,
7 tweets,
2 min read
Read on Twitter
1/ Trans ideology uses the double edged sword of female socialization’s compulsory sympathy & lifelong messages of subservience to males. When introduced to the idea that trans women are the most oppressed of all people and it was largely my fault as a cis lesbian, I bought it.
2/ I bought it with a 17 year old heart’s compassion’s & wide-open naiveté. The guilt I felt for not knowing, the horror I felt for these poor people’s plight, it was religious. I started looking on social media for more information. There were already guides of what to do.
3/ Manifesto after manifesto by trans women told me I needed to educate myself on dfab privilege, transmisogny, to not argue but simply listen if a TW condemned something you said as transmisogynistic & adjust your behavior accordingly.
4/ There were explicit calls for being as emotionally available for TW as possible, as they had the weakest support systems. Make sure there are enough TW in your friend groups. Make sure they are uplifted. & of course the emotional availability was a precursor to the sexual.
5/ I cannot overstate how clearly & repeatedly it was outlined that the ultimate act of political & feminist solidarity with a TW was making yourself secually available. Through interactions with sexual blogs. Sending nudes. Listening to sexual fantasies. Dating. Physical sex.
6/ Male people take advantage of women’s socialized sympathy. We know the term pity fuck. Cotton ceiling rhetoric is grooming, a liberal feminist guilt trip that targets young & impressionable female people. To use the fertile ground of a young person’s idealism & compassion
7/ for the seeds of sexual grooming, obsessive self-hate & self-monitoring, is unforgivable. A generation of young women (young lesbians especially) are suffocating in this farce of a revolution.
