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CHERYL MILLER during her time as head coach of the Phoenix Mercury (1997-2000)
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It's like this.
these groups work together, cross-pollinate theory, and substantially overlap in demographics because they are all deeply invested in leveraging transmisogyny while denying transmisogyny exists.
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"Human rights groups are increasingly struggling to verify tolls as Italy, Tunisia and Malta have quietly restricted information on migrant rescues and shipwrecks along the deadliest migration route in the world. The news barely makes headlines, in part because the lack of transparency prevents journalists from confirming reports.
“It’s a strategy of silence,” said Matteo Villa, a researcher focusing on migration and data at the Italian Institute for International Political Studies think tank."
The Associated Press repeatedly asked authorities in Tunisia, Italy and Malta why they aren’t sharing information related to migrant rescues at sea and what their policies are. Not one responded.
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Anonymous asked:
Hi, sorry if this is something I could look up somewhere else but I'm not sure where to look - I've seen a few girls talk about the Baeddel cult and that it fostered sexual abuse, but what actually happened? I've never seen details and it seems like a good idea to know about details since we've got another cult situation on our hands now (isff & friends) and knowing details is good for recognizing patterns of behavior.
If you don't want to answer that's fine, I hope you're having a nice day ❤️
The baeddel community, the actual original one not the vague insinuations people throw around at trans women with feminist politics, formed out of early transfeminist politics on tumblr.
For context, it’s important to note that many of us not only were interested in feminist theory but specifically second wave radical feminist theory, both to critique and to do “trans” readings of them. At the time “queering” as a verb was a popular academic discourse in which you would “queer” a text, film, etc to reveal what is missing from something, what if we read this text through not merely a queer critique but as if it was already affirming of queer difference, identity and experiences? What if we read it as an always already queer text?
So in a sense we were taking this academic literature framework and doing our own transfeminist spin. Dworkin and MacKinnon were popular authors to do this to. We started reading radical feminist texts and lesbian second wave feminist theory as if it was always already transfeminist, already affirming, actually from a certain perspective a pro transfeminist text.
This was very unique and frankly avant garde for even the academy let alone laymen on a blogging site. It attracted a lot of young trans women with burgeoning socialist and anarchist beliefs. We read Whipping Girl and felt dissatisfied with its ultimately liberal politics on gender - political revolution and self-abolition became popular ideas.
There was a large feminist community on tumblr for trans women, partially due to the number of graduate students who would share their reading material for a mass audience. This both became the basis for the later abuses as well as the basis for the challenging of those abuses.
Some transfeminists discovered that “bad” has roots in an olde English word for “hermaphrodite” and “effeminate man.” Despite this word (baeddel) clearly referencing people with visible intersex variations, a trans reading was done of it through bad internet entomology and it became proof of transmisogyny being at least a few hundred year old oppression. People even call it a “slur,” despite there being no evidence of it being used for violence which is usually how we define slurs.
This became a rallying call for a subsection of this transfeminist community who began adopting the term. The baeddel community had its own celebrity theorists - b8l (who was accused of race faking by a Black trans woman who met her in person) and unobject. They amassed a large amount of social influence so that when two baeddel members accused each other of rape - those two got the whole community to isolate the victim. Even their own admissions to what the situation was had a lot of holes - for instance, they claimed the victim (Elle) was actually the rapist for “rescinding consent” and even the rapist (Eve) didn’t deny that the victim was restrained while she the rapist held a knife.
But such is it with cult dynamics, even I went along at first. I still feel a great amount of shame about that. I became unpopular with that crowd because I was willing to call them on it. Eventually the transfeminist community pushed them out - too many people knew and saw through the bullshit.
But a lot of people held on - for reasons that seem familiar. This community had for years spread narratives that the only other people you can trust and will love you is this small clique and hush shhhh don’t call out rape amongst your sisters, we are so vulnerable. Everyone else is a transmisogynist monster, you can trust us we won’t let you get hurt. You shouldn’t make criticisms. It was just kink!
Seeing that come back but in a new social context is certainly disturbing. Seeing the problem become much bigger than it was the previous time, also disturbing. There seems to be less pushback than there was before. I think the fact that the Baeddels were very intentionally aesthetically offputting (not in physical appearances to be clear, but in communication style, politics and a general edgelord alternative vibe to their blogs) made it harder for them to gain traction. It also required more work - you at least had to engage with what other people were reading if not reading and producing readings yourself. There’s less barrier for entry which I think has made this new group far more palatable while also being more extreme in what they’re demanding of their followers.
The cutesy innocent aesthetic is in and I guess that’s easier for people to swallow than a bunch of gutter punks hurting each other. At least the Baeddels weren’t trying to get the community to accept rape and pedophilia as a general practice. Their issue was rape culture when it did come up but they weren’t the types to demand no call outs of any kind to any one, just when it affected their friends. Which is far more typical than what we’re seeing now which is just open acceptance of pedophilia and a zero tolerance policy towards criticisms for rape.
Witnessing this shit happen is why i am still resistant to like “new” “reclamations” of the word “baeddel” because for me it just reminds me of toxic bullshit from 10+ years ago.
I will never be comfortable with it either. I don’t want a new generation of young women to realize the hard way that trust has to be built on deeper foundations than shared identity and not everyone who gasses up sisterhood is actually someone who has your best interests in mind. It’s more than identity and it’s more than rhetoric.
