Emily's Cat
Rarely prone to hissy-fits
See that's where I (and a lot of females) have a problem. What they think it means bears no resemblance whatsoever to the actual experiences of females. Their interpretation, what you trust them to have sussed out, is very often extremely insulting and degrading.I don't know how I'd recognize that.
It's up to them, and what they think it means.I haven't got the slightest idea what it would feel like to believe I am a woman. I can only kinda sorta get what being a trans man would feel like (feeling just like I do right now, but looking down and seeing female plumbing). There's simply no external standard I can defer to, and I'm just trusting them to have it sussed out for their own interpretation of what it would look like.
Andrea Long Chu - a trans author frequently "lauded" for how "insightful" they are has this to say:
Females Quotes by Andrea Long Chu
2 quotes from Females: ‘Gender is not just the misogynistic expectations a female internalizes but also the process of internalizing itself, the self's g...
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Femaleness is a universal sex defined by self-negation, against which all politics, even feminist politics, rebels. Put more simply: Everyone is female, and everyone hates it.
EDIT - REMOVED TWITTER LINK BECAUSE IT EMBEDDED AND HAS DIRTY WORDS IN ITGender is not just the misogynistic expectations a female internalizes but also the process of internalizing itself, the self's gentle suicide in the name of someone else's desires, someone else's narcissism.
... distilling the femaleness to its barest essentials - an open mouth, and expectant ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊, blank, blank eyes.
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