somekindofbecca:

inturretandtree:

Re: Girls on Youtube, an excellent video by Hannahyep.

Oh I was loving this video right until the punchline.

Cis women PLEASE can we stop with the “you only don’t care about my accomplishments because I don’t have a penis” lines because NEWSFLASH trans* women get shafted by sexism too.

Also, unless you WANT people to keep reducing women to our biology then QUIT IT with the cissexist “being a woman means having a vagina” bullshit.

We don’t get anywhere as a society by throwing trans* women and non-binary people under the bus in the name of feminism.

So just no.

Stop it.

Stop it right now.

Reblogging this 1) for the first 3 minutes of the video that are great and include the names of lots of awesome lady YouTubers to check out and 2) for the commentary above because for the love of glob PLEASE can we stop equating the oppression woman face with not having a penis?! PLEASE?!

Seriously that shit is not remotely okay or helpful to anyone so just STOP.

v-is-for-vulva:

Dear cis white feminists,

It is not my duty as a non-gender binary individual to come up with a cis privilege guide so that ya’ll can avoid cissexist and binarist language.

Signed,
Me.

No it’s not. There is one here: http://www.amptoons.com/blog/2006/09/22/the-non-trans-privilege-checklist/

cakemeister:

A warning to trans* people reading this: there are some triggering things in here concerning discrimination and violence against trans* people. Proceed with caution.

Hello. Before we start, you may be wondering what “cis” means. Pronounced “sis” as in “sister”, cis is Latin for “on the same side”. In terms of gender identity, a cis gendered person is someone who identifies as the gender they were assigned at birth, i.e., a person born with a vagina and assigned female at birth who identifies as female is cis female; an individual born with a penis and assigned male at birth who identifies as male is cis male. Cis is used to differentiate cis people from trans* people, and to reinforce that cis is not “normal” and trans* is not a “deviation”. This brings us to point one:

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thosepeskydames:

Wimmin’s sports

A video about sexism in women’s sport, despite me being the least sporty person ever. I preferred it when it was all egg and spoon and sack races anyway.

Also I promise this video was ready earlier, but my internet connection would not upload it. I’m choosing to blame the Olympics.

This Dame:

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Reblogging for those who weren’t awake when I posted this at 1am…again. - Becca

Wimmin’s sports

A video about sexism in women’s sport, despite me being the least sporty person ever. I preferred it when it was all egg and spoon and sack races anyway.

Also I promise this video was ready earlier, but my internet connection would not upload it. I’m choosing to blame the Olympics.

This Dame:

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angrybanette:

girljanitor:

IAAF Gender Testing Policy Denounced As Bad Science And Discrimination by Bioethics Panel

In 2009, South African athlete Caster Semenya won gold in the women’s 800m at the World Athletics Championships. With barely enough time to bask in her achievement, Semenya was thereafter subjected to a publicly humiliating “gender test” and forced to withdraw from the rest of the competition. Now, a Stanford bioethics panel is contesting this practice, citing it as an unnecessary, poor application of the science of hormones.

Semenya was essentially turned into a spectacle because she is an intersex person, a term that denotes a category of conditions that result in uncommon combinations of physical sex characteristics. In her case, her medal was contested because she does not have ovaries, she has internal testes, and consequently produces a larger amount of testosterone than most women.

In light of her testosterone levels, and the fact that she had won the race, the International Association of Athletics Federations instituted a policy that held that women with unusually high levels of testosterone would be banned from competition unless they lowered their hormone levels via surgery or drugs. This policy was based on the assumption that “androgenic hormones (such as testosterone and dihydrotestosterone) are the primary components of biologic athletic advantage.” The IAAF planned to instate these regulations as early as this year’s London Olympics.

However, a panel of scientists, sports experts, and bioethicists from the Stanford Center for Biomedical Research has recently stepped up to challenge this policy and the entire notion that higher levels of testosterone result in a fundamental physical advantage in sports, releasing a critique of the policy today in the American Journal for Bioethics.

Fuck tha gender police

This isn’t even gender policing, its just straight up cissexism, dyadism and sexism based on the presumption that men are better athletes and testosterone is the ‘better’ hormone.

Virginity:

• is sexist
• is heteronormative
• commodifies sex
• commodifies young cis-het white women
• contributes to rape culture
• contributes to slut-shaming
• erases queer folk
• erases transfolk
• frames a woman’s worth as inversely proportional to the number of dicks that have been inside her