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Seriously?!
In response to some posts earlier this afternoon, i keep getting messages stating things like “sexism is the reason transphobia exists” and “cissexism just boils down to sexism”.
I’ve responded twice now stating my opinion. I don’t believe that we can legitimately reduce these other forms of discrimination to misogyny and/or sexism. It’s not accurate and it’s not fair to those people who have to face that sort of oppression. I don’t believe we (cis women) have any place centring ourselves (via spurious “it’s just sexism”-type explanations) in discourse on modes of oppression that are not directed at us.
Cissexism is not about us. It’s so not about us. So i think it would be really neat if we stopped trying to make it about us.
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mynameislyddy said:
being female and non-cis, i would say trans oppression is not caused by sexism, but that they are both caused by fear of ‘other’ and the need to push someone else down to create superiority.
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Signal boost. These...patriarchy, but they’re...the same....
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everything-floats said:
ugh, THANK YOU for reiterating this. seriously, thank you.
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nodamncatnodamncradle reblogged this from fuckyeahgenderstudies and added:
*we ciswomenOn fucking point though
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nodamncatnodamncradle said:
*we ciswomen
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pearlsandasweaterset reblogged this from fuckyeahgenderstudies and added:
change the “us” being spoken for here to “ciswomen” rather than “women.”
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