Tag: gender

why do you hate the word cis?

the-radical-feminist-deactivate:

I think cis is essentially supposed to mean that a person identifies with the gender that is assigned to them according to their biological sex. Both men and women are assigned gender roles based on their birth sex and many of the female gender roles exist to keep us in a place where we exist as objects that exist for the pleasure of men, and I think that is part of how men oppress women. In my opinion, for me to say I am a cis-gendered woman, would mean that I identify with the gender roles that oppress me, and I don’t. I don’t want to be confined to gender roles, and I don’t think anyone else should be regardless of their sex. So that is why I don’t like the word ‘cis.’

It is also insulting because it implies that women are happy with ‘out lot in life‘.

I am a woman, politically, because that’s how people see me and that’s how the state treats me. And sometimes I’m also a boy. Gender is something I perform, when I put on my binder or paint my nails. When I walk down the street. When I talk to my boss. When I kiss my partner in their makeup and high heels.
I don’t want to see a world without gender. I want to see a world where gender is not oppressive or enforced, where there are as many ways to express and perform and relate to your own identity as there are people on Earth. I want a world where gender is not painful, but joyful.

How To Be A Genderqueer Feminist (via brutereason)

PERSONALITY. The word you are looking for is PERSONALITY. Not gender. Jesus Christ, your sex doesn’t change when you decide not to wear makeup, that’s fucking sexist. Changing your clothes does not make you less of a woman/man, that’s fucking sexist. Whether you choose to decorate yourself to feel pretty or powerful is not an indicator of of your sex, it is an indicator of your PERSONALITY. Gender is the system that boxes people into certain personality traits against their will, because of their sex. To say that your sex changes when you change the personality traits you express is just as sexist as saying that your personality traits should change to fit your sex. If A=B is sexist, then B=A is also sexist. Get a grip, children.

(via krismichelle429)

Gender is used to keep women ‘in our place‘. It create contradictory restrictions which we are supposed to follow or there will be consequences. I want gender to go away forever. 

bibbidibobbidibutthole:

wanderingwombyn:

asserting that “presenting as female” means wearing lipstick, painting nails, wearing tank tops and jewelry, really makes it sound like you think female babies come out of the womb in lipstick, nail polish, tank tops, and jewelry, and that’s how they get their “sex assignment.”

cut that shit out. do you know how fucking insulting that is? do you know how disconnected from reality that is?

being female, in this universe, is not determined by what you fucking wear. lipstick, nail polish, tank tops, and jewelry are all man-made ways of designating that the body underneath them is of the female sex. it’s important for men to mark out females so they know who to oppress for being female.

if you’re a male passing as female and getting treated like shit, it’s because you’re communicating the (deceptive) message that you are anatomically female, and you’re treated accordingly.

once they see your dick (or learn that you were born with one), you are no longer passing as female. you can call your dick a female penis all you want, but patriarchy doesn’t agree with you and patriarchy made the rules. you may still get attacked or killed – by a dude, btw – but it’s because you have fucked with the all-holy patriarchal system of marking and othering “inferior” (female) bodies.

it’s a goddamn crime when men do that. it’s an offense against humanity and it’s a violation of one’s basic human rights. it shouldn’t happen and it’s a fucking tragedy when it does.

but it’s not misogyny.

“Presenting as feminine” would even be better IMO

feminism-for-me:

Ok if you define non binary identities as “people who don’t fit in to the gender binary” but don’t see that that’s implying everyone who isn’t nb happily fits into the gender binary and has no problem with it… You’re no closer to confronting the actual issue, that we’re all shoved into boxes because of our biological sex.

Female gender roles

witwitch:

project-radfem:

project-radfem:

Make up. 

Is there any real purpose to it? Nope, but we are supposed to spend hundreds of dollars on makeup. Why? Looks.

Skirts. Do they function better than pants? No. In fact, you have to be careful when you wear skirts. Sit a certain way, don’t move a certain way. They’re more restricting than pants. But we’re supposed to wear them. Why? Looks.

Fake nails? You can’t do shit when you first start wearing them. You have to learn how to function while wearing them. But we wear them. Why? Looks.

Heels. Uncomfortable, expensive, painful, and damaging. But we wear them. Why? Looks.

Long hair. Takes longer to care for. Takes more product to keep clean. Takes more effort to style. Yet we’re supposed to have it. Why? Looks.

I can go on. Everything that is intended for women is purely aesthetic. Whether it’s pointless, time-consuming, painful or expensive.

Yeah, but see, it’s a double-edged sword. You can choose not to participate, be a gender non-conforming woman, which is what I am. I’ve shaved my head, I don’t wear heels or make up or fake nails. 

But while following female gender roles is a punishment we’re conditioned to enjoy, being GNC results in social punishment. I’ve been told boys aren’t allowed in the bathroom, I’ve been called “sir” multiple times. A little girl asked her mom why a boy was looking at nail polish. Someone informed me that since I choose to look this way, I must view myself as a man, and I’m really a transman.
 
You either follow these archaic, pointless, toxic gender roles, or you forfeit being recognized as female.

So deeply does society associate womanhood with femininity that we are taught we are not women if we don’t conform to the roles men decided we should conform to.

Men have defined our existence for us.

genderkills:

To abolish gender does not mean to erase distinction and difference in expression and embodiment, it means to remove those differences from a coercive framework of self policing, and from a system that delineates material benefit based on arbitrary distinctions in those differences.

radicalfeminisms:

genderandoppression:

radicalfeminisms:

In a genderless world, there would be no need for any of this.

The only reality would be females, males, and those born with various manifestations of intersex genitalia, wearing what is most comfortable for them and respectful to all as well as doing what they are best able and what is respectful to all.

In a genderless world, there would be no need for ANY of this.

I made a power-point today exactly about this.

This is awesome!

Fact: before the term gender was coined in the 1950′s by sexologists, what we now know as gender was referred to as “sex roles.”

Gender is literally sex roles and stereotypes.

Thanks for sharing!!!!

Let’s make gender redundant.