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Saturday, April 16, 2011
Female Transition-The Ultimate in Female Self Hatred
Society is responsible for the female self hating mentality behind these images, but the male medical machine is responsible for the helping these women to realize their female self hatred in the flesh.
Note, no matter the years on "T", no matter how butchered the pussy, no matter the abnormal body hair, the female body remains firmly intact, which is why after all the periodic "trans highs", dysphoria ALWAYS returns. Transition isnt a cure for female self hatred, transition IS female self hatred!
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Thursday, April 14, 2011
Can poetry describe this?
The following post comes from this article-Can poetry describe this?
The relationship between women and poetry, particularly in the 20th century, drew a profound and unique synthesis between women, poetry and the inevitable third link in the chain: politics. My door to modern women's poetry was flung open 20 years back with Russian poet Anna Akhmatova's Requiem. Much later, I realised, the epigraph of that poem stands today as a poignant reminder for all poetry of the 20th century which stood up to the almost impossible challenge of naming the unnameable during times of horror.
...Faced by the dense vacuity of an indescribable situation, the poet raises her head to uphold her power of language, and through it, her craft. When the machination of power turns people faceless and non-existent, the poet is an affirmation of eyes, an assertion of presence, the sole hope for language faced with extinction. Like Fredrico Garcia Lorca, Bertolt Brecht and Osip Mandelshtam, Akhmatova was a witness to barbarism. The same "machination" creating the "barbarism" against females you all witness here daily.
...The women who stood before the Leningrad prison were victims of Stalinist purges. They were mostly mothers, waiting in vain for their sons to be released, as the megalomania of a suspicious leader kept imprisoning Russian youths to terrorise them into becoming unthinking accomplices of tyranny. The fortitude with which Russian mothers faced a dehumanised, totalitarian regime that went berserk in the name of human progress, documents a unique moment in 20th-century history. Trans trenders are not merely "unthinking accomplices" of patriarchy, these women work at "becoming" patriarchy in the "name" of "progress".
...Asian women poets in the last century have also responded admirably well to repressive/religious thought-regimes. Pakistani poet Kishwar Naheed titled a poem, We sinful women, which struck at the roots of religious morals with a rebellious discordance. The assertion of sinfulness was also a negation - the power to refuse the archetypal image of the morally submissive, patriarchally virtuous woman; to say 'No' to the diktat which effaces a woman's face with the same impunity with which it effaces the distinction between civilisation and barbarism. Nowhere more than through the act of transition does the female accede to patriarchy's "archetypal image" of the female as "submissive". By submitting to patriarchy's strict notions of what a female is capable of as a female and can be as a female, the female transitioner upholds the female as limited in her natural state as well as weak, frail and delicate. The female transitioner has lost her power and courage to "say NO".
To turn a woman's face into a private organ is to violently fetishise the body and forcibly throw it into two divided realms: one, of public obscurity, and two, of private consumption. Female transition accomplishes both.
...The fear of a woman's freedom has driven all the holy texts of the world to deny her the right to be free. In every holy text, man is the surreptitious first person (sometimes as an accomplice of god or as god itself), and man alone the second person to whom the text is primarily meant for and addressed to, while women are incorporated and addressed as outsiders. It shows how the grammar of all holy texts is politically designed by men to relegate women into a position of discursive subordination, which translates into cultural stereotypes and social marginalisation. Female transitioners seek to escape female "marginalisation" through "subordination", this ultimate act of female submissiveness belies any "feminist" rhetoric that comes from the trans community. Transition isnt a feminist act, it is the end of feminism.
In texts like the Manusmriti, the question of women is relegated to the classification of essence according to roles assigned to them. What makes those texts sinister and violent is how each role is affixed according to the moral prison-house that men have designed regarding how women should behave before male eyes. The bravest thing a female can do in this world is to rail against that "prison-house".
The story of Akhmatova and the mothers in the prison queues in Leningrad is terribly ironical. It proves, however, that women cannot be forcibly mirrored into the masculinist surplus - even of a revolution. Female transitioners are fast becoming the ultimate in "masculinist surplus", if a new feminist ethic isnt put in place soon, females submitting to trans trending will insure a never ending supply of "masculinist surplus" in the near future. Fitting in has never been more dangerous for females than right now! Whether fitting into hyper feminine roles or submissively trying to escape hyper femininity through female transition, in the end both seek to kill the soul of woman.
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The relationship between women and poetry, particularly in the 20th century, drew a profound and unique synthesis between women, poetry and the inevitable third link in the chain: politics. My door to modern women's poetry was flung open 20 years back with Russian poet Anna Akhmatova's Requiem. Much later, I realised, the epigraph of that poem stands today as a poignant reminder for all poetry of the 20th century which stood up to the almost impossible challenge of naming the unnameable during times of horror.
