A tea moment about intersectionality and feminism. Transphobia.
Can we like, not do this thing where we employ metaphysical skepticism towards the concept of misandry?
Like, I know that 95% of the time, it's chuds who are troll-shielding shitty toxic masculinity. But what about the trans fem folk whose suffering was made 10x worse because of having to deal with a mother figure who absolutely hates all men, and also refuses to see them as anything other than masculine?
This was my experience when I dealt with my abusive transphobic man-hating mother for the last 12 years of her life. By saying that misandry isn't real, you're telling me that my experience is invalid, and that's quite hurtful.
Does misandry happen? Yes, not often, but yes. Does it have institutional power behind it? No it doesn't.
Does that mean that nobody can ever be hurt from it? Absolutely not.
Be careful with this.
re: A tea moment about intersectionality and feminism. Transphobia.
@OchotonidKnight That's a lot of where I am leading to, when i talk about this.
That is not to say that feminism isn't important, I am just pointing out that there is a pitfall that exists that can cause harm when feminism is taken to such extremes that it isn't feminism anymore. ie TERFs
re: A tea moment about intersectionality and feminism. Transphobia.
@FreyaManibrandr This is precisely why feminism's so important, so as to not lose sight of what it is.
A tea moment about intersectionality and feminism. Transphobia.
@FreyaManibrandr Really, if there is a dictionary-definition misandrist movement out there, it is the TERFs. It just happens to get lost in all the trans-misogyny as of late.