Tag: gender

rejecting-the-gender-cult:

Peak trans moment #27:
My teacher is a hardcore liberal feminist and goes so hard for trans people and ~*~anti-GENDER ROLES~*~ that she encourages a classroom full of males to go into the women’s restroom whenever they need to because it is not punishable by law here as long as you say you identified as a woman that day.
The classroom then filled with laughs and cheers, two men promptly left to check out the women’s restroom with their cellphones in hand, what made it scarier was this was a night class (around 7pm).

“it is not punishable by law here as long as you say you identified as a woman that day“

This is the logical conclusion of ‘gender identity‘ laws. She is actively encouraging boys to harass women and how to use the laws against women. I think this goes to show that ‘gender identity’ is not some innate, intangible quality it is really an ideology which results in sexist, male entitled behaviour. 

If I was there, I would have yelled at her and filed a report for encouraging sexual harassment and contributing to a hostile environment towards women.

If she really wanted men to break gender roles she would have told them to respect women and our boundaries and told women not to tolerate bullshit or accommodate to males. 

officiallesbians:

“Clothes don’t have genders!!! Anyone can wear whatever they want regardless of their gender!!!”

*sees a cartoon boy wearing a dress 1x for fun which promotes positive visibility for rl GNC/gay boys*

“HES RLY A GIRL!!! HES A TRANSGIRL FOR BEING GNC IN ANY SHAPE OR FORM!!!! GNC BOYS ARE REALLY TRANS GIRLS!!!!!!”

It’s also stupid because Steven breaks masculine gender roles with his actions not his clothes.

codenamecesare:

aranel-parmadil:

ormondhsacker:

randsexual:

scifigrl47:

gingerjuju:

I just don’t understand where this concept of ‘fake geek girls’ came from. Like, AT ALL.

Cus when I look for fandom related stuff like 90% of the fan art and the fanfiction and the meta, zines, comics, etc. Like 90% of the shit that I’ve seen is created by women & girls.

And all that stuff take’s a lot of work and research and critical analysis and staring at reference photos for hours.

We are literally the most well versed and invested group in the fandom. So, like, What the fuck boys? You mad you can’t keep up?

I saw an argument, and I can’t find it now, but it totally made sense, that there’s a gender split in fandom. Male fandom tends to be a curator fandom; male fandom collects, organizes, and memorizes facts and figures. Male fandom tends to be KEEPERS of the canon; the fandom places great weight on those who have the biggest collection, the deepest knowledge of obscure subjects, the first appearances, creators, character interactions.

Female fandom is creative. Females create fanart, cosplay, fanwritings. Female fandom ALTERS canon, for the simple reason that canon does not serve female fandom. In order for it to fit the ‘outsider’ (female, queer, POC), the canon must be attacked and rebuilt, and that takes creation.

“Male” fandom devalues this contribution to fandom, because it is not the ‘right’ kind of fandom. “Girls only cosplay for attention, they’re not REAL fans!” “Fanfiction is full of stupid Mary Sues, girls only do it so they can make out with the main character!” “I, a male artist, have done this pin-up work and can put it in my portfolio! You, a female artist, have drawn stupid fanart, and it’s not appropriate to use as a professional reference!”

In the mind of people who decry the ‘fake geek girl,’ this fandom is not as worthy. It damages, or in their mind, destroys the canon. What is the point of memorizing every possible romantic entanglement of heterosexual white Danny Rand if someone turns around and creates a fanwork depicting him as a bisexual female of Asian descent (thus subverting Rand’s creepy ‘white savior’ origins)? When Danny Rand becomes Dani Rand, their power is lessened. What is important to them ceases to be the focus of the discussion. Creation and curatorship can work in tandom, but typically, in fandom, they are on opposite poles.

This is not to say that there aren’t brilliant male cosplayers or smashing female trivia experts, this is to say that the need of the individual fan is met with opposing concepts: In order for me to find myself in comics, I need to make that space for myself, and that is a creative force. Het white cis males are more likely to do anything possible to defend and preserve the canon because the canon is built to cater to them.

This is genuinely the best post I have ever read.

Comment bolded by me because effing important that’s why.

This.

“I, a male artist, have done this pin-up work and can put it in my portfolio! You, a female artist, have drawn stupid fanart, and it’s not appropriate to use as a professional reference!”

Seeing this spelled out was revelatory to me.

butchcommunist:

Masculinity and femininity are both oppressive to women, both intended to be enacted for the benefit of men no matter who performs them, and both integral parts of institutional heterosexuality (otherwise known as just heterosexuality). Gender is a system which is built fundamentally on harming and marginalizing women and for us there can never be safety within its confines.

Masculinity and femininity are equally fragile, and their frailty shows most at the point of sexuality- that is, boyfriend jeans and men not wanting to wear pink are halves of the same coin, not separate homophobic phenomena.

feminism-for-me:

Identifying as non binary or genderqueer does nothing to destroy the gender binary. It in fact enforces it by saying everyone who IDs as a man or woman, falls strictly into those gender roles that have been pushed onto us, and doesn’t deviate from those norms.

When you think of man and woman as personality/identity categories, in which gender roles are intertwined (women wear dresses/act in a certain way etc) the grip of the gender binary is tightened as anyone GNC is pushed out and further isolated.

When you think of man and woman as nothing more than biological categories (male and female) we are free from gender roles. A woman can be anything she wants to be. We can break those chains, but we can’t do it while simultaneously following postmodern gender theory.