Tsujoi Posts

And exactly what have been done? To my knowledge the only thing you need to do is fill out a paper and the only background check that is being done is criminal charges. Where's the doc say so in this?

Small amount? In 2013, 2/3rds of all homicides were indeed from gun related violence. I wouldn't call that a "small amount".

Revaluation was a poor word choice on my end. Evaluation like winged said is what I needed to say. Sorry.

Republicans just don't give a damn thats all. 2nd amendment needs some serious revaluation because people here are dying left and right for no reason.

Feminism is itself all about doubting and questioning societal constructs and norms when it comes to sex and gender. Aside from certain widely used understandings and established interpretations, there aren't really any feminist principles to doubt. There are arguments and viewpoints on certain social topics, but then not all feminists would agree on these things. They aren't some hivemind, even if some subsets act like they are (particularly the ones that come out of the internet). And then some are less reflexive and others more so. E.g. they’re people, it depends just like with every other grouping of people and school of thought. I'd argue actual academic feminists consider what their assumptions and foundations are more than most average people when making a claim about something.

If feminists need to reconsider anything major they all usually agree on currently, it's their gender/sex framework. You know, the old gender is socially constructed m/f behaviours and ideas of masculinity/femininity and then sex is actual biology e.g. chromosomes, body shape, smexy parts.

Why does this need to be challenged?

It's simple really. It ignores and trivializes what transgender people go through.

I'm not saying the distinction is itself inherently wrong. It's done alot of good in helping us talk about what male and female really mean and how they figure into our social environment. The problem is when we limit out understanding of M/F to just these two definitions of sex and gender. Doing so ignores too much of what a transgender person actually goes through in relation to their gender identity and makes it just about matching their body with the socially normative yet constructed behaviours and roles they prefers. Some of feminism makes this even worse without intending to by saying the behaviours don't need to be normative nor match the body (implying there's no reason for trans people to actually change their sex). In other words, it suggests being transgender is just a devient lifestyle/belief, and one that paradoxically leads to going against the norm out of a desire to allow one's behaviour to meet with norms (by matching this behaviour to the "correct" sex, instead of matching one's behaviour to their birth sex). Yep, the crippling and isolating internal struggle I've experienced continually since before puberty is just a lifestyle choice...

My inability to ever feel emotionally present in my body was just me struggling with socially constructed gender norms and body issues, and now my decision to actually take steps towards transition, well that's just me feeling like I need to match my sex with the gendered behaviours I like for whatever reason, even though the association of these behaviours with one sex is entirely arbitrary. Yep..


I can go into more detail about what it's really like if anyone's interested. I actually did in the original version of this post that went unposted, but I felt this version fits better at the moment. I get that it's hard for people to really understand what we go through so. Not that I can speak for the experience of all transgender people. Anyway, I know the standard feminist gender/sex definitions definetly do not work in regards to trans issues. They're still useful for somethings but a compromise needs to be made on both ends. Maybe a new language, or just recognition that the word gender is not rigidly bound to a single school of thought's understanding of it.

(I know, I take serious discussion way too serious)

Then they'd be Jack the Rippers :v

Doesn't Kadushy go there, too?