TERFs Selling Women into Rape Culture: Part IV of the ‘Sexing the Body is Gender’ Series
Note: If you’ve not done so, please read Part III: Debunking TERF Essentialism, as this piece draws upon the debunked TERF ad naturam essentialism concepts – the “essence” of what makes […]
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We reviewed the way that TERF rhetoric supports, protects and promotes rape culture.
TERFism as an Obsessive Sadistic Fetish: Part VI of the ‘Sexing the Body is Gender’ Series
TERFs Selling Women into Rape Culture: 8/14/14
Critical of “Gender Critical:” Part V of the ‘Sexing the Body is Gender’ Series
Many of the TERFs I’ve had the displeasure of meeting move through life belligerently sexing physical phenomena and behavior (especially rape) while simultaneously (and ironically) proclaiming themselves to be critical of gender. For TERFs, there is no difference between mentally contextualizing a body as a sex attribute and the body…
Contextualizing the Body: Part II of the ‘Sexing the Body is Gender’ Series
TERFs Selling Women into Rape Culture: 8/14/14
Intro to the ‘Sexing the Body is Gender’ Series
TERFs Selling Women into Rape Culture: 8/14/14
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