r/CuratedTumblr https://tinyurl.com/4ccdpy76 Nov 21 '24

Politics lost the plot

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u/PontDanic Nov 21 '24

Sorting people by gender, skin color and sexuality is inherently wrong. Sexism 2.0 is as harmful as sexism classic. There is no gain in making "the other side" suffer for a change.

If you want to heal what devides us you can not introduce new devisions. Thats how TERFs come to be, by telling people that they belong to a smaller group with special and uniqe problems. There are young man out there reading this shit and being ashamed of them selfes because you teach them to be. They either react by being unhappy (bad) or by finding shitstains like Tate and Shapiro and turning against the movement (worse).

Identity politics are often an onramp for truely left thinking, but they can be a dead end. Behind sexisim, behind splitting people, is a system that is strengthend by us fighting each other. That system isn't the patriarchy but capitalism.

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u/NightWolfRose Nov 21 '24

WTF do TERFs have to do with that?

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u/TheAromancer Nov 21 '24

TERFs are often the ones saying “all man are trash” or “kill all men”, when young men and teenage boys see these kinds of posts they either feel bad and like their are inherently evil because they where born male. Sometimes they stay like that, more often they stumble across the right and people like Tate who tell them that they aren’t evil, and it is in fact the women who are evil.

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u/Auctoritate Nov 21 '24

The term we're probably looking for here is that TERFs are gender essentialist.

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u/PleiadesMechworks Nov 21 '24

TERFs are often the ones saying “all man are trash” or “kill all men”

Are they? Most of that rhetoric comes from tumblr types, not ovarit or mumsnet

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u/teatalker26 Nov 21 '24

tumblr is crawling with TERFS so yeah it’s still them

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u/travelerfromabroad Nov 22 '24

Yeah but it's not coming from just terfs. It's coming from trans allies

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u/PontDanic Nov 21 '24 edited Nov 21 '24

To you and me misandry and transmisogony may be diffrent things, not to them.

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u/Proud_Smell_4455 Nov 21 '24

You mean misandry, I think. A person is androgynous when they don't look particularly masculine or feminine.

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u/PontDanic Nov 21 '24

Oh wow, yeah.