All involve using women. Just to varied degrees. Its the nudge nudge nudge of the line of acceptability to use women . All of this makes women nothing more than passive recipients of whatever men decide they should be used for.
Every single word of this.
This is what I can’t get my head around.
ALL of transgenderism (or whatever you want to call it) is based on this. Male people using female people. Members of the oppressor class using members of the class their class has traditionally oppressed.
Appropriation of us and our spaces. Colonisation. Straight up oppression of female human beings by male human beings. The centring of the male humans’ needs/wishes/feelings at the expense of the female humans’.
Our humanity is being denied. We are, yet again, merely adjuncts to the lives of the “real” humans, the male ones.
I can’t get my head around why this isn’t blindingly obvious to more people. Why @MNHQ talk about how they will ”stand in solidarity with vulnerable or oppressed minorities” and just don’t get that it’s the majority who’s actually vulnerable and oppressed here, the 51%.
We must all know that being more numerous does not always equate to being more powerful; surely people haven’t forgotten the reality of life for Black people under apartheid in SA already?
We must all know that the power that women as a class wield in society still falls very, very far short of that wielded by men as a class. In ALL societies, worldwide. This should not be something that needs to be proved over and over again, to be backed up by endless studies and statistics (although the studies and statistics exist and do, obviously, prove it).
I wish MNHQ would stand in solidarity with vulnerable and oppressed WOMEN, many of whom turn to MN as a source of much-needed support.
I wish @JustineMN realised that although perhaps her life has been easier than that of some male individuals with gender dysphoria, the same is not true of many, many of us on here whose lives have been disproportionately full of pain and struggle, who have survived (sometimes barely) abuses of all kinds, who have battled and continue to battle umpteen issues of all kinds, many of which proceed directly from the fact of having been born female; all of which are compounded and further impacted by the fact of our having been born female.
WE are the ones being fucked over here. We are the ones most affected by all this, we are the ones who most struggle to make our voices heard, the ones least likely to be able to speak for ourselves, the ones who are being and will be hurt by this phenomenon of transgenderism, this new form of male oppression. This new and oh so modern variation of men using women as extensions of their own lives, refusing to see and treat us as human beings in our own right.
This is misogyny, this blind, unconscious acceptance that men are more human than women, that they matter more, that what affects them should be taken more seriously than what affects women. I’ve grown up with it, lived with it all my life; no longer on a day to day, personal level thankfully, but it’s still part of the world I live in, the air I breathe, that we all breathe.
I struggle to post on here. I would love to be a more regular part of the conversation, but it takes too much out of me to post. I still don’t have the voice I would love to have. Other women don’t have any voice at all. We are silenced on Twitter, on FB, on here if we don’t watch ourselves very, very carefully. Many of us have not grown up being told we are allowed to speak, entitled to be heard; women as a class are still fighting for the right to be heard.
Whereas TRAs have any number of platforms and organisations advocating for them, funding them, fighting for their right to oppress women every bit as much as they want. They have the advantage and privilege of male entitlement, the belief they have the right to their voice, and doesn’t it just show.
It’s upside down and batshit to present women as privileged relative to a subset of the male sex class that is actually the more privileged of the two sexes and always has been. Just because there are way more women than males who want to be seen as women doesn’t mean we are more powerful; I think the events of the last couple of decades and especially the last few years have proved that. We are the objects being used by the subjects; they are the ones oppressing us, we are the ones who are vulnerable.
And now they get to demonise us for not wanting to be mere accessories in their lives.
‘Twas ever thus.
Sorry. Bit of a lengthy tangent. I found your words very inspiring, Michelleoftheresistance 