Gender charts and graphics

I am no graphic designer, but I often try to get my ideas across visually, whether in charts or graphics. I have gathered most of them here for easy access.

Gender crit cheat sheet, also available as one page PDF:

Clarifying gender:

Another chart:

And related graphics:

A couple more charts, re. gender & race. First, on liberal power-blindness:

Next, on white vs. "cis":

More on "cis":

Intersectionality:

On brain sex/gender identity:

On "feeling like a woman":

On AFTAs (anti-feminist trans activists):

And more:

Some new additions-

On transing kids:

On blaming women:

To sum up:

Rachel Dolezal vs. Bruce Jenner: The Real Difference

There are, of course, a slew of new editorials out which purport to explain the difference - the identity politickers of the Left are tying themselves in pretzels to justify transgenderism while decrying transracialism, even though they have made this bed:

• Don't reduce women to vaginas? Don't reduce black people to epidermises.
• We're all female in the womb? We all descend from Africa.
• Intersex? Mixed Race.
• Infertile? Albino. (Albino Africans in Tanzania are hunted and killed because of attitudes like yours!)
• No shared girlhood? No shared black childhood.
• You can't police identities? WELP.

Anyhoo, the difference between how the Left treats transgenderism and transracialism is both simple and obvious.

Rachel is a villain because the Left does not believe in black brains (or at least - they know better than to admit such a belief.)

Bruce is a hero because the Left does believe in lady brains.

What's the difference between the idea of black brains and the idea of lady brains?

"Black brain" erases the experience of racist socialization. Some men experience racist socialization, so that experience cannot be erased.

"Lady brain" erases the experience of feminine socialization. No men experience feminine socialization, so that experience can be erased, with glee.

This is also why we can have an essay on how Rachel Dolezal is not a black woman because she did not grow up as a black girl, when no such standard holds for Laverne Cox or Janet Mock.

HTH!

[More thorough take on this issue here: Sex and Race and Boundaries on the Left.]

Editing to add: For those asking why Dolezal couldn't work for civil rights and socialize with black people as a white person: 1) I agree, and 2) Why are we not allowed to ask why Jenner couldn't simper in expensive lingerie on a magazine cover as a man?

Transgender identity politics and brainsex: the epitome of pseudoscience

Brainsex is the centuries-old, conservative idea that men and women have different brains - resulting in innately different personalities, which just happen to serve male supremacy. This is Jon Ronson, quoting 19th century doctor Gustave ale Bon:

Meanwhile, in 2015, male people become female via brainsex. What does a female brain mean? According to transwomen quoted here it means you like "being dominated and fucked in bed," are "super emotional and dramatic about silly things;" et cetera.

Brainsex now is just as sexist as brainsex was in the 1800s. However, the sexism of brainsex is not my topic today. As someone who values critical inquiry, what bothers me even more than the blatant sexism is the sheer level of anti-science thinking required to accept that transgenderism proves brainsex when in fact it disproves brainsex

WTF

If your thesis is that male humans and female humans have different brains, you must define male and female and those definitions must STICK. Male = sperm producer. Female = ova producer. The existence of males/sperm-producers who supposedly have "ladybrain" means THAT'S NOT A LADYBRAIN. 

THIS COPING METHOD OF CHANGING YOUR DEFINITIONS TO DISGUISE THE FAILURE OF YOUR HYPOTHESIS IS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD.

P.S. for those who think the existence of (sexist, anti-scientific) brainsex theory differentiates transgenderism from transracialism/#wrongskin, I give you THE HISTORY OF BRAINRACE THEORY.

Stop bending yourselves in pretzels and just accept that human personality isn't innately sexed any more than it is innately racialized.

[For much more in-depth feminist analysis of the pseudoscience of brainsex, see Elizabeth Hungerford here as well as Cordelia Fine's Delusions of Gender and Rebecca Jordan-Young's Brainstorm.] 

To men who call themselves "cis"

Congratulations, you are using a word whose meaning you do not understand in order to make yourself look cool, signaling to the people who do know what it means how ignorant and arrogant you are. Just like an Ugly American with a bad Chinese character tattoo, no matter how loudly you proclaim "No, it means this!" - you just look foolish.

"But," you protest, "cis just means I'm not a transsexual!" Nice try, chump. You don't get a word that distinguishes the 99+% of male people who love their penises from [that tiny percentage of male people who experience sex dysmorphia and undergo SRS] in order to clarify your Real Man status.

Trans does not mean transsexual, it means transgender. Thus, "cis" does not mean "cis-sexual." It means "cis-gender." [See thenewbacklash for clarification of terms.]

When you call yourself "cis" you claim an innate identification with masculinity. To anyone who has an actual analysis of masculinity, this means you identify with: war, rape, domestic violence, animal abuse, greed, homophobia. You identify with the unearned privilege bestowed upon you for being born with a penis. You identify with the entitlement to extract labor from women and anyone else you can subdue by any means necessary. When you call yourself "cis" you are flashing a great big neon "I'm an asshole" sign at anyone who knows the first thing about a feminist analysis of gender.

When you call yourself a "cis man," you think you look like this:

When in reality you look like this:

Congratulations on your self-identification.

20 Questions for Catherine Mackinnon

All of these are real and serious questions. See http://thenewbacklash.blogspot.com/ for screencaps and links to examples for all points.

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1. Do you think sexism (oppression based on sex - meaning reproductive capacity) exists?

2. Do you think it is OK to have the word "female" for ova producers and the word "male" for sperm producers?

3. If we cannot have any words for male and female humans, could you please advise how we should discuss sexism?

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4. Do you believe female people and male people are socialized differently?

5. Do you believe female people are privileged by the social treatment of our female bodies?

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6. Do you believe in brainsex - that female people have brains that cause us to behave in a feminine manner, and male people have brains that cause them to behave in a masculine manner?

7. Do you think that [sexually mature people with fully functioning penises] who [like those penises and enjoy using them sexually] and [have no intention of ever having those penises removed] should be able to a) claim to "feel like women," and thus b) claim the label "transwomen" via ladybrain?

8. Do you think if a person with a fully functioning penis "feels like a woman," that makes his penis female?

9. Do you think if feminists told violent men that a penis can be female if it is attached to someone who "identifies as" female, violent men would stop killing transwomen?

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10. Do you think porn and prostitution empower women?

11. Are you aware of the anti-feminist propaganda term SWERF & its close relationship to the anti-feminist propaganda term TERF?

12. Do you think it is acceptable "activism" to wish violence and death on women who don't think porn and prostitution empower women, or who know penis is male?

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13. Do you think discussion of medical, political and social problems facing only those people living in female bodies is bigotry?

14. Do you think female-only spaces are bigoted?

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15. What do you think of requiring female people in domestic violence shelters to room with be-penised people and/or accept be-penised people as their counselors?

16. What do you think of granting male people who commit horrific acts of violence against female people legal change of sex and name?

17. Do you think lesbians are bigots for not having sex with people who have penises?

18. Do you think male people belong in female sports?

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19. Do you think boys who like wearing dresses should be put on puberty-blocking drugs and addressed as girls?

20. Do you think young butch lesbians should be steered towards mastectomies and testosterone?