very cool how the gender binary in the emerging trad terf synthesis is like, there are two genders, the one that does bad things and the one that bad things are done to. the only thing in the world is immorality and it flows from unexperiencing agents to unacting experiencers.
which naturally appeals to people who would like to be perceived as inherently lacking the capacity for immorality. for whatever reason
anyway remember bell hooks’s very cogent critique of second-wave feminist organizing in ‘sisterhood: solidarity between women’ where she argues that by “bonding as ‘victims’, white women’s liberationists were not required to assume responsibility for confronting the complexity of their own experience … Identifying as ‘victims’, they could abdicate responsibility for their role in the maintenance and perpetuation of sexism, racism, and classism.” it’s not by accident that terf gender essentialism dovetails so much with other biological-determinist & essentialist assumptions including Extremely Racist Ones
we became adults. and we forgot about that one lizard that can run on top of the water. and the bombardier beetle. we don’t even think about mako sharks being the fastest shark anymore.
a book: a flea can jump 200 times their body length! cheetahs can run up to 70 miles per hour, but they can only keep up this speed for about a quarter mile! the smallest mammal is the pygmy shrew!
me, 7 years old, convinced that this information is of the utmost importance:
We all should have the list of the top 10 fastest, strongest, smallest, and largest animals in our minds at all times, for quick reference
Not a day should pass in our mortal lives without considering the Wobbegong Shark
Super fucked up that I can’t be a master-level expert in knitting AND woodworking AND silversmithing AND embroidery AND soap making AND spinning AND -
“Who would ever want to be immortal? Can you imagine the loneliness, knowing that there’s no one else like you, cursed to outlive -” shut up!! Some of us have shit to do and aren’t cowards!!
