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Award-winning fantasy romance author. Editor. Philosophy dork. Non-binary transfem, she/her. Repped by @millercallihan. Banner by @_senqin Abolish the police.

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    1. May Peterson, Eldritch Monstergirl (she/her)‏ @maidensblade 30 Oct 2020

      I think where a lot of cis women run into difficulty with trans issues is that for a long time, trans women in feminism was framed as about inclusion, like inviting the Ugly Girl to sit with you at lunch. Many cis women think it’s about their kindness and not about the *power.*

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    2. May Peterson, Eldritch Monstergirl (she/her)‏ @maidensblade 30 Oct 2020

      In other words, in the late ‘00s and early ‘10s, cis women who were getting used to the idea of trans women were often seeing this as about extending a hand of friendship to people who are lost equal partners in feminism, women on equal footing but somewhat different experiences

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    3. May Peterson, Eldritch Monstergirl (she/her)‏ @maidensblade 30 Oct 2020

      The reality that cis women often seem to struggle with is that cis women actually have a form of power over trans women and are our oppressors as much as cis men are. Acknowledging this was not the responsibility many such cis women thought they were signing up for.

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    4. May Peterson, Eldritch Monstergirl (she/her)‏ @maidensblade 30 Oct 2020

      You could see this reflected in a great deal of writing about trans inclusion in feminist scenes over this period, with cis women and the occasional TME trans person talking about how yeah, trans women have male privilege, but we still have a role in feminism

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    5. May Peterson, Eldritch Monstergirl (she/her)‏ @maidensblade 30 Oct 2020

      I remember one appeal to trans inclusion about 10 years ago (by an cis woman) arguing that trans women aren’t really women, but we aren’t EXACTLY men either, and so we’re kind of our own thing that have some shared interests and similar oppression with cis women

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    6. May Peterson, Eldritch Monstergirl (she/her)‏ @maidensblade 30 Oct 2020

      You can also see it still today with how often even highly progressive cis women seem legitimately taken by surprise at the idea to say they can function in an oppressor role toward trans women, as if they’ve never considered it

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    7. May Peterson, Eldritch Monstergirl (she/her)‏ @maidensblade 30 Oct 2020

      The way so many cis women seem to go about their feminism without any thought to responsibility toward trans women—including how they casually talk about bodies, sexism, and the origin of misogyny—speaks to a sense that trans women should deal with our own stuff in a parallel way

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    8. May Peterson, Eldritch Monstergirl (she/her)‏ @maidensblade 30 Oct 2020

      I think the notion that cis women are above us in the social hierarchy—and not slightly either, but by quite a dramatic degree—still is difficult for many cis feminists to swallow both emotionally and intellectually

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      May Peterson, Eldritch Monstergirl (she/her)‏ @maidensblade 30 Oct 2020

      Honestly this is still present in how TERFs are framed as exclusionists rather than exterminationists, as closer to close-minded snobs than what they really are: the mouthpieces of a violent hate movement

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        1. they know‏ @bizmichael 30 Oct 2020
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          Again I must tearfully thank you for expressing these things

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        2. Peter Ashford‏ @kaffiene_nz 31 Oct 2020
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          I think no-one likes being told they have a position of privilege when they feel they have suffered in their lives - you see it in poor white men who struggle to understand their privilege.

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        1. Zeelemke‏ @Zeelemke1 31 Oct 2020
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          You're absolutely right, and it's funny because when we talk about high school, everyone knows girls oppress and bully each other, but then people act like that magically stops at age 18.

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        1. Anne Todd #sexnotgender  ☯️ 🍒‏ @Scotsceltgirl 31 Oct 2020
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          What, like this?pic.twitter.com/jMqAcbAr8h

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