A review by afrinazerinnoor
Females by Andrea Long Chu

1.5

As a TERF I absolutely love this porn-addicted autogynophile's ramblings. He thinks of his views on the female condition to be something profound. It's not, it's well-phrased semi-coherent nonsense. His notion of "female"ness is misogynistic to the core and in its flesh, with only a thin transparent layer of irony providing some cover, which seems to be enough for people who hold the view that by virtue of being apparently the most oppressed group, trans woMEN have transcended their human frames and are prophets upon whom the answer to what it really means to be a woman has been revealed. They are beings who've chosen to let go of their male privilege to become their true selves. They are more of a woman than any actual woman who only happened to be born into a female frame. Andrea in very flowery language admits to his regressive views about womanhood, and boldly asserts that his porn-rotted views are more mature and grounded in reality than radical feminist analysis of what it means to exist as a woman which he thinks is juvenile. He admits that "He is helplessly addicted to porn" but does not seem to be aware of the fact that this p*** addiction is what is behind the formation of his view that being female is to submit to become a f***hole (in relation to a pornographic object, your own and other people's will, or a physical phallus). This same crowd insists that the physiological notion of femaleness is limiting or even insulting to women. Andrea basically is saying "Yes, my addiction to and dependence on sissy porn strengthened my autogynephilic tendency so much that I had no choice but to submit to it. But fuck it, you are no better, you must have the same impulses, I know you do, you just haven't given into it yet."
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