Feminist Dinosaur

The other day on here someone reblogged something about heterosexual women enjoying “not...

Fri, 17 May 2013 01:10:22 -0400

The other day on here someone reblogged something about heterosexual women enjoying “not having to shave” when they’re not in a relationship.

I enjoy not having to cut my nails. Damned oppressive lesbians.

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Fri, 17 May 2013 00:56:13 -0400

Stop using “terf”. There is no trans-inclusive radical feminism.

Mon, 13 May 2013 00:28:55 -0400

Stop using “terf”. There is no trans-inclusive radical feminism.

░▒▓█≠█▓▒░: thugzmansion: so i am a little overwhelmed with all that is currently...

Sun, 12 May 2013 23:01:12 -0400

░▒▓█≠█▓▒░: thugzmansion: so i am a little overwhelmed with all that is currently...:

thugzmansion:

so i am a little overwhelmed with all that is currently on my plate as a qpoc who is mostly being consumed by job and health issues but i am hoping to respond to all of the valid critiques of the goddesses shirt and my photoshopped image of willow smith as well as the not so accurate comments about my identity and experiences that i have received today. i am not disconnected from these conversations and entered the project of the shirt with the foremost intentions of inciting helpful dialogue. while i have learned from past experiences that tumblr is not exactly conducive to conversations where good communication actually takes place, i want to be accountable to all of the ways that i have messed up in going forth with the different ways i have been realizing my vision as an artist. there are always going to be new ways that an idea can be expanded and thought over and i am grateful for all of the knowledge that this project has generated. it is a little stressful to have people whom i’ve never met try and define my work by my online presence and what they perceive my identity to be like but i am hoping to provide a better look at what my intentionality is as soon as i get the opportunity.

hahahahahahaaaaaaa~ wow, really? I mean really?

I’m not sure if you could make a more sympathy mongering, bay area bullshit ally, recasting yourself as the ~just wants to be accountable~ victim post if you tried.

“overwhelmed by everything on my plate” ( You say in response to being called out by an unemployed homeless trans woman of color. must be hard being faux poor and trying to get to NYC colleges :’( )

“as a qpoc” (newsflash: thats everyone your talking to, idiot. But, its cool, you deserve sympathy more.)

“my identity and experiences” (this is trans cafab bullshit speak for “i can do or say whatever i want and take up space in womens and trans communities and redefine myself as whatever is most socially useful to me in the moment so no one can make me accountable to anything I’ve done or said b/c I’m always not what you say I am and no analysis encompases me especially not anything that plenty of TWOC have been analyzing and speaking about on our manipulative as fuck ways that always ultimately harms trans women of color.”)

“ intentions of inciting helpful dialogue” (I live in the bay area and can weasel my way out of anything making me uncomfortable by reframing everything to be about ”intentions” and ”help” and ”dialogue”)

“learned from past experiences that tumblr is not exactly conducive to conversations where good communication actually takes place”(Why is no one making good communication with me? Dont they see how I’m representing myself to be the good person in a sea of bad communicators who all happen to be calling me on my shit? Do they exspect me to listen when there not even coddling me or my bullshit excuses for myself and the dynamics I carelessly engage in? Do they really exspect me to be accountable for anti-blackness and transmisogyny when I have a real cunt??? Countdown to counter-call-out starts now.)

“i want to be accountable to all of the ways that i have messed up in going forth with the different ways i have been realizing my vision as an artist.” (I have no intention of being accountable for anything whatsoever and this is not about me its about my art, and you better make sure we keep the focus there. Also, this is about “my visions as an artist” not in anyway about how my ”art” is bringing in money for me, not at all. I’m going to continue heroically forward with by vision of making money, despite you h8rs on my art.)

