Causing firestorms again
Local tv news station – not the Sinclair one – reports on the outburst of stupid over the WoLF event at the library.
The not at all tendentious or well-poisoning headline:
Event at Seattle Public Library causes firestorm, group accused of being ‘hate group’
Aka Trans activists lose their shit because feminists meet to discuss what we mean by “gender.” The event isn’t causing any firestorm, stupid angry unreasonable people are creating a firestorm out of nothing. Group is accused of being a hate group by stupid angry unreasonable people who are stupid and unreasonable. Group is not a hate group. People protesting group are much more like a hate group than group is.
An event is causing backlash at the Seattle Public Library.
See above. The event is not causing it. People are choosing to cause it because they dislike feminists who don’t endorse every word of trans ideology.
A group called the “Women’s Liberation Front” booked the Microsoft auditorium at the library for an event that critics say is anti-transgender. It has many people calling for the library to cancel the event.
What does “anti-transgender” mean though? If it means we hate trans people as such then it’s a lie. If it means we think many of the claims of the ideology are wrong…then why aren’t we allowed to think that and even to say it?
On the library’s Facebook page there are more than a thousand comments with many people asking, how can a group that’s spreading what they consider hate speech be allowed in a city building?
Artfully put; captures the solipsism nicely. “I consider this hate speech therefore you are required to shut it down.” Nah.
The Eventbrite page for the event questions transgender activism, saying, “are the claims made by these activists actually true, or even coherent? What does it mean to say that people can be ‘born in the wrong body’?”
Well? Are they? What does it mean? We get to ask.
Trans rights activist group, the Gender Justice League said in a statement on their website, “A hate group using the library as a venue to ‘critique’ the existence of a minority group creates a hostile environment and is unacceptable.”
Is that right? How does the Gender Justice League feel about, say, the Proud Boys?
Everybody critiques the existence of some minority group or other. Some minority groups are racist; some are terrorist; some are murderous. There’s nothing wrong or “unacceptable” about critiquing the existence of minority groups and in fact the protesters are doing exactly that while telling this other minority group that it is not allowed to.
The phrase is probably meant to imply that WoLF is saying trans groups shouldn’t exist and thus that trans people shouldn’t exist, which is dishonest and manipulative.
The ACLU reminds you – if you’re upset, you can exercise your right to free speech and protest.
The WOLF event is scheduled for February 1.
If you’re upset, you can exercise your right to free speech and protest, but it would be a good plan to get your facts straight before deciding to be upset. Thinking men are not women is not the same as thinking trans people should not exist. The distinction is quite important.
In a related thought, I wonder how long before trans activists take on these “gender reveal” parties? That would be nice, if they would do something constructive, but they won’t. Parents are a powerful pressure group; feminists not so much. They won’t challenge the powerful.
I hate gender reveal parties – what the hell does it matter? Boy or girl, it’s a child, right? If boys didn’t matter so much, and girls so little, and if we weren’t so committed to maintaining the societal distinctions between them, then gender reveal parties would not be a thing, because, really, what does it matter?
I did not get an ultrasound and know the sex of my child before he was born. My friends were all “how will you know how to decorate the room? What clothes to buy?” I didn’t care. It wasn’t going to be a pink/blue divide, in fact, his room was done in Winnie-the-Pooh, using the Winnie-the-Pooh colors, and even my parents couldn’t find anything wrong with that. Do it right, and even the most gender-divided parents (like mine) will think it’s fine for girl or boy. It shouldn’t matter. I didn’t plan to design the room to socialize my child to believe any particular gender ideology.
As an aside…I may be in trouble with the TRAs soon. I just did a lab in General Biology where my students had to identify the sex of the reproductive structures of a plant. Such an archaic approach, to think sex is binary enough to tell the difference! And…I didn’t have them ask the plant how it identified. It was pink, if that’s any help.
I can’t wait for the day when the trans plants start to organize.
The Gender Justice League is a hate group.
There. Now the Gender Justice League has been called a hate group.
Also, fourth rate superheroes.
In a thought related to iknklast’s related thought, it has occurred to me that the strange recent propensity to emphasize girly-girl-things for girls and guy-dude-things for boys, with sexually dimorphic toy aisles, might be in part due to the fact that parents today know the baby’s sex almost as soon as they’re pregnant.
I’m older. I didn’t — nor did anyone who wasn’t testing the fetus for genetic abnormalities. What happens then is that you spend about 7 months or so imagining the baby. Thinking about parenting it; preparing for it; going through mental checklists and concerns about a baby. Not a boy or girl — oh, sure, you wondered — but just a small and possibly irritable and hopefully cute human being.
You bought and received gender neutral onesies and nighties in yellow and green. Toys were rattles and teething rings without feminine or masculine flourishes. Cribs were decorated with turtles or fish or other things which could do for either sex. You kept telling yourself and others that oh, you didn’t care — “as long as it’s healthy.”
Could that NGC incubation period have mattered?
Papito
Batperson couldn’t be reached for comment after Wonder Woman stated that Themyscira wasn’t open to trans immigration.
“Look, Aphrodite’s blessing is clear – if we let men on the island we lose our immortality,” Diana Prince stated, “I mean we let one in, we all frigging die.”
Jon Jonz stated he was appalled at how his personhood as a genderfluid individual was being negated, and that he felt dehumanised by the whole affair. Superman was kicked out of the league for pointing out that Jon wasn’t human in the first place.
A green lantern was later heard saying “Okay boomer” when Superman insisted that as an alien himself, he didn’t see what was wrong with the comment.
I just realized this could be misinterpreted as my wondering whether the mother’s lack of focus on gender somehow imprinted on the fetus in the womb. No, I just meant that the baby starts out with parents and environment mentally and physically prepared for just a baby, not a little princess or awesome guy.
The Gender Justice League failed to impress as superheroes when the evil geniuses they were supposed to fight for the fate of the world quickly realized that mis-pronouning rendered them helpless. Even finding kryptonite took some work.