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[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 68 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Haha I love these strips so much

Damn, that's good. Saving it.

[–] GalacticSushi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 128 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

The only way to stop imaginary sexual assaults in bathrooms is to sexually assault every person who doesn't meet our subjective and arbitrary gender expectations.

[–] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I, a cis woman, literally have been assaulted when trying to use a public bathroom because a TERF who had been handing out leaflets outside (it was a city centre public restroom) had decided that I must be trans, and thus my (rather large) boobs must be fake.

It's part of why I think it's so important for cis women to leverage the privilege we have in this context to speak out against transphobia. Experiences like mine underscore the fact that their rhetoric "we care about protecting [cisgender] women" is blatantly bullshit β€” all they care about is hurting trans women.

(Though it's also important to avoid coming across like I'm saying "transphobia is a problem now that it's affecting me, a cis woman!". If things were framed that way, then I would be reinforcing the transphobia that I seek to oppose. But figuring out how to be clear about your intention is just a part of learning how to effectively leverage one's privilege. I find that I'm most able to be clear when I use my experiences as part of a larger point about how feminism needs intersectional solidarity to be effective)

But yeah, I am legit scared of using public restrooms as a result of bad experiences. I remember when I first had a panic attack about this, following this bad experience (and a few other ones that were less bad, but still upsetting), and I was like "oh damn, do I have some capital-T Trauma about this?")

[–] thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I hope you punched her

and if you didn't, i hope another victim punched her

actually i hope another did regardless of whether you did

[–] Patrikvo@lemmy.zip 13 points 3 days ago

You know how they solved school shootings by making every student use those transparant backbacks? We can use the same material to make pants!

Every accusation a confession.

[–] GarboDog@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

We fucking hate people who constantly try and transvestigate and we also hate those who are co-operative with them because trans people going to the bathroom makes them β€œuncomfortable” MF WE JUST GOTTA SHIT! WE DONT GIVE A FUCK ABOUT YOU cUZ IM SHITSINNNGGG πŸ’©πŸš½πŸ’₯

[–] ieatpwns@lemmy.world 66 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I wanna know the number of terfs that have multiple bathrooms at home because this shit is dumb as fuck.

[–] arrow74@lemmy.zip 46 points 3 days ago (19 children)

I never understood it. You go in and lock the stall door, no one sees your genitals.

I guess in the men's restroom there are urinals, but you're not going to see anyone's dick unless you try to

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 34 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

Urinals are optional, anyway. Nobody knows what you're doing in a stall.

[–] arrow74@lemmy.zip 38 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That's why I commit tax fraud in the bathroom

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[–] oftheair@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)
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[–] Kertyna@feddit.nl 32 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Show me your genitals.

Your genitals.

Show me your genitals.

Genitalia!

[–] wolfeh@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Knock knock. Who's there?

It's me.

Wondering why you're not naked.

[–] Zoop@beehaw.org 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Knock knock. Who's there?

Me again!

Still wondering why you're not naked.

[–] Slovene@feddit.nl 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Knock knock. Who's there?

Smee. Smee who?

Smee again.

Still wondering why you're not naked.

[–] Zoop@beehaw.org 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

If Smee wants to see that, they'll have to message me for my payment details first!

Here's a YouTube link to the classic song/video we were quoting, in case you or anyone else passing through may be interested.

Show Me Your Genitals by Joe Lajoie

Just a warning: it's easy to get it stuck in your head. I showed it to my mom (who thought it was hilarious) and now at random times there's a ~60 year old woman wandering around the apartment singing '🎢 Show me your genitals! Your genitals! Show me your genitals! Your genitaliaaa! 🎢' lmao!

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[–] thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Genuine question: What do TERFs tend to say about surgery-created genitals?

Not real genitals, mutilation, what's to be expected for bigots who will never see any trans person as valid

[–] AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social 42 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I find way more worrying that a random fanatic woman goes around asking to see girl and woman genitals than the idea of sharing a bathroom with another person who happens to pee from a "non-default" pee hole.Β 

But I guess I'm a weirdo so it must be me.

Especially with all the women they've recently named complicit on the Epstein list.

Women can be pedophiles and sexual abusers too. Especially when it comes to preying on someone younger and weaker than they are, like little girls. Sexual abuse is about power.

