When any of us are commenting about others of us not being “woman enough,” whatever the fuck that means, we are seriously becoming the problem we are fighting against.

To be honest, I wouldn’t have thought men and women were too different psychologically. However, there are some very obvious differences when you transition with HRT. I can’t speak for trans women, but for me on testosterone for 1.5 years, I have changed. Not enough to really matter in the long run, but for example, I…

Man. I have not read the original column because I am all full-up on other people’s hate-wanks. However, I just...man. I feel like womanhood is a big tent, and there is plenty of room whoever wants to show up at the party.

You aren’t a trans woman Elinor. You have no clue. I have no clue either.

So Burkett dismisses binary gender experience in one breath and then defines the experiences that “shape” a woman as people who have “suffered through business meetings with men talking to their breasts or woken up after sex terrified they’d forgotten to take their birth control pills the day before. They haven’t had…

What her argument boils down to is that she ultimately feels it is wrong to be transgender. And you are right, she tries to apply her personal feelings to some phantom problems in the world. What I would ask is for her to evaluate, honestly, is who exactly is hurt by people transitioning? No one.

Gaah, thank you. “I am so much more aware of my emotions; much more sensitive emotionally (and physically).” <— what I took from this is that now Chelsea feels free to acknowledge and express her emotions as opposed to years and years worth of society telling men that they need to be strong and do everything in their…

That whole piece just scanned like a feminist version of “Old Man Yells at Cloud.” Except in this case, a lot of people will actually agree that the cloud represents a malicious threat against their personal wellbeing.

It’s not a contest of who has it worse. Caitlyn missed out on female experiences, good and bad, for most of her life. She faced and faces other hardships and other privileges. It doesn’t follow that she does not care about gender inequality.

this is one of the only situations where i really feel my age in a bratty way—in that, damn, burkett is really dealing in SUCH A PASSE QUIBBLE FOR QUIBBLING SECOND-WAVE OLD TERFY PPL

I don’t know why people find it so hard to believe that you can have differing experiences and still share the same identity. Of course trans women do not have the exact same experience of womanhood that cis women do. Women of color don’t have the same experiences that white women do, and queer women don’t have the…

Every time we wade into gender essentialist waters, I just remember Julia Serrano’s comments after starting hormones —that her victory was when she could wear the fumpiest, unfeminine clothing ever and people would perceive her as a woman.

Well, I’ve been a woman for 46 years now, and I don’t feel that trans people are doing anything to my identity, experiences, or life.

You’ve gotta give her credit for being such a fabulous actor though. In real life, she’s a total sweetheart. Case in point [original post here]:

OH i forgot about my favorite part of the movie: when a plucky young teen girl with an interest in computers saves the day!

Part of the point of the park was that everything was rigidly automated, and thus could be run by a skeleton crew. That’s why Jeff Goldblum has his chaos theory meltdown, because all that clockwork-automation is doomed to hiccup and there’s no fallback plan.

John Hammond being overly ambitious and over confident in his abilities to control the park are literally the point of his character. He keeps saying, “we spared no expense!” over and over to drive home the point that he cut corners on safety and under paid his staff. He’s a fool with a fool’s dream, and his money…

Stop promoting unrealistic beauty standards for dinosaurs. You just know she’s had her scary death flaps enhanced and won’t admit to it. #realdinosaurshavecurves

Since all the dinosaurs are female and they talk to one another, presumably about anything other than men, would that mean that Jurassic Park has the highest score on the Bedchel Test?