It's really something that TERFs say transmisogyny is a distraction from talking about "real" misogyny when it's the realest misogyny there is Like I don't think it's actually possible to understand misogyny without transmisogyny
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Rage against cis women goes looking for this out too, looking for a way to say that the woman you hate doesn't "count", that she falls into that "third category" Fat women, old women, infertile women
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JFC the fucking word "bad" in English comes from "baeddel", whose original meaning was "a hermaphrodite" or "an effeminate" Literally the most basic negative word in the English language started as a word for being someone with an "in-between" gender
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Replying to @QberryShortcake @arthur_affect
"Travesty" and "transvestite" have the same root word too
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @arthur_affect
(not the trans part obviously, that's a false cognate)
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It's a real cognate, it's just spelled differently because it's an older derivation ("trans + vestire" in Latin becomes "travestire" in Italian becomes "travestir" in French)
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Presumably the original meaning wasn't strictly about gender and the idea was just "wearing someone else's clothes", but it's the gendered cross-dressing version of it that stuck in people's heads
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Much like "baeddel" (a very ancient Old English word) is probably related to the Old English verb "baedan" which means "defile", but it's unclear whether the chicken or egg came first -- the idea of defiling/transgressing was always deeply linked to androgyny
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But yeah the definition of "travesty" meaning "something really bad" comes from literature Originally a "travesty" meant an intentional parody of an author or genre, writing in exaggerated mimicry of someone else's style to mock their foibles and flaws
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
So, yes, in the sense of "travesty = wearing someone else's clothes", a "literary travesty" literally meant writing a book "in drag"
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Spaceballs is to Star Wars as RuPaul's Drag Race is to a real fashion show in Milan That kind of thing
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