I’m going through my drafts and cleaning out the backlog of issues and items that, in the past, I’ve deemed worthy to create a post about. This comment, gleaned from Meghan Murphy’s website The Feminism Current is a great response to the bullying, fear-mongering, and testerical reactions women have
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Dead Wild Roses: Just Moar Cis-Privilege for ya.
I am heartened to see the criticism of the word ‘cis’ from more places around the world. Women are waking up to the misogyny that it transactivism. “Loudly proclaiming that the use of biological, scientific words are bigoted, exclusionary, or even violent is actually bigoted, and exclusionary. It’s not violent
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Just a whole jar full of nope. The hack job transactivism is doing to the language has to stop. Women do not ‘identify’ with femininity (aka the harmful set of practices and attitudes that marks them as second class human beings), there is no privilege to be found here, despite
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Radical Feminist Quote of the Day – MaryLou Singleton – On “CIS”
“I am about to be interviewed about the oppressive nature of gender by a male reporter who called me a “cis woman.” Here is my (slightly edited) written response to him before agreeing to the interview: “When I see the unquestioning use of the word “cis” I assume I am dealing
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: A Short Essay On the Term “Cis-Privilege” – From the Female Perspective.
“Every single time I hear a transactivist or MTT person call us ‘cis’ or ‘cis privileged’ as a woman I am going to assume that they think the following experiences of being a woman privilege us: The number one greatest industry in the world is the buying, selling and trafficking
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: “Cis Privilege” Hahahahahahah – No.
Woo! Let’s check out all the privilege “cis” women have. Oh. Women do not willingly identify with any of the above conditions. This is precisely why the term “cis” resides in the realm of fatuous, patriarchally-approved bullshit. If women (adult human females) actually had the choice to identify their way
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Meghan Murphy – Why the conception of “cis” is wrong.
This is an excerpt from Meghan Murphy’s manifesto posted on the Feminist Current titled : ‘We need to be braver’ — women challenge ‘gender identity’ and the silencing of feminist discourse. ““Cis” is another term that has been adopted by those who wish to see themselves or present
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