transmisogyny is white supremacy repackaged
[Image description: A thread of three screenshots from Twitter. It starts with an image featuring four athletic female runners of seemingly asian descent standing on a track at night, their arms interlocked shoulder-to-shoulder. Their nametags read from left to right, “Fu,” “Tong,” “Liao,” and “Yang”.
“Helen” (@MsHelenWatts) writes a quote-retweet off this image, stating: “Woman, man, man, man. Goodbye, women’s athletics.”
In the second image “Owl” (@UglaStefania@twitter.com) writes a quote-retweet off of Helen, stating: “These are four cis women who won the 400m run at a tournament in Daqing, Heilongjiang. They have become targets in this bitter culture war by those who claim to be ‘protecting women’ - who in the same breath don’t think that these women look ‘women enough’ to be women.”
The third image shows Owl continuing: “This type of discourse is really insightful, as it shows us that this has never been about anything other than enforcing conservative and oppressive ideas about womanhood and gender expression. It’s dangerous, unfeminist and incredibly unkind.”
Owl writes: “It’s also interesting how it’s often women of colour who become targets in discussions like this, in particular in relation to sport - or those that don’t fit the particular western narrative of how women ‘should look like’.”
Owl writes: “In conclusion: fuck off gender police. You’re not wanted.” End description]
[Image description: I reply with the “… NO LIES DETECTED …” GIF to this thread. If you don’t know it, it features a hand pointing at a screen with graphs from the results of a live lie-detector test, with text superimposed on the bottom of the GIF stating “… NO LIES DETECTED …”. There is a National Geographic logo watermark in the top right corner. End description]