@taylan

firstly thank you for at least half heartedly trying to engage.

Valarie prescribes genocide as feminist praxis where voluntary and enthusiastic recognition of ones feminine side would result in you being spared. I dont think she is much of a theorist, but this plan of action grows out of the most basic feminist idea that masculinity is the problem with society. basically taking the form of an edge lords logical progression of womb envy proposed Karen Horney in her writings.

Shulamith actually does a good job of engaging with freudian theory proposing that penis ought to be read as power with regard to envy and fetishes rather than simply inverting the dynamic. in her book she follows the way that male children are conditioned to lose access to their emotions to produce oppressive masculinity and female children are conditioned to constantly seek approval. these in essence the Oedipus and Electra complexes that Frued thinks every healthy adult should have, but Shulie problematizes. She proposes Freudianism was adopted by society as damage control for the rising tide of feminism at the time. If your wife is hysterical u send her to the psychoanalyst and he tells her that her problems stem from her wishing she was a male etc. this is why for her a healthy psyche is transexual, it lacks the oppressive complexes that society wants to reenforce. She is a gender abolitionist. if you have a gender critical friend who says she likes shulie she must disagree with the majority of what she has to say.

following on that staking in "reality" and "right now" is always a literally retarded stance for feminists to take. their freedoms have always come with advances in technology and imagining futures to move toward not resigning themselves to what's possible right now.

as far as Dworkin goes; There are some people i respect who are big fans of her. Ofc i think any feminist with adamant stances against pornography and sex work has dropped the ball. they abandoning ground where she could be weaponizing it. I haven't read much on or about her except for what ive heard these people say, so if you could enlighten me as to what Dworkin's solution to masculinity is.

i dont really have a dog in the fight about bathrooms n shit. im arguing society is incredibly sexist. in fact women in general are pretty misogynistic against themselves and other women, that this cultural attitude would then extend into trans women should not be a surprise. but if we didn't distinguish between the sexes you would definitionally not have sexism, you would have to have eliminated it to achieve that.