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Poppyisa · 03/11/2019 05:03

medium.com/@cassiebrighter/what-do-we-do-about-women-with-a-penis-70e783fb952e

Is this what we should expect now? Articles like this, telling us we’re terfs, suggesting that lesbians should try sex with transwomen. And normalizing it.

I feel like this situation, this normalization, has snuck up on me. I’m an old time feminist, but just learning about issues with transwomen in women’s spaces. I’ve been asleep at the wheel. (Actually not been asleep, I’ve been raising 3 kids, two with special needs, one of which passed away). I’m shocked to come back to women’s rights and see this has been going on. And it take a lot to shock me.

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EverardDigby · 03/11/2019 09:36

Ereshkigal I’d like to ask Cassie then how many women she has met with PTSD after being assaulted by a 70 year old woman?!

Ereshkigal · 03/11/2019 09:33

Riley J. Dennis posts insightful, earnest videos, lucidly explaining her views. Only to have other women eviscerate her, twist her words, turn them into something ugly.

Riiiight.

Ereshkigal · 03/11/2019 09:28

ISTR Cassie popped up here on MN last time we discussed this article.

MonnaLIza · 03/11/2019 09:26

What is interesting to me is the way Cassie is portrayed in the photographs of Cassie's website. It is a kind of 'warts n'all' self representation that is not normally allowed to women. There is no pleasing the male gaze in Cassie's photographs, excluding for the simple signifiers of femininity such as the dress and lipstick. I cannot put my finger on it, and I am still
Formulating my thought, so it's quite crude thinking, but there is something very male in these representations. I am looking at these images as a visual historian and hope not to have contravened any guidelines of this site, but it would be really interesting to study how trans women represent themselves in photography in relationship to the male gaze and male representation.

JoyceJeffries · 03/11/2019 08:40

A Cassie uses Rachel “Rapey” Riley to support their arguments.

B That the “gold star lesbian” who didn’t want anything to do with Cassie’s genitalia should have licked Cassie’s arsehole instead.

C Lesbians who don’t want to shag Cassie and her amazing penis are every bit as bad as full blown racists

D. Cassie seems to think they are barren. Whilst certainly Cassie can never give birth they can still father children with their fully intact male genitalia.

Cassie can’t write for toffee and I have to admit I couldn’t finish the article. But Cassie could have saved us all the effort and just written “I love my cock therefore every woman on the planet should to.”

LordProfFekkoThePenguinPhD · 03/11/2019 08:24

I’m assuming Cassie...

EverardDigby · 03/11/2019 08:23

I couldn't read much past comparing a "woman" with a dick in the changing rooms to the shock of seeing a 70 year old woman's body:

"One gal recently told me that her first day at her gym she walked into the locker to be immediately confronted by a very naked 70-year-old (cis) woman. And that was startling for her. I asked her what could have made the situation better. She said, "well, the old woman could have covered up." Then she added, "or, I could have fewer hangups about the naked human body."

Although the couple of paragraphs after that are even worse and I won't copy for fear of deletion.

Jesus Christ, what is wrong with these people?

And what the fuck is it with "gal"?

LiterallyProblematic · 03/11/2019 08:16

Buff said

Surprised to see this on Medium
realitycalling · 03/11/2019 08:12

Bleurgh - it's a grooming article. They are effectively demanding that they must be able to show their penis everywhere where women expect to be private - an all women tantric group, in the women's changing rooms and so on. All said in soothing manner. I'm a bit surprised to see them use the same modus operandi that predators use with their victims as it's really not a good look - but hey, I'm sure they know what they're doing.
Just remember Maya Angelou's adage: "When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time"

AnyOldPrion · 03/11/2019 06:49

If you click B) is it simple insults, or is there a computer virus lurking there.

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