thedreadvampy:

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anitas:

This isnt a hot take but feminism which centers around periods/vaginas/boobs as Things Which Unite All Women is an untrustworthy brand of feminism

slogans like “no pussy no power” “viva la vulva” “not an ovary-action” etc as stand-ins for “i support women” are more damaging than yall think bc centering ur feminism around things which only cis women experience a) alienates trans women who dont experience them, b) is harmful to ppl who DO experience them but arent women, & c) furthers the mentality that gender = genitals/trans women dont really have a place fighting for womens rights. none of that is as progressive as yall think holding up a sign with a vagina on it is, same goes 4 writing that shit on pads. not every woman has a vagina & not everyone with a vagina is a woman, and feminism which marginalizes entire subsets of us for the sake of a catchy slogan isnt good feminism

Not to mention that there are cis women that don’t have breasts (cancer patients), can’t menstruate (like all old women lmao and SO MANY OTHER KINDS OF WOMEN)

This kind of biological essentialism is what allows men to go on to say that “real” women have XYZ traits, and those XYZ traits are always what these kinds of feminists are touting as being the marks of womanhood, not realizing that they’re excluding transwomen, forcibly including transmen, and inadvertently excluding every single cis woman that doesn’t perfectly line up with their definition of women/womanhood.

I’ve noticed also that these kinds of feminists, taken over by biological essentialism and defining women by their functions, end up turning into TERFs.

While the transphobia is obviously the most important negative effect of this, as a cis woman with no dysphoria I can personally attest that even if you ARE a cis woman with breasts/menstruation/a uterus/a vulva, a model of feminism focused around those things can still be really alienating because:

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  23. anxietiez said: @thomasblanky it doesn’t say all feminism, it’s referring to only that specific type. Maybe we can criticize things on this website besides women who “aren’t empowering themselves correctly” lmao.
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  25. thomasblanky said: @anxietiez op isn’t saying that women can’t take pride in those things and use those things to empower themselves; op is saying that basing all feminism around and defining womanhood by having breads/a vagina/etc is inherently harmful not only to all women, but also to people who have those things and ARENT women
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