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Recently I’ve been seeing a lot of bickering discourse between transmascs and transfems; fights about transmisogyny and transandrophobia; lateral violence and idpol.
I think it comes from a fundamental disagreement about how to apply feminist theory to trans people. At its root: does patriarchy oppress women, or does it oppress AFAB people?
I think a big divide between liberal assimilationists and leftist queer liberationists is a willingness to confront inconvenient nuance.
If you are insulting someone you don’t like, this necessarily requires that the thing you are using to insult them is something you consider bad or shameful.
An argument that I’ve seen before is that trans women don’t experience male privilege and it’s transphobic to suggest otherwise. Let’s dig into this, shall we?
Today the NSW Labor government apologised for the past criminalisation and oppression of gay people.
The apology is a sham. The reviews and committees around the Equality Bill are shams. We see through Labor’s pinkwashing.
Recently we’ve seen a lot of white leftists who claim to be ACAB but don’t seem to understand what that actually means. I believe I have found a very simple solution!
Go to protests. Yell at cops. ”Bottoms and tops, we all hate cops” is a fun one. Organise with other local leftists. If you see a cop walking down the street, flip them off. If a cop is buying a donut in front of you, say ”ACAB”. If you see cops parked up and harassing people, loudly criticise their parking job.
Once the cops hate you, you’ll no longer have the temptation to run them for every mild inconvenience.
And as an added benefit, cops love thinking of themselves as ”heroes of the people”, and when they find out people don’t like them it really hurts their feelings. If we show enough disdain for them, maybe some of them will quit and get real jobs.
As someone who was there, I’d like to talk about some aspects of Mardi Gras that the media has not reported on. Ideas and opinions within this post are my own, and do not necessarily represent the views of associated organisations.
I watched Wendell & Wild today. Siobhan is kind of a model of how to approach leftism as a privileged person.
She says something outside of her lane that’s well-meaning but naive, and gets harshly rebuked by someone with lived experience.
She doesn’t whine or get defensive or demand they explain themselves, instead she goes away and does her own research. And once she’s learned, she apologises, and then enthusiastically joins the fight.
We should all strive for this energy.