“i am grateful for all of the knowledge that this project has generated.”(bay area faux acknowledgement time! I hope this makes up for how I’ve been preemptively shifting the focus, removing blame, gathering sympathy and discrediting everything said and ignoring how people have already called me on this b4 and i didn’t do shit but be smug and self-righteous … till it became and internet shit storm… by saying i’m grateful for ‘the knowledge that this project has generated’ implicitly making my work ultimately good. I’m so glad my work has helped make me a better person as i discredit everyone who critiques me. Thanks for helping me grow~~~~~)

“it is a little stressful to have people whom i’ve never met try and define my work by my online presence and what they perceive my identity to be like”

This has so much bullshit in it its tricky to deconstruct.

Why do you assume anyone calling you has never met you? Can’t even go to Ships without seeing you and an entourage fallowing you around- its hard not to know you. I’ve met you like, 8 times at least.

If someone hasn’t met you they cant criticize your anti-blackness and transmisogyny…why exactly? That doesn’t make any fucking sense— your reframing everything about this solely to benefit yourself and your image. This is as insincere as you can get. No one needs to know you in person to know this shit about you. But sure, its b/c once they get to know you they will realize… your cafab? non-black? not from the hood? claim trans identities then leave them at your convenience? butch presenting but with lipstick?

Oh but whoops it doesnt matter b/c almost everyone writing has met you more than once and everyone knows you. So. Nope. Your full of manipulation games, but actually, your nothing but bullshit, ego, and bay area fauxpology evasion.

“my intentionality”

hahahahaha. go to hell.

I’m not surprised at what I just read, its typical transhole bullying of women in the queer community. Portray the woman as some kind of hyper-privileged overemotional crybaby and then use the same fucking tactics themselves. She was “called out on her shit” by a homeless man of color that pretends he’s a woman. This super oppressed dude spends his free time calling people out on their privilege on tumblr. PRIORITIES. The woman admits she made a mistake in her project and wants to discuss it with the community further. Another man who pretends he’s a woman thinks this is not good enough and proceeds to eviscerate her character, making all kinds of accusations about who and what she is, what her intentions are. His magic lady dick gives him powers of clairvoyance you see. The usual charges leveled at women abound. She is manipulative, she is a liar, she is wrong for trying to make money for her creative work because the only real artists starve/live off their parents. Having a “real cunt” (charming). She’s privileged for being able to put on lipstick every now and then without looking like a fucking clown. Men continually think they should have the power of being able to name what women are. When women craft an identity for themselves outside of that men can’t handle it and MUST tell a woman what she is.

No doubt thugzmansion has just received a shit ton of messages all saying the same thing and will continue to for awhile. Instead of arguing point by point with every sheep on tumblr she put up a general post saying she’s going to respond to the criticisms. Not good enough. We must humiliate the bitch, put her in her place for not prioritizing the tumblr community first and foremost.

Seriously this shit is just an excuse to dump on a queer woman of color with the typical racist, misogynistic, tired ass, played out, petty, effeminate male games. I don’t know why women put up with it.

females get coerced into femininity and practicing femininity is my right as a man.

Sun, 12 May 2013 21:57:44 -0400

females get coerced into femininity and practicing femininity is my right as a man.

When I read “cafab” privilege I lol and lol and wish death upon the appropriating male...

Sun, 12 May 2013 21:56:25 -0400

When I read “cafab” privilege I lol and lol and wish death upon the appropriating male piece of shit that thought up that bullshit.

bestiesnotestes: If men gave a shit about women’s rights, we would have them. Don’t let male...

Sat, 11 May 2013 11:10:22 -0400

bestiesnotestes:

If men gave a shit about women’s rights, we would have them. Don’t let male “feminists” try to convince you otherwise.

"this: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kayteecallahan/8490121817/ is why i say, MY FEMINISM WILL BE..."

Sat, 11 May 2013 11:09:54 -0400

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this: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kayteecallahan/8490121817/ is why i say,

MY FEMINISM WILL BE LESBIAN SEPARATIST OR IT WILL BE BULLSHIT

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- (via female-only)

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fourteenmiles: all het sex is sadistic + masochistic so let’s work on yourselves before you bring...

Sat, 11 May 2013 01:22:51 -0400

fourteenmiles:

all het sex is sadistic + masochistic so let’s work on yourselves before you bring up lesbian bdsm

weirdvintage: Rude anti-suffragette postcard, c. 1910s (via...

