The comeback of anti-feminism in disguise

2025/11/14-2026/01/29 酣畅淋漓的阅读。我的女权嘴替——怎么会有人每句话都这么说到我的心坎上?比如:

Two thousand years of texts [were] devoted to explaining how woman is merely an inferior version of man. If this really were a fact, all these texts would hardly have been necessary. For example, there is no two thousand year production of texts trying to convince us that plants cannot walk. Link

推荐所有对trans/gender identity话题有兴趣的媎妹来读!读完发现我对trans的看法和我在很多女权问题上的心路历程都一样:不适/困惑/怀疑 → cautious → research → 恍然大悟——我之前觉得不舒服的地方就是有问题的,不是我的问题。

讲几个最关键的点:

  1. 关于woman的定义
    • Why altering the definition of "woman" makes no sense: if you're a woman by self-identifying as one, can I self-identify as 6 years old? Or African? A woman is someone born with XX-chromosomes and egg cells. Period.
    • We need the word "woman" — all oppressed groups must be named to organise and fight. Any attempt to erase or redefine "woman" is a full frontal attack on the women's movement.
    • Interesting asymmetry: why is no one redefining the word "man"?
  2. trans women in women's spaces (including sports)
    • Women are being excluded from their own spaces in the name of inclusion. The reason trans women don't feel safe in men's spaces is the exact same reason why some women may not feel safe in their presence.
    • If trans women can claim women's rights, why can't women claim trans rights? A cis woman who says she identifies as a trans woman is told she's "appropriating an experience she doesn't have" — but a trans woman who claims she's a woman is celebrated?
    • Another asymmetry: trans men are not accepted into men's spaces because those are policed by violence, not rules. Only women's spaces — policed by rules — are forced to open their doors.
  3. backlash against TERF
    • So much hatred towards TERFs — but what about the men who actually conduct violence and even murder against trans people? No murder or targeted crime against trans people has been committed on the basis of feminism. The men who actually carry out violence? There's not even a word for them.
    • this is really anti-feminism in disguise: "the woman spoke, and thus provoked the man to hit."
    • 对于和我一样有所自我怀疑的媎妹-remember that争取女权我们不需要be apologetic. Feminism doesn't need to include every group that's oppressed to be legitimate.
  4. about trans
    • Is there really something wrong with their bodies that needs to be fixed? Or is the "gender incongruence" they experience due to toxic social stereotypes around sex? Why can't a girl dislike dresses? Why can't a boy love dolls?
    • Gender identity theory victimises trans people in the name of protecting them — treating their bodies as faulty, sacrificing their fertility, offering no apology when damage is done.

Trans activism其实是卷土重来的male supremacy在利用trans people来打压feminism。Gender identity theory貌似progressive,实际上是女性权利的regression:

Conservatives believe sex determines gender. Thus, women are feminine, men are masculine, and that is the way things are supposed to be.

Advocates of gender identity theory hold that gender determines sex. In other words: those who are feminine are women, those who are masculine are men, and that is the way things are supposed to be.

Same coupling, different order, which amounts to a kind of postmodern biologism. Conservatives and gender identity theory proponents alike believe in gender congruence – the idea that a particular body matches a particular personality.

Feminists counter this: sex should be liberated from gender. Sex has nothing to do with the oppressive hierarchy of sex stereotypes that is called gender. For feminists, sex is unproblematic, and gender is the culprit that should be abolished.