Lmao. Ok then



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First xmen vs inhumans now this? Fuck marvel

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this

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thank you! I'm sick of hearing about female privilege from people who claim to be on the left.

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Thank you!

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I hate that no one gets this. The behavior on International Women's Day was really something. People showed their misogynist asses when they claimed the mention of vaginas was an act of violence.

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I'm so happy this is the second comment in this post... it's sad so many women have internalised their own oppression and don't realise this

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Terf is just the new way to silence women, and shame them for wanting to talk about their lives and their bodies.

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This is so fucking stupid on so many levels lmao. I mean as much as I love the X-Men their allegory to real oppressed oppressed people has always been clumsy at best.



But then to keep up this narrative that the Inhumans are somehow an oppressed class, which doesn’t even make sense in the Marvel universe, is so fucking stupid and I thought marvel would be over this now that the Inhumans as the new X-Men concept has failed in every way imaginable.



And then to equate the Inhumans to trans people being excluded from the Lgbt community.... lmao.

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right? like it starts as a weak thing at a plot/in-universe level and then also fails at a cultural level because of that

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It’s so dumb because the reason that Inhumans and Mutants have tension in the first place was because that stupid cloud that gave Inhumans their powers was literally killing off Mutants, who historically in the Marvel Universe are an oppressed class that have already gone through a crazy genocide. So the fact that marvel tries to treat them as the same level of oppression is so fucking stupid. And to act like it’s comparable to Trans issues is just... lmao.





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If a reader wants to impose an allegory, I'm all for it but when comic writers try for it, it becomes messier because there just isn't a consistency in comics to pull off something thoughtful and respectful.

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10 foot poles! Get yer 10 foot poles here!

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Ill take two please.



Is there a bundle deal or nah?

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That last tweet is a wild ride. Comparing "Terfs" to white supremacists (who knew radical feminists were the most powerful group in society... Patriarchy is over), talking about fear of losing what they have... which is what, female privilege? Rme.

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For real, jfc

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ikr? The two are not comparable at all. But that's what happens when people go around calling feminists naxis while actually ignoring the real white supremacists.

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Omg right, that's ridiculous. I'd love hear more about that magical, over-powering female privilege. Is it possibly linked to lady brains and womanly feelings?

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the idea that you can be born into the wrong body has always made me uncomfortable because it seems to imply theres such a thing as male and female brains. which is troublesome (apart from being scientifically untrue) because historically, women are the ones who have suffered the consequences of this belief that there are inherent psychological differences between the sexes.

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Gotta love my vagina privilege!

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Not today Satan.

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god how did you find this gif. i can NEVER find it!

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i have it saved on both my laptop AND my phone because i never wanted to worry about finding it ever again tbh!!!

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same omg! I can never find it

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lmao what a dumbass.

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mte, Brit

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can't help but sometimes feel like TERF is a gendered slur used pretty much exclusively against women for having an opinion



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that’s because it is. specifically, 98% of the time, against lesbians.

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It is. It’s used to target lesbians. That and gender essentialism.

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It's quite obvious it's used against women.

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I'd narrow it down even more and say that many people seem to use it pretty interchangeably with lesbian unfortunately.

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thats cus it is. its not random radical feminists or lesbians off the streets making the laws that hurt trans people, that limit their resources and access to care, that murder trans people on the streets - its the primarily male, right wing politicians. but nah, its terfs that are the real problem.

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true and i also forgot to add that when women are called TERFs its commonly closely followed by threats of violence and even murder

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who is saying terfs are worse than male right wing politicians??????? who????????????????????????????????????? ???????????????????????????????????????? ???????????????????????????????????????? ???????????????????????????????????????? ?

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mte

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Yup

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I can't help but remember when "vaginas against Trump" and pussy hats were considered "terfy" because they were explicitly about the female genitalia and reproductive system.

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lol maybe it's bc TERFs are primarily women. most men aren't identifying as radical feminists

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It's not a slur, but it's often used very irresponsibly/inaccurately.

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Oh it is!!

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it's not a gendered slur. it might be a word that's used to identify distasteful politics that certain women have in certain (online) scenarios, and it's certainly been adopted by large groups of people–most of whom are not trans women themselves, which is important to note–who misuse it to mean "any woman who seems to be too radical of a feminist." the people who misuse it are, the vast majority of the time, ALSO women and usually cis women who are bending over backwards trying to be inclusive and end up being straight-up afraid (and lesbophobic, usually)



but that said...like, come on. there is room for some critical thinking here. getting angrier at people who misuse the word 'terf' than at the real, genuine base of organized hate against the trans community that infiltrates feminist spaces is a misplaced waste of energy, and tbh it concerns me to see regular women starting to act as though they're being put upon just at the mention of it & makes me question their priorities for being in a feminist space in the first place.



i'd rather be misidentified as a terf a few healthy times, since my politics don't reflect those beliefs and that would be manifest in how I behave & would become clear to anyone who mattered, if it meant that the ACTUAL terfs weren't allowed to gain ground in feminist spaces. side-eyeing these comments on ONTD, idk when the tide turned and ya'll became convinced that this was your battle, lmfao.

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I wouldn't call it a slur exactly but it's a label I often see used against women (and especially lesbians) as a way of shutting down discussions of where gender issues, trans issues and lesbian issues often intersect. Call someone transphobic when they're being transphobic but there's something about using TERF that seems to be about sending a message to women that they need to stay out of discussions that are in fact relevant to their lives.

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somebody here called Paul Ryan a TERF unironically and it was in that moment I knew the word had lost all meaning.

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it is



no one is ever targeting men like this

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because it is

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It is

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That is absolutely the case, yes.

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Yep

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lol okay

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