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    Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 21

    Arthur Chu Retweeted Jude Ellison S. Doyle

    I'm going to try to gather the energy to actually talk about the TERFs in the replies here rather than just yelling at them -- The thing is, TERF ideology makes the hypothetical in the OP logically impossible and meaningless This is why TERFism is a form of "biopessimism"https://twitter.com/sadydoyle/status/1384145600455737350 …

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    Jude Ellison S. DoyleVerified account @sadydoyle
    Men have had miscarriages. https://twitter.com/LaborProject/status/1383879008899670028 …
    12:53 PM - 21 Apr 2021
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      2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 21

        The TERF worldview is that the DEFINITION of a man is someone in the "sex class" that doesn't get pregnant and can't miscarry The hypothetical is a contradiction in terms - like a Marxist saying "Well if capitalists had to work for a living then jobs wouldn't suck so much"

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      3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 21

        The TERF worldview is that everything about sexism and patriarchy is a logical consequence of "the facts of our biology" The definition of being a man is not getting pregnant and exploiting the reproductive labor of people who can, which is the definition of being a woman

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      4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 21

        So therefore in this worldview if a cis man suddenly woke up one day with a uterus *that fact would make him a woman* and he would immediately be oppressed the way all women are

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      5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 21

        The hypothetical is a logically impossible fantasy, it just doesn't make sense, it's like asking "Wouldn't the world be a better place if landlords were the ones who paid rent to tenants?"

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      6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 21

        You could imagine punishing a specific landlord by taking his title to the building so you become the landlord and he becomes the tenant (just as 2nd-wave TERFs had plenty of "emasculation" revenge fantasies) But switching all landlords with all tenants doesn't change anything

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      7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 21

        It's a pessimist worldview The world the hypothetical imagines - "What if the 'sex class' that gave birth *were men* in the sense that they had all the privilege and respect and power men as a class have in our world?" is something TERFism outright dismisses as possible

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      8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 21

        I bring this up because honestly, despite all the time I spend arguing with TERFs, I feel like I get it - I am a pessimistic person and have a natural sympathy with pessimistic ideologies I've gotten it since I was a fan of James Tiptree, or before

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      9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 21

        Actually before that even It was a discussion I had with my mom when I was watching TV, specifically the first-season episode of Sliders "The Weaker Sex"

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      10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 21

        Note: I don't actually remember anything about this episode and I was like ten years old at the time so I didn't understand it accurately either

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      11. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 21

        Looking at the summary now I'm pretty sure I misunderstood it (reproductive biology works the same in this world and the "gender flip" is more complicated than I perceived it as) But I told her "This is a world where all the women are men and the men are women"

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      12. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 21

        And she actually got mad "This show is stupid, what does that even mean? How is that not just the same as our world? What's different about it?" "Well the 'stronger sex' look like women in our world but they're stronger like men"

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      13. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 21

        "But the reason men and women look different is that men are stronger! Men are stronger because they're physically bigger! Men being stronger is why they don't have to have long hair and makeup and women do!" (My mom's not a radfem, she's a conservative Christian, but even so)

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      14. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 21

        Anyway her surprisingly intense anger at a stupid science fiction TV show left me with a lot to think about "If men could have babies, they would BE women, and they'd have all the stuff we think of that makes women women, like being smaller and having breasts" stuck in my head

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      15. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 21

        I have to give credit to my mom in that from a very young age, probably unintentionally, she both raised my standards for science fiction "What if?" scenarios ("The question is what DOESN'T change if you flip X and Y") and got me thinking about feminism and gender

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      16. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 21

        I mean, I think she's wrong in the end, and the TERFs are wrong, but this conflict reveals where we are as a culture right now - it's the conflict over attempting to imagine the unimaginable

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      17. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 21

        Again, my mom's not a radfem, she's a conservative, but sometimes I think the difference between the two is how pissed off you feel on a given day

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      18. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 21

        There's a straight line from "Of course women are the weaker sex due to the biology of childbearing" to "Of course women do all the childrearing because of breastfeeding and hormonal bonding in utero Of course men are worse at those jobs, of course men work outside the home"

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      19. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 21

        I would argue that as justifiably as trans people dunk on these insensitive cis-feminism bromides ("If MEN had periods the government would mail everyone free tampons", "If MEN got pregnant maternity leave would be in the constitution"), the fact that they exist is hopeful

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      20. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 21

        The pop feminism mindset that creates these little slogans is opposed to TERFism The people who write them don't have trans people in mind and are as likely to be transphobic as anyone else But they chafe against the assumptions of cissexist society nonetheless

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      21. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 21

        The hunger to imagine a world where things can be different, to imagine a definition of "men" that ISN'T "rooted in the facts of reproductive biology", to pull the oppressive structures of our world apart, ever so slowly, and rearrange them

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      22. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 21

        Like, the way these conversations generally go nowadays is someone posts a meme like this, and then a trans man goes "Uhhh trans men DO menstruate and get pregnant" and then the TERFs pile on going "And it didn't change anything, did it? Which proves trans men aren't men!"

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      23. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 21

        Because as angry as TERFs are about patriarchy their initial impulse is always to surrender to it But leaving aside that out trans men are <1% of the population so asking "Why haven't you changed all of society yet?" is somewhat unfair trans men DO talk about how it IS different

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      24. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 21

        This is out of my lane to directly talk about and in particular the question "do trans men experience misogyny?" is fraught Trans men are, still, a very small minority in the total population, and one with a wide diversity of experiences, especially in terms of "passing"

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      25. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 21

        But transition does fuck with how people perceive you and how they treat you - by nature, that's the whole point And transphobia against trans men is not the same thing as misogyny - I would argue the intensity of it from cis women IDed as feminists demonstrates that

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      26. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 21

        I think it IS possible to imagine a world where "the men get pregnant and still have male privilege", and the ferocity of people's attacks on transition are because they fear such a world and how it would destabilize their worldview

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      27. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 21

        Just like, contra what my mom (and the writers of Sliders) thought, our world isn't the result of some inevitable evolutionary pathway where everything about "femininity" and "masculinity" ended up a specific way

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      28. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 21

        You can look at other cultures all over the place where those Lego pieces arranged themselves differently, and doing so upsets people (CS Lewis getting pissed off about papers on ancient Greek homosexuality and yelling "Don't tell me all the warriors in the Iliad were pansies")

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      29. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 21

        It was perilous for me to start this thread without a conclusion in mind, as I typically do, but I feel weird leaving it without one, so -- I think TERFs should think about what they're defending when they defend stuff like the OP and how it cuts to the heart of their ideology

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      30. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 21

        TERFs got very, very angry at Andrea Long Chu for, in her initimably trollish way, deliberately "destabilizing" the concept of the gender binary in a way calculated to hit their buttons Saying that to be female is to submit to another's power, to be oppressed is to be female

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      31. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 21

        I mean yeah sure taking that completely at face value it comes off as a gross sentiment *But it's the exact same sentiment as all the stuff about "If men could get pregnant then bla bla bla"* That's what that sentence means, when you get right down to it

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