Let’s just stop talking about women, mkay? Can we do that now finally at last? It’s so excluding.
I don’t want to be difficult, but I’m just not sure that the word “woman” can hold all of the political weight that we need it to in 2018. Organizing solely around 'womanhood' is also organizing solely around the gender binary #InternationalWomensDay https://t.co/PV1OAUHMyL
— Jacob Tobia (@JacobTobia) March 8, 2018
Yeah and organizing around anti-racism excludes white people. Organizing to protect immigrants’ rights excludes people who were here all along. Anti-poverty campaigns exclude rich people. Organizing workers excludes bosses. Won’t somebody please think of the bosses?
I look around a room full of Women’s March supporters and I wonder to myself, “Do they understand me as a woman? Do they really get how much I belong here? Or do they just think that I’m some sort of cute ally? #InternationalWomensDay
— Jacob Tobia (@JacobTobia) March 8, 2018
I look around a room full of women and I wonder why they’re not focusing on me.
I look around a room full of celebs proclaiming time’s up and I wonder if they really see me in their movement. #InternationalWomensDay
— Jacob Tobia (@JacobTobia) March 8, 2018
I look around and wonder why they’re not looking at me.
I listen to @Oprah talking about “every woman who chooses to say, ‘Me too.’ And every man who chooses to listen” and I wonder: What does she mean by “woman” and “man”? How does she understand those terms? What do they mean to her? #InternationalWomensDay
— Jacob Tobia (@JacobTobia) March 8, 2018
I listen to Oprah and I wonder why she’s not talking about me.
So for fuck’s sake let’s finally stop talking about women, OKAY?
I want to propose what I think is an elegant solution. What if, instead of mobilizing solely around “Women,” we mobilize around “Women and Femmes.” It sorta does the trick, no? #InternationalWomensDay
— Jacob Tobia (@JacobTobia) March 8, 2018
That’s a step on the way to talking about me instead of those stupid boring women.
By the way it’s not Jacob Tobia’s solution. Jacob Tobia is late on the scene. Sincere Kirabo treated it as established way back in October 2016:
Huh. It turns out that Women in Secularism isn’t about women. It’s about “women and femmes.” I have no real idea what that’s supposed to mean, since it obviously doesn’t mean femme lesbians, because they are of course women so there’d be no need for an “and.”
At least, it’s about that according to Sincere Kirabo, who attended the one last weekend. It’s not about that according to CFI, which holds the conference, but hey what do they know.
This past weekend, my colleague Jessica Xiao and I had the honor of attending the Center For Inquiry’s Women In Secularism 4(WIS).
The honor? Attending isn’t an honor. That sounds like having the honor to ride the bus or see a movie. Buying a ticket to something doesn’t confer honor.
Anyway – on to the femmes.
This conference brought together a diverse lineup of speakers—including American Humanist Association President Rebecca Hale—to address both the progress and challenges uniquely related to the lives of women and femmes.
I didn’t understand then and I still don’t understand why Sincere Kirabo thought it was up to him to claim that Women in Secularism was really Women and Femmes in Secularism, but anyway, he was there well before Jacob Tobias’s “elegant” solution.
By adding "and femmes," we'll no longer have to worry about being misconstrued as trans-exclusive. We'll acknowledge by default that womanhood and femininity live on a spectrum of bodies, shapes, genitals, and people. #InternationalWomensDay
— Jacob Tobia (@JacobTobia) March 8, 2018
We’ll take women’s movement away from them while pretending we’re doing it to be more “inclusive.” It’s only women who are stupid enough and accommodating enough and kind enough to let this be done to them…which is why they need to organize, but we’re taking that away from them, so, score!
So say it loud and say it proud: HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN AND FEMMES' DAY Y'ALL! #womenandfemmes #InternationalWomensDay
— Jacob Tobia (@JacobTobia) March 8, 2018
Next year we’ll drop the “WOMEN” part.
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What a self-centred….errr….prick.
I’m reminded of a joke-that’s-not-a-joke from years back which was tpld as a wy of highlighting the stupidity behind the Irish-are-thick stereotype, but it seems just as salient here.
