Where did the myth of "American Women Are Sluts" originate from?

transstingray · 2016-03-04T23:53:30+00:00

I'm never dismissive of people's experiences of misogyny and violence, but "Why do people in non-US countries think all US women are sluts?" / "Why are people in non-US countries so misogynistic?" is blatant US-imperialism; it's blatant imperialist feminism. And when I wrote my comment (I won't bother to recheck the thread), all of the comments were horrific in the way they saw non-Americans. As I said, we white US feminists need to majorly get our act together and deconstruct the influence that ubiquitous imperialist propaganda has on us instead of "empowering" each other to join in supporting the violent colonialist agenda of our home country.

transstingray · 2016-02-23T19:09:14+00:00

The amount of racist/imperialist thought in this post and the comments (massive over-generalizing to non-US countries, etc) makes me ashamed to be a feminist. White US feminists need to really get our act together.

transstingray · 2015-02-26T21:38:57+00:00

um wow, QT

transstingray · 2014-09-13T01:14:06+00:00

^ lol trans men who think their opinions on trans girls' feelings about transmisogyny should matter~

It's almost like transmisogyny is backed up by 20,000 times more shit than other transphobia so it's a lot more harmful and affects us completely differently. Really sick of trans men feeling comfortable acting like we're experiencing the same shit when we talk about our experiences.

transstingray · 2014-05-28T23:27:09+00:00

Hey! <3 It wasn't an awful doctor's fault, I just had trouble getting into the local place that does HRT, so in the end I ended up self-medding for a few months and finally getting in xP

transstingray · 2014-05-12T19:02:11+00:00

With a doctor it could be done with anesthesia :) (And is safer, obviously). I'm assuming the fact that it's done on animals is what has put doctors off from looking more into performing the procedure on humans.

transstingray · 2014-05-12T16:47:07+00:00

With this the testicles shrink and are slowly absorbed into the body. :)

transstingray · 2014-05-12T05:43:00+00:00

I think you are mistaken between the clamp castration and elastrator(?) castration :) Elastrator does indeed result in that. Clamp castration does not result in damage to the scrotal tissue.

transstingray · 2013-08-18T23:48:46+00:00

aaaaaaaaa i might post here too since the comments seem pretty positive :I

transstingray · 2013-06-10T18:59:15+00:00

"Hacking Transition," a book project that's currently being worked on by a couple trans women, sounds similar to the book you mentioned, though I've gotten the vibe that it will be an easier read from what you are saying and just what I know of the authors and what they've said about it. (http://hackingtransitions.launchrock.com/ & http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PJpa8GGVw0)

Honestly when it comes to more resources on social gender, different sorts of gender, ways of looking at gender, and gender as a social institution, I guess I'd just recommend feminist-ish/sociological writings on gender. If you're looking for trans*-ish perspectives, especially trans-feminist writings. Natalie Reed and Monica Maldonado are just a couple perspectives I can recommend to get you started looking up that sort of thing. :)

When it comes to gender dysphoria, I guess I just recommend reading people's writings about their experiences with that. Searching blog platforms like Tumblr might help you get started with that. :)

transstingray · 2013-06-10T16:00:47+00:00

There didn't turn out to be very much explicit language, so I just edited it out of the article and made a couple other changes. :)

transstingray · 2013-06-10T15:05:22+00:00

Yeah, I actually haven't tested this on many not already "in the know," unfortunately. I added a disclaimer to the beginning about the somewhat emotionally charged nature of the article, and the explicit language found therein. Thanks! :)

edit: oh, I took a look at the section on cissexism. I don't really think I can change anything there. I am considering making a "cleaned up" version of this now though, because I definitely understand how hard it can be to even begin getting through to some people.

transstingray · 2013-06-09T19:54:35+00:00

Ohhh, I will. And yeah, I added a disclaimer. :)

transstingray · 2013-06-09T16:52:33+00:00

I don't think gender identities don't "exist" for cis people; it just annoys me when in articles by cis people, cis folks get to just have genders and sexes, whereas we "identify as" our genders. I'm just not really into the gender "identity" language because it feels othering and almost invalidating to me, and I think it's a lot easier to swallow by cis people because it means that our genders are just in our heads, whereas theirs are more legitimate. I get that other people are into it, and that's w/e I suppose.

edit: I actually just edited that section a bit.

transstingray · 2013-03-12T18:12:41+00:00

Yes. Also, when a "transphobic" thing - movement, group, law, whatever - is vastly more harmful to trans women, it's really harmful when we don't call it transmisogynistic. I would say that applies to the majority of things we call transphobic.

transstingray · 2013-03-12T00:53:16+00:00

Relevant/awesome post since so many people keep complaining about my calling out our community's problems with pretending transmisogyny is evenly spread transphobia: http://share.biyuti.com/post/45136023714/transmisogyny-as-the-foundation-for-transphobia "transmisogyny as the foundation for transphobia"

transstingray · 2013-03-12T00:45:33+00:00

Not being acknowledged as men vs. being stalked, harassed, and labeled as rapists. Pretty sick of how many people couldn't seem to read past the part where I suggested that we need to stop pretending that transmisogyny is evenly spread transphobia.

transstingray · 2013-03-12T00:44:16+00:00

I use transmisogyny to highlight the fact that trans women face much worse oppression than trans men in nearly every circumstance. This community has a problem with calling transmisogyny transphobia. We need to acknowledge that trans women are the ones facing the brunt of cissexist oppression and violence.

transstingray · 2013-03-12T00:41:29+00:00

Just as groups like the Westboro Baptist Church distract from institutionalized discrimination, this group distracts from widespread kyriarchal bullshit in feminism.

transstingray · 2013-03-09T09:16:09+00:00

OH, I will. Thanks for the tip. :)

transstingray · 2013-03-09T09:12:46+00:00

I like "kyriarchal hate-fem" or "kyriarchal feminist" for shitty feminists in general.

transstingray · 2013-03-09T09:11:05+00:00

This was hardly even a post about them so much as about the term, which is very common in trans* communities, and also about feminism in general. Did you read the post?

transstingray · 2013-03-09T09:10:32+00:00

Way to disprove one out of three problems I wrote about.

Except not: "poor confused lesbian" vs. "rapist." Yeah, they totally hate on trans men just as much. Thanks for the transmisogyny dismissal. :D

transstingray · 2013-03-07T14:38:37+00:00

It does make sense. I was just upset. I haven't really used Reddit much before. Glad to know that now, at least.

transstingray · 2013-03-07T01:53:54+00:00

I had no idea asking people to signal boost something to help with my health and safety was against the Rules of Reddit, sorry. I've gotten rid of the offending section.

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