{"id":3579,"date":"2021-12-07T11:55:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T19:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/queersatanic.com\/?p=3579"},"modified":"2021-12-07T11:55:00","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T19:55:00","slug":"womanhood-is-good-expansive-and-resilient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qs.gehenna.ynh.fr\/?p=3579","title":{"rendered":"Womanhood is good, expansive and resilient"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-black-color has-white-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-e2d508def71b266020e3b1e9fd77e5b3 is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tumblr @testosteronebutch<br>I get so frustrated when I see fellow sapphics saying that womanhood is necessarily constricting to us. Like, womanhood is so diverse and doesn\u2019t have to be limited by the gender roles pushed on us by a heteronormative society. My butchness and masculinity don\u2019t mean I can\u2019t be a woman, even if I experience dysphoria and feel alienated from my gender at times. I think it\u2019s just as important for gnc women to be able to claim that label for ourselves; we have a place in this experience and shouldn\u2019t feel divorced from it if we still feel a connection to our womanhood.<\/p>\n<cite><a href=\"https:\/\/indo-dyke.tumblr.com\/post\/676839847736082432\">Source<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Something that TERFs are correct about rhetorically is that masculine women should be able to be masculine and still be women if they want to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOK! That was always allowed\u201d the queer, gender-nonconforming, and trans community would say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can be a woman who gets top surgery, who gets a hysterectomy, who goes on testosterone, who uses he\/him pronouns. You can be a lesbian who does all this, or someone who is bisexual but has \u201cgay sex\u201d when it\u2019s with men, and still be a woman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Womanhood is good. And it is expansive and resilient. Those who were assigned female at birth, rejected almost all traditional gender expectations thereafter, but who still feel their womanhood\u2014are right and good. More than good, they help others find their place in womanhood and\/or gender nonconformity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A butch woman with a deep voice, facial hair, mannerisms, and dress is not just expanding what is possible for cis women but helping many trans eggs crack. \u201cIf he\u2019s a woman, and treated seriously and with respect in this queer space, maybe I can be too. Maybe I don\u2019t have to worry about \u2018passing\u2019 or how I never will.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Imagine how utterly revolutionary and liberating that might be to a chubby, hirsute but balding transfem egg in their 40s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TERFs take a truth \u2014 that gender can be expansive and doesn\u2019t require transition or being transgender \u2014 as a way of peddling their lie: that cis GNC people are in a competition with or in opposition to trans people. They, along with exclusionary queers, seek to build hard definitions and boundaries between identities where there did not used to be and cannot exist except with constant maintenance via intimidation and harassment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s good to be a woman, even if it\u2019s not for everyone. The more women there are who look like and act like all of the different ways that suit them best, the more room there will be for more people to feel comfortable staying or recognizing or feeling for this day in particular that they\u2019re women. Which is a very powerful sisterhood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tumblr @testosteronebutchI get so frustrated when I see fellow sapphics saying that womanhood is necessarily constricting to us. Like, womanhood is so diverse and doesn\u2019t have to be limited by the gender roles pushed on us by a heteronormative society. My butchness and masculinity don\u2019t mean I can\u2019t be a woman, even if I experience&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1157],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-memes","category-tumblr"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qs.gehenna.ynh.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qs.gehenna.ynh.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qs.gehenna.ynh.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qs.gehenna.ynh.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qs.gehenna.ynh.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qs.gehenna.ynh.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qs.gehenna.ynh.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qs.gehenna.ynh.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qs.gehenna.ynh.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}