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Anonymous asked: i am fucking tired of you tagging your MALE ignorance and invading OUR spaces. you are a MAN, and you will always be a MAN. im sorry if you want to cut off your penis but you have NO RIGHT to make us read your TRASH.

I have NO IDEA why you SUBMITTED this to MY PERSONAL TUMBLELOG instead of RABF, but I have a MORE PERTINENT OBSERVATION: you APPEAR to have an INCREDIBLY SELECTIVELY-BROKEN KEYBOARD, Mx. Grayface. You should PROBABLY get it REPLACED sometime.

Alternate answer: look, I get that you disagree with my opinion on feminism, and you think that I — as a trans woman — have an acquired mental illness, but even if we work with that (incorrect) assumption, what in sweet-voiced Sarah McLachlan’s name are you trying to accomplish? I’ve seen a ton of radfems do the random-emphasis-on-the-gender-you-think-I-am thing in the last few days. Are you just trying to trigger me as hard as possible? You do realize that that’s like walking up to an ex-military PTSD sufferer and firing blanks at them just because they’re a Republican and you’re a Democrat, right? Yes, exposure to “reality” and desensitization are mainstays of treatment for a great deal of mental illnesses, but they’re done by trained professionals; they are not done by hateful, ignorant assholes with keyboards.

Actually, what the hell do I know? You know what? I think I feel better already! Imagine, I used to suffer from occasionally-near-crippling dysphoria until I read your message, but now I’m ready to face the world as the gender society expects me to be based on my nether regions — because clearly, if there’s anything feminism should be about, it’s being judged on the basis of your body. Thanks to your nigh-illiterate electronic bile, I’m finally cured of the thing no serious psychiatric institution has believed is a mental illness to begin with since the DSM finally got their shit together.

I can’t believe no one has ever gotten the idea of simply shouting at the mentally ill before! We can dismantle the entire goddamn American Psychological Association now; all we have to do is hire a bunch of idiots with malfunctioning Caps Lock keys and the emotional maturity of a troglodyte to write letters to every aneurotypical person in the United States. We’ll get this shit done by next month! Imagine: a person with severe depression opens their inbox to find “I’m SORRY if you feel a LITTLE SAD but you’re acting like a WORTHLESS PIECE OF SHIT.” It’ll be like getting slapped in the face with pure, concentrated motivation!

Although I have to admit, I’m curious now: would it work with you lot? I know radical feminism isn’t recognized as a mental illness (yet, if my petition to the APA has anything to say about it), but hell, it’s worth a shot.

Your OPINIONS ON FEMINISM are not RADICAL, they are REGRESSIVE. If you TEAR DOWN the PATRIARCHY but then OUTLAW OR CENSOR every choice other WOMEN make that you DON’T PERSONALLY AGREE WITH, you are NO LESS OPPRESSIVE than what you are REPLACING. You are doing nothing but REMOVING SELF-AGENCY and THE ABILITY TO CHOOSE from the WOMEN your MINISCULE, DELUSIONAL FACTION OF FEMINISM claims to represent. You are ABSOLUTELY RIGHT to BE ANGRY at the way SOCIETY treats your gender, but ALIENATING everyone who isn’t as INTOLERANT AND HATEFUL of BASICALLY FUCKING EVERYTHING as you will accomplish NOTHING WHATSOEVER OF SIGNIFICANCE, nor HAS IT EVER accomplished anything of FUCKING significance. The sooner you REALIZE this, the sooner you’ll realize that OPPRESSING TRANS WOMEN AND SEX WORKERS — LITERALLY TWO OF THE GROUPS WITH THE HIGHEST RATES OF MURDER, SEXUAL ASSAULT AND… NORMAL ASSAULT — IS THE STUPIDEST FUCKING THING A MOVEMENT THAT CLAIMS TO BE AGAINST OPPRESSION CAN DO YOU BLOODY IMBECILES.

That one was a tad longer than yours, so it might not take effect immediately, but send a message my way in a week and let me know how that worked out for you, Grayface.

thegayesttoller:

I have been told by my helpful local queer that it is wrong to refer to women collectively as ‘she’ because some women don’t like this and instead identify as ‘they’. Just what? It’s a female pronoun. For women. How can you possibly be a women and not a she? I don’t understand how the trans movement can be so intent on simultaneously deciding what a women is and then just completely erasing them. Insisting on they is just another way to remove women as a class and as a whole, and to pretend that we don’t really exist.

Still going through the radfem tag for no real reason, because I apparently hate my mental state, but I think this is the purest example of radical feminism’s insane narcissism that I’ve seen yet.

They have somehow managed to turn the simple, harmless request of

don’t automatically assume a person’s gender — any person’s gender, regardless of appearance and presentation — and use gender-neutral pronouns until you’ve established how the person wishes to be referred to. You don’t know if any one person happens to be trans and it’s a nice thing to do to prevent causing dysphoria.

into

Don’t call ~women~ by feminine pronouns. They don’t deserve to be recognized as their own class and must be systematically removed from our language so ~men~ may reign supreme!

After a while this just turns into aggressive, desperate reaching to find oppression where none exists. It’s like societal masochism. Isn’t society sexist-as-fuck enough without having to disproportionately attack 0.10% of the population as if we were the fucking anti-women Illuminati?

myfairladyboners asked: Hey, Kat =] I have a sincere question. Do you support HRC? I saw your icon, and I know it's a really... controversial issue. I was just honestly curious. I, for example, know I support them in theory- I agree with most of what they do/have done, just not all of it. I was just curious as to your point of view. I hope I'm not offending you. >:

You are not. I never mind answering questions such as this.

You’ll see one of two primary criticisms made against the HRC. The substantial, and more explosive one, is trans erasure; they have, in the past, all but ignored us. Though this certainly resulted in no endearment, the real blow came when they specifically supported a version of the federal Employee Non-Discrimination Act that excluded trans support in an effort to make it pass easier, as it would be perceived as more agreeable. There were… doubts as to whether they would actually bother circling around with a more-inclusive version of ENDA, as they hinted that they would, since they’ve never done it in the past (and they have pulled that shit before, but on purely local levels, which limited the pushback).

After that particular version failed, and after some management shuffling, they’ve significantly improved in many aspects. It is purely personal opinion as to whether or not their actions could be considered significant enough to make up for past mistakes, particular when compared to cases such as GLAAD (who have also been accused of trans erasure in the past, but have done much more, much quicker in recent years in an attempt to win previous critics over). Personally, I found it sufficient. You can read a much more eloquent editorial than I ever could manage on that particular issue here: http://thelstop.org/2013/02/the-human-rights-campaign-friend-or-foe/

The far less significant criticism surrounds their perceived disproportionate focus on marriage equality as compared to other GSRM issues, even those purely gay-centered. These charges are generally leveled by people who have yet to grasp the concept of sapient beings possessing the ability to multitask, and the value inherent in moral victories when compared to “bloodier” ones. They also paint it as an issue purely relevant to “privileged” gay people, generally gay white men, ignoring the very real benefits tied to marriage in many instances. Increased institutionalized financial stability, greater healthcare options in many cases that could prove to be life-saving, etc. I am not fond of this argument, if you could not tell.