Blame some woman
Quite the sexist pig, Glenn Greenwald is.
She had it coming, right? She talked back? She didn’t obey? She refused to submit?
Hur hur look at the Karen hur hur.
Meanwhile #WhiteHouseKaren is trending on Twitter. Who? Trump. He’s a Karen. Geddit?? He’s a whiny little bitch, aka a Karen, hur hur hur.
So being anti trans, is like that certain brand of skeptic that opposes pseudoscientific garbage masquerading as medicine, and this is a bad thing for the anti-trans side of the debate?
Rowling views herself as the subject of violent bullying because the violent bullies Glenn Greenwald allies himself with have come after her, threatening, variously, to mutilate, rape, and murder her. Her books have been banned or burned, billboard with her name on them have been forced down, and she has been set upon comprehensively by a misogynist online mob.
This has happened because she has suggested controversial ideas like women’s rape crisis centers shouldn’t admit men.
https://twitter.com/Dataracer117/status/1307020338748960769/photo/1
Harsh criticism is one thing. Death and rape threats are another. When the person getting rape threats is a woman who is trying to help other women who have been raped, and trying to prevent women from getting raped in the future, well, let’s say this is a pretty strong tell. Glenn, these are your people? Then I’m on the other side.
This leads me to wonder a thing. I know that women’s centers are being shut down or defunded when they refuse to admit men. I wonder if they can tear a page from the trans ideology handbook and say they are perfectly open to men, just not to people with penises. Only the men who don’t have penises are allowed. Then it’s not gender discrimination anymore, right? Nor is it discrimination against trans people, because all the trans people who don’t have penises remain welcome.
Bruce Gorton, that was exactly my thought. I am proud to be a homeopathy ‘hater’. It’s called critical thinking to not believe water can cure serious illnesses…or even minor ones. Dehydration? Yeah, I might consider homeopathy, but frankly, I think just a glass of water would still be better…and less expensive.
Also…mums? When did it become acceptable to hate mums? Oh, wait, mums are cis-women, right? Women who can actually have children? Can menstruate? Can get cervical cancer? All of which makes them a source of envy for trans-women who cannot do those things.
I see this a lot and of course there’s another way to look at it: what are the American pathologies that caused the US — and specifically its centrist/liberal media — to become Ground Zero for anti-woman fanaticism.
I don’t believe that Greenwald doesn’t see the enormously disproportionate emphasis now placed on trans issues in every single walk of life, even if he’s too blind to see how this negatively impacts women and to deaf to listen to those women. He knows there’s a rabbit away somewhere but he’d rather fall back on his default of blaming and sacrificing women rather than doing just a little bit of reading and just thinking about all this for about five seconds.
There’s a lot of it about.
I’m immensely proud that the UK has such a high proportion of the brave and brilliant women willing to stand up to this harmful ideology.
Glenn Greenwald has the thinnest skin of anyone on the planet. The idea of him criticizing anyone else for being sensitive to criticism is hilarious to me.
I’m genuinely interesting …
No, Glenn, you’re not.
The Outline article is one of the most oddest things I read. It tells us that in Britain “people feel not just comfortable but actively compelled to ask unbelievably intrusive questions about others’ gender identity and even their genitals.”
This is not my experience. No-one has ever asked me about my gender identity or (in a non-medical, non-intimate setting) about my genitals.
I was surprised that the typist, one Edie Miller, lives in Gateshead rather than, say, on Mars. If what she (or whatever pronoun she uses) types is true, life is truly Grim Up North.
Damn. Greenwald has been great on subjects like media freedom from government, free speech, and has kept his view international rather than getting sucked into the “USA is the world” mentality frequently seen in US media. It is disappointing to see a sharp critic like him turn into an idiot on this subject.
Greenwald has been Walter Duranty for our time. Years of this, and he still gets a pass because of Snowden…
@Richard:
It’s grim up here, but not quite that grim. I’m impressed, however. This is a new layer of hyperbole on top of the usual fallacious policing argument:
To which the answer is no, we all pretty much recognise men when we see them.
I’ve never seen this argument turned into an actual accusation that feminist women spend all their time camped outside public toilets demanding to inspect everyone’s genitals, though. Impressively stupid.
Yeah. Another of those assertions without evidence. Designed to make GC feminists look mean and unreasonable. Give us the names of some of these people who have been asked such intrusive questions, or give us evidence of that.
I mean, it isn’t GC feminist who refer to “uterus-havers” or “front holes”.