TRAs criticising a female author: CANCEL JKR I CAN'T BELIEVE I LOVED HARRY POTTER. I'M GETTING MY DEATHLY HALLOWS TATTOO REMOVED AND BURNING THE BOOKS I OWNED! FUCK ANYTHING MADE BY TRANSPHOBES!! ALSO THE PLOT WASN'T THAT GOOD AND THE CHARACTER NAMES ARE SHIT AND SHE'S A RACIST NAZI HOLOCAUST DENIER NAZI NAZI RACIST!!!
TRAs criticising a male author: ...well yeah Hussie wrote the r-word a few dozen times throughout homestuck and they also made Dave say the n-word once but it's ok because we should separate the art from the artist guys... Besides Dave is aracial anyway! Respect Hussie's pronouns please they're nonbinary 🥺 anyway here's an essay about why every character is trans uwu
Yeah these people don't seem like transmisogynists to me or anything
some of yall need to understand that "my body, my choice" also applies to:
addicts in active addiction with no intention of quitting
phys disabled people who deny medical treatment
neurodivergent people who deny psychiatric treatment (yes, including schizophrenic people and people with personality disorders)
trans people who want or don't want to medically transition (yes, including trans masc lesbians with top surgery and trans women without bottom surgery, yall are so weird to them wtf)
and if you can't understand that, then you don't get to use the phrase
So why *can't* we have a word for, "adult human female?" Seems like a significant group with lots in common (and lots to talk about.) And why can't that word be "woman?"
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i remember about a year ago during the stephen hawking/epstein situation I saw a tweet that said that people were joking about it because it was little girls getting raped, if it were little boys, it would be taken much more seriously.
I finally understand what she meant
the planet is desensitized to female sexual abuse, it happens everywhere after all, we are constantly exposed to it, it's woven into our subconscious, into our very existence, it is seen as something normal, natural, inevitable even
libfems and male apologists will try and tell you that male rape victims have it harder than female ones.
propaganda.
men getting raped has always been seen as more abhorrent, because it's seen as unnatural. with women, it's something inherent to their experience and dismissed as unremarkable
but when you see it happening to a man, you can see for yourself what it truly is; a brutal act of sadistic domination, you empathise with the victim, imagine their pain, imagine how humiliated they feel, when it's a woman, it's just a statistic. woman are constantly humiliated, business as usual.