Man wins Female District Leader position
M. K. Fain on that election in Queens:
Emilia Decaudin, a man, has won the Female District Leader position for New York City’s 37-A district, which resides in Queens. Last year, Decaudin successfully petitioned to eliminate the sex parity rule in New York Democratic Leadership Council roles—a rule which was put in place by feminists to ensure women’s fair and equal participation in the democratic process.
And along came a man to say no, let’s not ensure women’s fair and equal participation in the democratic process. Let’s keep women out, instead.
Decaudin, who identifies as transgender and non-binary, defeated Deirdre Feerick, a woman, for the female position by a margin of about 5.5 points. Feerick was an experienced politician who enjoyed the endorsement of the Queens Democratic Party. Decaudin appears to have only recently moved to the district after residing in Westchester County.
In October, City Democrats insisted that changing the rules “would NOT affect the gender parity of (half of the seats reserved for women) outlined for elected office seats such as District Leaders.” This has proven to untrue—as was expected by feminists. District 37A will now be represented by two white men, despite the fact that the District as a whole is a “majority minority” District, largely consisting of Hispanics, and does, in fact, also contain women, who have now been deprived of a representative.
Sorry, wims, sucks to be you.
And now Decaudin is not claiming to be a woman. Non-binary now. Once you start identifying as different things, I guess it’s hard to stop.
So a very vocal and small minority of men who wish they could be women organise to prevent genuine women representing women in a level of government.
How will this play out? Likely, the small minority of men who wish they could be women will finish up with a siege mentality, for the simple reason that they are trying to hold an indefensible position. The more successful they are in terms of their own aims, such as they are, the more hostility will be directed against them. Because they are out to deprive women of their rights to be represented by women, and it is fatuous for them to argue that they can do a better job of that than can genuine women. As men who wish they were women, dress like women and play a bit part on life’s stage, they can only truly represent their own kind, which is a tiny minority in the overall scheme of things. Sad, but true.
In the history of the biosphere, a vacant niche gets rapidly filled by some variant of some other organism normally filling some other niche. (Thus in the tropical rainforests east of Wallace’s Line in Nuigini and North-eastern Australia, we have tree-climbing kangaroos filling niches belonging elsewhere to apes.) If successful, the men who wish they could be women will create niches for heterosexual rapists masquerading as trans-men masquerading as women, which can only result in more frequent assaults on genuine women; a bit complex, I know, but that’s the way it is.
The more genuine XX women feel unsafe in women’s spaces, the more politicians will be under pressure to safeguard women in womens’ spaces and to clear out all who could be heterosexual rapists masquerading as trans men masquerading as women and seeking to assault women.
I frankly do not see how the small minority of men who wish they could be women can win in this situation. If they keep playing this game, they will finish up like the lepers of Biblical times: genuine social outcasts.
When almost all the positions with any power in the Democratic party are filled with men in womanface and men not in womanface, will the real women left stand with clenched jaws and tears in their eyes, claiming that no, this is FINE, in fact, it is EMPOWERING to fetch coffee and run errands for the men and fake-women?
Who was voting or entitled to vote? For it seems that there was a vote.
They don’t actually wish they could be women though–or don’t wish they could be actual women. They honestly haven’t the remotest idea what being a woman is like.
It’s remarkable how the world turns. I remember back in, must have been, 1986. I was on a junket up to a National Union of Students conference in Stirling (I have a gift for ending up places I don’t belong), and the NUS had not only established a rule that 50% of representatives must be female, but at that conference a cadre of very handsome young ladies and a gaggle of floppy sycophants were arguing that men must cease running for the other 50% of seats, based on historical imbalance. I raised the (to me) not unreasonable suggestion that perhaps some men might continue to prefer to be represented by men, and an amusing evening was passed with repeated envoys of floppy sycophants to my table intending to persuade me to relinquish my thought-crime.
I never thought I’d miss those days so much.
Papito,
Are you suggesting that from here it all goes downhill and pear-shaped?
Omar,
It will only go pear-shaped if the pear shape is suddenly in fashion.
Then people will insist that apple to pear surgery is not elective surgery, but only an affirmation of their inner pear, and thus must be covered by health insurance or you’re all PYRUPHOBES!
I’m suggesting that the weirdness of the future can barely be anticipated. Perhaps the next wave is for people to declare that they are “inner trans,” and their “transness” is so profound that they don’t need to express it on the surface. Stop suppressing my inner transness, which I express by just kind of looking like I am. To the untrained eye, that is.
