Tag: swerf and terf

I Love How All TheseFucking TERF/SWERF/”anti-kink” types are reblogging that post I wrote about emotional labor

It’s like “well you clearly didn’t check the source on that one, y’ bougie knob, guess who manages to say insightful shit about feminism that you agree with while being according to you, a traitor to all women?”

Stop reblogging shit I write.  Your version of radical is the most liberal, bougie ass useless nonsense I have ever seen.

And again Dworkin is ahistorical.

“

Men, of course, like a woman who “takes care of
herself. ” The male response to the woman who is madeup
and bound is a learned fetish, societal in its dimensions.
One need only refer to the male idealization of
the bound foot and say that the same dynamic is operating
here. Romance based on role differentiation, superiority
based on a culturally determined and rigidly enforced
inferiority, shame and guilt and fear of women
and sex itself: all necessitate the perpetuation of these
oppressive grooming imperatives.
The meaning of this analysis of the romantic ethos
surely is clear. A first step in the process of liberation
(women from their oppression, men from the unfreedom
of their fetishism) is the radical redefining of the
relationship between women and their bodies. The
body must be freed, liberated, quite literally: from paint
and girdles and all varieties of crap. Women must stop
mutilating their bodies and start living in them. Perhaps
the notion of beauty which will then organically
emerge will be truly democratic and demonstrate a
respect for human life in its infinite, and most honorable,
variety
“ – Andrea Dworkin

For most of human history in most societies, men did as much beauty labor as women and often more.  Girdles and makeup were for both men and women.  Look at most of fucking history, everybody fucking wore fucking makeup and did their fucking hair.  Modern dudes are a weird lazy shitty exception.

Not to mention the CONSTANT criticism of women who look “unnatural” or who are “deceptive”.  Plastic surgery, makeup, all these things are things men want made invisible, a perfection that does not show the labor involved (yet another case of men insisting on women’s labor not being labor) and appears to have occurred naturally, so men don’t have to think about the work involved, in fact many men believe makeup is deceptive and should be abolished so that we can be graded like livestock.

Refusing to regard it as productive labor (and part of humanity, because we ALL FUCKING ADORN OURSELVES) obscures the fact that as with emotional labor women are performing a socially necessary function that men do not do their fair share of, while men insist that women hide the fact that his labor exists/is laboe

O’s prostitution is a vicious caricature of old-world religious prostitution. T h e ancient sacral prostitution of the Hebrews, Greeks, Indians, et al., was the ritual expression of respect and veneration for the powers of fertility and generation. T h e priestesses/prostitutes o f the temple were literal personifications o f the life energy of the earth goddess, and transferred that energy to those who participated in her rites. The cosmic princi ples, articulated as divine male and divine female, were ritually united in the temple because clearly only through their continuing and repeated union could the fertility of the earth and the well-being of a people be ensured. Sacred prostitution was “nothing less than an act of communion with god (or godhead) and was as remote from sensuality as the Christian act of communion is remote from gluttony.” 8 O and all of the women at Roissy are distinguished by their sterility and bear no resemblance whatsoever to any known goddess. No mention is ever made of conception or menstruation, and procreation is never a consequence of fucking. O’s fertility has been rendered O. There is nothing sacred about O’s prostitution.

Andrea Dworkin
Oh my goooooood this is so bad. Like bad comparative mythology, bad history, bad feminism. Nice one reducing women to biological functions

Okay so another reason TERFs are shit

They’re like “Trans women have retained male privilege because they have male socialization”

Which presumably is like “they were socialized to be assertive and not take bullshit and to speak up” or whatever, right?

Which if we extrapolate is basically saying “if women weren’t so passive and accepting of men’s shit and spoke up for themselves men would treat them better”

Which is like… uh… okay, way to blame women’s behavior for the existence of patriarchy.

It’s just like SWERFs blaming porn for patriarchy rather than blaming patriarchy for misogynistic content in porn.

Also The Fact That TERFs and SWERFs and other feminists who spend all their time investigating other people’s genitals

try and claim “radical” as a label for their feminism, when it is the bougiest, most pointless shit, and throws working class women like sex workers, and marginalized women like trans women under the bus is ironic as fuck.  Like poking your nose into how other women fuck, or what they have between their legs is pointless.

Ya’ll are the liberalist bunch of asshats I’ve ever seen.