Once you stop using genderist language and ideas, you cease to feel the need to prove how men are men over and over again. This endless shadowboxing GC is engaged in? It's against their own beliefs. Namely that "transwomen" are not quite male. Or that it's a very rude and hateful thing to say that they are. And you know it when your suggestion to just trash the word transwoman altogether is met with opposition and them saying that some vital meaning would be lost if you don't include someone's gender feelings in the conversation.
As to your friend is trans part... I think there's another meaning to this. The femininity that people equate to biological womanhood requires constant maintenance in the form of all these products and practices. Women often aren't even recognized as women if they do not wear the feminine costume.
Precisely. What I meant by my friend is trans is that she is making a departure from her natural self to become the feminine costume. Which, funnily enough, is a point TRAs have made plenty of times to the deaf ears of GC.
Thanks for this account. You really capture and untangle patriarchal thinking (in the current form of gender ideology ) and how it organizes our lives in so many subtle and unspoken ways.
Once you stop using genderist language and ideas, you cease to feel the need to prove how men are men over and over again. This endless shadowboxing GC is engaged in? It's against their own beliefs. Namely that "transwomen" are not quite male. Or that it's a very rude and hateful thing to say that they are. And you know it when your suggestion to just trash the word transwoman altogether is met with opposition and them saying that some vital meaning would be lost if you don't include someone's gender feelings in the conversation.
As to your friend is trans part... I think there's another meaning to this. The femininity that people equate to biological womanhood requires constant maintenance in the form of all these products and practices. Women often aren't even recognized as women if they do not wear the feminine costume.
Precisely. What I meant by my friend is trans is that she is making a departure from her natural self to become the feminine costume. Which, funnily enough, is a point TRAs have made plenty of times to the deaf ears of GC.
Thanks for this account. You really capture and untangle patriarchal thinking (in the current form of gender ideology ) and how it organizes our lives in so many subtle and unspoken ways.
Thank you for reading and sharing your thoughts! I do wish the gender discussion was more expansive than it currently tends to be.