Misogyny Is 2025’s Biggest Trend

Shroom

Feb 8 2025, 2:19 PM

The irony is, parts of this article could be considered an 11th item on the list.

Quote: Zuck, who has three daughters if you were wondering, kicked off 2025 with a host of “anti-woke” initiatives, including radically upending the company’s fact-checking systems, rolling back diversity programs, and removing tampons, which had been provided for trans and nonbinary employees, from men’s bathrooms.

Now while I think taking easy-access tampons away from Meta-employee TIFs isn't a good thing (though let's be honest, nowadays most women are more likely to be carrying their own menstrual products with them than the loose change needed to buy them in bathrooms, no matter which one), I also don't think it's really that serious a concern and more just a "symbolic statement" by Zuckerberg (much like having tampons in the men's room was in the first place). Which is not something you could say about removing diversity hiring/programs, or the rest of the impacts on the list for that matter.

And no part of the article highlights this more than Number 6 (which comes right after the mention of the takedown of the federal reproductive health information website, btw), which describes the act of preventing TIP from being allowed a legal fiction of denying their actual sex using the words "devastatingly cruel" and "horrifying" while the fact that embryos (not even fetuses, fertilized eggs) are now legally considered full people, meaning abortion and miscarriages are now legally murder is just "rhetoric" that "aligns with... extreme anti-abortion legislation." It's like, "Fetuses are legally people now? Oh no! Anyway, the true human rights violation is that trans people can't lie to their doctors (who can and have literally accidentally killed them due to this lie) anymore!!!"

(To be clear, I'm very much capable of caring about multiple different issues of varying severities at the same time. In fact, this post is a great example: I don't think this one author slipping in fear-mongering about TIP and equating their wants to rights is anywhere near as bad as any item on the list. The difference with this specific ""issue"" is that it's the exact opposite of one. It's a solution to an issue, even.)

And to finish it all off, there's the ever-prevalent "we're all female at conception" lie at the end. Wowee! (Shameless plug: I actually just recently wrote a whole long post about how and why this is untrue, in @NotYourNigel's intersex thread!)

Like we really can't even have a "Top 10 Worst Misogynies of 2024 (#3 Will Make You Cry!)" list without mentioning trans-identified people's non-issues multiple times. I already felt hopeless enough about the state of the country based on the actual substance in this list, but then there has to be a "you're allowed to be sad about your rights being stolen from you, but please don't forget about trans-identified people in this trying time or ever at all" cherry on top, too. Good god.

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