Like wow, transphobes have no consistent standards and will harrass others based on chromosome layout, hormone levels, fertility, and whatever other contradictory trash they can dregde up? Sheesh, it’s almost like transphobes and terfs have never had any consistent logic. Almost as if the point is just to uphold white cisheteronormativity and oppress everyone who deviates.
My brain is trying to conjure quotes from both Gender Outlaw and the Gender Accelerationist Manifesto, but my brain is melted. Poking holes in these people’s logic is not an effective comeback to them, they do not really care. They gotta uphold cisnormativity and put the boot down on anybody outside of it in any way they can. Anything to support their goofy gender hierarchy.
It feels like there’s a kind of consistent through line from liberal “um, by your logic…” debate shit with reactionaries where they think pointing out internal contradictions in itself will accomplish something and change the reactionary into a liberal or whatever and “deboonking” scurrilous libel shit from bigots. Even after their bullshit is debunked, they won’t care because the facts and specifics were never the point, they were just convenient ammunition to use, and the bigoted point they wanted to advance was always intended to be crudely used as a cudgel against whatever marginalized group drew their ire. The Sartre bit in Anti-Semite and Jew rings true when applied to any reactionaries.
Bigots don’t need accurate data and logical arguments to debunk them, they need to have their vile views viciously mocked, be ostracized from polite society, and
when they attempt to organize in public. One punch to the back of the head did way more to make Richard Spencer irrelevant than a thousand think pieces.
I abuse the Sartre quote frequently to this end, because people need reminded ig!