these outsiders who will drop wild anons in a random feminist/lesbian/radfem/woman's inbox (because she's a """terf""") assuming this woman can teach her radical feminism and that she's in the Know and has the Knowledge, even if it's a topic this woman has never once posted about, because these peaked girls and women are consuming these new blogs and new content at breakneck speeds to try to catch up and all these blogs start running together and we all seem to be in a club and know each other, and then this woman is being asked this intense question and she takes a stab at it and sometimes she does well but sometimes she a) exposes she doesn't really have a radical perspective on the issue b) gives a take that is radical but not "well known" b/c it has nothing to do with trans that becomes completely controversial c) has her whole ass out cause she reveals she's really actually a racist, homophobic, fascist piece of shit, and then tumblr combusts for like a week b/c 99% of us do not actual know each other lmao.....anyway supplement your rad tumblr experience with books and irl female relationships and take a hot bath once in awhile

[scum-man-of-pesto]

i am genuinely curious how u can be radfem without being anti trans

I mean pretty easily? Radical feminism has some core tenets, like being against the sex trade, recognizing institutional sexism, being critical of things like kink and heterosexual power structures, and so on and so forth. In any instance it's critical to recognize that sex is an axis of oppression and those who are born and raised female will face that oppression no matter what in a patriarchal society.

That being said though, I'm not of the mind that transness relies solely on "sexist stereotypes" of men or women. I feel like in these (as in radfem) communities it's easy to be exposed to the absurd neoliberal ideologues concerning gender and be blackpilled into being against the trans community because at that point it's hard not to perceive the greater trans community as anything but the TRA caricatures that you inevitably have to debate with on any hellsite.

The thing is though, prior to those neolib types of people popping up within the last 10 years, we still had people transitioning to help with their dysphoria, and it's no secret that there were plenty of people who that did aid. Dysphoria is also something that goes much deeper than these "feminine = woman and masculine = man, except when it doesn't and that's also fine none of this is definable" sorts of takes that are prevalent in certain subsets of trans communities now. When I've tried to discuss in depth this subject with a TERF (as in explicitly anti-trans), the solution for dysphoria is always a non-solution, and that doesn't sit well with me. "They can go to therapy and find healthier ways to cope!" okay but many have done that a d it doesn't work, so now what do you propose? And that's never met with a direct answer.

In short, I think that trans people are real, often valid, and I understand that not everyone can transition medically. I see nb people as valid in their own right but not necessarily trans (although sometimes too). I think a lot of these topics need more nuance than either "side" is willing to give. I think it's absurd to be against transition for those who are struggling while not even being able to offer a better or proper alternative. But I also think it's absurd to say that transness is a choice or expression rather than something innate, because how could that be an axis of oppression then? I think it's a problem to obscure "woman" into something undefinable while it still exists as an axis of oppression as well. I feel that having the definition being based on femaleness frees women of many expectations and all of societal gendering, but I also have no issue including those who are struggling and transitioning as well. Radical feminists that I interacted with 10 years ago largely held the same sorts of opinions (well, not concerning nb identities bc most hadn't been exposed to that yet), but have shifted dramatically in the past several years. Many will admit it now too, I just reject it still. Also it's more common to be pro-trans or pro-nb amongst gen z rads. I know several who use pronouns that aren't she/her predominantly but are still radfems. They'll call themselves like, "transmasc woman" or just "dysphoric woman" bc they recognize and identify a tie to transness but also recognize that class structures are based on the way oppressors class them, not determined by them themselves, so they also refer to themselves as women. I think it's a more ideal model that anything we've used either 40 years ago or 4 years ago.

Anyway I've sort of rambled about nothing because I'm actively working while typing this, and I'm fairly certain that I've not worded a lot of this correctly too, so feel free to ask for clarity/elaboration on things or further discussion in general

#radfem #radical feminism #discourse

[hellstarremina-blog]

psh i should make a pinned post but i’m just gonna make this one pretty quick, pretty snappy, mostly to lead into my carrd

remina; you can call me tomie if you knew me from my older blogs too

formerly radicaltomie, so technically an active radfem since about 2018, but have been lurking for much longer

female, lesbian; i expect she/her pronouns, but i also prefer he/him pronouns

gendercrit, rad-leaning; i don’t call myself a radfem, though i do follow radfem blogs

autistic, depressed, anxious; i think i might have adhd too, but i don’t claim it due to not being diagnosed, it’s just a “hm, i think i might be” thing

white

as you’d expect, i’m a fan of horror and surrealism, although i do like other genres and topics.

