Anonymous asked:
I first read “if you were lazy you would be having fun” on your blog and it has genuinely been a life-changing piece of advice for me and my friends - I’ve said it to like four of my other executive dysfunction judies and without fail it earns a ten second silence followed by a single revelatory “fuck”
deadpanwalking answered:
My dad and I actually ran into the speech language pathologist who told me that over 20 years ago at a town hall a few months back—she is retired now, but still advocating for disabled students at IEP meetings and being a nuisance to school administrators. I thanked her for everything, and she was delighted to hear that I was passing her words along to other people who needed to hear them!
w. wait fuck. this is the first time I've heard this. hold on I need to sit down. I need a second. this shatters my worldview just a little bit h. hold on
I am absolutely FURIOUS that for the past few decades, we've finally made some amount of positive change in the arena of gender equality, recognizing that men and women aren't so different from each other, only for some harpies to pull a complete 180 the MOMENT they realized trans women were a thing.
"OH NOOO ok actually women are so infirior to men, they are just so weak and pathetic and can't do anything against them, so men should never compete against women because they are just so much stronger and smarter and better in every way!"
HOW DOES THIS PASS AS FEMINISM THESE DAYS?????
[Replies from black-canary that reads; "Men and women are built different, men are stronger because they have more muscle, it's not sexist to state facts. What's sexist is saying women are inferior to men because we don't want to be put in harms way.
'Queer' user try not to piss and shit on women challenge" END ID]
I am creating a reblog for this because I know I have shit to say in response to this. How exactly am I the one who is shitting on women for saying we are strong and capable, exactly? Wasn't that like, the entire point of feminism in the fucking first place??
You know why gender segregation in sports is even a thing? Women used to just join men's leagues because female sports wasn't even a thing yet (because old folks like the Victorians veiwed women like children who need to be coddled, claiming that they were "too fragile and delicate" to participate in sports and worried it could effect their ability to have and bear children) and some of those men were so fucking pissed off that women kept beating them they refused to compete with them anymore. It's literally a timeless cliche in some places that men piss and shit themselves just over the THOUGHT of losing to a girl, and we rightfully viewed that belief as sexist garbage, and now here you are, plodding over into my replies to "educate me" on why women are apparently so weak and helpless that competing with men will utterly destroy us, and you claim I'M the one being sexist???
But let's ignore that for a minute. What you said was that men have more muscle than women, which isn't even fucking true, I know for a FACT some women are built like tanks and some men are bean poles, but even if you want to take the classical view that testosterone encourages muscle growth, which is at least true from a biological perspective, it still means fucking nothing because trans women lose ALL those advantages when they go on testosterone blockers and estrogen. In other words; Their performance becomes similar to cis women who produce estrogen naturally, because they have the same hormone levels. It shouldn't fucking bother you that trans women are in sports, because people won't even let them compete with other women until they've been on T-blockers and E for at least 2 YEARS. They would have no biological advantage at that point.
But let's ignore that for a minute too. Cis women who have PCOS actually have much higher testosterone levels in their bodies than trans women after transition, in fact they are sometimes comparable to a man's natural T levels. Does that mean 10% of cis women can no longer compete because they have a biological advantage? More to my point; Should they be forced to compete with men instead, or are they in the no-man's-land of sports? A purgatory where they can only possibly compete with other women who have PCOS? Should we create a new league for every discrepency like this?
What about Canada's hockey league, who discovered that all the top players have a January birthday because they chose their players young and being literally older than other children is a biological advantage? Do we start segregating sports based on birth month, or do we acknowledge that EVERYONE has some biological advantages over other people and trying to make things as fair as possible is literally a losing game?
Sports are already sorted by height and weight class, so women will always compete against men in their own class anyway. Sure, men will probably trend towards the top more often, but that's not a guarentee, and it doesn't mean men are all just hopeless animals who are going to mindlessly pummel everyone in their path, including the poor defenseless women who just can't do anything to defend themselves against them.
Everyone has a biological advantage over everyone else. If we want sports to be more fair, maybe we should focus on height and weight class, not on the genitals of the people who compete.
Seriously, why do people care so much about other people's genitals??? It's really creepy!!!
Also, funny you should insult me for being queer, considering cis lesbians wouldn't have rights without queer people. Gays have the right to marry because of what black trans women did at the stonewall riots. Denying that is denying history.
Now stop using sexism to justify your transphobia. Or at least get the fuck off my post.
"Men are stronger than women" is as blatantly untrue as if you said "men are taller then women" because you leave out that you are using statistical averages and pretend it's an objective fact true about everyone.
Using statistical averages to justify oppression - even if you were being honest about the statistics - is textbook reactionary ignorance. The fact that TERFs misuse statistics to defend the patriarchy and justify their own oppression is just even more pathetic.
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