...Faced by the dense vacuity of an indescribable situation, the poet raises her head to uphold her power of language, and through it, her craft. When the machination of power turns people faceless and non-existent, the poet is an affirmation of eyes, an assertion of presence, the sole hope for language faced with extinction. Like Fredrico Garcia Lorca, Bertolt Brecht and Osip Mandelshtam, Akhmatova was a witness to barbarism. The same "machination" creating the "barbarism" against females you all witness here daily.
...The women who stood before the Leningrad prison were victims of Stalinist purges. They were mostly mothers, waiting in vain for their sons to be released, as the megalomania of a suspicious leader kept imprisoning Russian youths to terrorise them into becoming unthinking accomplices of tyranny. The fortitude with which Russian mothers faced a dehumanised, totalitarian regime that went berserk in the name of human progress, documents a unique moment in 20th-century history. Trans trenders are not merely "unthinking accomplices" of patriarchy, these women work at "becoming" patriarchy in the "name" of "progress".
...Asian women poets in the last century have also responded admirably well to repressive/religious thought-regimes. Pakistani poet Kishwar Naheed titled a poem, We sinful women, which struck at the roots of religious morals with a rebellious discordance. The assertion of sinfulness was also a negation - the power to refuse the archetypal image of the morally submissive, patriarchally virtuous woman; to say 'No' to the diktat which effaces a woman's face with the same impunity with which it effaces the distinction between civilisation and barbarism. Nowhere more than through the act of transition does the female accede to patriarchy's "archetypal image" of the female as "submissive". By submitting to patriarchy's strict notions of what a female is capable of as a female and can be as a female, the female transitioner upholds the female as limited in her natural state as well as weak, frail and delicate. The female transitioner has lost her power and courage to "say NO".
To turn a woman's face into a private organ is to violently fetishise the body and forcibly throw it into two divided realms: one, of public obscurity, and two, of private consumption. Female transition accomplishes both.
...The fear of a woman's freedom has driven all the holy texts of the world to deny her the right to be free. In every holy text, man is the surreptitious first person (sometimes as an accomplice of god or as god itself), and man alone the second person to whom the text is primarily meant for and addressed to, while women are incorporated and addressed as outsiders. It shows how the grammar of all holy texts is politically designed by men to relegate women into a position of discursive subordination, which translates into cultural stereotypes and social marginalisation. Female transitioners seek to escape female "marginalisation" through "subordination", this ultimate act of female submissiveness belies any "feminist" rhetoric that comes from the trans community. Transition isnt a feminist act, it is the end of feminism.
In texts like the Manusmriti, the question of women is relegated to the classification of essence according to roles assigned to them. What makes those texts sinister and violent is how each role is affixed according to the moral prison-house that men have designed regarding how women should behave before male eyes. The bravest thing a female can do in this world is to rail against that "prison-house".
The story of Akhmatova and the mothers in the prison queues in Leningrad is terribly ironical. It proves, however, that women cannot be forcibly mirrored into the masculinist surplus - even of a revolution. Female transitioners are fast becoming the ultimate in "masculinist surplus", if a new feminist ethic isnt put in place soon, females submitting to trans trending will insure a never ending supply of "masculinist surplus" in the near future. Fitting in has never been more dangerous for females than right now! Whether fitting into hyper feminine roles or submissively trying to escape hyper femininity through female transition, in the end both seek to kill the soul of woman.
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Monday, April 11, 2011
Trans Trending-Who is Transitioning
Transition will not cure gender/body dysphoria.
Transition will not cure body dysmorphia.
Transition will not cure female self hatred.
Transition will not cure anorexia or other eating disorders.
Transition will not cure depression.
Transition will not cure anger issues.
The only thing transition will do, is help to feed into the misogynistic notions that females have little to no value under patriarchal structures. As long as transition is a possibility, the equality of women, the idea of women as human beings, will continue to evade us no matter the modern age, no matter how hard we fight for it!
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Sunday, April 10, 2011
What is Stopping YOU from Transitioning?
Between quite a few emails over that last year and quite a number of comments made here, many females have expressed feeling all the "trans" feelings that lead women into transition, but either being on the fence about going forward with medical transition or flat out deciding not to transition and work instead to deal with their "trans" feelings.
If you are struggling with this issue and are either in limbo about transitioning or refuse to altogether, tell us what stops you from going forward.
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If you are struggling with this issue and are either in limbo about transitioning or refuse to altogether, tell us what stops you from going forward.
If you have medically transitioned in any way, please do not comment on this post.
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