will personally never understand how tboys became the "always transmisogynistic" demographic when cis women are RIGHT THERE and way fucking worse in my experience. thats not to say they're all like that because biological essentialism is bad and ofc they arent but like. theyve got shit going on they dont even realize is transmisogyny
I think part of the reason a lot of cis women are transmisogynistic has to do with the fact that radical feminism has been absorbed so much into mainstream culture, it’s becoming more and more common for it to be considered baseline feminism for a lot of cis women. And cis women who have never even met or talked to a trans woman, decide that trans women don’t fit into their very narrow view of what a woman is. As a result they not only end up being transmisogynistic but generally misogynistic by reducing womanhood to a rigid, bio-essentialist or gender essentialist definition.
On the flip side, radical feminism is also the cause of the assumption that trans men are predisposed to misogyny because radical feminism defines men as an oppressor class across the board, and assumes that anyone with a man brain will absorb misogynistic mindsets and act misogynistically by virtue of being a man. Which completely falls apart when you think about marginalized men, cultural gender identities and multigendered. people for more than two seconds.
Populist feminism…