Nando161<p>"<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trans</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/women" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>women</span></a> will never be <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/free" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>free</span></a> until <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/people" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>people</span></a> stop having strong emotions about <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/penises" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>penises</span></a>. Like we, as a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/society" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>society</span></a>, have got to stop caring about dicks! <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Dicks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Dicks</span></a> have to stop <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/symbolizing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>symbolizing</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/maleness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>maleness</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/obviously" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>obviously</span></a>, but they also have to stop symbolizing <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/power" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>power</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/dominance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dominance</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sexual" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sexual</span></a> agency and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/aggression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>aggression</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/violence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>violence</span></a>, and even <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sex</span></a> itself. Like trans women can’t be free if the very conceptual presence of a penis represents an intrusion(!) of unwanted(!) sexuality(!) in public life. Like that’s why trans women are abhorrent to both <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/male" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>male</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/chauvinists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>chauvinists</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/radical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>radical</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/feminists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>feminists</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/because" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>because</span></a> both groups have extremely strong feelings about what a penis *represents*, and find the conceptual and actual presence of a woman with a penis to be simultaneously vile and nonsensical because they’ve loaded so much symbolic baggage onto both women and penises.</p><p>Anyway dicks are totally neutral <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/body" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>body</span></a> parts and seeing a dick, or a bulge in a swimsuit, or simply knowing that there’s a dick somewhere in the same bathroom as you isn’t harmful or violent"</p><p><a href="https://www.tumblr.com/anarchistmemecollective/715340843899289600?source=share" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">tumblr.com/anarchistmemecollec</span><span class="invisible">tive/715340843899289600?source=share</span></a></p>