Have We Reached the Tipping Point for Women to Reclaim Our Words?

The Female Sex-Class Is Legally Erased Without Access to Our Language

I feel like I’ve been walking on eggshells, and I’m betting no one feels that more than all the women who have been working toward gender abolition or gender criticism for the past many decades. The women at

REDUXX

must be exhausted, having to write in a complex way to make it clear which sex-class they’re talking about; to make it clear they’re talking about men and women. Being in liberal/leftist echo chambers motivated me to painstakingly recreate my language in the name of “respect.” It was hard work, but I stayed vigilant. I believe deeply in manners, and I didn’t want to offend anybody. Then I myself started getting confused about my own gender. And I was originally a gender abolitionist. The language I was using wasn’t my true beliefs., but using it changed my thinking. Now I’m trying to return to my own beliefs and regain access to the language I need to use. I also contemplate what words will best reach the women I’m trying to connect with since everyone’s sex-based language has been changed over the last decade+. I sometimes use “female” for the same reason Reduxx uses the language they do, but more and more I return to “woman” and “girl” because that is the only way for me not to dissociate. I have to return to words as I know them, because without that, I lose my sense of reality and my grounding. My stability depends on truth.

By listening to the male culture’s gaslighting about “respect,” I have lost all respect for myself, and I’ve also lost touch with myself: my womanness. I’m still trying to make sense of all of it. I disrespected my sisters in the process because I was ignorant, and I didn’t have their backs. Each day, I find my way back to stability, to sisterhood, and the more I do, the more I am called prejudiced. This stings painfully, particularly because I’ve dedicated my entire life to fighting prejudice. But then I remember, male culture has always attacked me no matter how carefully I chose my words in the name of their false “respect.” This is no different. Conservative, moderate, liberal - all males have taken issue with me naming male’s culture of supremacy. This is how male supremacy has always worked. Male culture has always co-opted our words, and told dissenting women we’re “disrespectful.” When I see the women at Reduxx continually fight to reclaim our female-sex class rights, despite all the male terrorism, I know that I, too, need to be brave. I need to risk the comfort of compliance. I need to dissent, because my life and my rights depend on it. There is nothing wrong with me using the words I know to be true. Now all women need to follow our sisters who have been on the frontlines. Thank you to all the women—radical, moderate, liberal, and conservative—who woke me up. We might diverge on many viewpoints, yet we can stand together on the material reality of sex.

📚 Resources to Explore:

“EXCLUSIVE: Brazilian Trans-Identified Male Falsifies Criminal “Transphobia” Report After Exposing Himself To Female Sales Associate”

Rewritten Title: “EXCLUSIVE: Brazilian Man Exposes Himself to Girl”

✍️ Journal Reflection Prompts:

• Do you struggle when using the words, “woman”, “man”, “girl”, and “boy?” Why do you think that is?

• Do you find yourself using “female and “male” in an attempt to clarify sex?

• Are you worried the listener won’t understand you?

• Are you worried the listener will call you prejudiced by calling you “transphobic?”

• Does trying to change your language to erase sex and replace it with gender affect you? Explain.