Thread by @WomenReadWomen

Gender ideology is misogyny. 🧵

"Women have been treated as sexual objects. Yet if sexual objectification is so categorically awful, then why do I want it so badly?

The idea that being seen as a 'sex object' is universally a bad thing is too simple."
— Jacob Tobia
#TDOV

"The narrative is that transgender people will come into bathrooms and abuse little girls.

The supposed 'purity' of the victims has remained stagnant.

There are no princesses. Little girls are also kinky."

— Alok Vaid-Menon
Transactivist

"While I never really believed the cliché about women being good for only one thing, that sentiment kept creeping into my fantasies.

It’s called forced feminization... transforming the loss of male privilege into the best f*ck ever."

— Julia Serano, trans-identifying author

"Pornography is what it feels like when you think you have an object, but really the object has you. It is therefore a quintessential expression of femaleness.

Getting f*cked makes you female because f*cked is what a female is."

— Andrea Long Chu
Trans-identifying academic

"Why can't I just let my crossdressing be a fetish?

Why does my particular fetish have to take such precedence that I change my whole life, my whole body, just to accord with it?"

— Torrey Peters
Trans-identifying author

"I'm obsessive with my fetishes, about certain clothes, in ways I've never seen in women. I've never heard a girl talk about getting wet putting on a new dress."

— Torrey Peters
Trans-identifying author

"The femininity forced upon the males was the ultimate in degradation and humiliation. Until she transitioned, until she met women into rape-play, she couldn't... counter the orgasm-certified evidence of her misogyny."

— Torrey Peters
Trans-identifying author

"It helps that I grew up watching trans porn. I think I internalized the idea of trans women with c*cks as the hottest, most feminine women out there."

— Torrey Peters
Trans-identifying author

"I started objectifying my body at a very young age because I knew I had the spirit of a young girl inside me.

My art is not created from a place where I'm trying to ease the suffering of... women."

— Nina Arsenault
Trans-identifying performance artist

"There is something about being treated like shit by men that feels like affirmation itself, like a cry of delight from the deepest cavern of my breast...
To be the victim of honest, undisguised sexism possesses an exhilarating vitality."
— Grace Lavery
Trans-identifying academic

"I knew I wanted to be 'the woman' when it came to sex. It was a conscious urge to get f*cked, be penetrated as a woman would be...

The final frontier of kink for gay men is women."

Juno Dawson
The Gender Games, 2017