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this is sad just ignore the title

we actually need to have a word specifically for male projection because its crazy

I actually think trans people are cool and fine and not particularly dangerous( rather, trans men and women seem to be victimized more often) but this argument makes a lot of sense to me. What makes one socially acceptable and the other a delusion? I'm sure the vast majority of trans activists (rightfully) don't subscribe to 'transracialism'. Most trans people are not intersex, so their sex is a biological and provable fact. Gender may be a social construct, but isn't race as well? I'd love to hear other people's thoughts on this. Who knows, maybe in the future transracialism will become a more normalized and accepted identity.

It’s really funny to me how sex, out of all the social categories, is the least ambiguous yet is treated like it is the most by TRAs. Have you ever seen a TRA explain why transracial is wrong but transgender is ok? They always yap about how gender is a social construct… as if race isn’t? They’re like well racial differences are real and it can be determined with genetics. Like. So close! That is eugenics ❤️

Just so like... it's clear... anyone who censors words that contain "man" or "men" to anything like "xxn" that's TERF shit.

Any reference to women/womanhood that solely revolves around having a uterus or "womb" is TERF shit.

Any sentence where the OP says they support people being "trans identified" with quotes around ""transwomen"" or ""transmen"" is TERF shit.

I'm seeing a lot of you baby Tumblr gays out there not knowing what these specific TERF dogwhistles look like.

"Wombxxn" is an incredibly dumb way of spelling "woman" that treats the word "man" like a slur and also reduces women to their ability to give birth.

"Trans identified" is their way of saying "this person calls themselves trans, but I don't believe they are."

Saying "People should be allowed to identify however they wish, but we still need to protect women/children" IS TERF SHIT.

Learn to identify this garbage, because not all TERFs are going to spell out their intolerance for you. Some of them are going to try and seem reasonable and polite and normal, and it's fucking dangerous to our community.

Also unpack any internalized transphobia and your transmedicalism, because both those things will have you quickly siding with TERFs and bigots.

Radfems focus less on owning TIMs online and focus more on real world grassroots organizing with other radfems for the specific purpose of forming class solidarity amongst women challenge

This I all very interesting, but Andrea Dworkin died in 2005, so idk how they met her in 2017. I'm not sure who is in this photo... Caroline Criado Perez maybe? Anybody else have an idea?

A clarifying talk with BTS' Jimin about Radical Feminism, his Gender Identity, Makeup Culture and Prostitution

Park Ji-min, more commonly referred to simply as Jimin, is a member of the K-pop group BTS, also known as Bangtan Boys. However, a recent photograph of Jimin with a temporary tattoo of the bigender symbol, which combines the female Venus and male Mars symbol, has got fans wondering if all the Bangtan Boys really are boys.

Pictured above: the bigender symbol and Jimin with a tattoo of it.

I was lucky enough to get the opportunity to do an exclusive interview with Jimin on his thoughts on gender diversity, choice feminism, OnlyFans and whether or not breaking gender norms through wearing makeup is a good thing. While the setting sun paints my office a tired yellow, Jimin is scrubbing the sleep out of his eyes on the other side of his screen. It is 8 am in Seoul. He excuses his lack of makeup.

"You look stunning both with and without makeup, and millions of girls agree with me. How does it feel to be apart of the biggest boyband in the world?"

He replies after the interpreter sitting to his left translates my compliment.

"Thank you! I never imagined we would grow so big, but I still feel the same love for ARMY as I did back when it was ten times less people."

"I want to ask you more about the makeup actually. In Korea, male celebrities wearing makeup is very common, are you worried about the possible backlash from Americans about how you are too feminine?"

"The backlash doesn't worry me"

"Do you think BTS' gender nonconformity will help forward the battle for female liberation?"

"If we are talking about makeup, I don't think so. The beauty standards in Korea is still incredibly strict for women, to the point where sometimes people get plastic surgery for better job opportunities, jobs that has nothing to do with looks. More men wearing makeup is only good for capitalism, and if the men say they are women because they are wearing makeup it could be very dangerous for feminism. Makeup does not a woman make. When thinking about those men who pretend they're not men, I think it will be good for westerners to see that men can be "feminine" without that making them trans or gay. In fact, several of our members are SSA (editors note: same sex attracted), but others are straight. Yet we all wear makeup.

Jimin and his band mates have expressed their distaste for capitalism many times over the years. Pictured above is Jimin wearing a shirt with Marx on the chest.

