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"They Called Me a TERF" by: FemaleIsNotAFeeling

"They called me TERF, yet I dont know what it means.
I asked and they told me of all the trans things.
I remarked "What of women? The where and the why?"
They said that a woman is just a crude lie.

They called me a TERF and I stood and fought back.
Against their repugnant sexist attacks.
They told me that I was a gatekeeping bitch.
As the children get butchered and the doctors get rich.

They called me a TERF and I started to cry.
I couldnt help but think this is all a damned lie.
Where are my best friends? Where are my allies?
They're campaigning for men - they've all said their goodbyes.

They called me a TERF and I stood proud and tall.
Suddenly I dont feel so weak and so small.
I stood up for women. I stood up for me.
I shouted "A woman, a man cannot be!"

They called me a TERF and I said "So what?"
You think that will make my mouth zip and shut?
Quite the opposite is true, and I'll show you how.
For my voice has grown even louder now.

They called me a TERF and soon I found out.
What all others like me were really about.
The right for all women and girls to be safe.
From men and their games that attack and take shape.

They called me a TERF as they spouted their lies.
But that I am sure was no real surprise.
For once you realize the end game is clear.
They dont want any women speaking round here.

They called me a TERF and I said "okay."
Thats fine if you want to be that way.
I know what I stand for and I know you can't see.
What being a woman really means to me.

They called me a TERF and for that I snapped back.
You will not police ME for the things that YOU lack.
I am a fierce woman and I am much more.
Than a dress and a wig hung on the back of your door

They called me a TERF.......yeah? And what??"

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"They Called Me a TERF" by: FemaleIsNotAFeeling 


"They called me TERF, yet I dont know what it means.
I asked and they told me of all the trans things.
I remarked "What of women? The where and the why?"
They said that a woman is just a crude lie.


They called me a TERF and I stood and fought back.
Against their repugnant sexist attacks.
They told me that I was a gatekeeping bitch.
As the children get butchered and the doctors get rich.


They called me a TERF and I started to cry.
I couldnt help but think this is all a damned lie.
Where are my best friends? Where are my allies?
They're campaigning for men - they've all said their goodbyes.


They called me a TERF and I stood proud and tall.
Suddenly I dont feel so weak and so small.
I stood up for women. I stood up for me.
I shouted "A woman, a man cannot be!"


They called me a TERF and I said "So what?"
You think that will make my mouth zip and shut?
Quite the opposite is true, and I'll show you how.
For my voice has grown even louder now.


They called me a TERF and soon I found out.
What all others like me were really about.
The right for all women and girls to be safe.
From men and their games that attack and take shape.


They called me a TERF as they spouted their lies.
But that I am sure was no real surprise. 
For once you realize the end game is clear.
They dont want any women speaking round here.


They called me a TERF and I said "okay."
Thats fine if you want to be that way.
I know what I stand for and I know you can't see.
What being a woman really means to me.


They called me a TERF and for that I snapped back.
You will not police ME for the things that YOU lack.
I am a fierce woman and I am much more.
Than a dress and a wig hung on the back of your door


They called me a TERF.......yeah? And what??"

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“There were no religious images in the churches or synagogues of our childhood that celebrated the birthing powers of women. According to religion's myths, the world was brought into being by a male God, and woman was created from man. This reversal of biological process went unchallenged.

Most of us didn't even notice the absence of the mother. Although we may not have been consciously aware of her absence in bible stories and sermons, her absence was absorbed into our being. And its painful influence was intensified as we observed the design of our parents' relationship and the treatment of our mothers by our fathers and brothers.

Our families mirrored the hierarchical reality of the heavens. In a society that worships a male God, the father's life is more valuable than the mother's. The activities of a man's life are more vital and necessary than the mother's intimate connections with the origins of life. The father is God." - Patricia Lynn Reilly, Be Full of Yourself"

Mara Berendt Friedman New Moon Visions Sacred Art

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“There were no religious images in the churches or synagogues of our childhood that celebrated the birthing powers of women. According to religion's myths, the world was brought into being by a male God, and woman was created from man. This reversal of biological process went unchallenged. 

Most of us didn't even notice the absence of the mother. Although we may not have been consciously aware of her absence in bible stories and sermons, her absence was absorbed into our being. And its painful influence was intensified as we observed the design of our parents' relationship and the treatment of our mothers by our fathers and brothers.

Our families mirrored the hierarchical reality of the heavens. In a society that worships a male God, the father's life is more valuable than the mother's. The activities of a man's life are more vital and necessary than the mother's intimate connections with the origins of life. The father is God." - Patricia Lynn Reilly, Be Full of Yourself"

Mara Berendt Friedman New Moon Visions Sacred Art

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@Spaghetti_Tree
Forced-birthers also don't give a flying f*ck about the fetus after it's born. Republicans have gutted school lunch programs, they don't want poor mothers getting welfare assistance to help feed and cloth their hungry kids, they defund education, oppose low-income housing-leaving families homeless on the street, oppose maternity leave, and oppose covered childcare costs so that parents can work etc..

