Was the Barbie movie radical? No. There was nothing “anti-man” about it, in fact it was incredibly kind to men. That, however, has not stopped them from pretending like it straight up unironically advocated for a male genocide. For example:
Maybe this is wishful thinking, but I firmly believe that the absolute hysteria from so many men that has occurred since its release could make at least a few more women realize that male socialization is not a myth and feminism is absolutely necessary for our survival. Like.. A movie about a toy marketed toward little girls not catering 100% to men is enough to make them go full mask off and advocate for the 19th amendment to be repealed. That’s how insane they’re being about this. Their reaction to this movie is a great example of what feminists mean when we say that males are socialized to believe the world must cater to them and their interests alone, and nothing makes them more mad than when a woman tries to challenge that. I just really hope women are paying attention to this and digging deeper into why they’re behaving this way.
a TRA has NEVER managed to present a good argument as to how being transgender and transracial aren’t the same thing 😭 their argument is usually that you can’t identify into oppression and culture…which is the exact reason males can’t identify as women lol.
barbie movie’s lukewarm feminist messaging was cute and the bit where she was so happy to go the gynaecologist made me laugh but the way conservatives are talking about it you’d think margot robbie started reciting the S.C.U.M. manifesto on screen
“im so happy to see women celebrating femininity at the theaters” girl shut the hell up
we need to remove the word femininity from our language. people are using it as a socially appropriate way to defend female submission in the patriarchy. all this feminine energy stuff is psyop bullshit.
If you ever feel the need to defend your choice to wear makeup or shave your legs as “I’m doing this for myself, not because I care what anyone thinks about it!” you are in fact announcing that you deeply care about how other people see you, or you wouldn’t give a shit what I think your motivations are.
Whenever people talk about the North Sentinelese people they always talk about how “aggressive” and “isolated” they are (always using very negative language) and they always mention how “no one has ever made contact and they try to kill everyone who tries” but they never mention Dr. Madhumala Chattopadhyay. Not only did she make contact but she was considered a friend.
Unfortunately on their last meeting a member of her team tried to take an ornament worn by a man who climbed aboard their boat and they were signaled to leave. Shortly after the Indian government banned expeditions to the North Sentinel Island (for good reason, their immune systems are not the same as ours and seemingly harmless diseases to us could be devastating for them). Just a fun fact because I feel like nobody ever mentions her work.
Hot take but the reason heterosexual trans people are so much more sexually entitled than homosexual (and even bi) trans people isn’t because all “gay trans boys” are fujoshis, or because of some rigid binary between homosexual transsexuals and autogynephiles.
It’s because they grew up straight.
Those of us who grew up attracted to the same sex may have been bitter about our straight crushes at some point, but we grew past it quickly. We didn’t just learn that they wouldn’t like us back, we learned not to complain about it not to seem predatory. We already realised and came to terms with the fact that we have an incredibly small dating pool when we were younger.
Heterosexuals grow up in a world where everyone they’re attracted to is assumed to be an option by default. And when they aren’t, it’s completely normal to complain about it. How often do straight girls actually get called predatory for being sad that the cute boy in their class is gay?
When het trans people come out they may have made their own decision to shrink their dating pool by refusing to date straight people who “won’t see them as their real gender”, but everything outside of their control is completely new to them. They’re genuinely hurt that most people they’re interested in won’t like them back, and baffled that anyone’s dating pool could really be as small as people are telling them theirs is now. Meanwhile I’ve met 4 out lesbians in my entire life and haven’t thought getting a girlfriend would be straightforward or even likely since I was like 7.
All of these indepth analyses claiming their sexual entitlement stems from a deeply rooted fetish are overcomplicating things. It’s just straight privilege.
V*rso published a book written by a man identifying as a woman, “Andrea” Long Cho called “Females” where he writes very dehumanizing things such as “fucked is being female” (or something similar) and writes that “sissy p-rn” made him trans. I believe it has won a Pulitzer Prize
