???? Girl are you talking about “bitch”??? I was a girl for goddamn 28 years, you think I don’t know sexism and misogyny?? My big titty ass is in the lady closet IRL NOW and you think I’m benefitting from the patriarchy so deep I don’t remember fighting for my place on the goddamn playground???
My bitch ass father called me a whiny little bitch my whole ass life, I’ve BEEN there washing dishes on thanksgiving while the Real men chilled in the living room, I’ve BEEN there raising a handful of boys six years my junior cooking meals and packing school lunches cause mom wasn’t home and I was basically the same ass thing, Daddy in the computer room playing his video games while I raised his sons for him.
Getting followed home after work cause I’m pretty and smacking hands off my ass and putting twice the work in just for a seat at the goddamn table with the Real Boys who walked in with a dick and a prayer. How fucking dare you.
And you think I don’t think about that shit? How I fought my whole goddamn life to feel like a real human being as a WOMAN just to find a place of confidence I worked damn hard for just to realize I’m not one? Do you KNOW how often I bite my tongue thinking “Damn, I worked so hard to feel pride as a girl, and now that I’m finally proud and strong and being taken seriously, after ALL THAT HARD WORK I have to let that go for something else?” Do you know what it’s LIKE?
And after all that- EVEN IF I COULD FIND A BALACE and make peace with THAT, I still have clown shoes ass motherfuckers like YOU breathing down the back of my neck acting like I’ve been living the high life this whole damn time. Telling me not to use words like “bitch” or “hoe” cause that “hurts women”. Making people like ME choose between their identity as ‘NOT A WOMAN’ and breaking down admitting that as far as the world is concerned, we are.
As far as my boss is concerned, as far as my parents are concerned, as far as my landlord and my coworkers and random strangers on the street are concerned, as far as my doctor is concerned and creeps at the bar are concerned and transphobic fucks on the internet who know nothing about me except I’m trans are concerned, I’m a woman. Even if I know I’m not. And you’re in here saying shit like “check your male privilege”. Like anyone in the world has been seeing me through my goddamn pronouns my whole life.
Fuck you. I don’t gotta choose. I get all the same bullshit disrespect women do and I’m still not one. I thought that “bitch is a slur” shit was bullshit when I thought I was a woman being called one, and I think it’s bullshit now. Don’t go around inventing a story in your head like something changed when my pronouns did
You want to talk about the impact and nuance of gendered language in society, do it as my equal, not like a babysitter in my mom’s house telling me what you think her rules are
You’re up there talking down to me in the mud from your high fucking horse with a bag on your head like it’s not still your voice coming out