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:
things to normalise
- gay parents
- female masturbation
- guys showing emotion
- they/them pronouns-periods
-women in positions of power
-gender neutrality
-adoption-breast feeding
-men supporting each other emotionally
-men being feminine
-women being masculine
-people wearing whatever they want regardless of gender
-different body types
-stretch marks
-people not speaking english as their first language
-treating women with respect instead of as sexual objects
- mobility devices
- disability-first language
- taking medications
- taking mental health days
Women who enjoy porn
Asexuality
Men who cry
Men who shave their legs
Women who dont shave their legs
Women who have had multiple partners, even at the same time
Reproductive freedom
Pidge Headcanons
- Jewish
- Trans Girl
- Autistic
- ADHD
- Her parents are actually really good about The Trans Thing but they took a while to believe it because she was so much the stereotypical Young Boy with Autism
- (good with computers since she was tiny, probably had a dinosaur phase)
- Her family’s probably from up north but she constantly uses southern expressions constantly because she’s besties with Keith
- (”y’all we need to separate and go abut this as individual lions” *something goes wrong in a code she’s writing* “Ain’t that just the way”)
- Shiro’s Favorite
- “Alright team, we all need to train really hard to defeat zarkon” “But Shiro I’m tired.” “alright pidge, you go take a nap, i’ll be there to tuck you in in a second.”
- Number one clothes thief
- The whole team (especially Hunk and Shiro) know to never spend too much on clothes because inevitably pidge will “borrow” them to sleep in/stay warm and they’ll never see them again
- (shiro loves it though. he probably buys things just for her)
- was probably just starting transition when we first saw her, so doing that thing practically all trans girls do where they start out hyper feminine just so people Know but she’s probably not all that femme as she gets older
- patently refuses to wear anything other than boxers/boxer briefs
- even under dresses
- once the team ran into a group of humans who had gone into space, and one mentioned that they didn’t think a /girl/ could be a paladin
- Pidge, looking him dead in the eyes:”ive got more balls than you”
- cusses constantly
- Biggest Lesbian
- Lance (bless him) once asked her, when they were all really tired and it was like. Sleepover talk time you kno? He asked her “if she had to pick a guy”
- She said Zarkon
- (really it’s probably Hunk)
- Speaking of lance and hunk she probably dropped Several Hints that she was trans and just. Neither got them.
- Lance:*struggling to open a jar* Pidge:*pops it open with one movement* “How-” “testosterone poisoning”
- Gets carried by keith constantly even though he’s not that much taller than her
- Her and keith frequently have Autistic hangouts where they both just. Go nonverbal or communicate in noises or stim freely
- They’re super comfortable with each other, she never wears breastforms/a bra when its just them and he never binds because they love each other
- She’s really attentive and knows when he’s self injuriously stimming and knows when to give him a tangle or her hand so he can just. Squeeze instead of digging his nails into his palms/picking
- Her and keith are. Bad skin buds
- Saw the jersey devil once
- It was just a cow
- Was abducted by an alien once
- it was keith
- Speaking of keith, pidge is the only one allowed to touch/get anywhere near him when he’s on his period
- “Pidge it started” “do you want a heating pad or some midol” “i want to die” “bitch why are you always ordering off the menu”
Not all boys have penises and not all girls have periods. Some boys have breasts and some girls have beards. Some people aren’t either one or other and some people are sometimes both. Absorb this message, take it on board.