my carrd’s at hellstarremina.crd.co, i explain some other stuff there

i’m not the greatest at speaking, although i’m going to try avoiding being an active participant in discourse besides reblogging it.

even so, if i say something iffy or even terrible, feel free to let me know, because i probably need to clarify it (if it’s only something i phrased in a weird way) or review and make sure i didn’t overstep or fuck up on (if it’s something terrible).

don’t follow if you espouse ableist, lesbophobic, racist, or homophobic beliefs. i have a few people in my carrd i’d rather avoid seeing as well, mostly due to the fact they participate in at least one of these things.

update (12/16/20)

if you stan jk rowling uncritically, or attempt to shout down people who are critical of what she’s written/done in the past, then i’m going to block you. there’s no reason to pretend she’s a perfect person, no matter if she partakes in our causes.

i personally agree with her opinions about trans people, and her manifesto was written in a way that makes a lot of people peak. i’m grateful for that. she has the visibility that not a lot of radical women have and is able to peak more people thanks to the influence of her name.

however, pretending that we can then ignore what jk rowling has written, said, or done previously makes us no better than TRAs who ignore what their trans idols have done before their new self-IDs. this includes the centaurs/umbridge thing, the alias “robert galbraith” being dangerously close to “robert galbraith heath”, etc.

#remina.txt

[curiooftheheart]

Conceptually you're right that 'radfem doesn't mean terf' but in practice the difference between the two is 'terfs don't like calling themselves terfs because it's derogatory'. In theory the term rad fem could be reclaimed but as is it's 99.9% exclusive terfs presently, and it's pretty implicit, just a matter of whether it's a terf referring to themselves or someone else referring to them.

Not to be rude but I genuinely don’t care about this paragraph you just sent me. My dude in context I was saying a villainess who hates men can still be a radfem even if she’s friendly to trans people. If anything my response to that post should’ve included “Why the fuck is the ecoterrorist who prefers plants saving/helping anyone besides like Harley Quinn, Poison Ivy shouldn’t be a TERF because she isn’t a feminist since she should be flat misanthropic not because she isn’t TE.”

#Anonymous

[lesbian-ed]

ok. this is an odd one. I'm a radfem/gendercrit leaning lesbian, and my girlfriend is a nonbinary lesbian (female lol). I haven't outright said im a radfem, but she seems to agree with most radical feminist views until the topic of trans rights (well i havent directly talked to her about it but i assume).... should i tell her specifically im a radfem and try to explain or just wait until we disagree on trans issues? i'm really scared she'll hate me because i think i love her. figured i'd ask

This must be so complex and I can't begin to imagine how you're able to deal with this and talk around her femaleness...

But okay, as I've talked about before, at the time my girlfriend started becoming more rad-leaning, I identified as non-binary myself. She was the one to help me peak trans, and through it all she was super kind and I'm eternally thankful.

The first thing I'll say is that I don't think you should come out saying you're a radfem. That could completely close her off, as TRAs often already hate the mere idea of "terfs", even if they don't even understand what we actually are or believe in as radical-leaning feminists.

In my girlfriend's case, what she did, knowing I'm pretty headstrong and very personally attached to my beliefs, was she started introducing a few concepts here and there, I assume testing the water, and I mostly agreed with her. We agreed about being anti porn and anti prostitution in like 5 seconds, but as she started dropping hints about trans stuff, I must admit I freaked out a little. We had a bit of an argument, and I was really upset, but the more she explained, the more I listened, the more I saw things through her eyes, and here I am today, "terfy" as they come. I'm sure it also helped though that at the time I wasn't very active on Tumblr, and did not know what "TERF" was at all.

So if you and your girlfriend already have an established rapport, and already talk about politics, it could definitely be a good idea to slowly introduce radical-leaning opinions to the conversation, debating points you're most passionate about, and eventually coming to a consensus.

I'm sure your girlfriend cares a lot about you, and therefore she must respect you, and by extension respect your opinions, even if she doesn't necessarily agree with them (or know that she agrees with them).

So yeah, talking things out, explaining, being patient (like, super patient, the most patient you've ever been. If my girlfriend had snapped when I said stupid misoginistic things, I don't know that I would have kept listening, you know?)... All this stuff can help.

I'd also suggest speaking in her terms, even if as a rad-leaning feminist you don't necessarily agree with or even generally use them. If you use language that she a) doesn't understand or b) outright doesn't agree with, she might get spooked.

As with any argument, it's best not to get too defensive, and if you notice she's closing off, be ready to drop it nicely and pick it up at another time.

Do keep in mind identifying as trans usually involves dysphoria and a lot of internalized hatred, and it is not at all easy having these very personal debacles being thrown in your face in a negative light. She might not be willing to listen at all at first, and it might take time, so be prepared for that.

