May 18th, 2013 at 3:23PM

Heads up:

I lost track of what’s what on Tumblr and am just gonna unfollow pretty much everyone because I honestly don’t know what’s going on.

It’s nothing personal though! You can still follow me all you like, reblog whatever you want, and all that stuff. No sour grapes.

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May 15th, 2013 at 1:58AM

Has anyone else noticed the irony that Derrick Jensen (another person I share many points of political agreement with but still do not agree with 100 percent of the time) is being accused of holding “violent” beliefs* … but his opponents are the only ones who are actually committing violence?

And what’s more, these opponents are not committing this violence against Jensen — they are committing it against women, who only happened to be actually associated with Jensen. (Because, like most political groups, DGR is not always in total agreement and not all members like or even know one another.)

* LOL, “violent beliefs”?? 

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May 15th, 2013 at 1:54AM
It is notable that the policing of what can or cannot be said about trans in public is almost invariably directed against women who speak from a feminist, and especially a radical feminist, perspective. It might be thought that trans people have far more powerful adversaries (like religious conservatives, the right-wing press and some members of the medical establishment), and also far more dangerous ones (whatever radical feminists may say about trans people, [radical feminists] aren’t usually a threat to their physical safety). And yet a significant proportion of all the political energy expended by or on behalf of trans activism is expended on opposing and harassing radical feminists. — Delilah Campbell, “Who Owns Gender?”
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May 15th, 2013 at 1:52AM
I [have come] to the conclusion that what’s going on is not just a debate about trans. There is such a debate, but it’s part of a much larger and more fundamental argument about the nature and meaning of gender, which pits feminists (especially the radical variety) against all kinds of other cultural and political forces. Trans is part of this, but it isn’t the whole story, nor in my view is it the root cause. Actually, I’m inclined to think that the opposite is true: it is the more general shift in mainstream understandings of gender which explains the remarkable success of trans activism. — Delilah Campbell, “Who Owns Gender?”
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May 15th, 2013 at 1:47AM
The expression of sentiments deemed ‘transphobic’ has quickly come to be perceived as one of those ‘red lines’ that speakers and writers may not cross. It’s remarkable, when you think about it: if you ask yourself what other views either may not be expressed on pain of legal sanction, or else are so thoroughly disapproved of that they would rarely if ever be permitted a public airing (and certainly not an unopposed one), you come up with examples like incitement to racial hatred and Holocaust denial. How did it come to be the case that taking issue with trans activists’ analyses of their situation … or [even] hurling playground insults at trans people … automatically puts the commentator concerned in the same category as a Nick Griffin or a David Irving? — Delilah Campbell, “Who Owns Gender?”
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May 15th, 2013 at 1:35AM

For the record, I’m not always 100 percent on board with Gender Trender for various reasons (just like people in any given political movement are not obligated to agree with everyone else within their political movement at any given time, even when they fundamentally agree on theory) — but the commentary over there about this DGR incident is pretty spot-on.

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May 15th, 2013 at 1:29AM
Interesting how for all the comparisons the trans supporters offer between racism and transphobia, I’ve yet to hear any examples of people of color destroying, say, KKK literature or protesting the proponents of Eugenics. Nor do I hear of members of the LGB attacking conservative Christians or the Westboro family. For some reason it’s only feminists that are so offensive that violence from “trans women” is justifiable.
More importantly, the reason why other oppressed groups don’t tend to use violence is because they CAN’T. They don’t have that option. So “trans women” admit their privilege by their actions while denying it verbally and demanding that liberals agree with them, lest they be labeled bigots. — commenter LC on the recent vandalization of DGR material by Portland trans activists and the widespread justification of these actions
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May 15th, 2013 at 1:25AM

The members of the DGR have the right to believe and express whatever opinions they want, as a group, or as individuals. As much as people want to believe that a belief is responsible for those books being destroyed and the DGR being attacked, the truth is, it was simply poor impulse control.

Love is overrated. How about rational discussion and the self-discipline to accept that other people, even within your own community, might believe differently than you do? Some people believe things that I find offensive, but I, like most people, can deal with it without throwing a bunch of books on the floor.

 — commenter Bob on the recent vandalism of DGR material by Portland trans activists
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April 24th, 2013 at 11:06PM
passingzeitgeist: “But it would be a really beautiful thing if we could all just wear what we wanted, without it meaning something.” Casey Legler

passingzeitgeist:

“But it would be a really beautiful thing if we could all just wear what we wanted, without it meaning something.”

Casey Legler

(via hardscum)

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April 24th, 2013 at 11:04PM

Good to see you on Tumblr, tehbewilderness! You respectfully schooled me years ago in a comment thread on I Blame The Patriarchy, when I was still in the confused-quee-quee closet, and it helped change the way I thought. So thank you so much for that, and for your sane comments on lots of other blogs too.

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