Language changes, and no one these days actually thinks ‘TERF’ has any real connection to radical feminism outside of a historical one. Right now TERF is a subset of transphobia that cloaks itself in a faux feminist rhetoric, and it’s appropriate to call people like Rowling TERF to indicate that.

Just because a girl is drunk doesn’t give you a right to rape her, Mike.

TERFs think trans women posting images of themselves is porn. Not naked or explicit images, just normal selfies and shit. So if I had to guess why Rowling didn’t report the porn it’s because she knew it wouldn’t go anywhere because no one outside her cult would see it that way.

Signaling feminism without having to actually confront, much less deconstruct, the systems that have benefited them. We’ve hit a point where white women have kind of maxed out their personal empowerment, and true women’s liberation is clearly going to require focusing on economic, racial, and other intersectional…

Controversial take: people’s whose entire knowledge base about sexual dimorphism began and ended in the 7th grade should stay away from big claims about what’s scientific or not.

Wide is pushing it a bit. TERFs were radical separatists, but their ideology has since been soldout to conservatives looking for another trench to hide in since their last few got bombed out in the last few decades of culture war. Evangelical groups are literally funding this garbage in the UK. And moderate, liberal,…

They’re actually fairly contemporaneous of each other. The bodice ripper, period piece romance novels with explicit sexual content started becoming a thing in the 70's, same time as fanfic zines started becoming a thing.

Dubious consent is a term invented by fanfic authors, not the romance novel industry. Honestly a lot of what’s new in romance is actually stuff that’s well established in fan fiction.

It’s a matter of intent to me. Rowling didn’t think of men like me any more than she thought of cis women who’ve had hysterectomies or hit menopause. Our identities are all just collateral damage in this shitty little war against women they’ve invented to avoid doing any actual work on women’s issues.

Speaking as a trans man, the way we get erased by TERFs, and in the whole cultural discussion about trans people in general, is frustrating. But I also don’t want to make a direct attack on my trans sisters into something about me. I encourage people to respond to TERF garbage by pointing out how it erases trans…

Because she’s an affluent, white, British woman, and they’re all obsessed with this ginned-up war against womanhood that TERFs invented to spread their bigotry. It’s a whole thing over there; I think Jezebel has an article or two about TERFism in the UK if you want to know a little more.

There are XY ciswomen. A certain flaw in the Y chromosome means it never triggers the hormones that signal the body to develop as male, and there is at least one woman with XY chromosomes who has menstruated and birthed children, one of which herself is an XY woman. 

Actually it’s exactly like the CSA monuments in that no one gave a damn about Columbus until early 20th century Italian Catholics wanted a historical figure to connect their community to the US. So they pulled Columbus out of the ‘who gives a fuck’ bin of history and started a PR campaign to maximize his importance in…

The TERF answer to the diversity of biological expression leaving a lot of cis women out of their narrow definitions is to claim that those woman are statistical outliers and should never have been counted. Trans women are not outliers because (reason that leaves a lot of cis women out of their narrow definition....)…

I gave up well into the first season when the story kept going back to that boring girl who helped her dad kill other women because writers think everyone has the same clunky virgin/whore complex about teenage girls as they do. Why do Hannibal and Will care so much about this girl? Because she’s young and pretty and…

Yes, because it’s ripping off her palette, but applying it to the kind of batiks/weaving inspired prints you find in hippy, world fashion joints. French is basically taking two different kinds of rich-ish white woman fashion, and smooshing them together in the blandest, most derivative and uninspired way.

They aren’t really bold prints, though are they? They’re certainly big, and they aren’t neutral in color, but there’s so little contrast to them that it’s all weirdly serine. It’s Amy Butler on Xanax. Clothes for the kind of white women who won’t even do one of those “experience the culture” tour package to India or…

There are plenty with far less oversight than an island smack dab in the middle of Disney World, if that’s what you’re wondering. Exploring abandoned places is a popular passtime so you should be able to find stuff online about what’s in your area, along with tips about how to get in and what to do if caught.

Does effect on the body mean provide sustinance because nightshade is an entire family of plants which includes potatoes, tomatoes, peppers, and many other common cultivars.

Plant hormones. Are you a plant? No study has shown any negative effects of increased soy consumption on humans, only the possibility of some positive effects for women. The driving forces behind the whole soy-estrogen-bad brigade are conspiracy nuts attempting to stir up paranoia about GMOs and feminization of men.