cisness, as the racialized presumption of sexed naturalness, actually affords a great deal of gender expansiveness to white bourgeois people, and in our era this modality of cisness is most visible and significant in the availability of masculine priority to bourgeois white women. - ThreadSky

undeadog.bsky.social • 5 days ago

cisness, as the racialized presumption of sexed naturalness, actually affords a great deal of gender expansiveness to white bourgeois people, and in our era this modality of cisness is most visible and significant in the availability of masculine priority to bourgeois white women.

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undeadog.bsky.social•5 days ago

one has only to think of the centrality of crossfit and machine gun masculinity to a MAGA woman like Marjorie Taylor Greene, herself a crusading transphobe. or TERF valorization of an ill-defined normal, neutral expression of gender over a mocked femininity,

undeadog.bsky.social•5 days ago

which also often comes with a sort of confession of youthful masculinity, presented as the tragedy that they might have been trans boys or misrecognized as such. [...] how do we name the reality that these groups of women attain priority and power from the ways they work, work out, dress,

undeadog.bsky.social•5 days ago

and carry themselves, ways that supposedly violate the “stereotypes” or norms of “female gender?” I’m saying that they are not violating norms. rather, the latitude for white women to engage in masculinist behaviors, even the incentive to do so,

undeadog.bsky.social•5 days ago

is itself an exercise of cisness as a way to express white identity in this moment. the presumed normalness and neutrality of the sex of white people––the cisness of whiteness in other words––is emphasized and enacted, rather than violated by these social forms.

undeadog.bsky.social•5 days ago

[...] cisness names the damned if you conform, damned if you violate nature of the racial order of sex. or conversely the production of specific forms of regard and self regard stemming from being “not like the other girls” that are, in fact, part and parcel of power for bourgeois white women.

undeadog.bsky.social•5 days ago

how do we name that this racial form is distinct from butchess and trans masculinity because it is precisely the racial and class dimension of cisness that allows bourgeois women to access masculine priority without being exposed to transphobia,

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