I really fucked up

[maevele]

by conflating men with 'peen' in my post about the manthology, and i hurt people i care about, and unthinkingly went with some transphobic shit.

and I'm really fucking sorry, and thanks to those who pointed out how i fucked up. I'm going to take some time to think about how I was an asshole. I thought I knew better, and obviously I don't, so i need to work on that.

Comments

[estrobutch.livejournal.com]

The penis is a fundamentally male symbol in a fundamentally cissupremacist world. thanks for reminding us asshole.

Seconded

[voz-latina.livejournal.com]

Especially now that the size of the playground for the cissupremacists to play has not increased by one LJ post.

This is why sci fi has diversity issues. Seriously.

[yagathai.livejournal.com]

Listen, I'm not saying that a penis does or does not define an individual's gender identity, but trying to argue that it's wrong or bigoted to construct the phallus as a fundamentally male symbol is completely at odds with reality.

[estrobutch.livejournal.com]

your not listening or your a fucking worm trying to wriggle out of being an ass. penis =/= phallus.

stop being a jackass or keep being a jackass but stfu.

[estrobutch.livejournal.com]

well you mine as well of said it to your shoe then

[maevele.livejournal.com]

but in the context i used it, it was ciscentric as fuck. and fell into a pretty standard feminist pattern of equating genitals with privileged status, in a kinda metaphorical/symblic way, which leads in like one easy step to the totally not metaphorical using of that equating that gets use to justify excluding trans women from feminist's women only spaces. and since that's not somehting i want to go along with and promote, it was fucked up.

[tinyrevolution.livejournal.com]

And this is the problem with free education. I taught you something and you used it to be a better cis supremist.