[–] Tonava@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's incomprehensible to me how some people can care so much about what equipment random people have. Terfs are sick in the head

[–] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

I find TERFs to be quite tragic, if I'm honest. As much as I rage against them, I feel a lot of sympathy for them, because their hate often comes from a place of suffering from patriarchal violence and feeling so powerless against that that transphobia is gives them a sense of false empowerment.

I remember back when the "Gender Critical" subreddit was a thing, and still relatively small, I checked it out, because I had heard a bunch about it, and was curious; it wasn't initially clear to me that "Gender Critical" basically just meant "transphobia but we pretend to be feminists". I remember feeling such sorrow when I read through their semi-regular "just no trans" threads, in which people would tell the story of how they became "gender critical" β€” what their "just no trans" moment was. It was almost comical how many of the stories there took the form of "I was abused by a cis man, and when I tried to get justice for this, I was revictimised by the same patriarchal systems that enable this kind of misogyny in the first place. Anyway, that's why I hate trans women".

There were a lot of people with real trauma there, and it hurt so much to realise that for many of them, transphobia effectively serves as a maladaptive coping measure for that trauma. Not only are they hurting other women (and people who aren't women but are affected by patriarchal oppression β€” trans men still require reproductive healthcare, for instance), both trans and cis (For instance, I am a cis woman who has experienced bio-essentialist misogyny from cis men, and also transphobia violence from TERFS), they're also hurting themselves too.

It reminds me a bit of Jean Paul Sartre's thing about anti-Semitism being the socialism of fools β€” transphobia is the feminism of fools. They're just making things worse for everyone, and I hate them for that. However, their underlying oppression is real, and I weep for the fact that they're unwittingly being party to their own continued oppression. Their hate wouldn't be justified even if transphobia was a genuine solution to their problems, but I find it extra tragic that the hate is as toxic to the ones who hold it as the ones who are the recipient of it.

I know that, for my part, being in community with trans people has made me feel much more secure and happy in my own individual sense of womanhood, and in terms of the systemic battle, I feel much more confident as a feminist who understands the necessity of an intersectional solidarity. None of us are free until all of us are free, and that includes TERFs. I don't know how to help them when they're so insistent on being their own jailers though.

I don’t know how to help them when they’re so insistent on being their own jailers though.

Their hate to trans women comes from the fact that they hate men (probably because of the systematic misogyny of our society) because of unprocessed and unaccepted trauma. They can't (or don't want to) understand that trans women are, in fact, women, so they just focus on them the hate they feel for men. It's just misandry with extra steps.

The problem here is that they are so focused on hating that they can't see beyond it. You can't help someone who doesn't want to be helped.

[–] Tonava@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 days ago

That's beautifully put, I agree.

Being trans I'm just personally really tired to endlessly understand the people who turn their miserable hatred onto people like me, since I am forced to encounter them too often online even if I'm avoiding the places they're infesting. I'd of course prefer they'd get all the help they need to process their traumas into something less harmful, but I'm still running pretty low on empathy towards all people who'd probably stone me to death if they could

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 16 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Some people do weird things when they get a little power over others and are not actually that committed to the cause.

Reminds me of the controversy at the BAFTA. Everyone outraged that the guy the movie was about (I Swear, about Tourette) did a really Tourette thing, and lots of those complaining where from the social justice persuasion.

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[–] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 32 points 3 days ago (3 children)

One of them wanted to trans-investigate me simply because she couldn't wait on the singular toilet the restaurant had. I told her β€œin use” like 3 times.

Those TERFs are insane to the point of exhibitionism lol

Who are the real sex-deviated groomers?

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[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 17 points 3 days ago (8 children)

A "woman" is singular. Why can't people get this right?

Singular, but contains multitudes.

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[–] lobut@lemmy.ca 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I had a friend that was SO concerned about who was using what bathroom. He's not a transphobe and has a transgender friend.

He just got really worked up about it and kept questioning me about it. Which makes me always respond with: "I'm a progressive". He was like, "why do I get hate if I just say there's two genders", I said "it's 'cause you're wrong, ignoring the definition of gender, you know there are intersex people right?" ... and we get stuck into this loop where he doesn't really understand what I'm saying and gets into why he deserves any hate for saying there's only two genders. No talk about sex vs gender or anything else makes any movement forward. Even if you think there's only two genders, I don't know why it's such a big deal to them.

[–] FosterMolasses@leminal.space 18 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I hate to break it to you... but your friend is a transphobe. Prejudice doesn't always come with violence and slurs.

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