Added to the signatories

So there.

Of course the nonsense follows swiftly.

MY hormones, mine mine mine, me me me. It’s personal.

Once more, with feeling: it’s not about existing. It’s about truth-claims. Truth-claims about the self are not the same thing as existence. If you say you’re forty feet tall and I say you’re not, you don’t abruptly pop out of existence. That’s not how it works.

What SurvivalSavvy said:

Oh John. Please say this isn’t so. Are you really abandoning inclusion and diversity for narrow minded anti-trans bigotry? So very disappointed.

Compelling stuff, for sure.

How is it any of a woman’s business that men want to take the word “women” away from women? The question answers itself.

Comments

9 responses to “Added to the signatories”

  1. Blood Knight in Sour Armor Avatar
    Blood Knight in Sour Armor

    Again with mixing that racism in with “transphobia”… it seems it’s the latest gambit, appropriating the unrest over George Floyd’s murder to advance their religion.

    Just today I saw a picture of a pride flag that had a series of arrows added on the left side that was white->pink->blue->brown-black. Amongst the other sins committed was it being bloody hideous, but what the hell does race have to do with LGB or even T? Fuck all…

  2. iknklast Avatar

    They already appropriated LGB successfully, even though they don’t really have a lot in common. Why not try to appropriate racism? And they’re doing everything they can to appropriate feminism; way too many “feminists” are letting them. It’s really disgusting, I think. They don’t want to do the hard work of proving their case, or get jailed for picketing or asking nicely, like both women and LGB have done, or risk being killed like Civil Rights workers risked. They just want to shove their T into every movement, and center themselves, taking advantage of work already done by those who they displace.

  3. Catwhisperer Avatar

    So John Cleese gets to keep TERFing away with impunity. Why is nobody inviting him to choke on their lady-dick, I wonder.

    (I don’t really wonder.)

  4. Ophelia Benson Avatar

    They are remonstrating with him, but…oddly enough that’s all. Not threatening or shouting or demanding everyone shun or anything like that. So puzzling, isn’t it.

  5. Rob Avatar

    “…bodies that weren’t in alignment with who they were.” Sounds dangerously close to “born in the wrong body”, which I thought was verboten as of a few days ago when Mermaids realised saying that would remove their gravy train of Government funding.

    I’m rediscovering how much I like John Cleese.

  6. Colin Day Avatar

    Well, would you attack this guy?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJoM7V54T-c

  7. maddog1129 Avatar

    Some of the tweets that Cleese is responding to have disappeared.

  8. Tineke Avatar

    Blood Knight in Sour Armour,

    I know that one. I saw it with the following text on it (From right to left, on the colours):

    White Straight Guys

    Who believe in sexist gender roles

    Hiding behind People of Color

    <—————- F***king over lesbians, gay men and bisexuals

  9. Bruce Gorton Avatar
    Bruce Gorton

    Warner Brothers Interactive’s president has made a statement on Rowling:

    https://www.ign.com/articles/wb-interactive-president-responds-to-ongoing-debate-over-supporting-jk-rowling

    “While JK Rowling is the creator of Harry Potter, and we are bringing that to life with the power of Portkey, in many places, she’s a private citizen also. And that means she’s entitled to express her personal opinion on social media. I may not agree with her, and I might not agree with her stance on a range of topics, but I can agree that she has the right to hold her opinions.”

    Which sounds like a very corporate way of telling the Twitterstasi to fuck off. Not exactly IGN’s take, reading between the lines on the article, but the comments section seems to be siding with Rowling too.

    Favourite comment:

    Oh no the 10 people that made 50 Twitter accounts each to trash Rowling are going to boycott the game. – xWargasms