All about…her?
*bangs head repeatedly on desk*
— Laurie Penny (@PennyRed) March 2, 2020
Of my many many objections to this piece, the most personal is that I was trying to have a rare day off and am now digging out a proper actual response.
So many people telling her to take as many days off as she likes.
Jane on the other hand has some tips.
Notes for Laurie.
— Dr. Jane Clare Jones (@janeclarejones) March 3, 2020
1. No emotional blackmail
2. No hyperbolic statistics or claims
3. No blaming women for male violence against trans people
4. No amorphous manipulative claims about safety
5. No bullshit analogies comparing women who want to maintain their rights to racists,
oppressed
— Dr. Jane Clare Jones (@janeclarejones) March 3, 2020
9. Has an adequate way of dealing with the thought that gender is a system which has arisen to oppress female people plus other gender non conforming people
10. Explains why we should believe that people's feelings about their gender changes material reality
to organise as a sex class and the rights given to them as a sex class
— Dr. Jane Clare Jones (@janeclarejones) March 3, 2020
13. Explains why removing these rights from women doesn't constitute an attack on women's rights they might legitimately resist
14. Explains how allowing male people into female people's spaces in an entirely
no-platforming, threatening of livelihood etc, and explains how the fuck you manage to carry on thinking you are on the side of women while you pretend that this isn't happening and suggest in fact we are nasty bitches for pointing it out.
— Dr. Jane Clare Jones (@janeclarejones) March 3, 2020
H/t KBPlayer for the LP tweet.
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7 responses to “Another day off ruined”
Jane Clare Jones is, as always, amazing.
(I think the tip on the tweet was from KBPlayer.)
Wow. A thing of beauty.
In fact, a few more items and we’ve got a bingo card for scoring TRA rhetoric.
Those rules are both completely reasonable yet also insurmountable. Insurmountable for the TRA side that is; if the observed those rules, their case would evaporate.
Oops – thanks Sastra.
Laurie Penny never disappoints in her poor little me wailing on any issue. She did some article after the general election of how bitterly hurt and disappointed she was that the electorate rejected Corbyn. This time it’s personal, as it was last time, and the time before that.
She actually can write decent reportage but her fits of the vapours make me reluctant to admit this.
She’s kind of the Alex Gabriel of journalism that way.