"What I think is more important is how we interact with each other and ourselves. I have heard that in America it is not normal for men to hug each other and cry. So us doing this would be considered being gender nonconforming in the US, but not in our home country. The fact that what counts as gender nonconformity varies from culture to culture shows how masculinity and femininity aren't inherent to either sex, but instead they are social norms that exist to oppress women. Therefore, I don't understand how people identify with "masculine energy" and "feminine energy". Femininity is defined as a set of characteristics associated with the female sex, and masculinity the male sex. When someone says that they identify as non-binary because they have both masculine and feminine energies inside them, or masculine and feminine traits, doesn't that simply validate the gender binary? If only some are outside it, then there are those who fit within it. But I don't believe anyone does. We are complete humans, not a set of stereotypes no matter how we identify.

"I very much agree. This makes me wonder about the tattoo you got of the bigender symbol. What were your thought process behind choosing it?"

"Gender does not exist outside of the patriarchy."

"I wanted to bring attention to this exact discussion we are having right now. Technically, I am nonbinary, or bigender, or gender fluid or whatever you want to call it. Because everybody is. I do not believe in bioessentialism, gender does not exist outside of the patriarchy. Ideally, the only thing separating man from woman would be whether or not you need to go to the gynecologist. But unfortunately, being of the female sex means you are in a specific class, one considered below the male class. Gender to me is a description of which class you belong to.

I was born male, and being perceived as feminine in America does not change that fact. I benefit from male privilege and it would be dishonest to all my female fans to say that we are the same - we are worth the same, but they are oppressed by the patriarchy while I benefit from it. If hateful people call me a woman for wearing makeup that is not misogyny. I can wash the makeup off and walk home safe at night. If I struggle with erectile dysfunction I can take viagra, while the cause of PCOS is unknown (editors note: PCOS is a disease affecting only those biologically female). It wasn't until in the 90s that women started to be included in medical trials in America, and even today there is a clear medical bias. And medical discrimination is only one of the many ways your sex matters. You are not catcalled based on your pronouns, you are not raped because of your pronouns.

Men and women are no different but we are different, and it is important to recognize where we are the same and where we differ. Men are not better than women, but the world is designed for men in a million ways. Changing my pronouns doesn't change this. To me, being gender blind is the same as being colorblind. It is great that people have started talking about Asian Hate, and it would be impossible to confront racism against Asian-Americans if we pretended White people and Asian people move through the world the same. It is the same with sex."

"It sounds like you have done your research. Are the other members of BTS as informed as you?"

"It is actually RM, our group leader, who has made me and the others aware of a lot of this. In 2014 we released the song 'War of Hormone' which we later realized contained very sexist lyrics. RM acknowledged this a long time ago and promised that we would work harder to stay informed. We now read books about social issues and discuss them. All our new songs are run by Gender Studies professors to make sure the lyrics aren't misogynistic. Still, we need to recognize that we are men socialized to become sexist, which is not an excuse for past and future actions at all, but if someone still thinks we are too sexist to have their support, I won't argue against them. While I and the other members will continue to try to become better allies to women, I know it is a hard and potentially impossible battle to rid ourselves completely of our socialization, and so I support women's option to have separate spaces that are all female."

"Where does BTS fall on the political spectrum?"

"We are all anti-capitalist radical feminists allies. We have many songs that includes anti-capitalist lyrics. I am especially fond of these lines Suga raps in his song "Strange": 'with dreams as its collateral, the capitalism injects the morphine called 'hope'/ wealth breed wealth and tests greed'. The song features RM and I love it when he says 'the choices you've been given/are all preferences controlled by the capital'. I don't know if he had choice feminism in mind when he wrote that, but I'd like to draw the connection. Liberal feminism is all about the individuals right to choose to do whatever makes her happy, as long as it is a woman doing something that gives her momentary joy, whatever she is doing is considered to be 'empowering'. I recently read this really interesting essay about self-sexualization that goes more in depth on some of the things this leads to that I can't cover in this interview, but I'll say one thing. With this kind of mindset, it is a wonderful thing when teenage girls who just turned 18 opens an OnlyFans, because in the moment she is happy. This is where I think RM's lines explains it well. Liberal feminists would say that it was her choice to do this and therefore a good thing, but we do not live in a vacuum. Society grooms women into believing that sex work is empowering. Liberal feminists are doing the work of pimps. It is extremely worrisome how popular OnlyFans have gotten, how pornographic content is plugged on apps children use. It is incredibly normalized. I am a radical feminist ally because I refuse to ignore how these things affect a girls "choice" to make an OnlyFans."