WTF is a transgender non-binary? If you are transgender you are clearly binary. He’s both binary and non-binary? How does that work? It’s clearly a miracle! Hallelujah!
Kristjan – maybe it means he is binary, but identifies as non-binary?
@iknklast #10 But then why point out that he is trans?:D That would only matter if he identified as binary.
“Post-gender” can’t come soon enough.
Actually, from a non-binary, non-subjective viewpoint, it’s more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, genderey-wenderey stuff.
I’ve been asking for years what people who claim they are trans-nonbinary can POSSIBLY mean by it. Years. It’s such bullshitty bullshit.
I was reading The Progressive yesterday, and it was interesting to note that articles about women always included the “and trans”. Articles that were not about women did not include that. In one article, they made a point of noting that this activist used the pronoun “they”; that wasn’t germane to the article, except to make sense of using “they” for a single individual.
One article said “women and transwomen”, and then went on in the article to describe things that affected women. Not transwomen, women.
I’ve noticed that in most cases, transwomen seem to be adopting the “fun” parts of being a woman (though who in their right mind would consider make up and high heels to be fun, I am not sure). They don’t see any need to adopt the other stereotypes, like meek and mild, don’t question others, be nice, smile, and, oh, by the way, make me a sandwich type of stereotypes. Nope. That would be sexist. But thinking you’re a woman because you like to wear lipstick isn’t sexist, it’s just an expression of your authentic self (another term with only the most wishy-washy, circular of meanings).
I don’t think many transwomen enthusiastically drop everything to take care of ailing parents, do the lion’s share of housework, schedule all the children’s appointments, mask their own feelings in favor of keeping the peace, etc. etc. That’s what society really means by acting “like a woman.” But they wouldn’t know about that. Because I don’t think they’ve ever thought about real women’s lives.
Ben, exactly. They think being a woman means sitting around in a kimono watching soap operas, or traipsing around in fancy gowns and heels, or putting on make up every morning. They think the hardest part of being a woman is deciding what to wear each morning. Oh, women have babies, and all that, but that is just a sort of fun thing they do, and everybody pays attention to them and dotes on them, and when it’s over they have this lovely little doll-thing that dotes on them and gets them more attention. Yeah, and men whistle at women, which of course is a good thing, because women want to be sex objects.
They perceive women only as men perceive women, and for that matter, only as certain somewhat limited worldview men perceive women.
Notoriously, “Caitlyn” Jenner actually said that early on in his transition. “The hardest thing about being a woman is deciding what to wear,” the genius said.
The Rogers and Hammerstein song “I Enjoy Being a Girl” keeps coming to mind. The opinion of two men on what it’s like to be female.
Tri-gender? After all, if that God fella can be three-in-one then it’s only fair that trans gets a triumvirate.
Maybe transgender non-binary is just a way of declaring that you are extra super doubly special; not just trans, not just NB, but trans NB! Up the ante, win the Oppression Olympics, without having to actually do anything different than you’ve ever done, or suffer any actual, real oppression.
What if I want to be classified as a transgender non-binary giraffe?
The number of categories is potentially infinite. Could be that next time around the International Olympic Committee finishes up tearing its collective hair out.
Well, I’m not just a trans-otter, I’m a male-identifying lesbian trans-otter. That makes me really special. (And I can only actually be lesbian-identifying, since I was AHAB – Assigned Heterosexual At Birth).
Wasn’t AHAB some sea captain out of Nantucket obsessed with taking revenge for something on a whale called Moby and his gender apparatus, the latter being flashed around the seas and known to all as Moby’s dick?
Or have I got it somehow wrong?
It is almost …refreshing… to see the hostility to women’s protections so unhidden, so brazen. Claim to be a woman, win an election, drop the claim, and Robert is my mother’s brother.
#9 Kristjan
On that point, remember that there are plenty of christians who will claim in complete seriousness that God is simultaneously three entities and one entity. Because once you start some magical thinking, every conundrum becomes easy.
CURSE YOU AoS #20!
Holy triumvirate!:D
Guest #5
Exactly so. They don’t even want to be or pretend to be women. Not anything like what being a woman actually entails. A lot of it seems to be hurting women, breaking women’s things, taking things away from women. Even those who don’t directly or actively steal women’s offices or women’s athletic prizes are doing the usual male schtick of using women to get their todgers off. It’s misogyny all the way down.