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May Peterson, Wicked Witch Girl (she/her)

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While I’m at it, let’s address this elephant in the room. A GREAT deal of the discussion about misogyny in romance circles is specifically about misogyny between women, or women

Can we talk about how a female character of any age can be described as a “girl” and it’s read as normal, but if a character in their 20s, etc,

It bothers me that so many people were so quick to assign to Kai Cheng Thom positions she didn’t voice, like “queers should be more sexual in public!” She didn’t

So I think this is what is being aimed at with the socialization language—There’s a male self-image and a female self-image, with their own rules, that children are taught to

This is a really important observation. Many people learn to define transmisogyny as specifically “calling trans women men,” so easily miss or ignore the way transmisogyny also takes the form

The long and short of the male socialization debate is that in feminist discourse, male socialization means learned entitlement to women’s bodies/labor and to getting your way with aggression, because