Pour rendre visible les féministes abolitionnistes
Today, as part of the protest for the international women's day I joined along with the women of @l_amazone_ the brave survivors of CAPP (the collective for the abolition of pornography and prostitution). There were about 15 of us. https://t.co/4vzc4XrCWJ
— narfem (@radfmnst) March 7, 2021
"If your feminism profits pimps then it's not feminism", "If you promote prostitution as work then you're in the wrong side of history", "Porn prostitution is a war against women" etc. After, an activist tried to tear a banner calling a pro prostitution organization a pimp lobby.
— narfem (@radfmnst) March 7, 2021
After that we formed a kind of barricade at the foot of the statue to make sure no one manages to climb it and attack the ones who were at the top with the banners.
An hour after, tens of queer activists came in front of the statue and started yelling pic.twitter.com/mLpCcrHhqc— narfem (@radfmnst) March 7, 2021
The yelling went on and on, along with throwing things.
The ones amongst us who have their identities shown on social media get constant death threats from TRAs. This can't keep going, please share @preta_6 @leslierenfrew @Woke_Misogyny @LailaMickelwait @hatpinwoman @Docstockk @MForstater @suzanne_moore @TheArabUterus
— narfem (@radfmnst) March 7, 2021
I’m having a hard time understanding where all the vitriol is coming from, and can only guess that it’s because the women who are against prostitution and porn are being blamed for male violence against prostitutes. And how do the transgender and their advocates manage to personalize it as a trans issue? Because they’re radical feminists? I don’t know what they’re shouting at them.
Very disturbing.
It is confusing, to be sure, Sastra. I suspect that sex work is taken up as a trans issue because so many MtF transgender persons engage in it, and would like to see it normalized in society. That it damages women is of no concern to them (because, of course, they are not women, they are selfish men).
I saw elsewhere that there was French graffiti saying “save a trans, kill a TERF”.
A friend on FB posted a meme with Dolly Parton telling people that, if they don’t respect trans people’s pronouns, “I’ll change your pronouns to ‘was’ and ‘were’ “. Not only is the grammar wrong, that’s a veiled threat. I also doubt Dolly Parton said anything of the sort.
I really do not understand why it is somehow OK to be so cavalier about killing people who disagree. It’s clear from instances like the attacks in the OP that there are those who will engage in actual violence over this issue.
Okay, got more:
(Sastra – sorry about the hold on the comment – it was a missing . in your address!)
The unabashedly murderous threats – I know – we (the terfs) have been pointing this out all along. It’s just mind-boggling how much of it there is and how little pushback there is from the yay-trans crowd. By “little” I mean zero.
James, #2
Which is confusing, because one of the more common complaints from the trans lobby is that MtF trans people are so excluded from society that they are often forced into sex work, either in prostitution or porn, because nobody else will employ them. Now they’re chanting ‘my body my choice’ (appropriated from the pro-choice campaigners for abortion, because they really are short of original ideas – everything they either have or demand to have is taken from women) as though they want to be sex workers and it’s women who are preventing them.
One day they’ll come up with a single, coherent agenda, but I won’t recommend anybody holding their breath until it happens.