Thread by @DonovanCleckley

According to @graceelavery, this graphic of a gun and “Shut the Fuck Up TERF,” sent mainly from members of the male sex, most of them being heterosexual, to members of the female sex, can be read among “any number of other feminist evocations of hyperfeminine violence.” (1/10)

But this “both sides” reading seems to miss the fact that, if it is so that mainly heterosexual males who see themselves as “women,” most of whom also see themselves as “lesbians,” do send it to actual women, especially actual lesbians, it seems, by default, antifeminist. (2/10)

Those of the female sex, almost always marked as “TERFs,” are not the ones perpetrating violence, including the acts of homophobic male violence taking the lives of almost always Black and brown homosexual members of the male sex cited as true causalities of “transphobia.” (3/10)

To me, it has been truly weird how white middle-class heterosexual members of the male sex have appropriated the deaths of Black and brown members of the male sex who are murdered within their communities—if not in everyday gun violence, then in homophobic male violence. (4/10)

Poor Black and brown men killing each other at really high rates, in America or elsewhere, will not stop happening because men can get to be seen as “women” and “lesbians.” Instead, it seems like something clearly tailored mainly for white middle-class heterosexual males. (5/10)

But white heterosexual males in the transgender rights movement, being neither women nor lesbians, bizarrely wear the deaths of mainly Black and brown gay men like a lipstick, mostly without being called out for this vicious and violent sexism, homophobia, and racism. (6/10)

Seeing “TERFs” as scapegoats for what members of the male sex do to other members of the male sex is only a small amount of the awful misogyny afflicting transgender studies, where any woman becomes marked as a witch for not believing this madness that men can be women. (7/10)

Arguing that heterosexual members of the male sex can be “lesbians,” really more of a joke by Rush Limbaugh, “queers” compulsory heterosexuality. It also seems to validate heterosexual males engaging in predatory sexual behavior, while perceived as “women” and “lesbians.” (8/10)

Despite the projection, heterosexual members of the male sex, including those who identify as “lesbians,” do send threats to members of the female sex, especially lesbians, as an extension of misogynistic and homophobic behavior exhibited by many other heterosexual males. (9/10)

Conflating the concepts “female,” “feminine,” and “feminist,” which can clash and coincide in differing ways, seems confusing. But putting makeup on misogyny does not make it feminist, much less female, any more than blackface minstrelsy should be seen as Black culture. (10/10)