Notices by timberwraith (timberwraith@mastodon.social)

I'm going to get a button that says, "Sisterhood is Problematic."

Almost every day, there's a news event that features a cis white woman who is either a reactionary politician, the head of a government agency for a fascist regime, or the latest figurehead who steps forward to be the public face of political action against various marginalized groups.

It's a non-stop reminder that white women do racist patriarchy as well as any man and are just as eager to participate.

https://masto.ai/@transworld/114842506679688392

Anyway, here are the sources that show the linkage between the slogan "Sisterhood is Powerful" and the TERFs behind the slogan:

Sisterhood is Powerful (book), edited by Robin Moran:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisterhood_Is_Powerful

Robin Morgan's bigotry toward Beth Elliott:
https://revolution.berkeley.edu/robin-morgan-slanders-beth-elliot/

Kathie Sarachild (originator of slogan):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathie_Sarachild

Sarachild as a primary signatory of an anti-trans statement signed by 48 TERFs from various countries (link opens PDF file):
https://meetinggroundonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/GENDER-Statement-InterActive-930.pdf

My mind boggles at the number of anti-trans bigots that I read during my undergraduate feminist studies classes in the 1990s without knowing that I was reading the words of hateful assholes.

I was perusing the origin of the 1960s/70s feminist political slogan "sisterhood is powerful" and I discovered, quite ironically, that it was coined by a TERF, Kathie Sarachild and promoted by a feminist anthology tilted "Sisterhood is Powerful" edited by another TERF, Robin Morgan.

That fucking figures.

Cisterhood is bullshit.

The missing word in that first sentence is "white." The white working class is who is described by the post. White people are normalized/centered as the *entire* demographic and the only part worth talking about. Which is actually, quite racist.

It's no mystery that vast swaths of white people of all demographics identify with white oligarchs and defend them because whiteness, by its very nature, aligns itself with hierarchy and power. Whiteness IS a system of hierarchy and power.

Source:
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ny5w2k6brb2kdubxnevke6li/post/3ltj6pgky2s26

"The mustard that eats like a meal."

A product that is probably going to fail.

This is brilliant. Now, if I got to be a deity for a day, I'd apply a patch to the Earth where humans of any sex/gender can get pregnant.

[evil laughter]

I can hardly wait. Wow, are a lot of guys and misogynist politicians going to be reconsidering life in very new ways.

https://mastodon.social/@mcc/114836310625350468

After seeing Hollywood recycle the same superhero stories again and again each decade, the movie genre has nearly lost all of its appeal for me.

I'm sure that many people have heard of "Schrödinger's Rapist" where women often have to assume unknown men (and even sometimes known men) are potential sexual abusers until proven otherwise. It's a safety thing. You can't tell a man is potentially violent sexually just by superficial everyday cues. It can be men you least expect. Men that you know, even. So, you assume a degree of danger until proven otherwise.

It sucks. But this is what you do to be safe.

https://geekfeminism.fandom.com/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_Rapist

But I do tend to operate on a, "People are assholes until proven otherwise." principle.

It's not the best approach for fostering feelings of being a people person. I'm not a people person, LOL.

But I mostly don't give a shit about cis people I meet in my day to day, and what their tiny little brains feel about me.

I'm a woman. I know it and feel it right down to my bones and my soul.

That sense of who I am and the solidity of that self knowledge didn't come right away. I spent years and years building up that kind of internal solidity. It was a process.

But at some point, I did cross a kind of threshold were my attitude became, "Look cis people. I don't care who you think I am. I *KNOW* who I am. You can take your opinions, shove them up your ass, and keep on walking."

Although, I should probably qualify what "gut" reaction meant for me in this context.

They are a body of emotional and intuitive reactions shaped and driven by years of trauma from both being a victim of violence but also growing up in a culture that valorized violence and expected one to internalize violence as a part of one's very identity--being exposed to and internalizing toxic masculinity, during adolescence.

And then rejecting it like a foreign object.

That is what shaped my "gut."

This, btw, is not an invitation for personal commentary from the audience.

Just sayin'.

The revolution sounds great. On paper at least.

The problem is that my gut always warns me to stay as far away as possible from people who are willing to embrace violence.

Regardless of who they are.

And that makes for a bit of a situation, you know?

I guess one of the contemporary lures of wealth is that with enough money, you can say completely unhinged, ass for brains, festering brain detritus in public, and have the media and pundits all nod their heads, speak of what forethought and commanding intelligence you have, and then they splatter-cast your warped mumblings across the globe as the gospel truth.

Something I wish I had the wherewithal to say in my 20s as I faced this question when I was at the start of my transition.

I probably would have gotten the shit beaten out of me. It might have been worth it, though. Just for that look of deflated rage on their faces.

"Are you a boy or a girl?"

I'm whatever and whomever I need to be in order to alienate and aggravate your prejudice bound, vanilla ass until you decide to finally leave the room to find some other means to plague this planet's existence with your malformed sense of self worth and arrogant fuckery.

Apparently, Mike Johnson has peed his pants in public again.