Harassment and abuse dished out

A thread by Rosa Freedman:

https://twitter.com/GoonerProf/status/1070158128837246977

https://twitter.com/GoonerProf/status/1070158361981845505

https://twitter.com/GoonerProf/status/1070158502214156289

https://twitter.com/GoonerProf/status/1070159003114749952

https://twitter.com/GoonerProf/status/1070159166206029824

Piss on her office door and inside on the floor. Threatened with rape, followed outside after dark, by men.

This is not any kind of liberation or progressive politics. This is disgusting male bullying of women.

It was 3:30 a.m…

https://twitter.com/GoonerProf/status/1070159319575003141

https://twitter.com/GoonerProf/status/1070164157306150912

It’s hateful malicious bullying, and you can’t build any kind of progressive politics on that. Harassing women is not in any way a form of talking truth to power, not least because women are not the sex that has monopolized power.

Comments

8 responses to “Harassment and abuse dished out”

  1. Lady Mondegreen Avatar
    Lady Mondegreen

    Peeing on someone’s door is such a womanly protest, isn’t it?

  2. Blood Knight in Sour Armor Avatar
    Blood Knight in Sour Armor

    I think I’m done with giving a shit about transwomen beyond basic human rights concerns… This is too much.

  3. Acolyte of Sagan Avatar
    Acolyte of Sagan

    Lady M., pissing on doorsteps is an aggressive form of territorial behaviour exhibited by male cats. The males of most species go through some kind of territorial marking, but usually only on their own territorial boundaries. Tom cats, however, have a particularly pungent urine which they use when a queen is in season; all males in the area wil pee around the queen’s territory to mark ownership of the female, a clear signal to both the queen and to other males which is backed up by the dischordant caterwhauling day and night..

    I only know this because of the many times I had to scrub the stench from our doorstep whenever my mother’s cats were in season (I can’t recall why, but she always waited until after the cats had been in season once before getting them spayed) and from the number of tennis- and golf balls I went through throwing them at the noisy little sods.

    With the peeing and the constant screeching calls for attention, the transactivists are behaving just like male cats. I’m not saying that I have the solution, of course. On an entirely unrelated note, the behaviour is cured in cats by neutering the males.

  4. Lady Mondegreen Avatar
    Lady Mondegreen

    AoS, Unfortunately, neutering doesn’t seem to slow the transactivists down.

  5. tiggerthewing Avatar
    tiggerthewing

    Lady Mondegreen, that’s because – to be truly effective – the neutering has to be done prior to adolescence. Otherwise, the masculine habits are too ingrained to be affected.

    On another entirely unrelated note, neutering human males before adolescence will ensure a steady supply of legal adults who never went through puberty, so will appeal to the pædophile wing of the MRA/transactivists.

  6. iknklast Avatar

    neutering human males before adolescence will ensure a steady supply of legal adults who never went through puberty

    Is that better or worse than the steady supply of legal adults who went through puberty but did not develop their brains or habits beyond those of adolescence? Because sometimes it seems our entire country has descended into juvenility.

  7. Acolyte of Sagan Avatar
    Acolyte of Sagan

    iknklast, better in one respect. Until the practice was banned Castrati were once in great demand by choirs for the purity of their voices.