CarwilBJ's Twitter Archive—№ 32,456

A trans-inclusive feminism can both name women inclusively, and critique forms of domination that apply specifically to… women, trans people, pregnant/birthing, nonbinary people, gender nonconforming people, and feminine-presenting people regardless of sex.
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I'm subtweeting this NYT op-ed, but mostly to think through something that has been on my mind for awhile.
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Cis-hetero-patriarchy involves: male dominance and privilege, subordination of women, control over reproduction, compulsory gender normativity, trivialization of/contempt for femininity, compulsory heterosexuality.
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The fact that control over reproduction and specifically denial of access to abortion lands hard upon cis women, cis girls, trans men, and nb/gnc people with uteruses is paying attention, not dismissing the word "women."
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But for the perpetrators of these policies, it really is about controlling women, in precisely those terms. The domination is gendered as targets people with uteruses as women, and will also readily punish them for not living up to a controlled notion of womanhood.
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So maybe we have to verbally tack between inclusive language in supporting those actually affected and specific woman-centered language in analyzing the threat.
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Different aspects of sexism that land hardest upon other combinations of gendered groups. And women are a primary, and usually numerically dominant target of almost all of them.
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Patriarchy involves contempt for and trivialization of femininity, something that hurts most women (cis and trans), as well as gnc and queer men.
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Even compulsory gender conformity, which most directly and violently attacks trans, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming people is a regulating mechanism that constrains the lives of cis women and men.
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Women, largely but not exclusively cis women and including many people who later identified as trans men, created contemporary feminism by naming their own experiences as women, and theorizing from there.
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Both that self-naming narration and attentive listening to others doing so strike me as valid and critical.a
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For instance, I came to think about these separable but overlapping efforts to control women, female bodies, and femininity from the thoughts of a cis lesbian friend who has focused on femme lesbian experience specifically.
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Re the subtweeted article, this, may be all I have to say: @RottenInDenmark/1543577314121883650?t=plaTRX7yIunvN7Rjeji6pQ&s=19
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