Kate

[Kate @fracking1234]

@EdithDarling3 @saturniidae72 @SimpleSimon3333 @fivekidsnadog @seriously_tho8 @Ceilidhann “Neoname?” This is the name my parents gave me. The full version of this name is on my birth certificate. You guys are weird.

[Kate @fracking1234]

@HyperBorean8148 @AnthonyBSusan1 @seriously_tho8 @Ceilidhann Seriously, cool. That’s their prerogative; I have no issues. But I will not suffer a man lecturing me about *my identity* and how I should feel about my genitals.

[Kate @fracking1234]

@HyperBorean8148 @AnthonyBSusan1 @seriously_tho8 @Ceilidhann But I get to decide what I consider part of my “identity.” This is not even about trans issues—it’s literally that I don’t feel that my vagina is crucial to who *I am* as a person, and I think I get to decide that. If other women feel that it’s crucial to who they are, cool.

[Kate @fracking1234]

@saturniidae72 @SimpleSimon3333 @fivekidsnadog @seriously_tho8 @Ceilidhann You know full well why people on Twitter address people they’re mad at by their first name. You know that it’s not a courtesy.

But let’s pretend you didn’t. You thought you were just being nice! Now you know that I don’t like it…and yet you continue to do it. Interesting.

[Kate @fracking1234]

@Mike_McP @MurrayHillGuy1 You should be legally obligated to append this post to your dating profiles. Women thinking of dating you should know that this sentence has come out of your mouth (or out of your fingers, idk).

[Kate @fracking1234]

@WhichWicked @seriously_tho8 @Ceilidhann I need to know—do you not understand the “Pope-ly qualities” example? I’d be happy to explain other ways, because you’re seemingly not getting it.

[Kate @fracking1234]

@WhichWicked @seriously_tho8 @Ceilidhann ONCE AGAIN: if you think “woman” is self-evident, don’t give it a definition. (Seriously, I’d have no issue with that.)
If you think it needs a definition, give a real definition. What I don’t understand is giving a “definition” that isn’t a definition.

[Kate @fracking1234]

@AnthonyBSusan1 @HyperBorean8148 @seriously_tho8 @Ceilidhann Okay, good. I think we can both agree that it’s not Mr. Frank Williams’ place to lecture us about “the feminine identity.”

[Kate @fracking1234]

@ArdlyEar @fivekidsnadog @saturniidae72 @seriously_tho8 @Ceilidhann Paternalism at its finest. Other people simply don’t know what’s good for them; you do. They shouldn’t be allowed to decide; you should decide for them. I would never forgive myself if I ever ended up as arrogant as you.

[Kate @fracking1234]

@AnthonyBSusan1 @HyperBorean8148 @seriously_tho8 @Ceilidhann But more importantly: if I did, would that make me less of a woman than this man I’m replying to? Is he more of a woman than me simply because he agrees with you?

[Kate @fracking1234]

@AnthonyBSusan1 @HyperBorean8148 @seriously_tho8 @Ceilidhann I have never in this entire thread ever referred to it as a “vagina.”

[Kate @fracking1234]

@protectmenn @seriously_tho8 @Ceilidhann Other. People. Are. Smarter. Than. You. Think. They. Are.

Don’t be so quick to dismiss. That’s all.

[Kate @fracking1234]

@protectmenn @seriously_tho8 @Ceilidhann I’m telling you this from the bottom of my heart because I, too, was once an arrogant 20-year-old kid, and I wish I had grown up faster. I’m sorry for being snarky earlier. I won’t tell what to believe—that’s for you to decide—but I will tell you that

[Kate @fracking1234]

Thank you, “protectmenn”

[Chanel @protectmenn]

@fracking1234 @seriously_tho8 @Ceilidhann Vaginas are organs, you cant make a hole and call it what you want. It’s thinking women came from men. Ur such a pick me reducing women and beibg a mysogynist, ur embarrassing and disgusting. Just say you hate yourself

[Kate @fracking1234]

@protectmenn @seriously_tho8 @Ceilidhann Girl, your handle is “protectmenn”

[Kate @fracking1234]

@Curious_Rum Wait, why is “girlboss”…bad? I thought women who take all your money and don’t work were the bad ones.

[Kate @fracking1234]

@StellaB_Stating @AdamBilodeau1 @seriously_tho8 @Ceilidhann There’s a significant subset of modern logicians who use the word “circular” to describe tautologies, and that’s the school I came up in as a philosophy undergrad, but I don’t mind if other people don’t want to use it that way.

[Kate @fracking1234]

@saturniidae72 @SimpleSimon3333 @fivekidsnadog @seriously_tho8 @Ceilidhann U may say “it’s always a wound because it can always close even after the skin is healed,” but u cannot then say “and therefore as a wound it is bloody and infected” because you had to give up that definition of “wound” to be able to argue that it is a wound in the 1st place.

[Kate @fracking1234]

@saturniidae72 @SimpleSimon3333 @fivekidsnadog @seriously_tho8 @Ceilidhann Likewise, you may say “a neovagina is a wound because it may close.” Okay. But that does NOT entail that it is forever bloody or forever infected. That is in fact NOT true—it heals much like an ear piercing (yes, it’s a more serious surgery, but healing time is actually similar).