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The @MeTooSTEM grovel got even more grovelly.
When has anyone ever talked to actual women like that? When has anyone ever apologized to women for sexist insults or misogynist epithets like that? When has anyone ever repudiated something a volunteer retweeted in such abject and sympathy-oozing terms?
Never that I know of. I haven’t seen all the content that exists, of course, but I have paid a lot of attention to how people talk to and about women on social media and this kind of belly-crawling and sobbing with pity on behalf of women is starkly unfamiliar to me. “We are so sorry for the hurtful content” – nope, that’s not how that goes when it’s mere women at the receiving end. In fact, if you Google that phrase with the “” the only matches are this tweet. Nobody is “so sorry” when we’re the ones getting it in the neck (and by the way trans people weren’t getting it in the neck via the content in question). It’s only trans people – trans women especially – who are treated as so fragile and so righteous that no expiation is enough for saying something skeptical about transism.
And that’s just the tweet. The statement itself is the same but more of it. We are sorry, they yelp, cowering. “Our trans family” – what about “their female family”? Pff, who cares about them. “We unreservedly apologize to those that have hurt too long over too much hate.” Again – has anyone ever said anything like that to women? Does that sound like a normal part of the discourse around women and feminism and misogyny? Not to me it doesn’t.
“No transphobia will be tolerated.” “We affirm that trans women are women.” “We denounce transphobia that masquerades as feminism.” “We promise to learn from this experience and do better going forward.”
Who decides which feminism is “transphobia that masquerades as feminism”? Is there any appeal? Can just one tweet from one random troll brand a feminist discussion as transphobia in a mask?
It apparently took just one in this case.
Who’s he? Who’s Troy Roepke? Why does he get to decide which feminism is “transphobia” in a mask? Why does he get to make an entire organization ostensibly for sexually abused women fall prostrate and apologize as if they’d committed a slew of murders?
It was just one tweet. That’s all it took.
Surrender was swift and complete.
We’re sorry we’re sorry we’re sorry we’re sorry!
Are they ever.
When my daughter was a teenager, she went through a (too long) stage of being very, very sensitive and needing lots and lots of apologies. “Okay, I’m sorry.” (Through tears) “But WHY are you sorry? Say why you’re sorry or you don’t understand!” It never seemed to be enough.
This is the only thing I can relate this to. Well, that and what happens online when you make a mistake like “transwoman “ instead of “trans woman” or say something which implies they’re not actually women. It’s as if everyone who identifies as transgender is stuck in adolescence with a painfully low threshold for taking personal offense.
Or, of course, like they’re all on a bridge threatening to jump.
And the entire rest of the world is their worried parent.
It seems to me that the act of apologising has been reified. Oops, apologising to TRAs has been reified. That is, it is not merely offering an apology any more, it is now a thing in itself, an act to display one’s holiness and purity to others of the gender cult. The cultists fucking love finding pathetically small ‘wrong’ for the extraction of these, and the victim willingly punishes themselves with public humiliation.
Is anyone else seeing a parallel to flagellation?
This all does make it clear that “MeTooSTEM” is not an organization about women. Some dude from the internet complains and they all bend over backwards…
I thought “Me Too” was supposed to refer to women having also been harassed sexually at work by men, not to women also bending over backwards to please strange men. Or is that the same thing?
I do see the parallels, Holms.
It is definitely cult-like.
There’s some of both, but I think there’s also a big dollop of rolling on their backs and exposing their vulnerable bellies to the accepted attack from angry members of the pack, demonstrating their willing submission and obedience to the rightful wrath of the offended-against hierarchy. And a touch of the confessions of those about to be sent off to (or coming out of) re-education camp. It’s so frighteningly internalized and disheartening to witness, even at a remove such as this.
Here’s a gem I have just come across from another
TMRA.I swear, the Scarecrow in Wizard of Oz had less need of a brain than these people.
Huh. So you could have a woman who looks like oh I don’t know, Scarlett Johansson, but if she identifies as “masculine” then she’s attractive to gay men. Innnnnnteresting.
There must also be a lot of butch lesbians suddenly looking over their shoulders.
Not to mention the Ghost of Quentin Crisp.
Sorry Quentin, you’ve just been retroactively transed and straightened.
OMG noes!!!!
Not QUENTIN!
Oh, come on. I distinctly seem to remember some skeptic’s group once telling a woman who complained about sexual harassment “We’re sorry you feel that way”. That’s basically the same thing You know. #sarcasm
In fact being L or G (especially the former) in anything but the above sense (mutatis mutandis) is in itself the height of bigotry and evil. Yet there are no conflicts or contradictions between the different components of the “LGBT” movement, they all want the same thing, speak with one voice etc. #moresarcasm
“Specifics of genitals of the person or their partner as well as their sexual habits are not part of the definition.”
Really? Well, then there’s no need for orientation at all, no more LGB in LGBT! it’s Trans all the way down! In a related question, if “genitals don’t matter”, how come all these trans lesbians don’t date men?