Birdo should plaster people like this with rotten eggs, then have Vivian set them on fire.

[here_inmyhead]

TW: Transphobia and misandry, including slurs. Mainly transphobia.

Trannies and trannie lovers can just press the red X and leave. I’m sure you can find a therapist in your local yellow pages. ~"Room Rules"

Boy oh boy, you can tell this place will be full of charming people! :D

"Why Is there a General Aversion Against Trannies?"

Yep. Charming indeed.

What's a transgendered person? Is it someone who doesn't identify with their biological sex? No, silly! They're men who exist to invade female safe spaces and feel privileged to fuck lesbians no matter what genitalia he has.

So according to this fauxminist, transgendered people deserve to be humiliated, mistreated, and discriminated against, because they're EVIL MENZ trying to oppress women. We're not marginalizing their suffering; they're getting their just desserts.

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I hope this monster gets their limbs soaked in army ants before slowly pulling them out of the sockets, then has the remaining stubs get rammed in with hot pokers.

This post has been crossposted with Dreamwidth at http://shamanicshaymin.dreamwidth.org/65090.html. Pick your poison. Mwoiiiiiiiing~!

Comments

[valkyriur.livejournal.com]

I have, unfortunately, seen this sentiment far too many times.

[insanepurin.livejournal.com]

I wish I could say people like this are in the minority, but goddamn, are they vocal. The utter hatred fauxminists have for transgendered people is astounding. It reminds me back when I read one of the short stories by Chuck Palahniuk in "Haunted" about someone (who may or may not be MtF) who asks to be invited to a safe-space with a group of straw feminists... and the end results were ugly. At the time, I thought it was one of the most horrific and upsetting things I've ever read, and in my naivety, I said to myself, "It's only horror... people can't be this cruel, right?"

Nice to know that it might be closer to reality than I thought. D:

[valkyriur.livejournal.com]

The thing is, these people's theories don't even make all that much sense. It reminds me of that sarcastic post that was floating around a while back that went something like "Yes, I chose to be gay because I totally want to be ridiculed and seen as a pervert, sexual deviant, and want people to hate me."

[insanepurin.livejournal.com]

Exactly! Unfortunately, if you try speaking common sense, those people will look at you like you're yelling in Esperanto. Then accuse you of being brainwashed by the Patriarchy because you dared to be a decent human being.

[amelia-seyroon.livejournal.com]

/BIG HUGS

I'm using this icon because I think Mewtwo is TG as well.

[dioschorium.livejournal.com]

It gets worse. (A sickening history lesson is about to follow, so be warned.)

You might think that there was never a precedent for self-proclaimed feminists hating transsexual people. But oh, dear, no.

In the 1970s, radical feminists made a point of hating transsexuals. Even radical feminists were gender essentialists when it suited them: people with two X chromosomes, in their view, were naturally kindhearted, compassionate, and nurturing, and thus the world's rightful rulers; people with an X chromosome and a Y chromosome were naturally barbaric, domineering, and sadistic, and thus inferior. Radical feminists, in general, had a definite concept of the perfect human being: a genital female who possessed characteristics traditionally considered masculine and desired sex with other genital females: the "butch lesbian" trope, in other words.

Basically, radical feminists had, to quote my friend carey_pontmercy, internalized a sneaky form of sexism: masculinity is good and femininity is bad, and feminism is about women becoming masculine. This mindset manifested itself in hostility toward female-gendered garments (hence the spunky princesses who refuse to wear gowns in cliched fantasy), especially when genital males wore them. Radical feminists hated drag queens with a passion. Extrapolating from there, radical feminists reserved a particularly virulent hatred for genital males who wished to become female. (We know that transsexual women are not drag queens who have "gone too far," but people were less enlightened back then.)

The anti-transgender sentiment reached its climax when a radical lesbian feminist named Janice Raymond wrote a screed titled The Transsexual Empire. Her thesis was that the "biological woman [was] becoming extinct" because the male-dominated medical profession was turning men into women. Never mind that doctors jumped through hoops to prevent their patients from getting sex reassignment surgery; everything the medical profession did was a male conspiracy. Her initial complaint was that transsexual women reinforced gender stereotypes because they transitioned sexually instead of just being "sensitive men." (Submissive homosexual men were the only good men that existed in the radical feminist paradigm.) She compared sex reassignment surgery to rape because it involved "men possessing women's bodies." Whether she took the time to ask herself if a misogynist male would want to be female does not need to be asked. She claimed that transgender men did not exist because a woman could just be a butch lesbian.

Worst of all, Raymond was not an ineffectual crackpot. Gloria Steinem, Mary Daly, Andrea Dworkin, and other prominent feminists of the day echoed her sentiments wholeheartedly. In 1979, her influence (she allied with Jesse Helms) led then-President Jimmy Carter to sign into law a bill prohibiting SRS from being covered by health insurance. Raymond had come as close as she could have to "morally mandat[ing] transsexualism out of existence."

It says something when Valerie Solanas, often thought to be feminism's worst-case scenario, turns out to be possibly the most honest about the intentions of radical feminism. Although she was schizophrenic, she kept level-headed enough to lay the tenets of radical feminist ideology bare: males were brutal, irrational, violent creatures who needed to be overthrown; lesbianism was the highest form of love; women were infinitely superior in creativity; the only good men were submissive homosexuals. And yet she was actually kinder to transsexual women than her peers, since to her trans women represented men realizing that they wanted to be women, just as all men did. Her understanding of transsexualism was wrong, too, but it wasn't as disgustingly, horrendously, abominably wrong as virtually every other woman calling herself a radical feminist—even to this day.

Re: I'm using this icon because I think Mewtwo is TG as well.

[insanepurin.livejournal.com]

Wow, I never knew all this. Thanks for sharing, even if it's disheartening. If people can learn to recognize their behavior as transphobic, it'll be a serious breakthrough for equal rights.

I can see Mewtwo rejecting the conventions of gender, identifying as neither male or female. I'd love to hear more about your headcanon. :)

Re: I'm using this icon because I think Mewtwo is TG as well.

[dioschorium.livejournal.com]

You're welcome. Radical feminism at its worst was the prototype for the current social justice mentality that used to infect LiveJournal but now mostly pervades Tumblr. You remember the debacle over male rape victims from a year or so ago? That way of thinking is a direct descendent of radical feminism. Another Internet Age example is this wrongheaded essay about the horrors of women writing slash fiction, which itself comes from a large and equally shameful Web site. (The link goes to a skewering of the essay, not the original text.)

As for Mewtwo's gender, here's how I look at it. In the games, Mewtwo is sexless, just as all the legendary Pokemon are. Some fans claim that said sexlessness is merely a device to prevent legendary Pokemon from being bred, but I think there are implications behind it in Mewtwo's case.

Mewtwo is a perfect clone of Mew. As far as we know, there's only one Mew, and depending on how you interpret the Cinnabar Island scientist's journal entry that "Mew gave birth to Mewtwo," Mew produced Mewtwo asexually or had its DNA extracted and replicated. Either way, if Mew has female sex chromosomes, then Mewtwo would have them also. The difference is that Mewtwo was created to be a living weapon--you can see that's much taller and more muscular than Mew, so the Team Rocket scientists that created it probably tried to pump it with either testosterone or steroids while it was developing. Thus why Mewtwo has wide hips and broad thighs but a muscular torso and--if you'll forgive the Freudianism for a moment--somewhat phallic-looking tail (and, in the anime, a deep masculine voice). To summarize, I think Mewtwo is a chromosomal female with a high testosterone count and a psyche that is either masculine or neuter.