I honestly cannot believe how far T(W)ERF rhetoric has spread on this site. They used to be the ONLY ones I saw openly mocking the concept of identifying as queer, the ONLY ones I saw referring to people as ‘kweer’ in a mocking way.
You all are so 100% certain you know how to identify radfem and T(W)ERF rhetoric and can’t possibly fall victim to it but guess what.
They are nowhere near above pulling this shit. And you all are falling for it.
And if you think that screenshot is an isolated incident, think again!
There are countless radfem and T(W)ERF blogs that I’ve blocked that said ‘secret radfem sideblog’ in the description.
Like, it’s great that we’ve made being a T(W)ERF so unaccepted on this site that they can only be open about the most toxic of their views in secret side blogs rather than on their main, but it’s time to accept that they’re taking advantage of that in a really fucking insidious way.
Just a tip on how to recognize these blogs. If you follow someone and you start getting suggested t*rf blogs that’s a good sign the person has sideblog for that stuff. There was some cowboy blog I followed a while ago and I used to get follow suggestions saying “this blog is similar to cowboy whatever” and it was a ton of t*rf shit and low and behold they ended up outing themselves
This is why we learn about what actual TERF ideology is. Saying “trans women are women” and “TERFS not allowed” and putting “TERF destroyer” or whatever in your bio is not enough. Learn how TERFs actually work, and what they believe, and where it stems from, and how they express diluted versions in order to warm up non-TERFs to their ideas.
Do the fucking work. Unfollow/block people who express TERF ideas even if they don’t label themselves as TERFs, challenge those ideas in your community, and you won’t have to worry about secret TERF blogs anymore.
hatred of terfs isn’t a love for trans women, hatred of nazis isn’t a love for jewish people, hatred of the police isn’t a love for black people. you should always be emphasising your support and love for the oppressed before you talk about your hatred of the oppressor.
Weirdest shit is how now even the TERFs are mad at The Guardian because despite the paper spending years courting them with anti-trans articles, it was still not reactionary and transphobic enough for them and the mere existence of a few journalists there who don’t hate trans people is being perceived by TERFs as a fundamental betrayal. Maybe you shouldn’t court hate group based readership while pretending to be a socially liberal newspaper lol.
This is in the context of the fact the paper is collapsing because it turns out that focusing on an audience of rich blairites, twitter verifieds and terfs isn’t actually very financially sound and that presenting yourself as the newspaper of the left while relentlessly attacking leftist politics and trans people is just gonna make the left stop buying your papers. And it turns out the reactionary hate group they courted isn’t even sympathetic to them because they feel the paper wasn’t hateful enough and should’ve been more like the Daily Mail anyway, since hate groups, as it turns out, don’t believe in moderate hate.
cis women with facial hair isn’t as rare and “abnormal”/“unhealthy due to uterine cysts therefore dangerous” (and still shamed despite not being within a persons control?) as t*rfs think it is. i can think of 4 cis women i work with just in my department alone who have visible facial hair. sometimes your body just does it. it’s not that deep. it’s not any different from leg hair being thicker than average on some people. being a deeply flawed and hateful person really does give you brain rot. can you imagine just blocking out the details of people’s faces constantly because you don’t want to admit that the arbitrary lines of “sex characteristics” are more blurred than you ever cared to admit?
yeah exactly, it’s especially common for jewish cis women and cis women of color to grow facial hair, a thing white goyische terfs love to ignore. i (an afab nonbinary jewish person) and many cis women in my all-jewish family grow facial hair, which we then shave due to societal stigma. terfs love to believe that all cis women look exactly like the cis white goyische image of womanhood they have in their head.
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