Why shouldn't they? Women had to build their own. Transwomen can do the work.https://twitter.com/HPluckrose/status/908470193478946816 …
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Why? Did 'trans issues' not exist? Was it a taboo to talk about them? Were there no words to talk about them? Were you unaware of them?
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Please go away unless you have a point to make.
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Trying to figure out what made you use new words to describe a previously (apparently) undescribed form of oppression.
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Where was the oppression before the words were created? Was it non-existent? Is this a new axe of oppression?
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Do you think words create oppression? If we didn't have trans & cis, trans women would not experience prejudice?
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No. I'm wondering if the oppression existed when the words didn't. If it did, why were there no words to describe it?
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Usually terms for prejudice & oppression come into being when society realises its wrong to oppress people.
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In this case one axis of oppression replaces another though. Words used to describe one axis of oppression (gender) were coined to replace
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