Originally posted on 9 May 2026 by Mousidy

bears repeating that twerfs are misogynists

being loudly and confidently wrong, shouting us down, speaking over us, belittling our femininity, making horrible and invasive comments about our bodies. they are privileged women weaponizing misogyny against a marginalized group of women

you can tell we are socially classed as women, too, because comparing us to men and painting us as masculine binds rather than privileges us

telling us that no one will ever want us, that everyone who says they find us attractive is either being nice or has a fetish, calling our vaginas festering, gaping, foul-smelling wounds, saying our breasts are fake, spreading disinformation about how our bodies work, minimizing our oppression or denying that we are oppressed, calling us delusional and mentally ill, making a spectacle of how ugly and unattractive they think we are, treating us worse the further we stray from their standard of femininity, shouting us down when we speak up about being sexually abused, protecting our abusers, sexualizing us while punishing us for owning our own sexualities

oh right, how could I forget attempting to control our bodies, up to and including lobbying against our rights to make our own decisions about them

and it's not just that their treatment of us is misogynistic, it's that misogynistic rhetoric against us works, and is a core part of how our oppression is justified. transmisogyny is in fact misogyny, funnily enough

sorry wait I guess it's not misogyny because trans women are "male socialized" or something, and a ~real~ woman with ~female socialization~ could never be a virulent misogynist

I think the secret is that the notion of socialization is vastly overestimated as the cause for a lot of people's treatment of others

a person's treatment of the marginalized is a function of a society that enables and rewards abusing them, to the point that cisgender women themselves can become some of the most virulent misogynists as long as there's a class of women against whom it's ok to wield misogyny