They also don't give a flying f*ck about ending abortion. They oppose birth control (even though that prevents pregnancies in the first place), they oppose sex education, and defund Planned Parenthood wherever they can, which provides contraception and safe sex information. Red states with no sex education or contraception support have the highest teen pregnancy and poverty rates. Shocker.

The forced-birther movement has NEVER been about "saving lives" it has ALWAYS been about controlling women. PERIOD. And that is something thst everyone needs to understand. They want to retain patriarchy, keep women chained by their reproductive capabilities, and to keep women barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen. For there is nothing more dangerous than an independent woman who is in control of her life and family planning.

She can go to college, get a degree, start a meaningful career, and obtain power within society if she has the ability to control her reproduction. When a woman has control of her reproduction and future, Patriarchy dies! If you do not support a woman's freedom to choose - you do not support the freedom of women!

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@Spaghetti_Tree 
Forced-birthers also don't give a flying f*ck about the fetus after it's born. Republicans have gutted school lunch programs, they don't want poor mothers getting welfare assistance to help feed and cloth their hungry kids, they defund education, oppose low-income housing-leaving families homeless on the street, oppose maternity leave, and oppose covered childcare costs so that parents can work etc..

They also don't give a flying f*ck about ending abortion. They oppose birth control (even though that prevents pregnancies in the first place), they oppose sex education, and defund Planned Parenthood wherever they can, which provides contraception and safe sex information. Red states with no sex education or contraception support have the highest teen pregnancy and poverty rates. Shocker.

The forced-birther movement has NEVER been about "saving lives" it has ALWAYS been about controlling women. PERIOD. And that is something thst everyone needs to understand. They want to retain patriarchy, keep women chained by their reproductive capabilities, and to keep women barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen. For there is nothing more dangerous than an independent woman who is in control of her life and family planning.

She can go to college, get a degree, start a meaningful career, and obtain power within society if she has the ability to control her reproduction. When a woman has control of her reproduction and future, Patriarchy dies! If you do not support a woman's freedom to choose - you do not support the freedom of women!

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@Bobbins

One of my favorite subjects to study is patriarchy in all forms, through the lens of different locations across the globe. Patriarchy around the world has different intensities and nuances when manifested through different cultures, but one thing always remains the same everywhere Patriarchy is found:

Patriarchy was designed by males, for males (largely guided and inspired by Abrahamic religions) and through this system, males find exclusive privileges afforded to them by it. This social system also guarantees that males will be the exclusive gatekeepers to all positions of power within patriarchal societies and it also ensures that that power stays in and is passed down the male bloodline.

The word "Patriarchy" literally translates to: "The rule of the father."

The Merriam Webster definition of Patriarchy is:
"The social organization marked by the supremacy of the father in the clan or family, the legal dependence of wives and children, and the reckoning of descent and inheritance in the male line."

It is clear that in Patriarchal societies, no matter how it gets interpreted or manifested, (whether it's men in suits or men in dresses oppressing women) the end game is still the same: Men will be oppressing women. Patriarchy is a self-sustaining system and Patriarchy will always find new ways to oppress women in order to maintain itself. Just like people and societies in general change and reform in order to keep up with the times, so does Patriarchy.

The whole Trans thing is actually pretty brilliant in its tactical effectiveness to completely invalidate feminism and women's rights as they stand...because Trans ideology seeks to completely erase biological sex - which is the very foundation on which feminist theory is based on in the first place.

Check it: Patriarchy 1.0 was the birth of patriarchal civilizations across the globe and the systemic oppression of women on the basis of our biological sex. In part, based on our exclusive ability to create life and to give birth to males for the patriarchy, so that men could continue to carry on and pass down social inheritance and power down their bloodlines. (again revisit the definition of Patriarchy to really drive this home).

Women collectively throughout time rose up and rebelled against patriarchal oppression on the basis of our sex and started to defeat it by gaining the right to vote, creating female-only spaces, and obtaining all sub sequential rights thereafter: (the right to work, to own a business, a home, a bank account, to have legal rights to our kids, to have representation in government etc). With those changes and the empowerment of female sex-based protections and rights, Patriarchy 1.0 started slipping.

And then along came Patriarchy 2.0, where men just straight up became women all together, deemed themselves the real oppressed victims, and labelled women the real patriarchal oppressors. Then they topped it off, by redefining the word "Woman" (once known as Adult human female) to: "Anyone who identifies as a woman."

And poof! Female sex based protections, rights, and spaces are instantly erased. Women now simultaneously exist as both anything and nothing at the same time. A man is a woman if he says so and may therefore appropriate all female spaces and protections and if women object - we get ostracized, lose our jobs, our friends, get threatened with rape, death etc. Patriarchy 2.0 is like the coup d'é·tat to feminism and the fight for the maintenance and continuation of women's sex based protections and rights.

