genderkoolaid:

So this post was reblogged by someone I follow.

At first, it seems pretty fair. We all hate tiktok, and the idea of plastic surgeons going on to young girls’ pages to tell them to get surgery sounds awful.

But two things made me uncomfortable: For one, the “first against the wall after the revolution” comment. Advocating for blind revolutionary violence doesn’t do it for me (read Against the Logic of the Guillotine).

And two, “plastic surgeons” and “teenage girls”. I’m not on tiktok a lot, so I haven’t seen anything related to this, but it occurred to me that the “teenage girls” in this situation could actually be transmascs, and “body image issues” could be code for “dysphoria”.

It sounds like “plastic surgeons are telling young girls to get nose jobs.” I had a suspicion it might be “doctors are trans allies and supporting transmascs’ desire for top surgery, something shown to decrease body dissatisfaction, improve quality of life & has a 94% satisfaction rate, including in minors (x, x).

So I looked further.

First of all, the notes are dripping red on shinigami eyes. That’s not a good sign.

The "Blogs like this one” has several TERF blogs.

aaand OP’s a radfem. Not a particularly aggressive one, but a “reasonable” one. Perfect for people with very little understanding of TERF rhetoric to be drawn in to TERF rhetoric.

See this? This is transandrophobic rhetoric by TERFs that slides under most peoples radar. TERFs are obsessed with transmasc bodies, and TERFs love the “think of the children!!” defense. You have to be more critical about the posts you see and reblog, and think: what else could OP mean by this? Could there be any hidden messages that aren’t blatantly stated but implied? Train your ability to sniff out TERFs and radfems in general.