CObserve the penis. yes i know. Since I was a man, To quote Mary O’Brien:, “has shaped their world with a host of phallic symbols that even Freud could not exhaustively catalog,” may make you feel that many of us already think enough is enough. But maybe we’re just not doing it the right way?
I’ve been thinking about this ever since I saw an excerpt from Cat Hiatt’s zine. ”lesbians are becoming extinct”. Available at the Glasgow Women’s Library (among other places) and “Exploring transphobic logic”. It’s not particularly clear how this is done.
The impression is more of an anti-gay conversion therapy pamphlet, where the concept of “sinner” is replaced by the concept of “bigot” or “transphobe.” Shame on you lesbians for excluding those who benefit from your sex life! May you burn in social justice hell! (It may seem puzzling that the zine is written by a lesbian, but fear of disapproval from people like Judith Butler and Owen Jones can have such an effect on a person.) There must be something to it.)
The content of the zine is Cartoon of a gray-haired woman in a panic Her T-shirt read, “TERF is a slur.” “PP-I don’t want to have sex with someone who has a penis!!” she stammers as phallic-like fruit symbols rain down on her. You stupid woman! (We are supposed to think.) Stupid, unsophisticated bigot! The zine goes on to say that the penis is “just a part of the body that has cultural meaning and can be changed.”
this is true. The cultural meaning of the penis is not carved in stone (metaphorically speaking, a stone carving of an actual penis costs a penny). But for this claim to be made in a magazine that reinforces some of the most boring, standard, patriarchal, and in desperate need of change cultural meanings ever ascribed to penises? That seems strange. That’s really important! They must go wherever their owners want them to go! To disrespect the penis is to insult the very self-esteem of the penis owner. The mere existence of non-penis owners who wish to live their lives without ever having sex with a penis owner is a crime against humanity as penis owners.
You may not want to have sex with the penis owner just yet, but really, who cares what you want?
I don’t think the creator of the manga thought that this was the message he was trying to convey. Nevertheless, all that “changing cultural meanings” actually advises is that lesbians stop thinking about cultural meanings. If you stop associating penises with male superiority, entitlement, or men in general, you’ll start to feel more positive about penises or whatever. Then the owner of the penis, ideally someone who does not call himself a man, will be able to have sex with you with gentle persuasion, without anything to do with dominance or entitlement. You may not want to have sex with the penis owner just yet, but really, who cares what you want? As the great Freud taught us, the owner of the vagina becomes fully mature only when she is no longer interested in her own pleasure.
This is not serious politics. I would almost find it funny if it weren’t so deeply lesbian-phobic. “Hey, baby, why don’t we try changing the cultural meaning of cock one hair at a time?” As if this form of moral coercion wasn’t entirely commonplace. Like a penis scrawled in a school textbook, a picture of a penis sent to a female colleague, or a silly cartoon eggplant next to the “look at your penis” reminder that women face every day. It’s as if you can’t just put it in.
But imagine if we really wanted to actually change the cultural meaning of the penis. For example, the current estimate is 146.2 million women are missing worldwideSome were never born, and some were killed immediately after birth due to infanticide or child neglect, but this was all because they were the type of people who did not have penises. last year, More than 68,000 rapes reported It is thought to have been committed by people with penises only in England and Wales. The majority of the world is Poor people don’t have penises. There has never been a US president without a penis. I can keep going forever.
What I’m trying to say here, and this is basic feminism, is that having a penis doesn’t make these things inevitable. The owner of a penis is no more valuable than that. Their lives have no more value. They are not more deserving of power or authority, nor are they less capable of controlling their urges to hurt others. They don’t deserve space, money, or respect.
They don’t have these things because those with vaginas, stupid and self-destructive vaginas, continue to notice disparities in treatment and status. That’s because some penis owners choose to take possession of something that isn’t theirs. They may make different choices. One very simple choice is to accept that if someone says, for example, “I don’t consider people with penises as potential sexual partners,” that should be respected. is. Changing the cultural meaning of penises means that people with penises no longer think that they have all rights given to them by God.
It goes without saying that to successfully observe changes in the cultural meaning of penises, we need a language to identify people with penises. As everyone agrees, a person with a penis is useless (and that’s pretty stupid) because it’s just a part of the body. Therefore, I suggest using “men and boys”. While not all penis owners may be happy with this, one of the unfortunate cultural meanings we are trying to eradicate is that owning a penis means owning oneself. They’ll just have to do that because it means they can be put in any category they choose.” Please deal with it. After all, it’s for their own benefit. Who wants to spend the rest of their lives being a piece of shit?