>>1968it's because of westoid brainrot going back to the Greeks where man = active and woman = passive, therefore man = subject and woman = object. the entire project of liberal feminism is not to critique the underlying reasons why patriarchy exists but rather to manage the inequality symptoms it produces, because as with all liberalism, libfem is not capable of understanding the real material causes of anything but only of managing them so that the contradictions don't become so acute that they start to cause a crisis in production (which patriarchy functions as a part of on the micropolitical level of the household and the reproduction of labor). in practice what this results in is almost every feminist project (with the exception of materialist feminism, Marxist feminism, and their offshoots) not having any interest in the actual liberation of women as a class but having a kind of internalized misogyny where being a woman is seen as an inherently abject state, of being objectified by a ruling class of men, and so the solution to this is to simply make everyone functionally a man (a subject).
this is incidentally also why there is a large segment of feminists (again, most feminists arguably) who come up with reasons for either outright hating transfems within a framework of "radical" feminism or backhandedly hating them within liberal feminism (by viewing all trans people as basically doing a kind of permanent drag performance). the idea that someone could choose to be a woman and essentially affirm the class of woman for its own sake doesn't compute with the genealogy of feminist theory that ended up being the most dominant one in the anglosphere and is closer to the materialist feminism of Luce Irigaray and Monique Wittig, particularly Wittig's theory of lesbianism: that a lesbian by choosing to desire women for their own sake and not because of their utility within the reproductive futurist project of the bourgeois heterosexual family form is not really a woman because she chooses to remove herself entirely from the patriarchal power structure and its encodings of desire.
therefore in the final analysis we must conclude that trans women are not really women but rather are, like cis lesbians, something new and better that has the real potential to overcome patriarchy because they the real movement of women as a class abolishing itself much like
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