go away rape apologist

lol. lmao even.

oh hey look a sandusky truther lmao

it's really too bad that pop feminism has so thoroughly mangled the concept of intersectionality

like there are a handful of examples of genuine malpractice in both cases, but those cases hardly represent any kind of "epidemic" and the people fear mongering about those exceptions do not in fact care about patients but rather have ulterior, and generally quite reactionary, political motives

you were about as likely to get "false memories" forced on you by a therapist in the 90s as a 16yo cis girl is likely to be mistakenly "rushed into" top surgery today

"mas não é contraditório você ser uma mulher trans e ter essa visão sobre gênero?"

não, eu tenho disforia sexual e continuo enxergando feminilidade como uma prisão

EU SOU ABOLICIONISTA DE GÊNERO

eu já fui chamadade terf pelo simples motivo que eu enxergo gênero como um sistema político de opressão e não como uma identidade

I, a trans woman, have been called a TERF several times!

We, as a species, do not *inherently* seek to extend our physical and mental reach.

Others believe, for instance, in “living simply so that others may simply live.” They too are members of the species.

Beware evangelists who claim their belief system sets the boundaries of our species itself.

there's a reason i keep saying the the fear mongering over "recovered memory therapy" induced "false memories" (aka "false memory syndrome") is directly tied to the anti-trans moral panic

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ok am i having false memories or was our collective reaction to columbine really "omg i can't believe those kids bullied their classmates into murdering them" ?

so i've been bingeing @prosecutorspod.bsky.social 20+ episode series on the case and am only like five episodes in lol. they've been very neutral and objective about the case so far and iirc they seemed skeptical about hobbs as an alternative suspect but i can't remember why exactly.

ok yeah so it is extremely interesting that one of the most popular alternative explanations in the 'west memphis three' case is "this random Black stranger must have done it"

til that 18yo damien echols was in the habit of befriending and getting real close to 12yo girls sooooooo

tbc that doesn't mean he killed those three little boys, but it sure as shit means he was a predator

like i - an actual trans woman - have repeatedly been called "terfy" for expressing basic ass feminist ideas and basically every transfeminist i'm aware of who seriously critiques male dominance has had this experience

ummmmm wish this were true but a lot of people on the left absolutely do try to use terfs as an excuse to dismiss feminism in it's entirety, or at the very least to dismiss the more radical parts that might make them uncomfy about their own gendered privilege

lotta folks struggle to accept that maybe they were an outcast as a kid because they kinda sucked and clearly thought they were so much better and smarter than all their "normie" classmates

like it is genuinely wild that, at least among progressives, the initial narrative around columbine was "those poor goth outsider kids were bullied by evil normie popular kids until they just snapped"

you can see the most absurd version of this in the way so many people victim blamed the kids at columbine for supposedly bullying the shooters into killing them

and tbc i don't know enough about the west memphis 3 case to have a strong opinion on echols guilt or innocence, but i've only just started researching it and already it's clear that there were some legitimate reasons for people to have suspected echols

did so many people suspect damien echols just because he wore black and listened to heavy metal music? or could it maybe have had something to do with his history of violent behavior, including some really concerning stuff that i would say indicates a tendency towards abuse?

one thing i've noticed in the "satanic panic" discourse is that a lot of white progressives think that being goth is like a marginalized identity or something

if a person with power (politicians, billionaires, etc.) uses the r-slur, they're planning something eliminationist. like genocide through deprivation of services.

it's that simple.

(part of my take on this almost certainly comes from spending over a decade in anthropology, where i was taught not to smugly dismiss other cultures simply because things like "evil spirits" remain important parts of their life worlds.)

like there are just so many, much more nuanced ways to understand what happened in the 1980s that don't boil down to an alleged "anti-child abuse hysteria" or this smug "the plebes were too stupid to give up their silly folk ways" shit.

like yeah man, if i had lived through the 1970s i too might be a bit susceptible to believing in a vast network of child abusing cults. it's not *that* far fetched when you probably know at least one person negatively impacted by actual cults where actual sexual abuse was common.

one important piece of context that i never see discussed re: the "satanic panic" is that in the previous decade there was in fact a rise in cults and many of those cults did in fact sexually abuse women and children.