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Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity

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A provocative manifesto, Whipping Girl tells the powerful story of Julia Serano, a transsexual woman whose supremely intelligent writing reflects her diverse background as a lesbian transgender activist and professional biologist. Serano shares her experiences and observations—both pre- and post-transition—to reveal the ways in which fear, suspicion, and dismissiveness toward femininity shape our societal attitudes toward trans women, as well as gender and sexuality as a whole.Serano’s well-h…

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Homophobia(r/TwoXChromosomes)

This is going around reddit today.

Julia Serano points out in her book Whipping Girl, that almost all the issues of sexism, homophobia, transphobia, sissyphobia, stem from the same thing, Oppositional Sexism.

It is the incorrect idea that, man is polar opposite to woman, and that man > woman. The next thing to derive from that thinking then is masculinity > femininity. Then masculinity = strong and helpful, femininity = weak and frivolous. Etc, etc.

But in regards to the homophobia comment, it is true I think, a lot of straight cismale homophobia results from some low level knowledge that they have ingrained in their social conditioning an oppositional sexist view of the world.

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AskReddit, asktransgender, SRSDiscussion, TwoXChromosomes

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$44.22

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SFW

Book Binding

Paperback

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ABIS_BOOK

Book Author

Julia Serano

Book Edition

annotated edition

Book Publisher

Seal Press

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Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity

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Homophobia

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