Gender Critical Reading List
Gender Critical Reading List
Some years ago, I made a gender critical reading list. Thought I'd share it here.
https://crackinthesystem.org/2021/06/23/a-beginners-gender-critical-reading-list/
Quote:Last year I wrote a post on getting dropped as an author from an animal rights anthology, and I tacked a ābeginnerās gender critical reading listā at the end. Both the article and the reading list are very long and arguably might have been better posted separately. In any case, I spent an inordinate amount of time on the reading list so ā a year later ā Iām reposting it on its own so it remains accessible as a resource.
Wow, that's awesome!
Quote:Last year I wrote a post on getting dropped as an author from an animal rights anthology, and I tacked a ābeginnerās gender critical reading listā at the end. Both the article and the reading list are very long and arguably might have been better posted separately. In any case, I spent an inordinate amount of time on the reading list so ā a year later ā Iām reposting it on its own so it remains accessible as a resource.
My only criticism is that I don't think one can truly understand Gender Criticism without understanding the issues with gender roles in general. A lot of people see evidence of male violence over women and write it off as just a few bad apples (the general patriarchy-denying view) or make exceptions for TIMs because they're just girlbrained harmless gay men (the more liberal view). To truly understand why TIMs are not harmless and how male supremacism is maintained even under the veneer of dresses and YASS QUEEN š
parading, you really have to get into the nitty gritty of how subconsciously we all get influenced into gender roles. A man in a dress isn't pink brained, because men have plenty of fetishistic reasons to do that, and even those who don't aren't automatically going to have an interest in or even care about women's rights (the Nazi femboy trend) or hell, even if they try to, due to inherent misogynistic biases in these movements and how they treat men and women, will not get farther than the first clash with their own male self-intetests - scratch that, won't even give enough of a shit to look into it in the first place if it's not directly tied to their self-interest.
Since normies function on "likes dresses"="is woman", they think a man so much as stooping down to identifying as a woman proves he is one, and the only "evidence" required is how fully the man believes in this delusion.
Normies are easy pickings for trans people because trans activism preys on people having incredibly shallow as well as bioessentialist understanding of gender roles. That's how you can have pro-trans conservative people or hell, entire countries, because it makes sense to explain and fix gender nonconformity that way. You have to take away the trans ability to claim that dresses or pink brains define women. Proving the objective harm that men (all men, not just trans) do to women can address the "How does this concern you" bullshit, but the constant winking and attempts to bond over gender roles is the most dangerous imo, cuz that's how you end up with normie men making exceptions for fuckable men (i.e. basically women) and unfuckable women (ew not even women), and normie women seeing YASSQUEEN gay men as allies and unfeminine women as judgementalĀ gender traitors with internalised misogyny (unless they have a boysoul ofc)
I agree but I think some of my links touch upon that, no? For example this one: https://sexandgenderintro.com/gender/
(Jun 11 2025, 11:30 AM)nassim I agree but I think some of my links touch upon that, no? For example this one: https://sexandgenderintro.com/gender/My problem is with the "touching up on it" aspect like it's an afterthought - I think a full, extensive understanding of gender roles needs to come first, and only then the anti-trans stuff, which should be a minority. Not to say that trans stuff can't be used as a jumping off point, in fact I think trans is a great way to force normies to re-examine general mainstream ideas about brainsex and gender roles. Trans activists do precisely that when they try to profit off of people's sexist assumptions to make trans seem like it "makes sense", like thinking that makeup and sexiness makes a woman, or that these things only come about as a result of a pink brain. Normies don't like the notion that they are brainwashed into gender and that gender in and of itself is oppressive, not just the most extrene and violent aspects of it, so trans activism and liberal feminism rely on portraying it as freely chosen based on what "feels right", an agreement into which trans can then easily slide to - if you accept my gendersoul, I will accept yours and we don't have to make this political.
(Jun 11 2025, 11:30 AM)nassim I agree but I think some of my links touch upon that, no? For example this one: https://sexandgenderintro.com/gender/My problem is with the "touching up on it" aspect like it's an afterthought - I think a full, extensive understanding of gender roles needs to come first, and only then the anti-trans stuff, which should be a minority. Not to say that trans stuff can't be used as a jumping off point, in fact I think trans is a great way to force normies to re-examine general mainstream ideas about brainsex and gender roles. Trans activists do precisely that when they try to profit off of people's sexist assumptions to make trans seem like it "makes sense", like thinking that makeup and sexiness makes a woman, or that these things only come about as a result of a pink brain. Normies don't like the notion that they are brainwashed into gender and that gender in and of itself is oppressive, not just the most extrene and violent aspects of it, so trans activism and liberal feminism rely on portraying it as freely chosen based on what "feels right", an agreement into which trans can then easily slide to - if you accept my gendersoul, I will accept yours and we don't have to make this political.
This feels nitpicky and I'm not sure you've actually looked through the links. In any case, there are different ways to educate people on the matter, if you don't think this particular approach is effective that's fine. The people who most need to be educated on this are least likely to click through so it's probably moot anyway, but there still might be some old articles that gc folks might find of use/interest hence me sharing the list here.
Quote:there still might be some old articles that gc folks might find of use/interest hence me sharing the list here.
Given that we've had a number of women vote for Trump as a result of trans issues, Trump who is now removing women's rights left and right, I don't think GC education that only focuses on trans has ever been an effective way to advance women's rights.
Quote:there still might be some old articles that gc folks might find of use/interest hence me sharing the list here.
