Casual Reminder That Many Leaders Who Were Opposing The Nazis In 1939 Were Also Turning Away Jewish Refugees

"TERFs reduce women to their genitals and reproductive organs!"

So why are you crowdfunding "bottom" surgery in your bio? Why is having the genitalia of the opposite sex so important to you? Why do you get envious of the opposite sex for their ability to get pregnant, have periods etc? Why are you so desperate to claim you're having a period when you start hormones?

If gender expression has nothing to do with genitalia and reproductive organs, why are you so desperate to change yours? If a woman is not someone who was born with the female reproductive organs and genitalia, why are you having "bottom" surgery?

I don't think it's me reducing women to their genitalia and reproductive organs...

TW: Trans activists

For more than a decade now, trans activists have been harassing those who belong to a feminist philosphy we call radical feminism or the women’s liberation movement.

Radical feminists, like most feminists, believe that men use sex to oppress women. Meaning they oppress women through sexual exploitation and by perpetuating sexist discrimination towards those who belong to the female sex. They were the first to research and expose violence against women as endemic and traumatizing, and to create shelters for rape and domestic violence victims. Those shelters are now being vandalized and defunded by trans activists.

Because radical feminists don’t believe in gender identities, gendered souls, gender roles or any form of innate personality based on sexist stereotypes, they have been receiving rape and death threats on a daily basis. The acronym “terf” was soon invented and is now used to describe any person who doesn’t support the trans movement, even if they’re not feminists, just as long as they're women, though lesbians and feminists tend to be the primary targets.

As a whole, the trans movement claims that its biggest enemy and threat, its most pressing matter, its most dangerous opponent is the women’s liberation movement or what they call “radfems” or “terfs”. This is where their energy and anger is directed, typically in the form of sexist and sexual harassment, intimidation techniques, violence, censorship and social isolation. So let’s talk about that.

From the book Hate Crimes in Cyberspace:

Cyber harassment involves threats of violence, privacy invasions, reputation-harming lies, calls for strangers to physically harm victims, and technological attacks.

Victims’ in-boxes are inundated with threatening e-mails. Their employers receive anonymous e-mails accusing them of misdeeds. Even if some abuse is taken down from a site, it quickly reappears on others. Victims’ sites are forced offline with distributed-denial-of-service attacks.

While some attackers confine abuse to networked technologies, others use all available tools to harass victims, including real-space contact. Offline harassment or stalking often includes abusive phone calls, vandalism, threatening mail, and physical assault.

The Internet extends the life of destructive posts. Harassing letters are eventually thrown away, and memories fade in time. The web, however, can make it impossible to forget about malicious posts. And posts that go viral attract hundreds of thousands of readers.

Online harassment can quickly become a team sport, with posters trying to outdo each other. Posters compete to be the most offensive, the most abusive. An accurate name for such online groups is cyber mobs. The term captures both the destructive potential of online groups and the shaming dynamic at the heart of the abuse.

Cyber harassment disproportionately impacts women. The U.S. National Violence Against Women Survey reports that 60 percent of cyber stalking victims are women, and the National Center for Victims of Crimes estimates that the rate is 70 percent. Of the 3,393 individuals reporting cyber harass-ment to WHOA from 2000 to 2011, 72.5 percent were female. The most recent Bureau of Justice Statistics report found that 74 percent of individuals who were stalked on or offline were female, and 26 percent were male.

Researchers found that users with female names received on average one hundred “malicious private messages,” which the study defined as “sexually explicit or threatening language,” for every four received by male users.

According to the study, “Male human users specifically targeted female users.” By contrast, men are more often attacked for their ideas and actions. John Scalzi, a science fiction author and popular blogger, has found online invective typically situational. When he writes something that annoys people, they tell him so. People do not make a “hobby” out of attacking his appearance and existence as they do female bloggers.

The nature of the attacks similarly attests to bigotry’s presence. Hate expresses something uniquely damaging. It labels members of a group as inhuman “others” who do not possess equal worth. It says that group members are inferior and damaged. Bigotry conveys the message that group members are objects that can be destroyed because they have no shared humanity to consider.

Cyber harassment exploits these features by exposing victims’ sexuality in humiliating ways. Victims are equated with their sexual organs, often described as diseased.

Once cyber harassment victims are sexually exposed, posters penetrate them virtually with messages that say “I will fuck your ass to death you filthy fucking whore, your only worth on this planet is as a warm hole to stick my cock in.” 

Rape threats profoundly impact women: over 86 percent of rape victims are female. Virtual elimination may follow the imagined penetration: “First I’ll rape you, then I’ll kill you.”

One woman who faced online abuse noted, “Someone who writes ‘You’re just a cunt’ is not trying to convince me of anything but my own worthlessness.” Despite the gravity of their predicaments, cyber harassment victims are often told that nothing can or should be done about online abuse. Journalists, bloggers, lay observers, and law enforcement officials urge them to ignore it. Victims are called “whiny baby girl[s]” who are overreacting to “a few text messages.” Often victims are blamed for the abuse. They are scolded for sharing their nude images with loved ones or for blogging about controversial topics. They are told that they could have avoided the abuse had they been more careful.

A related message sent to victims is that the benefits of online opportunities are available only to those who are willing to face the Internet’s risks. They are advised not to expect anything different if they want to make a name for themselves online. The choice is theirs: they can toughen up or go offline.

