The death-wishers
Yes sure, this is fine.
But also –
Bitch Media calls itself “A Feminist Response to Pop Culture.” Nope, not feminist.
Tip Jar
Yes sure, this is fine.
But also –
Bitch Media calls itself “A Feminist Response to Pop Culture.” Nope, not feminist.
C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien have plenty of negatives and yet we don’t see them being raked over the coals…
I’d say it’s respect for the dead but that’s not really it, is it?
“Live how you like” = transphobic
“Wear what you want” = transphobic
“Be with anyone who wants to be with you” = transphobic
“You deserve safety” = transphobic
“I love you as you are” = transphobic
“Sex is real” = DEATH TO THE TERF!!!!
I love the image of “plenty of books” in the quoted tweet, which shows all of four book covers.
Right, show me something worthwhile written by a trans author that isn’t a hate manifesto towards non trans people, or some kind of misogynist attack. Good luck with that. I’m sure it’s theoretically possible, but I haven’t seen it yet.
There are such things. If the “movement” hadn’t taken such a fanatical turn, it could have been simply a matter of people who feel uncomfortable with their own sex, uncomfortable in their bodies, and the like. It didn’t need to be magical, it didn’t need to insist that men unhappy with the rules for men or their bodies or both are therefore literally women. But it did, so here we are.
Ok, so I got out of the boat to sample the mangoes. From some of the replies to the Bitch Media tweet:
Q: “Excuse me, what’s Cemetery Boys about?”
S: “ Heres the author’s website synopsis (Dont want to spoil it for anyone). A trans boy determined to prove his gender to his traditional Latinx family summons a ghost who refuses to leave in Aiden Thomas’s paranormal YA debut Cemetery Boys.”
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I know I’m not the target market for YA fiction. Not even when I actually was that age. This stuff reads like rejected material from some high school’s literary magazine. For those who wish to venture even farther from the boat, I’ve linked a sample below.
https://www.tor.com/2020/03/18/excerpts-cemetery-boys-aiden-thomas/
I mean a Bruce Jenner autobio isn’t going to make it onto my reading list, and teen fiction probably won’t either, so I suppose I would have to qualify my “worthwhile” requirement. Something readable that would stand on it’s own, something insightful or interesting, and notwithstanding the gender identity of the author, would probably do the trick. Even if it was somewhat biographical, it could be compelling, if it weren’t for the trans cult habit of making non trans people into villians. We are not the enemy, and even though there are nasty hateful people out there, it doesn’t describe the majority of non trans people, very few feminists, and it certainly doesn’t describe JKR.
@twiliter #4
Right, show me something worthwhile written by a trans author that isn’t a hate manifesto towards non trans people, or some kind of misogynist attack. Good luck with that. I’m sure it’s theoretically possible, but I haven’t seen it yet.
Maybe something by Jan Morris?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Morris
There are a number of gender-critical transwomen (that is, males) who have written articles or created videos that are excellent criticisms of gender ideology. I’ve been made aware of them often enough by commenters here. Miranda Yardley, Debbie Hayton, and Blaire White come to mind. (Buck Angel, a transman, has also criticized gender ideology.) Blaire White has a video claiming that no one in his circle of trans friends buys into the ideology; I find that hard to believe, but there must be a fair number in order to make that claim.
But they don’t seem to get much publicity outside of gender-critical circles, so it’s understandable that most people might not have heard of any of them. (Except perhaps Buck Angel, a well known porn actor.)
@8 That’s what I’m talking about, thanks Colin. :)
I read Conundrum when it came out, and saw Jan Morris interviewed on (British) television. I rather agreed with Germaine Greer: She wants to be a woman; that’s OK, but so what? Anyway, Conundrum is harmless enough, and not cisphobic. I’ve always felt sorry for Elizabeth, her wife, but apparently they stayed on good terms.