@Avapark

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@Bobbins 

One of my favorite subjects to study is patriarchy in all forms, through the lens of different locations across the globe. Patriarchy around the world has different intensities and nuances when manifested through different cultures, but one thing always remains the same everywhere Patriarchy is found:

Patriarchy was designed by males, for males (largely guided and inspired by Abrahamic religions) and through this system, males find exclusive privileges afforded to them by it. This social system also guarantees that males will be the exclusive gatekeepers to all positions of power within patriarchal societies and it also ensures that that power stays in and is passed down the male bloodline.

The word "Patriarchy" literally translates to: "The rule of the father." 

The Merriam Webster definition of Patriarchy is: 
"The social organization marked by the supremacy of the father in the clan or family, the legal dependence of wives and children, and the reckoning of descent and inheritance in the male line." 

It is clear that in Patriarchal societies, no matter how it gets interpreted or manifested, (whether it's men in suits or men in dresses oppressing women) the end game is still the same: Men will be oppressing women. Patriarchy is a self-sustaining system and Patriarchy will always find new ways to oppress women in order to maintain itself. Just like people and societies in general change and reform in order to keep up with the times, so does Patriarchy.

The whole Trans thing is actually pretty brilliant in its tactical effectiveness to completely invalidate feminism and women's rights as they stand...because Trans ideology seeks to completely erase biological sex - which is the very foundation on which feminist theory is based on in the first place. 

Check it: Patriarchy 1.0 was the birth of patriarchal civilizations across the globe and the systemic oppression of women on the basis of our biological sex. In part, based on our exclusive ability to create life and to give birth to males for the patriarchy, so that men could continue to carry on and pass down social inheritance and power down their bloodlines. (again revisit the definition of Patriarchy to really drive this home).  

Women collectively throughout time rose up and rebelled against patriarchal oppression on the basis of our sex and started to defeat it by gaining the right to vote, creating female-only spaces, and obtaining all sub sequential rights thereafter: (the right to work, to own a business, a home, a bank account, to have legal rights to our kids, to have representation in government etc). With those changes and the empowerment of female sex-based protections and rights, Patriarchy 1.0 started slipping. 

And then along came Patriarchy 2.0, where men just straight up became women all together, deemed themselves the real oppressed victims, and labelled women the real patriarchal oppressors. Then they topped it off, by  redefining the word "Woman" (once known as Adult human female) to: "Anyone who identifies as a woman." 

And poof! Female sex based protections, rights, and spaces are instantly erased. Women now simultaneously exist as both anything and nothing at the same time. A man is a woman if he says so and may therefore appropriate all female spaces and protections and if women object - we get ostracized, lose our jobs, our friends, get threatened with rape, death etc. Patriarchy 2.0 is like the coup d'é·tat to feminism and the fight for the maintenance and continuation of women's sex based protections and rights. 


@Avapark

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One thing that has always bothered/confused me, is the very core of transgender theory as it relates to upholding patriarchy.

Gender is a social construct, created within patriarchy, to place males and females into social roles that prep men into dominance and women into submission.

If gender is a social construct…(meaning it is not inate, just a set of subjective rules), then how can a person even be born transgender in the first place?

(Gender is different in cultures all over the world anyway…are we gunna go down this slippery slope of: which race has which gender identities encoded into their DNA, now?)

Furthermore, doesn’t transgenderism validate patriarchy? Girls who like to climb trees, don’t fit within the patriarchal feminine gender role binary, but are still girls. Boys who like to play with dolls, don’t fit within their prescribed masculine gender role either, but are still boys.

Instead of amputating healthy body parts in an attempt to match fake, oppressive, social ideals…Shouldn’t gender instead be completely abolished from society? Men and women can wear and do whatever they want and still be men and women.

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One thing that has always bothered/confused me, is the very core of transgender theory as it relates to upholding patriarchy. 

Gender is a social construct, created within patriarchy, to place males and females into social roles that prep men into dominance and women into submission.

If gender is a social construct...(meaning it is not inate, just a set of subjective rules), then how can a person even be *born* transgender in the first place? 

(Gender is different in cultures all over the world anyway...are we gunna go down this slippery slope of: which race has which gender identities encoded into their DNA, now?)

Furthermore, doesn't transgenderism validate patriarchy? Girls who like to climb trees, don't fit within the patriarchal feminine gender role binary, but are still girls. Boys who like to play with dolls, don't fit within their prescribed masculine gender role either, but are still boys.

Instead of amputating healthy body parts in an attempt to match fake, oppressive, social ideals...Shouldn't gender instead be completely abolished from society? Men and women can wear and do whatever they want and still be men and women.