Comments on: The Sexism of Transphobia

By: peter fiske

peter fiske — Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:12:53 +0000

Thanks for the spirited and moving response to the jerk from the East Bay who revealed himself to be violent and self hating as well as sexist transphobic and god knows what else
My thought was he needs a lot a help to grwo up and get a life.
Many thanks for responding. Since the 80s my motto is Silence equals Death action equals Life
Peter Fiske

By: T

Fri, 17 Mar 2006 19:30:49 +0000

Alas- a response to coherently address the (il)logic of this letter.
I read the original in print and did not know where to begin unravelling the stitching; There were just too many poorly woven statements.

It amazes me to this moment that those who have been (and continue to be!) opressed, shunned, and cast off by society in general are so quick to find others with “fault”. This one-up behaviour is getting really old - Elevating one’s self by stepping upon others’ backs is SO last century.

By: daily dose of queer » Carnival of Bent Attractions #3

daily dose of queer » Carnival of Bent Attractions #3 — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 06:26:16 +0000

[...] Andrea Rubenstein posts her response to piny’s post at the Official Shrub.com Blog. She writes about the link between transphobia and sexism in two parts: “What’s the connection?” and “Sexism: I don’t think it means what you think it means.” [...]

By: vegankid » Blog Archive » trannies not welcome

vegankid » Blog Archive » trannies not welcome — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 03:16:34 +0000

[...] By the way, once you are done checking out piny’s post, be sure to check out the wonderful post-analysis analysis, titled The Sexism of Transphobia, by Andrea over at Shrub.com. [...]

By: Jami

Jami — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 15:41:34 +0000

I, too, sputtered over this whole mess when I stumbled across it but didn’t have the time or wherewithal to get something out on the ‘net about it. I’m so glad that you did!

I’ll just throw in my own personal belief that one of the struggles us transfolks must undertake is to overcome the inbuilt societal assumption that MEN have privelege and women don’t. So, FtMs struggle against “How dare you assume that you can rise to privelege? You assault my masculinity/forsake your femininity by doing so!” and MtFs struggle against “How dare you give up your privelege and sink so low? You forsake OUR masculinity by doing so!”

By: tekanji

tekanji — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 04:05:36 +0000

I think your fisking was great fun. I was a bit worried that I covered too much that you had already spoken on, but I figured by doing a focus-piece that I could really get into the nitty gritty in a way an overall piece couldn’t. I haven’t finished reading through the comments yet (there are a lot of them!) but it sounds to me like you generated some A+ discussion.

By: piny

piny — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 02:35:42 +0000

Thanks for attacking this angle of the article and the letter in detail. I made a few references to his unexamined misogyny and his trivialization of rape and sexual assault (not to mention queerbashing, harassment…), but you’ve really done the work. I was in a little bit of a hurry, and wanted to more throw the article out there for people to go, “huh,” over than write a novel, and I’m not sure I did his phrasing justice. Apparently I needed to write a lot more about the trans-related stuff, too.