No, it’s the eggs
None so blind as those who will not see.
Yes, fgm and female infanticide are things done to female people because of “gendered ideas” but those ideas are about female people as opposed to male people. They are rooted in the sex of both. Female “purity” and male ownership of that “purity” exist because the female people gestate the babies.
In a different world, where girls and women were bigger and stronger than boys and men, the ownership of the gestational person wouldn’t work the same way. It would have to be a consensual form of ownership, which wouldn’t be ownership but loyalty or devotion. But we don’t live in that world, sadly, so girls and women are subject to control and violence while men and boys are trained to see them as sluts and whores and rebellious witches. All of that is because girls and women are that subordinate sex that gestates the babies. Men can transition until they turn blue but it won’t make them that subordinate sex that gestates the babies.
How does this arrogant ideologue come to their* confident assertions??? Besides farting this statement out on twitter, what have they done to establish this as a proven fact? Do these cultures take “feminine” boys and mutilate them to protect their purity?
Not sure if this person is bepenissed or whether they menstruate from their “front hole.”
Oh, really? Then how do you know the child undergoing FGM is a her? Did you just misgender a child, who will now almost certainly convert suicide because of you, Hetty Halpin White?
How she knows it is a “she” is because said child is undergoing FGM. Because the sex of that child is girl. And this individual knows that, but refuses to acknowledge the knowing thereof.
For some reason I did not see the TikTok video in the original tweet. The one that obliterates HHW’s claims. But somehow HHW thinks they’ve provided a effective criticism of that video.
It boggles the mind.
The ones who carry out the mutilations have ideas that people of a certain … sex … should be seen as property.
I swear, this gender stuff has turned some people’s brains to mush.
It sounds almost like FGM envy, for crying out loud. As if they don’t already claim to be the most oppressed people ever, they want to add FGM to their list of grievances, because…why? Is it because although not a single TiM will ever suffer such mutilation they want to believe it’s possible for them to be victims of FGM simply because the belief – or making others believe it’s possible is another super-validation of their femaleness, just as with the desire to be sexually objectified as women that we read here a few days ago?
Q: why is the colour pink said to be gendered, when green is not?
A: Gendered means it is associated with one sex more than the other, and pink is associated with one of the sexes while green is not.
They really are clueless about even the most basic concepts.
Holms: That, I think, is a shell game related to and enabled by their use of persuasive definitions. The existence of all their nonsensical definitions of gender lets them use the word without meaning anything. It short-circuits people’s ability to perform basic inference, like substitution to “FGM is a result of ideas associated with the sexes”.
@ Acolyte, my peak trans moment was reading Morgane Oger argue with FGM survivor Jana Cornel that she suffered FGM, not because she was female, but because she expressed her “femaleness” through gender.
https://mobile.twitter.com/RadfemJana/status/999693254630281217
I’ve also seen social media posts where TW claim to suffer (or suffer worse because they *cannot suffer*) endometriosis, breast cancer, cervical cancer, pregnancy, and stillbirth.
Man, my peak trans moment of just, ya know, reading what trans rights activists and trans “thinkers”were saying seems so sterile and nerdy.
My peak trans came with a question asked to a blogger I followed: Are transwomen women? Yes or no?
And what did the blogger respond?
I was shoved over to this thinking by a thousand small things, but I think the one that got the ball rolling was being told that trans women were biologically female. I pointed out that this would mean their gender and sex would match, instantly erasing the very concept of trans women. Apparently a desire for logical consistency is transphobic.
That’s pretty much what pushed me overboard – the fact that the goony enforcers among the commenters at FTB would not allow me to make the very basic distinction between trans as social/political category and as ontological category. They even sneered at it as pedantry, over-thinking, too intellectual, yadda yadda. “What the fuck am I even doing here,” I thought, and left.