Pictured above: Kim Seok-jin and Park Ji-min wearing sweaters with the words 'RADICAL FEMINIST' on them. Jimin's also has the words 'GENDER EQUALITY'.

"I take it you are against prostitution?"

"Absolutely. You cannot buy consent. There is a really dark history with prostitution in America and Korea that is almost forgotten. Have you ever heard of 'The American Plan'?'"

"I can't say I have"

"To summarize, American soldiers during WW1 had a massive problem with venereal diseases. To combat this, women who looked like prostitutes (see; poor or non-white) could be stopped in the streets and forced to undergo gynecological exams. If they tested positive, they could get thrown into horrible institutions where they might be injected with mercury and penicillin. Similar things would happen to women in South-Korea too because of the US military bases here. I heard it was considered patriotic to be a prostitute back then, because it strengthened the relations between the countries."

"That is horrible! And it is unbelievable that this is not common knowledge"

"It is very sad. I think liberal feminism shows a lack of understanding of history, but also a lack of understanding of what is happening today."

"You might be right. I see our time is together is coming to an end, do you have any last thing to add for our readers?"

"There is so much to say about all of this. I am in no way an expert on feminism, but I want to use my platform to start a dialogue, and hope my words have made people think about some new things. There are many women who talk about feminism way better than I will ever be able to. I recommend reading the works of Andrea Dworkin, a radical feminist writer we (BTS) had the pleasure of meeting back in 2017.

Pictured above: Andrea Dworkin and BTS' Kim Tae-hyung, also known as V, embracing (x).

"Thank you for taking the time out of your busy schedule to have this chat with me. Congratulations with having your song 'Butter' stay on the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 for five consecutive weeks."

"We couldn't have done it without ARMY!"

Here’s a Noam Chomsky quote on porn. This is it for me for today I’m done arguing.

It is so insane to me that people think this could ever work. Male and female anatomy are SO different, and they are huge risks to organ transplant even when they find a perfect match for blood type etc. The very few cases where we have seen successful uterine transplant were so that women who wanted to have children but did not have a functional uterus (often d/t uterine cancer or Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser syndrome). Before and after transplantation, the woman has to be placed on heavy immunosuppressants so her body will not reject the uterus, and then the goal is for the woman to get pregnant and have a child, after which she will have a hysterectomy so she can be taken off of the immunosuppressants. Literally the only reason for this process to occur is that a biological women who doesn't have a uterus very strongly want a biological child.

Do TIMs really think that any of us enjoy having a uterus or would want one for any reason other than to have a child? Are grown men really that jealous of an organ that literally destroys a part of itself once a month and leaves us in excruciating pain? Doctors will never perform a transplant that doesn't provide the body with a function it is lacking. It's why you don't need a kidney transplant if you only lost one kidney. The absolute audacity of this TIM saying they want a procedure that is still not reachable for the biological women struggling with infertility, just so he can be "the first trans woman to have an abortion" is proof that TIMs have no idea what it truly means to be a woman.

SPAM THE TERF TAG WITH NON-TERF STUFF!

I have a task for you guys.

spam the radfem/terf tags. make it unusable. spam it with whatever you want, until it's just fandom, trans stuff, memes, or literally whatever. share blocklists, call out terfs, do whatever you can to spam the tag full of non-terf stuff.

you guys got this 👍

I love how the fandom in the midst of all this is all "stupid terfs" , "David showed them". "It's okay not to believe the victims because a TERF wrote the article. "

Meanwhile their precious Neil who use to shit on JKR for not supporting "trans women" is being outed as a rapist and all they can do is comfort each other "you're not a bad person for still liking his works. It's okay not to support the victims. This is such a difficult time for the fandom. You don't have to say anything." Making it all about themselves.

So... the allegedly terrible terrible terfs are the one advocating for the victims and supporting them while the ones supporting your community is a rapist and the second is calling women little whinging fuckers for not wanting a man in a woman only space.

And the best part, all of you who don't really care about "cis" women's rights or safety and more concerned about reassuring men in dresses they are women and so they should have access to little girls and vunerable women....

Now you realise how you ended up supporting a rapist? Oh there isn't enough proof for that right? and still your biggest concern will be shouting at everyone "trans women are women" because it's always men's validation over women's safety for you isn't it?