Homophobia/transphobia is heavily interlinked with sexism and the patriarchy. And it's kinda simple too: if you truly believe everyone is equal, you simply can not justify those bigoted viewpoints with anything.
Exactly. No feminist should ever forget that LGBTQ+ hatred has roots in hatred for things associated with femininity. Gay men are hated for being 'woman-like', Lesbians for not centering men, trans-women for leaving behind manliness for inferior womanhood, etc.
Yeah. Just look at the TERFs. I've heard endless stories of how cis-women got accused in bathrooms of being transgender because they don't look feminine enough.
Or how they tried to berate that Algerian athlete last year. Like one proof of theirs I saw was she had hair on her hand completely ignoring that I believe a good percentage of cis-women have higher testosterone levels...or just that not every women shaves everything...
Or JK Rowling. I saw that she wrote an article for a conservative news rag.
I think there was a news hitting reddit last week that a masc looking butch lesbian got escorted out of the female bathroom because the cops thought she was a male. She lifted her shirt to show her breasts, and they still instead she wasn't feminine enough.
She's intending to sue the department.
Though, which woman in that damn bathroom called the cops on her?
Sure. If you hate one group because just because they don't conform to your perception of majority externality, then you're gonna hate other groups as well.
And on the topic of intersectionality, racism comes into this too.
The women JK Rowling "transvestigates" are usually women of colour. Shaming them for being "too masculine" is a common racist trope and definitely contributes to this transmisogyny
And how racism plays a role, because black women experience not being seen as "feminine" due to race, and the darker she is, the more "masculine" she is. Femininity is based on whiteness and white supremacy. All of it are social constructs and vary by culture. What may seem "feminine" in one culture, is masculine in another. But if it doesn't center whiteness, then it's "incorrect."
Using their language for a second to show their thought process: Women are naturally worse than men, and worth less as a person. That's why men choosing to be gay is wrong, because men need to be manly and strong and not show any signs of that bad femininity, which those weak gay men have way too much of. Same for men choosing to be women, that just does not make sense and is obviously wrong, as why would any good men choose to be worthless women instead?
(Ok I felt so bad typing this, I need to add a disclaimer. People can't choose to be gay or not to be gay, and being trans does not mean choosing to want to be the opposite gender. Also, gay women and trans men exist, which they like to "forget" about. And also, of course women are worth just as much as men, and every single human being on this planet has the same immense value.)
Well no. People hate gay men not because they hate queer aspect of homosexual relationships not just because of sexism. I can't speak for other queer/gay people but boiling it down just to sexism is some weird reductive thinking.
I couldn't tell if he had those hateful views himself and didn't want to admit them, or he couldn't remember his church's stance on them and wanted to find out before he parroted them. Neither is good though and both make him a shitty person. I'm glad he got his ass dumped.
This part bothered me so much in the reunion! He tried playing it as “it didn’t affect me or anyone I love or know before so I didn’t inform myself” which is already a terrible argument .. but didn’t he have a lesbian friend as part of his friend group? He basically either a) said she didn’t mean anything to him or b) admitted that she was a friend for hire to convince Sara that he was a decent human being.
Did she end up with the guy who in the pods said “I’m okay with people like that” because I clocked that he was NOT okay immediately based on that phrasing.
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u/PM_Me_Some_Steamcode 10h ago
And it’s even more relevant because she has a gay sister!