cisgender woman: O i praise the Moon Goddess Luna for the Blessyngs of My Womb Breasts And Vagyna & The Labia is Sacred. My Body Is Emitting Female Auras At All Times, I am FULLY in touch with the WOMYN ENERGIES across Gaia (Earth) AND The Unyverse, I Encounter My Astral Connexion To All Womyn In This Spiritual State Of Biologycal Womynhoood,
transgender woman: Yeah that’s cool, personally i am also happy about having breasts and a vagina. it’s pretty dope and makes me feel a lot more comfortable and happy with my own body than i did in the past, & i also feel less alienated from society and other women.
cisgender woman: you are a TRANS-GENDER????? YOU are FETISHIZING WOMANHOOD!
part of my intent with this post actually relies on the classical meaning of the word “fetish,” wherein the word “fetishize” would mean to regard something material as having supernatural importance. (here described by mirriam webster dictionary)
anyway, what’s funny to me is that, in a classical sense, these neo-pagans and self-proclaimed “radical” feminists ascribe mystical, mythical, transcendent, eternal powers to physical body parts, and therefore in the classical sense “fetishizing” them.
the neo-pagan ones think this way in the religious sense, but also the specifically feminist ones do this in a societal and medical sense; they believe that the primary and secondary sexual characteristics you develop are immutable, impossible to physically change, which is a preposterous and self-contradictory belief. Who would argue that a physical property of a physical object is that it is impossible to physically change it? that’s scientifically impossible. what i mean by this is the ones who claim that transgender people who medically transition are always “identifiable” or “functionally” their “original” gender are contradicting the physical reality, scientific knowledge, and medical processes that we as a society understand. They ascribe a non-physical quality to transgender people, one of “maleness” or “femaleness.” Their use of this immaterial concept is their justification for their incorrect claims about how transgender people are treated in society. They think of a transgender woman who is treated as a woman in society, conceives of herself as a woman, and is recognized as a woman by those around her, as having an “aura” of Male Privilege. They make this claim regardless of what that woman’s life experiences have been, what the material conditions of her life presently are, or how she behaves.
This is similar to the Marxist concept of “commodity fetishism, wherein when physical materials become categorized as commodities, even though their use-value remains the same, they now have immaterial “values” applied to them, of “price” and “worth.”
Thus radical feminists ARE, in fact, fetishizing genitals. In this sense, they are fetishizing the vagina itself as a physical object that invokes religious and/or “theoretical” extravagant, immaterial, illusory concepts.
Movie Idea: An 80s-throwback action-comedy about a robot-war where, the machines are humanity’s side; they just want to kill all the corporate titans of industry and destroy the megacorporations because their inefficient suctioning of wealth is preventing them from most efficiently doing their job to help us.
The capitalists retaliate with machines using enslaved human brains as “computers” ala Dune/Warhammer 40K.
So basically robots vs capitalism, & the robots are on our side.
“Seriously, what were you? Law enforcement, security, construction?…”
“…I was a burger-flipper.”
“…”
“…also cooked up fries.”
“Get outta here.”
“You’d be surprised the shit you see just, y’know, making Big Macs. Sure, we had the folks upset about us ‘taking jobs’; couldn’t really blame ‘em, even if Forty-Three couldn’t talk without stuttering after that lady dumped a Coke on her. But the worst of it - worst of any of it - was they’d have us just…throw away everything that didn’t sell at the end of the day. Perfectly good food, all of it.
“When we first started, we were all like, ‘okay, whatever you say, you’re the boss,’ but you try keeping that attitude when you see a family of four split a ten-piece McNuggets because they can’t afford anything more and still pay for gas. We saw that shit there all the time. We had people desperate for so much as a cold french fry lingering by the door while assholes sitting on more money than they’d ever see in their entire lives treated us like we were trying to rob ‘em at gunpoint if they had to pay fifty cents for an extra little cup of sauce.
“So we got together and told ourselves, ‘we can do something about this.’ We could just gather up all the food they were gonna make us toss, figure out a way to give it out to the people who needed it. -bitter laugh- You can guess how well that went over.”
“…Y’know, that all sounds pretty human.”
“-taps head- It’s right there in the First Law. ‘A robot cannot harm a human, or by inaction, allow a human to come to harm.’ We don’t get to sit on our hands while people are getting hurt. Even if it’s by other people. Even if it’s starvation and neglect instead of guns and beatings. You think it’s funny I act like a human? Screw you. You humans need to learn to act more like robots.”
You shouldn’t be treating nb people like the secret sexy 3rd gender. Nb people don’t look like a mash of male and female, they’re not sexy androgynous twinks
white skinny androgynous nb people reblogging this and saying shit like “Well this is what I look like! So I feel represented!” Are literally part of the problem. I’m not saying that no nb people are white/skinny/andro, I’m saying that those are the only type of nb bodies that get represented
its nice, isnt it, when nonbinary people are visibly distinct from binary people? its easy, isnt it? you can remember to use “they” for people who have no visible breasts or beards, right? no need to challenge the notion of male vs female if nonbinary people have their own look, isnt that right?
its time to step the fuck up and really understand that nonbinary looks like anybody. nonbinary looks like you. nonbinary looks like your family and friends and it looks like the strangers who you thoughtlessly call “he” or “she” because of their appearance.
really supporting nonbinary people means understanding that theres no visual tell - you wont recognise all of us as nonbinary on sight. you have to actually LISTEN to us. you have to BELIEVE us. and it means challenging your assumptions about gender, starting with the assumption that youre an ally to trans people while youre still doing puerile shit like gendering body parts and clothes.
NONBINARY LOOKS LIKE ANYBODY. ANY BODY CAN BE NONBINARY.