If she's in too deep, you should also be ready for her to just... Not being willing to listen. And as heart wrenching as it is, even for me to consider, let alone you, she might just not want to change her views, and by extension change herself, since as someone who identified as nb this does also directly affect her.

At the end of the day this will be personal to you both, and you'll have to go with your gut, taking into consideration what her personality is, how she reacts to being contradicted, all that. Having some resources at hand could also be really helpful, as she might disagree and not actually have all the facts (as is often the case with tras). It might be especially helpful, once you get into why trans isn't the best for women or even homosexual individuals.

Anyway, I hope this goes well, and I hope you two can pull through. I wish you and her the best, and knowing the ugly bits of the trans movement, I 100% think it would be best to any woman (or """"afab"""") to get out of this misogynistic homophobic cult.

Good luck, and take care!

/Mod A

#mod a #radical feminism

[valehirvas]

25 27 & 28 for the transmed ask

25. If you could change something/some things about the community, what would they be?

take it back to the basics

what it used to be. when i transitioned, we only had dysphoric people in the community. people understood and dealt with the reality of our circumstances and our existence and none of this reality denying bs was a thing back then. biology wasn’t offensive and all trans people actually wanted was just to live in peace. no one wanted to make a number out of it or bring it up anywhere and finding spokespeople for our community was HARD because people would rather go stealth than speak up and out themselves and start making demands. we were quiet. it’s not like we weren’t making progress, we had our rights movement and our organizations, but it was never aggressive and it was NEVER taking anything away from the other LGB. basically everyone was transmed and nobody had ever heard of stargenders. i miss that. i miss reason and logic and compassion as the building blocks of the community. i’m tired of this egocentric flat earther bullshit that the modern community pushes.

27. What’s an unpopular opinion you hold (in relation to the transmed ideology)?

my view on nonbinary identities i guess. i’m not that controversial, but i do believe that dysphoria can manifest atypically, because dysphoria fluctuates and appears differently person to person. i.e. after taking t and doing some serious work w my mental disconnect from my body i basically don’t have any dysphoria surrounding my genitalia anymore, even though it used to be pretty bad to the point where it manifested physically. that makes my dysphoria atypical, because i’m selectively dysphoric about my sex characteristics. if someone has dysphoria like this, and the dysphoria only focuses on certain aspects of your body and not the others, it kind of does leave you “in the middle” where you might want a flat chest but no penis because you’re ok with what you’ve got

so it makes sense to me, and if these people feel comfortable with a non-aligned identity label for themselves it’s nothing off my back.

oh yeah and the whole rad-leaning thing isn’t that popular. a lot of trans guys just want to forget about the problems we face as females but i’m incompatible with men on a fundamental level so female problems and female existence is still central to my life. which leads me to

28. Were you ever a feminist/radfem?

so, i have this backwards

i had a massive internalized misogyny problem when i transitioned. i hated women and everything related to being a woman and if a woman loved herself or was even remotely comfortable with herself and her womanhood she was a bitter enemy to me

‘luckily’ for me it was just my dysphoria, i couldn’t bear it and saw no way out of it so i projected it on everyone else to be able to live with myself & in my body. that was never addressed during the process i went through to transition medically and if it hadn’t been projected dysphoria i could very well have transitioned for the wrong reasons, if i’d had dysphoria because of misogyny instead of being misogynistic because of my dysphoria. you know?

either way, over the years hrt cut off my dysphoria so that i could stop feeling personally attacked over every mention of women’s existence, and i could learn to love other women again and eventually from there to be at ease with my female body as well, ultimately getting to this point where i appreciate my body and my sex a lot and i feel like i have a pretty healthy relationship with it. and this all made me way more into a feminist over the years. i’ve grown as a person and matured politically and at the same time my dysphoria has lessened and i’ve grown comfortable with myself and my reality so i could really start focusing on these issues that are mine and everyone else’s who’s like me universally without it digging at my dysphoria at every corner. i can talk about these things now and really think about them and i’m a really angry fucking female underneath everything else. i’ve had an easy time as a female human being without the pressure of needing to adhere to gender roles and always having the support of my family and friends and never facing any meaningful discrimination despite being gnc and same-sex attracted and yet i’ve still suffered enough that the consequences of my socialization and the trauma that i’ve gone through because of my sex has formed me from the ground up as a person and i’ll deal with the problems rising from that forever. i’ll never outgrow or escape the fear that being female comes with. and that makes me really angry. being denied the right to voice my real experiences and talk about my real suffering or that of others around me has made me really fucking angry. so NOW i’m a rad-leaning feminist, and not when female was a simple way to describe everything about me. because i have space for these thoughts and this process and this healing from my dysphoria, which i didn’t have before.

questions

#asks #Anonymous

[thatfeministkilljoy]

i don't think laci green talking about trans activists telling gay people that they need to be open to sleeping with trans people is strawmanning. i've seen it too.

