a violent man: I Will Grab Her By The P*ssy
corny but rightfully angry women: This P*ssy Grabs Back
geeks: That Is not correcf,, because according to the Encyclopedia of PBBBPBTPBPPYPBPT
I mean lmao the phrase is violent against trans women and people who are survivors of sexual assault but go awf
it is not cissexist. trump targeted a specific thing among many women and those women who fit the criteria reacted in anger from the widespread sexual violence women have faced for centuries and they are allowed to fight back using imagery of their genitalia which is a site of violence for many women instead of being silent. i understand that it unnerves some survivors me included but they reserve the right to not be respectable when resisting misogynist rhetoric. And that’s the tea on that
“it’s okay to use casually cissexist language when talking about violence against women because many women have vaginas and therefore we’re gonna ignore that misogyny and patriarchy fuck over women regardless of their genitalia” is what I just heard
and I’m not talking about respectability I’m talking about literally thinking of ways to not trigger other survivors in chants against rape culture
but again go awf I guess
I cain’t believe you postmodernist shills have completely lost the ability to contextualize specificity in a way that is historically coherent. Specificity =/= Exclusion. Patriarchy effects all women, yes. Women who have vaginas experience patriarchy in a way that is not unique, but it is specific (and it is specific for women with different genitalia), and one of those facets include violent rhetoric targeted and enacted specifically on their vulvas. The body and the identity exist in a complex relationship that necessitates that we tackle material reality in its many forms. If we are going to actually address violence instead of drowning ourselves in farcical pseudo-intellectual posturing so obtuse as to be defanged and useless as pouring a cup of water on a forrest fire, we need to directly address these specificities.
Again I will say, along with all other women, women with vaginas have to address rhetoric that is violent against their bodies. What next. Are we going to say the term FGM is cissexist too. And as I said before, these women have a right to fight back in a way that is direct. It may be triggering to some survivors and I empathize and they do not have to partake in this form of protest, but these other set of survivors also have a right to fight back against their trauma in an un-respectable way without being silenced. Maybe don’t glean your “politics” exclusively from polemics on tumblr and Huffington Post.
Literally the point of trans feminist politics has to be an embrace of difference and not an erasure of it. Cis women and trans women have different bodies; hell even within each of those groups Bodies vary drastically. We should be able to recognize that difference and talk about the way violence gets mapped into that difference. It’s not transmisogynist to talk about the way the presence of a vagina becomes a sight of misogynist violence as long as we don’t reduce misogynist violence to a phenomena which relates only to the presence of a vagina. See the difference. OP isn’t making that conflation at all.
Also lots of trans women have vaginas so lemony and Beatrice is already beginning with a weirdly false premise of what a trans woman’s body must be.
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