The Internet is governed by society’s rules. Life online bleeds into life offline and vice versa. The notion that more aggression should be tolerated in cyberspace than in real space presumes that virtual spaces are cordoned off from physical ones.

Most victims do not report cyber harassment to the police because they assume that nothing will be done about it. Sadly, they are right. Law enforcement frequently fails to act on victims’ complaints even though criminal law would punish some of the behavior. Victims are told to turn off their computers because “boys will be boys.” Online harassment victims are told that nothing can be done; they are advised to ignore rape and death threats. During the summer of 2013, high-profile women were subjected to a torrent of online threats. The feminist activist Caroline Criado Perez received hundreds of graphic rape threats via Twitter after her successful campaign to feature more female images on British banknotes.

Members of Parliament and female writers who publicly supported Criado-Perez faced the same, including bomb threats. One tweet featured a picture of a masked man holding a knife with the message, “I’m gonna be the first thing u see when u wake up.”

Because the Internet serves as people’s workspaces, professional networks, résumés, social clubs, and zones of public conversation, it deserves the same protection as offline speech. No more, no less.

Without doubt, the free speech interests at stake are weighty. Free expression is crucial to our ability to govern ourselves, to express our thoughts, and to discover truths. For that reason, government cannot censor ideas because society finds them offensive. Truthful speech must not be banned just because it makes people uncomfortable.

But credible threats, certain defamatory falsehoods, social security numbers, and nude images posted without consent contribute little to discourse essential for citizens to govern themselves and discover truths. Their net effect is the silencing of victims. Victims could blog, post videos, and engage on social networks without fear of destructive cyber harassment. They could raise money using networked tools unencumbered by rape threats, reputation-harming lies, and distributed- denial- of- service attacks. They could take advantage of all of the expressive opportunities available online. Protecting against online harassment would secure the necessary preconditions for victims’ free expression.

With the help of law and the voluntary efforts of Internet intermediaries, parents, and teachers, we might someday achieve a free and equal Internet. We need to take action before cyber harassment becomes a normal feature of online interactions. A hostile online environment is neither inevitable nor desirable. We should not squander this chance to combat discriminatory online abuse; it is early enough in our use of networked tools to introduce equality of opportunity as a baseline norm of interaction.

I yet again ask you gyns to try and use "tim" and "tif".

I see "trans man" and "trans woman" slipped into our collective vocabulary and was uncritically adopted. That's not good at all.

Are you like, stupid?

the “block op they’re a terf” movement was so thorough that now none of the libfems have any idea what radical feminism is about. I just saw a post saying that we enforce rigid gender roles and most of us are white like…not only are there a LOT of radfems of color (including myself), our whole thing is abolishing gender while acknowledging sex based oppression

oh to live in an all female community

The LGB community: it's okay to be same sex attracted. toys do not make your child gay. Gay men are not pedophiles. Lesbians are not violently attacking women in change rooms. Love your gay/bi children.

The TQ+ community: exclusive same sex attraction is transphobic. Not letting your child inject bone melting cross sex hormones into themselves is the same as suicide baiting. Some trans women steal their female family members clothes and masturbate in them, if you have a problem with this you deserve to be doxxed. Trans women just want to pee but we also need to carry bats and canes Incase a Cissy looks at us wrong. Some of our artists are stealing innocent pictures of your children from your social media accounts and using them as motivation for their furry fetishes. Some of us have rape kinks, pedo kinks, and public humiliation kinks that we WILL be indulging in in front of your children. Trying to stop us will get you fired. We send death threats to lesbians and gay men who won't date us.

The LGB community: we would like to be allowed to marry, share benefits with our partners, adopt children, have housing and employment protections, and be allowed to serve in the military. Gay men are not diseased. We would like to be able to educate same sex attracted young people about how to have sex safely. Lesbians are not a fetish and they don't date women just for men's attention. Bisexuals are not promiscuous and we are not interested in threesomes.

The TQ+ community: we would like to destroy the medical definitions for women. Calling it breast feeding is a hate crime, use chest feeding instead. Gay men who won't force themselves into eating my pussy are a disease and deserve to die. Lesbians who won't suck my dick are bigots who deserve to be raped. We would like to teach children to how give proper blow jobs. We would like to talk to your children about violent sex without you being able to stop us. Trans women with pregnancy fetishes deserve to be in miscarriage or infertility support groups. Keeping rape shelters single sex is the same as segregation.

The LGB community: we would like to be separate from the TQ+ community please. Our values and goals are incredibly different and they are directly hurting us.

The TQ+ community: how dare these dykes and faggots say they want to be separate from us? AIDS should have killed them all off

Cluster B culture is wanting to go mask-off and prove your diagnosis is correct, even though you know that'd ruin all your hard work.

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i would honestly rather be called a slur than "neurospicy"

say rape. not grape, not 🍇, say rape. it might be uncomfortable to say, but that's okay. rape isn't supposed to be comfortable. by taking away the weight and emotion around the word, we're watering down the horrible act. making it more digestible.

"but I have to say grape so I can stay monetised" then don't talk about rape. if you're telling someones story solely for the money, you don't deserve to be telling their story.

rape is a horrible, disgusting, act that SHOULD feel uncomfortable to hear about. but something feeling uncomfortable shouldn't mean that we should censor ourselves. let it be uncomfortable to hear, but keep listening anyways.