What do the Irish call a baby born without a penis?
(I don’t know. What do..etc)
A girl, you racist.
“Do they understand me as a woman? Do they really get how much I belong here? Or do they just think that I’m some sort of cute ally?”
I wonder what will happen the day he realises that most women actually think of him as a threat.
Is Jacob thinking, at all, about the transgendered people who just want not to be picked out as such? Those who want to pass as their felt gender identity, or those who are very happy when it’s simply not an issue? It’s not a position that lends itself to activism – hard to be shouty about the desire to blend quietly in – but I’m absolutely sure it’s a common position among the people Jacob’s all about trying to include. Trying to include, that is, by bringing them all sorts of attention they do not want.
@Jeff Engel, Jacob isn’t thinking about them either. He’s not thinking about anybody besides himself.
BTW, I don’t buy Jacob’s faux humility. “I want to propose”, “it sorta does the trick, no?” He’d impose his rules on us all if he could.
Feminism is about women, Jacob. You’re not a woman. Go start your own movement for men who like lipstick.
Is this person for real? It reads like a parody.
No.
Yes, better than you do.
Nope.
I would think Russian troll, but he has a pretty detailed bio.
I scrolled through his (I believe that’s the correct pronoun — a femme man who is a woman also?) twitter feed and went back and forth a few times between “brilliant hoax” and “crazy person”.
I had about settled on “crazy person” when I came across his retweet of this:
https://mobile.twitter.com/Qwearfashion/status/969641191678599170
Well, no, I thought, that certainly can’t be real. Why would someone be made up all “femme” for a makeup advertising campaign while not bothered to be freshly shaved and sporting more chest hair than most non-femme men? Ha ha, brilliant — you got me!
Then I scrolled down a bit more and eventually settled back on “crazy person”. Way too many pictures and contact with apparently real people to be a bot or a simple hoax.
And note I’m not calling him crazy because of the makeup or hair or clothes. What makes him crazy is the almost literally unbelievable level of self-centeredness.
Regarding the ‘crazy or troll’ question, recall that this Jacob has graced this blog before – he was one of the trio of ‘non-binary’ twits that were complaining about not getting laid enough.
Here we go:
http://www.butterfliesandwheels.org/2017/the-sorrows-of-young-famous-nonbinary-femmes/
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wjq99z/why-cant-my-famous-gender-nonconforming-friends-get-laid
And if you’re not interested in rereading, just a photo to jog your memory:
https://instagram.fadl1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/vp/500d13f3b718de2acbd59b40caa1886b/5B3F1E88/t51.2885-15/e35/13423463_1066904633363546_1342283861_n.jpg
‘Intersectional:’ the path by which ever issue leads back to the speaker’s pet hobbyhorse. Hence, Farrakhan on Women’s Day, HAMAS at ‘Black Lives Matter.’ And always and ever the hijacking of women’s rights by this cult of gender-essentialist trannies.
Holms #8
And being denied the privilege of getting objectified.
Holms @ 9 – ohhh, thanks – sure enough, I had forgotten.
Bjarte, I was thinking of that article when I was reading this one.
I was, and remain amused over his whining. “Why won’t cis-het men fuck me when I dress like a hooker and twerk my ass in their faces? Because cis-het men are transphobic.” No, you twonk, it’s because putting on a micro-mini and a smear of lippy magically does not make his penis disappear to be replaced by a fully-formed vagina, and because heterosexual men generally don’t want to have sex with other men (or ladies with a penis), and because calling his anus his ‘boi-pussy’ and his penis a ‘boi-clit’ (as I believe are the expressions) does not make it so.
Such a sense of entitlement. And now he wants to re-define women because he’s so femme. He’s pulling out all the stops to get laid, isn’t he, to the extent of throwing all actual, genuine women under the steam-roller.
AoS, maybe he figures once all the actual, genuine women are flattened by the steamroller, that won’t leave anyone for the cis-het men, so they’ll have to turn to him for love.
Then he’s as delusional as he is needy.