Maybe it’d be more productive if you didn’t pretend trans men don’t exist in order to wax poetically about the inherent womaness of periods, vulvas, and childbirth? I know, I know. That would mean arguing in something akin to good faith instead of shoving your neuroses about gender boxes onto those terrible trans…

Would people jut fucking read the play before they propose this shit? The women of Athens didn’t just cut off sex, they also seized the treasury, cutting the men off from the funds they needed for the war. I’m down for the don’t fuck ‘em and start robbing legislatures plan, but it’s a flop without that last part.

Is a post-menopausal woman not a woman to you? Someone who’s undergone a hysterectomy? Someone who was born infertile? What about intersex conditions? What about that woman who went through conventional menarche and pregnancy, and turned out to have XY chromosomes? Where do chimeras fit into your binary? Where do I…

Maybe if you spent less time gatekeeping what it meant to be a woman and more time thinking about your own shit, you’d have some answers.

If you’re a book- solutions parent, there’s one called Red: A Crayon’s Story that’s a good intro to the subject. It favors the “I was always x, I just in the wrong box” approach. Personally, I told my niece and nephew that after a a lot of trying I just didn’t enjoy being on the girl team, so I was switching over to…

I’m grateful for Lineham giving me a esy example of the kind of guy who gets into feminism as social cover for his misogyny.

What I make of that is you’re a cis person who has spent a lot of time reading ‘just concerned’ trans panic shit, and has no real understanding of trans experiences. That’s why you think a 12 year-old has access to bottom surgery instead of maybe hormone blockers at best. That’s why you think biologically female/male…

They actually had at least one case of a woman with XY chromosomes having normal female puberty, and normal female pregnancy resulting in an XY daughter. 

Black women. Seriously, the whole ‘white feminism’ criticism had the effect of pushing mainstream US feminism leftward, prioritizing diversity, inclusiveness, and intersectionality. The UK didn’t have that and mumsnet, their big social media space for mothers, spread TERFism around like Facebook spreads rightwing…

Are you explicitly being asked what makes a girl/boy? Kids pick up on gender cues hard and early, so usually you just have to explain variations from that. In that context it’s fine to just say that you should respect what people are telling you about their identity.

Says the fundie to the gay persons...

There are many, many cis people who cannot bear children, or menstruate, or grow breasts, or whatever other line in the sand you want to draw as an excuse to put trans women on the other side. And speaking as a trans man with a still viable womb, this kind of segregation does nothing to assure me that you give a fuck…

The issue of how much male privilege is retained by a trans woman is a pretty divisive one, but personally I think it’s a really marginal topic that’s not worth worrying about outside of the most asshole-gazing academic theory.

And your agenda is what? Have a cis kid no matter what? 

She’s absolutely of a piece with the rest of the alt-right star children coming up around her, though. Ben Shapiro, David Wohl, Lara Loomer, they’re venal and grifty but so much dumber than their predecessors.

You shouldn’t egg racists on, but egging on racists is a whole other matter.

There’s totally a BBC joke in there. And I get that Steve was the great love and totally support them ending up together. But boy howdy did it make an already pandering relationship feel even cheaper. Like they knew Steve was the endgame but wanted to have one more guy and since all these people keep complaining about…

I think you’re giving Miranda/Steve short shrift. She was against dating a bartender as first, but as she got over that Steve started to have a problem with dating a woman who made more money than him, and the conflict over that ultimately ended the first relationship. It was a good balance

Hey now, Miranda dated that black doctor in the last? season for a while until he was inevitably shunted aside for Steve.

It’s more true with those genres, and rock fans increasingly turning to country as rock dies is why stuff is changing. Country was one of the better genres for women, especially as song writers and musicians, and that’s going away under an onslaught of bros who want to hear other bros sing about bro stuff.