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.