Where do people dig my old posts up out of Laci Green hasn’t been relevant for ages so I know I have no posts about her that could be considered recent. Which makes this a little harder because without knowing what post and what I said, it does take a little bit of context away from this but oh well.

It really is a strawman. I mean, first of all most people saying this aren’t even really saying it like that, they make sure to strongly imply that trans people (esp trans women) are out there telling people they HAVE to sleep with them. Which is very very much a strawman.

Although “they need to be open to sleeping with trans people” is as well. (Not to say that literally no one has ever said this, but a handful of people saying this does not make it what everyone is saying.) The actual “argument” coming from “trans activists” (everytime I see this word I think Terf, because they use it so much) is that blanket statements like “I’m just not attracted to trans women” are transphobic the same way “I’m just not attracted to black women” is racist. It groups all trans women in as being the same,when in reality, just like any group of people, trans people are going to be incredibly varied. (and not all trans people have the genitals you assume they will, so that’s out as well.) In order to say this you have to have a picture in your mind of what “trans women” look like, most likely based on stereotypes, maybe even myths, or just straight up transphobic caricatures.  

Plus, it’s just factually untrue, you can’t always tell by looking at a person if they’re trans or cis, so unless you feel no attraction to someone without first seeing their medical history, there’s a pretty good chance you’ve been attracted to a trans person before.

If you’re seeing people say “you NEED to be willing to sleep with trans people” what is likely happening is you are looking at a transphobic troll trying to make it easier to argue that trans people are predators out to rape you or guilt you into sex. Which is very classic and very harmful transphobic. And you are falling for it. Otherwise you are probably reading similar points to what I typed above but either already have transphobic notions about how trans people are predators, or want to better push your argument that they are, and are misrepresenting what they are actually saying.

Plus, what I know about Laci, is that she was a mediocre feminist who started dating a dude who defends white supremacist views, got “red pilled” and became a big ol transphobe with absolutely no problem painting trans women as predators to promote her cool ~* Radical *~ “feminism. And lending her platform (with many followers) to harmful bigots.

This is especially relevant if the post of mine that you’re referring to is this one. as I wasn’t even referring to her talking about the “dating/sleeping with trans people” discussion, I was talking about the time that someone made some comment about not even knowing what to do sexually with another person with a penis and Zinnia Jones, a trans youtuber and activist, said “try having your trans gf rub her balls and sick on your face until you realize how awesome it is? idk” which was obviously A) not all that serious, just a response to someone making a dumb argument when no one said he needed to do anything with anyone’s penis, and B) specifically said HIS trans GIRLFRIEND. As in she was making a suggestion of something sexual for him to do with a person he was having sex with. Laci painted this as Zinnia advocating for trans people to rub their genitals on non consenting people’s faces.

When Kat Blaque, another trans (woman of colour) youtuber and activist, made a video criticizing her and the things she had been doing and saying since becoming “red pilled,” Laci called her a sociopath.

And when Mariana Watanabe (a cis women youtuber and activist) reached out to her asking (very politely) her to examine her privilege when it comes to conversations about trans and non binary issues, and the harm that could be caused by her presenting transphobia and trans people’s points as arguments with equal weight, as well as pushing for “polite debate” between people having to defend their very identity and people who think that those with that identity should die, Laci responded “Lol. Y’all are so oblivious.” and blocked her.

And even mentioning these things back when they were relevant would usually lead to terfs flooding mentions. 

So yeah, no not really :p

(as another note, I think it’s quite telling that being “red pilled” and suddenly surrounding herself with white supremacists, etc, made her more popular in rad fem circles…..) (it’s because radfems will overlook any other kind of bigotry and align themselves with misogynistic bigots as long as their views on trans people line up.) 

#glad I changed my mind abt trying to answer this on mobile #laci green #asks #anon #transphobia #transmisogyny #long post

[theresgloryforyou]

We both love how tumblr doesn’t let us post links to video anymore!

Anyway, after the last three queue’d posts tomorrow that will be it for this blog.

We started it about a year ago, were delighted to find other radfems and rad-adjacent-fems on tumblr, and for me (Lili) anyway, it renewed some of my hope, that if the planet doesn’t destroy us all in revenge for letting men have their way with her, humanity will in fact recover its sanity and reason, and we will get past this meaningless collapse-of-empire post-modernist crap where nothing means anything, and realize yeah, actually, there is a lot of meaning in the world, and it doesn’t revolve around individualism and identity crises and delusions.