Do they actually respect your boundaries? Are they trying to fuck you the first moment you’re alone when you’ve never had a sexual conversation with them previously? Are they trying to exert some kind of financial influence on you? Does their rhetoric ultimately lead you to isolating yourself socially from others, does it instill a sense of distrust towards the world? Are you told they are the only people who will love you? Is it impossible to provide constructive criticisms or enforce your own boundaries without it being seen as an attack on their personhood?
This is a red flag no matter who it comes from. It is universally true. If you feel like there are exceptions, that it is something that can be exploited by people you thought could trust. This is my advice for everyone in any community anywhere - walk away from anyone who acts like this. These aren’t trustworthy behaviors and I’m not pulling these examples from thin air.
After my experiences in the early 2010s not just with Baeddels but also monetizeyourcat I’m not just not gonna sit quietly while people engage in dangerous behavior and rhetoric or try to spin the Baeddels as actually correct underdogs we should emulate. God no, that was so much stress and anxiety and broken trust. I don’t want any young women to go through that like we either did directly or witnessed around us.
Old heads will remember when monetizeyourcat showed up unannounced to my apartment where I was having a small Hanukkah celebration with some friends. Someone I invited invited her. I did not know they were dating. I had to have a friend ask her to leave which caused all sorts of grumbling from her partners who I was unaware were associated. This shit isn’t a joke, *anyone* can be dangerous and people claiming not to be are usually the most dangerous.
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Anonymous asked:
There has to be a way to figure out who the first so called noMAP that infiltrated the transfem tumblr community was. No way it started in late-2025.
I think a number of perspectives common to trans communities for initially legitimate reasons created an environment that was hostile to any form of criticism even when it involved harm towards other trans women.
Once criticism itself was seen as an evil it was easy to handhold people down other perspectives such as “we shouldn’t call out ANYONE for rape” and “maybe child abuse can be liberating actually.” And since criticism is seen as dangerous, you’ll be seen as dangerous for voicing any dissent - which unifies the cult around behaviors that are inherently self-isolating making young impressionable people in these communities more vulnerable to abuse. Who will even hear you? You’ll be seen as a monster if you say you didn’t like how another trans woman treated you in objectively bad ways. That’s the point - they want you to feel like you can only rely on this small group of predators for survival and socialization which makes it easier to hurt you away from watchful eyes.
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the problem marxists have on disability is that they aren't reading marxist thought on disability and just kind of winging it. marta russell already laid out the political economy of disability in the global north in the 90s and global south scholars have their own (marxist) schools of thought on disability and have iterated on global north marxist disability analyses. disabled people are workers, most often. and handicapitalism (russell's term) has also turned disabled people into commodities. it's impossible to understand modern politics without engaging with these two realities.
everyone read right to maim and capitalism and disability now !!!!!!
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the russian fake lesbian duo tatu made better music than chappell roan
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Atp it was a mistake to allow people with terrible gender and sexuality politics and who just run with the vibes of a new term instead of actually understanding them, to learn about he/him and transmasculine lesbians because none of these imbeciles can think in any shades of gray and took it as "trans man lesbian" instead of "non-binary person who's transitioning towards masculinity and identifies as a lesbian", and also "he/him = binary man, every single time".
Did you bitches know "trans man" is like only one of the million possible configurations of what a transmasculine person can be? Transmasculine ≠ Binary Trans Man every single time. And also the point of being gender non-conforming is that you don't necessarily have to identify as a man in order to use he/him pronouns. You fucking idiots.
How it feels to curate a list of mutuals with the rarer by the day common sense skill of trying to understand the terms they're about to use before using them.
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Before he died, he told me that he wished to eat warm, hot bread, and I promised him that I would do my best to collect the price of one kilo of flour!
I tried to collect money for flour, but at that time many people ignored my pleas for help...
I saw my brother bleeding and taking his last breaths before my eyes 💔
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Atp it was a mistake to allow people with terrible gender and sexuality politics and who just run with the vibes of a new term instead of actually understanding them, to learn about he/him and transmasculine lesbians because none of these imbeciles can think in any shades of gray and took it as "trans man lesbian" instead of "non-binary person who's transitioning towards masculinity and identifies as a lesbian", and also "he/him = binary man, every single time".
Did you bitches know "trans man" is like only one of the million possible configurations of what a transmasculine person can be? Transmasculine ≠ Binary Trans Man every single time. And also the point of being gender non-conforming is that you don't necessarily have to identify as a man in order to use he/him pronouns. You fucking idiots.
Atp it was a mistake to allow people with terrible gender and sexuality politics and who just run with the vibes of a new term instead of actually understanding them, to learn about he/him and transmasculine lesbians because none of these imbeciles can think in any shades of gray and took it as "trans man lesbian" instead of "non-binary person who's transitioning towards masculinity and identifies as a lesbian", and also "he/him = binary man, every single time".
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the way ozempic has finally made the fact that eating healthy and exercising doesn't necessarily make you thin well known and society's reaction to this is not "oh i guess being thin or fat doesn't actually show if you're healthy" but "oh i guess everyone should be on this drug"
I hate that this is infact how ozempic is viewed now because I watched, in real time, how my mothers diabetes got significantly better on ozempic, she didn't start it for weight loss, infact she started it before it even got big for weight loss, but all people can talk about is the weight loss on ozempic and not how good it is as a diabetes medication. Watching my mom find energy and happiness because for once a drug wasn't making her lethargic and miserable was wonderful, she was able to feel better, but then it was spouted as this miracle weight loss drug, and suddenly she just couldn't access it anymore at a good price. Not only has the ozempidemic made fatphobia normal in an already fatphobic society but it's making it harder to access for people who genuinely need it because it's seen as a luxury cosmetic drug.