This is how the discourse is structured
The most notable thing here – other than 50, 000 some ppl liking a dude saying ‘fuck those evil witches’- is how many read it as identical to an affirmation of trans rights. This is how the discourse is structured. Being pro-trans is signaled, above all, by being anti-TERF.
The tweet she is commenting on is alas by Adam Savage, the Mythbusters guy. I saw it yesterday and sighed and moved on.
TERFs are shit. https://twitter.com/charliejane/status/1195156950394097665
It’s all women’s fault, as usual. Radical feminist women “are shit.”
Good thing Mythbusters is over… Jeezus
I know. So disappointing.
The thread following Savage’s comment contains some whoppers:
That post links to an article discussing some conservative christian which did indeed workshop that topic, but to lump all opposition to trans theory together as ‘religious fundamentalists’ and ‘anti-LGBT hate’ is an act of ignorance and/or dishonesty.
Wrong, they never dropped their anti-LGB efforts, they just added anti-T to them. Gender critical feminists on the other hand aren’t anti-LGB at all, also aren’t anti-T people per se, but are opposed to certain narrow issues where T rights are in tension with hard-won protections for the female sex. (As in, people who are actually female, rather by fiat.)
Emphasis added. This is a declaration that all anti-trans activists are funded by religious fundies. The question then is, what did CaseyExplosion mean by ‘anti-trans activists’? If she meant ‘all people who actively despise trans people’ then the statement might be correct, as most of the animus against trans people qua trans people is religious in nature. On the other hand, if ‘anti-trans activists’ was meant to include gender critical feminism as well (which is very commonly the case with these hyperbolic types), then it is a statement so sloppy as to be irresponsible, even if it was not a deliberate lie.
CaseyExplosion does not cover herself with glory in this salvo.
Naturally, a thread like this attracts statements implying harm to feminists. But at least this one received replies pushing back.
Just a plain old lie.
And when someone offers substantive, reasoned argument against Savage’s post, most of the time it is met with a silly jpg rather than engagement with the argument. The movement is comprised mostly of shouty trendy nitwits, raging arseholes, and dishonesty.
Oh and the thread he links to is about the same.
Does he even have a dog in this fight? A trans family member? Not that it’s any excuse, but it would at least provide some context other than what’s really a cheap, shitty way to grab “woke” points.
This seems to describe a lot of the trans allies.
One would have hoped that all those years spent busting myths might have taught him something about myths.