Just read the whole thing. Based on that, I’d want to be besties with her. Now, I’m super confused… how did that and those crazy misandrist tweets come out of the same person? I simply cannot bridge that.
Quaro: CIS is Latin for “on this side of”, and is basically the “not transgender” or “identifies as the plumbing you were born with.”
This is where 3rd wave feminism gets weird and turns in upon itself, by creating all these subdivisions and labels that people then judge each other by - which is the opposite of the message they preach externally. I find that pretty odd.
So, you can be cisgender straight heteronormative, cisgender queer (I prefer gay, they use queer), bi-gender, agender (no gender), androgyn (equal man/woman), third or fourth gendered, and transgendered which is the inverse of the plumbing attached when born. This isn’t cross-dressing because you can be a cisgender who wears the transgendered clothing.
This was not divisive enough, so we can also pull in Otherkin and consider their gender roles. People who sexually identify as non-human. Furry, vampire, angel, demon, elf, dragon, fae, alien, plant, whatever. 2nd wave feminism wouldn’t accept that bullshit, but 3rd wave seems to embrace it because they need all the friends they can get. Essentially the Otherkin read too many White Wolf RPG books and decided they were their character IRL.
So, all this sets up a bunch of classism, and what’s called the “oppression olympics”. Essentially, if I can prove I’m more oppressed than you by combination of gender, sexual orientation, race, wealth, physical ability then I can boss you around because you’re “privileged” and I as the under-privileged have a blank check where you’re concerned.
The hierarchy of oppression:
cis white male = top of the social heap. This person can’t have problems, because they’re white, straight, gender normal.
cis white female = only has white men to worry about oppressing them.
cis non-white male = Like the white guy, but is a pigmentation minority, so he’s got that going for him.
cis non-white female
Repeat the above, + queer.
Repeat the above, + disabled.
Repeat the above, + transexual.
Repeat the above, + non-human.
thus:
transgender non-white cross-dressing vampire squirrelkin with autism in a wheelchair who, although born female, sexually identifies as an artichoke = Gold Medal
So, the more I can claim people more “social normal” than myself, the more empowered I am to dismiss them as existing only to oppress me and I get to say and do whatever I want while ignoring them but blaming all my problems on them.
It’s quite literally a social race to the bottom.
The reason “Marxist” gets tossed in here is actually ironic, because Marx preached against classist divisions because it created destructive struggles in the society - which allows the oligarchy to more easy control the common man. Radical Feminism has had a hostile yet useful relationship with this philosophy because they consider the “gender struggle” to be a history-long class struggle between men and women for dominance. This is described as the “oppression of the patriarchal state” since government is typically male-centric. Where Marxism is about identification and mitigation of class divisions, radfem has embraced it as “the more the merrier” and lately encouraged more and more divisive labeling since it’s “empowering” and more inclusive.
As a quasi-Marxist myself, I am offended at the comparison, to say the least.
If we go down the rabbit hole of patriarchal oppression in society we eventually end up at Fart Rape.
“By farting louder the man is using passive aggressive violence to position himself as dominant, this intimidates the woman to subconsciously not release as much flatulence and thus the woman fearing for her safety doesn’t fart as loud as a sign of submissiveness, this in turn contributes to rape culture and women being oppressed.”
“Don’t tell women to fart louder tell men not to fart so loud. This is clear victim blaming and government should pass laws to make male farts above a certain decibel illegal to make human flatulence equal and not discriminate against women."
– Ashleigh Ingle
So, we need to stop in-fighting and making up ridiculous bullshit to struggle among ourselves about, and get back to the serious business of hating the bankers and politicians like Karl wanted us to.
