Shut her up
More on the relentless campaign to silence Meghan Murphy:
This guy is the president of BCTF, the union representing BC’s public school teachers. He’s very “active” in the anti-Meghan campaign.
Hi @VPL – I love your libraries and use my neighbourhood branch all the time. Please don't undermine your Safe Space commitment by accepting rental revenue from individuals who direct hate at members of the LGBTQ community, or any protected group under BC Human Rights Code. pic.twitter.com/iIPHW2ow4L
— Glen Hansman (@glenhansman) November 30, 2018
He retweeted this
To those upset that Meghan Murphy had her Twitter account suspended for constant transphobic harassment, and who are threatening to also leave twitter in transphobic solidarity with her, I definitely think you should do so. Do fight for your terrible principles… somewhere else.
— Jake Pyne (@JakePyne) November 24, 2018
and this
Dear @VPL, I am adding my voice to those calling for the cancellation of Meghan Murphy’s upcoming event.
I strongly urge you to furthermore publicly respond with dignity and transparency to your many trans and allied patrons, staff and members. https://t.co/kdUmSYeoQs— Amber Dawn (@AmberDawnWrites) November 28, 2018
and this
I agree that women’s voices need to be heard. But we have a responsibility to ensure that public spaces are safe for all women. Hate speech from a woman is still hate speech & does not belong @VPL
— Rae Figursky (@RaeFigursky) November 30, 2018
and this
Trans women are women. Full stop. Libraries and schools wouldn't rent to individuals or groups that stigmatize other women because of their faith or race or ability. Hate wouldn't be okay in those cases. It's not okay when it's hate directed at women who also happen to be trans.
— Carole Gordon (@CaroleGordonBC) November 30, 2018
And lots more.
Which apparently, for these people, does not include women…at least not women who happen to disagree with them.
This is getting very scary.
It is. I find this one really shocking – the head of the BC teachers’ union.
There’s this NYT article:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/29/opinion/twitter-deadnaming-ban-free-speech.html
by a trans woman who somehow thinks this is all part of encouraging a nice civil debate. It’s so tiresome to discuss who is a woman and who is a man, you see. It’s not really addressing practical issues, never mind that it’s the crux of a great many practical issues. But the article is a good-faith attempt to engage in a discussion, I’ll grant that. Unfortunately it seems to miss the point badly.
The problem is, we are determined to keep a huge distinction between women and men, so we’ll know who is pink and who is blue, who is thinky and who is feely, who has testosterone toxicity and who has that estrogen vibe. We are not ready to get rid of rape culture, so women would feel less need to have women only spaces. We are not prepared to pay women equally, allow them equal access to the corridors of power, and not grope, ogle, or grab them by the pussy, so women need to worry about who is who and where everyone dresses, sleeps, and relieves themselves.
The problem is not the women. It may not even be the transwomen. The real problem is a society that insists on dividing us into these two separate, distinctly unequal groupings based solely on our genitalia, and now we have some people who claim that they want to be the other in spite of having the wrong genitalia, and insist that the unequal group give up what protections they have put in place, and open up all the spaces that allowed some measure of safety, not to mention opening up women’s sports and women’s lists for hiring to people who were born into the gender that has had all the advantages.
Until we clear away all the gender baggage, there is no way to get around the question of who is woman and who is man, because women need safe spaces, equal opportunities, and decent human treatment.
I agree it’s scary. Sadly, it’s the same treatment all feminist women have received. I keep drawing parallels with the suffragists. They were attacked and physically assaulted at marches by police, while the propaganda against them painted them as hateful/crazy/ugly- deserving of their treatment.
All those people claiming Murphy is spouting hate speech don’t back it up with examples – it’s Twitter after all, but really? Murphy asks “what is a woman?” and that’s hate speech?
Progressive men see racism and anti-Semitism but are blind towards misogyny.
Women are still counted as a minority group. Feminism began when educated privileged women started using their access to print and their male friends to begin agitating. We know that laws have changed as women have become members of governments. That happened because of their access to education and privilege. Yet we are seeing a denunciation of “white feminism”. White women have surely been racist – it’s embedded deep in our culture. Somehow this negates feminism?
If transwomen are women, how come they really don’t appear to be interested in issues affecting women?
One example: transwoman at the 2016 Woman’s March after Trumps’ inauguration, tweeting about anxiety about the number of trans speakers. Nothing about heath care/abortion rights/worker’s protections – just “where are the trans speakers?”
iknklast, that is excellent.
But I repeat myself.
Seconded! I’ve never heard the argument for women’s spaces put so well or succinctly.
So what’s the deal with the LGBTQ “safe space” advertised on the decal shown above when “Ls” are assaulted, bullied and harassed by “Ts”? Is this where the “cis privilege” card is played and women lose in the Oppression Olympics? Who gets to decide who is allowed into the safe space and who is left out? I can guess the result, but I wonder about tne machinations and rationalizations deployed in the process itself…
Murphy has cancelled the event.
Expect more muscular memes celebrating the successful intimidation of a woman.
Thirding the praise for iknklast.
Re the OP: “TERF supremacy”? THAT’s a thing now? (I mean, it’s SUPPOSEDLY a thing now?)
WHAT???
God fucking damn it.
I don’t see confirmation on her Facebook wall or on the Eventbrite page, but Global News Canada reports it.
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