Fri, 10 May 2013 19:59:03 -0400

weirdvintage:

Rude anti-suffragette postcard, c. 1910s (via Retronaut)

"It is safe to assume that if white women playing a dominant role in the 19th century domestic..."

Fri, 10 May 2013 19:44:52 -0400

“It is safe to assume that if white women playing a dominant role in the 19th century domestic household did not lead to the de-masculinization and undermining of white male power, the enslaved black woman playing a dominant role in the slave household represented no threat to the already powerless black male. The major distinction between the familial role played by white male slaveowners and that of black male slaves within the sub-culture was that black men were denied the opportunity to act as providers for their families. According to some scholars, it was the inability of black imen to adequately provide coupled with the dominant role played by black women in slave households that resulted in de-masculinization. They ignore two realities. First, that in 19th century America emphasis on the home and family as “woman’s sphere” was all pervasive, so that it was not unusual for the role played by black women to take precedence over that of black men. And the reality was that black men were able workers and providers, only white people reaped the benefits of their labor. It is ludicrous to assume that black men who labored at their various tasks from twelve to sixteen hours a day had doubts about their ability to provide—and is probably more accurate to assert that enslaved black men rather than feeling de-masculinized, were outraged and angry that racist oppression prevented them from reaping the benefits of their labor. In keeping with the sexual politics of 19th century America, many black slave men felt very strongly that it was their duty to provide for the economic well-being of their family and they felt bitter resentment and remorse that the slave system did not enable them to fill this role.”

- bell hooks : AIN’T I A WOMAN? - Black Women and Feminism

awkwardsituationist: “Not Natasha,” a photographic essay on...

Fri, 10 May 2013 17:27:23 -0400

awkwardsituationist:

“Not Natasha,” a photographic essay on Eastern European sex trafficked slaves by Dana Popa

(documentary, The Real Sex Traffic; film, Lilya 4-ever)

"The shift away from the image of white woman as sinful and sexual to that of white woman as virtuous..."

Fri, 10 May 2013 00:04:21 -0400

“The shift away from the image of white woman as sinful and sexual to that of white woman as virtuous lady occurred at the same time as mass sexual exploitation of enslaved black women—just as the rigid sexual morality of Victorian England created a society in which the extolling of woman as mother and helpmeet occurred at the same time as the formation of a mass underworld of prostitution. As American white men idealized white womanhood, they sexually assaulted and brutalized black women. Racism was by no means the sole cause of many cruel and sadistic acts of violence perpetrated by white men against enslaved black women. The deep hatred of woman that had been embedded in the white colonizer’s psyche by patriarchal ideology and anti-woman religious teachings both motivated and sanctioned white male brutality against black women.”

- bell hooks - AIN’T I A WOMAN: Black Women and Feminism

historicaltimes: A woman suffrage activist protesting after...

Thu, 09 May 2013 23:08:48 -0400

historicaltimes:

A woman suffrage activist protesting after “The Night of Terror”, 1917

thegrandaverage: Votes for Women.

Thu, 09 May 2013 23:06:43 -0400

thegrandaverage:

Votes for Women.

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"Ironically, while the recent women’s movement called attention to the fact that black women..."

Wed, 08 May 2013 23:43:10 -0400

“Ironically, while the recent women’s movement called attention to the fact that black women were dually victimized by racist and sexist oppression, white feminists tended to romanticize the black female experience rather than discuss the negative impact of that oppression. When feminists acknowledged in one breath that black women are victimized and in the same breath emphasize their strength, they imply that though black women are oppressed they manage to circumvent the damaging impact of oppression by being strong-and that is simply not the case. Usually, when people talk about the “strength” of black women they are referring to the way in which they perceive black women coping with oppression. They ignore the reality that to be strong in the face of oppression is not the same as overcoming oppression, that endurance is not to be confused with transformation.”

- bell hooks - AIN’T I A WOMAN Black Women and Feminism