ihaveabsolutelynoidea:

to clarify my point on misogyny:

misogyny is not based on how people look. we do not not experience misogyny because we “look” like women, we experience because we are women. to define misogyny by looks means excluding women who don’t meet narrowly defined aesthetic qualities (non-“passing” trans women, gnc/butch/masc women) and including men and non-women (who can and often do harbor misogyny and harm women). misogyny is not conditional on how we dress or look, it is conditional on our gender and our gender alone. misogyny is not about femininity, it is about the social, political, and economic marginalization and exclusion of women based on our womanhood. womanhood is not the absence of manhood, it is its own separate, defined category with its own specific experiences and material realities. being a woman is not a privileged or loosely defined position- it is an institutionally oppressed position that is forced onto us and enforced by violence. misogyny is about women and experienced by all women and women only. if you are being treated like a woman it’s because women are oppressed, not because you are experiencing misogyny. it is a reflection on the status of women.