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Originally Posted by Cecily
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Transwomen are men, tools of the patriarchy, who appropriate female bodies in order to rape them and use male privilege to further the patriarchy's agenda.
That hurts to read from people who I would normally consider an ally. There's some great quotes from the other authors I mentioned too. Let it be clear that I have no problem with feminism in general. It's still needed in our society. But these women...
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I mean, I have no doubt that there
are radical feminists who try to marginalize transgenderism, I'm just saying I don't read them and I don't pay any attention to them. As soon as I encounter, "All transsexuals rape women's bodies by reducing the real female form to an artifact", I'd close the book and forget about it.
It's like, just because a dude posts a selfie on Instagram holding up a sign that says, "This is what a feminist looks like", that doesn't make him a feminist, you know? So many self-proclaimed "feminists" are probably just abusers or assholes who don't know the first thing about feminist theory or women's issues, or even just being an intellectually honest person in general.
But yeah, I'm not trying to trivialize the fact that it's been a problem. I have the luxury of identifying with the gender I was assigned before birth, so I can't really speak about what it's like to be a transgendered person and how feminism has affected the trans movement with any authority. I'm just saying that even though an author has made significant contributions to feminism, they're still capable of saying horrifyingly discriminatory and indefensible shit that should absolutely be either criticized harshly or outright ignored.