"If we take seriously Long Chu's logic of what being "female" is (hollowing yourself out to make room for another’s desire), an actual woman parroting "trans women are women" is the most "female" declaration possible. For her to say “trans women are women,” which is her saying, trans women are ME, is for her to perform a complete self-excavation, erasing herself entirely, to make room for a male’s desire. What more “female” act could you imagine?"
The dissonance between your footnote with her tweet and the “female bodied” photo is something. How does one reconcile a very passing “female bodied” aesthetic with the idea that any body is a female body, regardless of passing?
"If we take seriously Long Chu's logic of what being "female" is (hollowing yourself out to make room for another’s desire), an actual woman parroting "trans women are women" is the most "female" declaration possible. For her to say “trans women are women,” which is her saying, trans women are ME, is for her to perform a complete self-excavation, erasing herself entirely, to make room for a male’s desire. What more “female” act could you imagine?"
Perfectly put.
The dissonance between your footnote with her tweet and the “female bodied” photo is something. How does one reconcile a very passing “female bodied” aesthetic with the idea that any body is a female body, regardless of passing?
His tweet, Erin Reed is a man.
Perhaps it was a typo but the irony of referring to a man as “she” in an article about men erasing women by aping us is not lost on me.
Yes, but both photos are of the same person (the flower crown as well).