“We were forced to assault them”
And, again.
Shame that a diversity of views not allowed at an anarchist bookfair. @helensteel12 and I just chucked out. Literally. What a mess. We'll never be able to reach a compromise on trans rights and women rights if only 1 view is heard.
— Cee Ban (@toddybann) December 1, 2018
today the manchester & salford anarchist bookfair was disrupted by anti-trans activists. because of this we didnt get chance to talk to as many ppl at our stall as we would like about the work we do supporting queer prisoners
— Books Beyond Bars (@beyondbarsuk) December 1, 2018
So anarchists are upset by disruption?
But, more to the point, were the two women disrupting at all? From what I can see they were distributing pamphlets…at a book fair. It doesn’t sound all that disruptive. It could be, in theory; racists distributing pamphlets calling for lynching at an anti-racist or feminist book fair would be disruptive, but feminists don’t call for lynching.
They “had to be carried out” – in other words they were assaulted.
And I saw a paltroon in the comments of a related tweet lecturing a woman about how ‘violence isn’t gendered’, as though invoking it as a mantra somehow makes it a winning argument for forcibly removing dissenting voices.
I saw that too, I think. Much poltroonery about.
Well, violence isn’t gendered – if you ignore all the evidence showing that men are typically more violent than women on a very large magnifier. And words are magic – they can change who you are to who you want to be, and they can commit genocide just by existing. So if words are that powerful, surely just saying “violence isn’t gendered” is enough to make it true, right?
Violence seems to have taken on a new meaning. It means just about anything a feminist does when a trans-woman is within eye- or ear-shot, or can find it on the net, or read about it somewhere, or hear about it somewhere, or is just somewhere within 93 million miles of the speaker (yes, TERFy words have a lethal impact even on those trans-women who happen to be living on the sun). That’s just how magically violent words can be.
The most murderous sentence in the English language: Gender isn’t essential. I guess I probably just killed off several dozen trans women? I hope not. I’d hate to have that on my conscience.
I wish George Orwell were around to write this up. The English language stretched to breaking point. What sort of ‘anarchists’ forcibly remove leafleters from a book fair?
The Klan, and the Nazis, just for example, ALWAYS framed themselves as victims of oppression. As targets of unbearable existential threats. When supposed ‘progressives’ use identical thinking, we ought to smell sulfur a LOT sooner.
John @5, that is also the language used by the Trump voters, who claim to have been ignored by the coastal elites and been left out of the goodies, in spite of the fact that the Trump voters are, in fact, the ones who control the goodies and decide who gets access to them. They had to live through one president who did not look like them, and it was horror, I tell you, just sheer horror. This in spite of the fact that Obama’s agenda was not significantly different from that of the white men who had preceded him. He did little to elevate the black community beyond giving them hope, and he did little to improve the lot of women. For the most part, he didn’t make it worse.
So we have Klan, Nazis, right-wing fascists, Trumpistas, and now…trans. All joining together to claim the oppression that in most cases belongs to another group.
And for many of the transwomen, raised as males, they are finding themselves treated differently now that they are women. They attribute 100% of it to transphobia, when the bulk of it (probably all of it) is attributable to misogyny. I say all of it, because if it wasn’t for hatred of women, what would drive the hatred of trans? A transman is a lesser being daring to move above themselves. A transwoman is a gender traitor who has deliberately lowered themselves into the lesser sex. And some transwomen are unable to recognize that their new, diminished status is the same treatment women have been getting forever. There is genuine transphobia and hatred of trans…but…attacking feminists is not going to fix one iota of that.