We both came of age in times when we had different battles to fight, and honestly the one against TRA gender claptrap is so winnable, if you just quit being scared to have the fight and band together.  IN THE REAL WORLD.  On the internet it all means nothing.  It’s all just yelling and talk.  Nothing online is actually happening.  You have to go out there and be strong.  Have your female only meetings in public and enforce the female only part.  Ban men from your spaces and don’t explain it to them.  Have your radfem only spaces, and quit asking for permission.  Quit saying “can’t we just have this?”  Who are you asking?  WHY are you ASKING?  Men, and trans activists and gender theorists and who the fuck ever, pink haired drooling handmaidens, they aren’t in charge of you.  Quit asking and take what is yours.  That’s how we had to do it, and I hate to break it to you youngsters, but that’s how you’ll have to do it.  Some of you might get hurt.  Some of us did too.  That’s what activism and radicalism is about.

Haven’t you all realized yet why they are so frightened of YOU?  Haven’t you yet figured it out, the reason they behave the way they do is because you are absolutely terrifying to them?  THAT IS HOW EASY THEY ARE TO SCARE.

We both believe social media lulls everyone into a false sense of activity.  It’s great for  passing along useful information and letting people know they are not alone, and we both hope this blog is a modest contribution to the cause of Radical Feminism.  However the internet also lends itself to selfishness, obsession, gossip, and dehumanization.  Some troll with no reading comprehension comes along and sticks you with a pin and you immediately jump to his tune.  Some woman disagrees with you, acts like she’s still in high school, and blocks you, and half her online clique blocks you and you get upset and dwell on it when it isn’t even real.  Someone thinks its real fucking cute to start a blog devoted to gossip and drama like this, and it actually takes hold, and next thing you know petty issues create rifts and then radfems are shushing other radfems about what to say and how to say it.  Real attempts to criticize serious issues ends up descending into generalizations and personality conflicts.  It does not in any way create a sense of solidarity.  It creates an impression of connection without the reality.  It is awesome for extremely limited things, and we both think we reached that limit on this blog some time ago.

We hope you enjoy our archive.  We’ll still be following some of you from our main.  And enjoy that Sam Cooke recording-- I’m told it’s a pretty decent translation of the Japanese version.

L & p

#for the last fucking time #get off our lawn

[positive-lesbian-vibes]

Does radical feminist automatically mean that they're terfs/transphobic as well? Genuinely don't know, bc I saw that person telling you that butchaesthetics are terfs, and I looked her up bc, u know, I'm nosy, and except for her saying she's a radical feminist, she hasn't blogged even once about "trans", "transgender" or "terf", not even on her other blog. So now I'm confused that maybe I don't know what rad fem is? Ofc I'm totally against terfs!!

it’s kinda tricky, i wouldn’t say radical feminism is something that automatically means someone is a TERF, but in general radical feminism tends to be pretty TERFy. The main thing is that radfems believe in sex-based oppression, so they believe afab (assigned female at birth) people are oppressed by amab (assigned male at birth) people. And while i can understand to an extend there being differences in the way trans women and cis women are socialized, trans women are still by and large one of the most vulnerable groups of women (especially trans woc) and the fact that they are amab doesn’t give them any sort of privilege.

I wouldn’t say every radical feminist is a TERF, but radical feminists have a really shitty track record when it comes to being trans inclusive. Most of them will call trans women “males” and trans men “females,” most of them want “female safe spaces” over safe spaces for women (and in their “female safe spaces,” they prioritize trans men over trans women), plenty of them think trans people are “faking it” or are really just gay people who think they’re trans because they want to be straight (the worst one imo bc gay trans people exist??? i really dont understand this one), and a lot of them regularly misgender trans people and work with conservative groups to force trans people in the wrong bathrooms and further reduce trans peoples already limited rights.

It’s complicated and messy, whenever I see someone describe themselves as a radical feminist, I usually search their blog with “trans” to see what comes up. If they say things like “transactivists,” “genderists,” “gender critical,” or “detransitioned” thats when I get suspicious. if they don’t say anything at all i usually avoid them because it probably means theyre avoiding the subject so they don’t get called a transphobe.

I’m cis, so my views and observations about radical feminism will always been limited, so as always, if any trans women (or trans men, for that matter) would like to correct me on anything or expand on this, please feel free!

#TERF mention #using all these words is gonna bring radfems into my askbox i know it #rip in pieces me #anonymous #ask