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Repositioning

Jun 10th, 2021 | By Ophelia Benson
Category: Notes and Comment Blog

Glosswitch says it.

"Men often react to women’s words—speaking and writing—as if they were acts of violence; sometimes men react to women’s words with violence" (Dworkin, Intercourse). One for all those equating women seeking not to be discriminated against with women seeking to discriminate.

— Victoria Smith (@glosswitch) June 10, 2021

Take a bow, BBC.

"Reassurances" that feminists having the right to speak doesn't mean they have the right to harass aren't intended to reassure, but to reposition feminists as aggressors rather than victims of age-old policing of women's speech about their lives & embodied experiences

— Victoria Smith (@glosswitch) June 10, 2021

Nailed it.

Employers must also keep workers who hold gender critical views safe from discrimination and harassment. That’s what today’s judgment was actually about. And that is something that hasn’t been the case until now. https://t.co/teHfUtJ3Qw

— becca (@boodleoops) June 10, 2021

Just look at the TUC doing exactly the thing Glosswitch said – repositioning feminists as aggressors. The past half century might as well not have happened as far as feminism is concerned.

3 Responses to “Repositioning”

#1
tigger_the_wing
June 10, 2021 at 8:20 am

The only way they can think of to defend an indefensible position is to label their opponents as the ones who are doing the the very things that they themselves are doing. DARVO.

Again.
#2
Ophelia Benson
June 10, 2021 at 9:11 am

Exactly.
#3
latsot
June 11, 2021 at 1:53 am

Victoria is absolutely brilliant (so is boodleoops). If you don’t subscribe to her (Glosswitch’s) email letters, you’re missing out: https://tinyletter.com/Glosswitch/