MidwesternMom

When I said that we were slowing the spread until we had vaccines and better treatments, I meant it. Kids matter and smiles matter.

[MidwesternMom @MidwesternMom3]

@C1air3492 @AidanCTweets @jk_rowling What is this atypical brain precisely? Can it be measured? What is the mechanism by which it makes a person feel their body is wrong? Is it clearly distinguishable from the brains of cis people who are less stereotypical for their sex? Why do some trans people change their minds?

[MidwesternMom @MidwesternMom3]

@C1air3492 @AidanCTweets @jk_rowling What does that mean? Is it the sex that a person wishes they were?

[MidwesternMom @MidwesternMom3]

@C1air3492 @AidanCTweets @jk_rowling People say that perspective is wrong, because trans people literally ARE what they say they are, because we all have a gender that may or may not be the same as our sex. But then what is gender?

[MidwesternMom @MidwesternMom3]

@C1air3492 @AidanCTweets @jk_rowling That would involve understanding why an individual wants to be or thinks they are the other sex. Why do they think their body was made wrong? Were they sexually abused or harassed? Do they feel like they're not like others of their sex?

[MidwesternMom @MidwesternMom3]

@C1air3492 @AidanCTweets @jk_rowling How does a person determine which gender identity they have, to know they have gd? What is a person's sense of their gender, if it's not a desire to be the other sex or a belief that they identify more with the feelings and behaviors that society has attached to the other sex?

[MidwesternMom @MidwesternMom3]

@Bishop15146411 @Archwinger1 Women are still different human beings, even if we look at their personalities and actions over their entire lives.

[MidwesternMom @MidwesternMom3]

@C1air3492 @AidanCTweets @jk_rowling Many gc feminists, unlike right-wing misogynists, would be fine if we could agree that being trans is a desire, stemming from many different things depending on the person, to be the other sex. Some may only find peace by calling themselves the other sex and changing their body.

[MidwesternMom @MidwesternMom3]

@C1air3492 @AidanCTweets @jk_rowling I think transness is wishing you were the other sex. But I've been told it's actually being the other gender. When gender is defined differently than sex, it's defined as roles/behaviors culturally attributed to each sex, aka stereotypes. What else could it be, other than a soul?

[MidwesternMom @MidwesternMom3]

@Bishop15146411 @Archwinger1 When you consider the variety of human personalities and experiences, it's hilarious to claim that all women (or all men) are the same in something as varied and complex as attraction and desire.

[MidwesternMom @MidwesternMom3]

@AGallagherAlly @C1air3492 @AidanCTweets @jk_rowling Women are under attack from both sides.

[MidwesternMom @MidwesternMom3]

@AGallagherAlly @C1air3492 @AidanCTweets @jk_rowling Most right-wing men aren't going to openly support the rights of men they think are gay or otherwise not following the rules of manhood. You don't hear them talking much about the increase in young FtM and medical harms to them because they don't care. True gc feminists do.

[MidwesternMom @MidwesternMom3]

@AGallagherAlly @C1air3492 @AidanCTweets @jk_rowling I will agree that she has gotten angry and less tolerant, and my own perspective is more aligned with the essay than some things she has said recently. But it's all far from the reasoning of right-wing misogynists.

[MidwesternMom @MidwesternMom3]

@C1air3492 @AidanCTweets @jk_rowling Have you read JK Rowling's essay? Do you honestly believe misogynists would agree with her points and share the same concerns?

[MidwesternMom @MidwesternMom3]

@C1air3492 @AidanCTweets @jk_rowling Misogynists often pretend their goal is to help women. Would Trump agree that gender roles and gender expectations should be rejected, and that we shouldn't define women and men based on gender because gender is sexist stereotypes?

[MidwesternMom @MidwesternMom3]

@JournalistJill I would bet that if "Protect the Dolls" wasn't a thing and you had just asked him if it was misogynistic to call an adult woman a "doll" he would immediately agree that it was.

[MidwesternMom @MidwesternMom3]

@hendrixhghh @GiaMMacool The message that it's shameful, it's a duty for women, and men shouldn't care about making it enjoyable for both is therefore harmful to women and ultimately men. I think that message is perpetuated when it's described as important to men and not women, which isn't true for all.

[MidwesternMom @MidwesternMom3]

@hendrixhghh @GiaMMacool They're usually compromising every day in so many things, but it's never enough. In terms of the bedroom, do you really want them to view it as giving something to the man instead of a mutual experience?

[MidwesternMom @MidwesternMom3]

@hendrixhghh @GiaMMacool My personal experience with my ex was that my high drive (having not learned to feel ashamed of it) faded away over years of being yelled at and belittled, and being told directly by him that I must not be that upset with him if I kept agreeing to have sex.

[MidwesternMom @MidwesternMom3]

@hendrixhghh @GiaMMacool Do you think possibly when women are taught that they're sinful for having desire and that it's a duty and about pleasing the man, they might enjoy it less? Do you think that if you take away someone's control over their lives, they might hold onto the little control they have?