Picture this
Gender studies=threats of violence against women? Who knew?!
“If TERFs think trans* is an endemic threat to feminism, let us be the threat to feminism…
Picture this: I hold a knife to your throat and spit my transness into your ear. Does that turn you on? Are you scared? I sure fucking hope so.”
Matt Thompson, LSE GENDER STUDIES MSc STUDENT
He’s a student taking the MSc in Gender (Sexuality) at the London School of Economics and Political Science, aka LSE.
The quote comes at the end of his paper entitled “Trans* Endemics: Embodying Viral and Monstrous Threat in Times of Pandemic”, presented at a conference (held in April 2021) for the course on Transnational Sexual Politics, taught by Dr Jacob Breslow and Professor Clare Hemmings. The session was called “No Time, No TERFs, No Norms”.
To be fair, one can argue that it’s a metaphor as opposed to a literal threat…but on the other hand we get accused of literal phobia and violence for making reasoned arguments, so I’m not sure the onus is on us to give the benefit of the doubt.
I could see this as part of a short story, or other work of fiction; but from an academic paper that purports to be a piece of serious scholarship? Not so much.
I suppose I should have become hardened to this kind of language from the trans activists — but really, this still shocks me. Is there no self-policing among the TRA community? We are routinely accused of “literal violence” for asking honest questions and making simple factual statements, and yet this is going unanswered?
I think he meant implicit threat to feminism. More of a pet peeve than a real criticism, but my god these numpties really dislike books.
They don’t have time for that; they’re too busy policing everyone else, especially women.
MSc Gender (not really about Sexuality)
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Because if it was about sexuality, there would be some actual biology requirements, not just touchy feely humanities classes with subjective postmodern criteria. Religion is no longer the biggest opponent to hard science, now it’s the trans cult. Still firmly in the wishful thinking circus, just a different tent.