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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I'm not sure I understand what the transphobe is saying (I don't want to call these people radical feminists, they're not).

She sees an exchange where two people talk about exchanging nudes, and she assumes they were both trans women, so she thinks she's exposing them as men because they aren't acting like women (who would never share nude photos of themselves)?

It's honestly confusing to me (lots of cis women share nude photos, though not usually to their friends AFAIK).

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I’m not sure I understand what the transphobe is saying (I don’t want to call these people radical feminists, they’re not).

Feminism Appropriating Radical Transphobes

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

My problem is with associating it with feminism, it's offensive to me and factually inaccurate. TERF talking points are usually gender essentializing in a way that is contrary with radical feminist viewpoints, for example, and lots of TERFs now distance themselves from feminism intentionally as they coalition with the right-wing. "Gender critical feminism" is not feminism at all, and better characterized as fundamentally anti-trans rather than fundamentally feminist.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

I completely agree, that;s why I like to call them FARTs. And it fits - they are radically transphobic and they do appropriate feminism despite not being feminist

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think it's a joke

The setup makes us assume no nudes are being exchanged.

We expect that the transphobe is warning the writer that one of the people receiving nudes is trans. We then expect the reveal to be that the write is trans or something along those lines. It was difficult for me to follow too.

The punchline is that nudes were indeed being exchanged. The transphobe was just a subversion.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Oh, sorry - it was hard for me to follow your comment as well, but here's my understanding:

We read about OP sharing nudes with a friend.

TERF warns OP that they are sharing nudes not with a fellow woman, but with a man (TERF is assuming friend was a trans woman, assumes OP is a cis woman).

We expect OP to reveal they are actually a trans woman, but instead we learn OP and his friend are cis men.

Does this seem right?

Sorry, these moments make me feel like I must be autistic or something, lol