Wednesday, December 26, 2012

biology is NOT destiny

Sex is destiny, biology is destiny...  such complete and utter bs. Such anti-feminist thinking. I don't give a fuck which early and founding feminist writers made or make this claim, they are wrong.

To state that it is woman's ability to reproduce that makes her a woman is itself the promotion of patriarchal thinking. It not only denies the womanhood of trans women and implies the misgendering of trans men if they have functioning ovaries, uteri, and breasts, it also denies the womanhood of those who are post-menopausal, those who have ovaries, uteri, or breasts which do not function for child-bearing and/or nursing, those who do not bear children for whatever reasons, those who do not raise children, those who choose abortion and/or adoption rather than parenthood, those who for any of a zillion reasons do not or cannot become mothers by bearing children.

It is PATRIARCHY that places value on women based on a woman's ability to bear and raise children. As feminists, we need to not only examine and challenge our own internalized patriarchal thinking, we need to challenge it when we hear it from others. We need to defend those who need defending. I mean seriously, how fucked it is that I am allowed entrance into pretty much any women-only space I choose to enter simply because I was born with a vagina, how that is extended because I have born and am raising a child, while I don't even identify as a woman most of the time yet somebody who does identify as a woman could be denied entrance..  maybe because of her body parts, maybe because she has not born and/or is not raising children...  has not raised children. Womanhood has NOTHING to do with what organs a  person has or doesn't have, nor with how well they do or don't function in regards to childbearing.

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