I don't mean this as, "Checkmate, terfs," nor am I referring to anyone specific anywhere. This is just a thought I have about keeping my own house in order, so to say. I'm just venting and not trying to fight anyone here.
I think the same individual can't say that women don't have to be beautiful or meet some similar standard, and then claim to clock tims with perfect accuracy, or point out ugliness as signs of being a tim. There's not a ton of people who do both, but I've seen it enough to get annoyed. One minute it's all standing up for un-typically-feminine women, and the next it's, "I knew that was a tim because no female would ever dye her hair that badly." Yes they would! Loads of women look ugly, crackwhorey, mannish, fucked up...but they're still females, they still differ from males that way even if they look like Rickety Cricket.
Similar example, when a tim does something aggressive and someone says, "That's not something a woman would ever do," but the same person then claims aggression in a tif is just a human thing, females have a range of emotions too, and the aggression doesn't make the tif a man (aggression is just an example, I've seen other traits, physical and emotional, used in such arguments).
If someone truly believes that no females are ever ugly or aggressive or whatever, then ok, I disagree with them on that but at least they're consistent. And I know some people think there are fine details like, "Women's aggression is like this and men's is like that," but even if that's true, that's not my point here. I have beef with the inconsistency and how gleefully "the other side" jumps on it, even if it's low-hanging fruit. "Terfs are inconsistent, so why should we hold ourselves to a higher standard?" I like to tie up those loose ends and this is one of them. Hey, the thread title says it's for sperging, so there's my sperging.