Reply #51: I think that term hits the trifecta!

[Withywindle]

It's misogynistic, homophobic, and transphobic.


For me, as a woman, I find the stereotype offensive. What does "feminized" mean? cares about Fashion? Children? Long conversations about emotions? I'm a woman with less than zero interest in any of the above. I'm not a random outlier, I'm one of many.

For thousands of years, all sorts of stereotypically "feminine" trappings have been used to insult gay men, with the idea that to be gay meant to take the "role" of the "woman," (bottoms only, right, as if the majority of gay men, if they do intercourse at all, aren't switches)--which is the most degrading thing a man could possibly do, right, to be like a woman in any way? Oh, what an INSULT. How AWFUL and OFFENSIVE. :puke:

Transphobic? Guess what? There are people whose biological physical sex does not match the gender of their *self.* This goes both ways. "Feminized man." "Masculinized woman." Well, if the two most common genders didn't have such hate for each other and if society didn't cling with such pathological superstitious neediness to the "pink blanket or blue" dichotomy, maybe we'd eventually come around to understanding that gender and sexuality are so, SO much more than either/or, innie/outie, etcetera.