I empathize with a lot of what you’re saying.

I’m gonna get a lot of stuff of my chest so here goes.. I always comment on the root but this really sparked my interest..

You cheapen the discourse by using the term “TERF.” Radical feminists have always been critical of gender. We see it as the main tool the patriarchy uses to keep women down. Therefore the ideal world of trans-activists and radical feminists are fundamentally opposed and I don’t think we’ll ever see eye-to-eye on this.…

Thank you Raquel for kindly expressing your narrative which is that of many trans-women. I also appreciate that you are not denouncing Chimamanda for expressing her thoughts on this topic as you acknowledge the vernacular used was evasive.

I think the poster you replied to raises a good point though—how do we define “man” and “woman?” If gender is a social construct, as opposed to a biological dichotomy, and we don’t have “men’s brains” and “women’s brains,” and “performance” is an aspect of gender, and it’s not about shared experiences, and it’s not…

If you are human and possess X/Y-Chromosome pairs, you are male regardless of any surgery, drug-therapy, makeup, attire, personal belief/feeling -OR- politics. It’s simply SCIENCE!!

What makes you a woman or a man? If it’s not genetics, or the way society treats you, is it a gut feeling that it’s what you are? When you look at people like Kaitlynn Jenner (not the representative of all trans women) who speak about make up and high heels as being the essence of woman hood, it makes me wonder if…

Correct. But the therapeutic testosterone range for a boy is over 8-10x that of a girl. When body builders and baseball players used steroids, they were at most 3x the average range. Even though it is a therapeutic amount of testosterone, it’s still an incredible advantage.

Has anyone considered that his testosterone injections should maybe disqualify him under doping rules?

still scratching my head at how people can identify as a different gender but can not identify as a different race.

all in the name of some buzzwords like ‘diversity’.

This. While the complaints regarding Metzger are valid and I’m glad to see he’s facing repercussions for his statements, it is absolutely bullshit that there’s an expectation that people respond to the Internet Mob in real time. Presumably Schumer just fired someone she has (at least in the past) considered a personal…

Yeah, anybody can block anybody on Twitter. If the first I hear of you as a person is you up in my @s yelling at me about something (at the same time that THOUSANDS OF OTHER PEOPLE ARE ALSO YELLING AT ME IN MY @S) I would feel no compunction blocking you, and fuck anyone who tells me I am obligated to patiently let…

Can we not blame Amy Schumer for the assholery of men she may have employed/known? Let’s stay focused on the true jerks who deserve our anger.

‘Male’ and ‘masculine’ don’t mean the same thing.

But those are two separate issues. Tig doesn’t want Amy to speak for her? Cool.

I feel like you’re being deliberately obtuse on this issue. There are societal/cultural expectations for what is ‘typically masculine’ and ‘typically feminine’. Does that mean that every man and every woman fall neatly into those categories? Of course not. But the norms and expectations are there, whether we like or…

It means having an appearance normally associated with men. C.f. feminine, having an appearance normally associated with women.

We can slice amys words to pieces, but we know what she meant, and I we all know that not performing for the male heterosexual eye probably does hurt female performers. It makes sense.

2016 America: Where a 12-year old boy is shot and killed by the police for playing with a toy and it’s his fault because he should have “known” that people would see him as a threat, while a full-grown adult who rapes an unconscious woman and tries to flee should only have to endure a couple months of jail because…