So Korean terfs are going to protest alongside far right-wingers organizing a “General Women’s Rally” calling for the super-corrupt former President Park Geun-hye to be brought back and pro-reform President Moon Jae-in to be impeached
Tell me, why do terfs get cozy with the far right everywhere? It’s almost like they’ve never been progressive but were always right-wingers co-opting feminist language to hate on trans people? Almost?
Look I am fully on board wih the aims of the Escape the Corset (탈코) movement in Korea. Women don’t need to cater to the male gaze and they shouldn’t be pressured to use all their time and energy to look pretty. It’s a very necessary movement and I hope it keeps up.
That said, there’s also a subset in the movement who are not just escaping the corset themselves but actively shaming women who do wear makeup and saying they’re not true feminists, their minds are enslaved and so on. Yes, anyone can be jerks about a movement and take it way too far, but there’s a clear trans-exclusionary undercurrent to this rhetoric against the reality where trans women are unable to be accepted as women at all unless they perform femininity to degrees far beyond cis women.
To be clear, trans women should not experience these pressures to be hyperfeminine, any more than cis women, and easing the ridiculous beauty pressure is good for all women. This isn’t about discrediting EtC or dismissing those who adhere to it as shrill bullies. It is not okay to invalidate the very real problems that prompted EtC by saying “I wear makeup because it makes me happy!” or such shit. Shut up. Not about you.
At the same time we can recognize that the trans-exclusionary part of the movement is using it to paint trans women as enemies of feminism and male oppressors, when makeup may be necessary for them in a way it is not for cis women.
The EtC movement is admirable and necessary. At the same time, please be on the lookout for ways activism can be co-opted to isolate and demonize some of our most vulnerable sisters. Please don’t forget trans women in your activism.
Petition to refer to TERFs as FARTs, which stands for Feminist Appropiating Reactionary Tranaphobe
“Trans-Exclusionary-Radical-Feminist,” when you think about it, is a VERY kind term. To be called a TERF is for the person to admit that they still consider you a feminist.
But what kind of feminist excludes so many women from their movement? If you hate so many women for what they are, you really don’t deserve to be called any kind of feminist, radical or otherwise.
Anti-trans people: Stop calling us terfs it’s insulting
fattyatomicmutant, about to coin a new term: ‘K
Feminist Appropiating Reactionary Transphobe
is far far more accurate too.
ima just spread this
Okay so Korea is a seriously sexist society, but these stories I hear from Japan about women being shamed for getting C-sections or epidurals are a whole different level. Zero (0) people blamed me or implied I was less of a mother for getting a C-section, and frankly if anyone did I’d have to be held back from beating the shit out of them. Like just admit you hate women, it saves time.
I don’t believe in any God at all lol. I approve of referring to God with female pronouns, though, for the reasons stated in response to your earlier ask (link). Who’s to say it’s even the Christian God Thandie was referring to, especially since she’s also an atheist? It’s not all about you lol. Also don’t lump Jewish people in with you, the concept of the divine in Judaism includes the feminine for some and there is a diversity of thought.
I’m not sure how calling God “her” would be legitimately offensive to anyone, unless they felt God should only be referred to in gender neutral terms..
You know someone is a jerk if they care more about “misgendering” God than misgendering real people.
Yeah, because only the male is perfect lmao. Also the Bible repeatedly calls God the king and lord, not an equal or executive, so you’re not even making sense here.
Ummmm because conceptualizing God as exclusively male is a patriarchal construct that’s been used to set men up as the “default” of humanity and women as lesser in the eyes of the divine? I mean what’s wrong with using the female pronoun for God? Or they/them or it, for that matter?
(from @aisandetsarepeopletoo)
this is why worshipping the so-called “traditional family” is a load of fucking bullshit
I think a lot of people really don’t realize that the current divorce rate has nothing to do with degrading morals and is literally just that it’s both legal and more socially acceptable now than it used to be. The issues leading to divorce have always been there.
Free version of the article here.
New York legalized no-fault divorce in the 1930s, after finding out that only allowing divorce on the grounds of adultery created a mini-industry of women pretending to be caught having affairs with married men.
Screw writing “strong” women. Write interesting women. Write well-rounded women. Write complicated women. Write a woman who kicks ass, write a woman who cowers in a corner. Write a woman who’s desperate for a husband. Write a woman who doesn’t need a man. Write women who cry, women who rant, women who are shy, women who don’t take no shit, women who need validation and women who don’t care what anybody thinks. THEY ARE ALL OKAY, and all those things could exist in THE SAME WOMAN. Women shouldn’t be valued because we are strong, or kick-ass, but because we are people. So don’t focus on writing characters who are strong. Write characters who are people. (x)
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