Mary Wollstonecraft was a TERF

An interesting bit of the Allison Bailey tribunal:

Good grief. I don’t know who JR is but…oy. It wasn’t called “gender critical,” obviously, but that’s because there weren’t men running around saying they were women. But yes it was all about women as opposed to men, which necessarily means it was about women as women, women of the female sex, women not men.

How did we get to this place?

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5 responses to “Mary Wollstonecraft was a TERF”

  1. iknklast Avatar

    How did we get to this place?

    Post-modernism meets identity politics. Nonsense results.

  2. NightCrow Avatar

    Dr G (Judith Green)

    suffragettes didn’t have the vote because of their sex. Sex mattered to them of course

    Of course.

    See The Case for Women’s Suffrage, 1907, passim:

    It is not yet so very long ago since the members of the Women’s Liberal Associations decided no longer to work for any candidate who was not in favour of the emancipation of their sex.…

    Our civilisation shows many pathetic figures, one of the most interesting of which is the aged lady grown grey in the cause of justice for her sex. …

    … the disfranchised sex…

    The removal of the sex disqualification will bring fresh air into English politics…

    In fact, politics would be cleared for ever of the spirit of sex domination and sex exclusiveness.…

    The young democracy of this old nation can only build in the likeness of the spirit within it, the spirit of sex domination or of sex equality.…

    Sex prejudice culminated in 1840 when duly accredited women from the United States were refused as delegates at the Anti-Slavery Convention in London.…

    … the sex barrier which has so long held us in thrall…

    Further, the interpretation of laws affecting both men and women by men only gives an opening for the operation of sex prejudice, which must often result in practical injustice to women.…

    and so on, and so on.

  3. Omar Avatar

    iknklast @#1:

    PoMo transgenderism: sounds like the start of a fashionable trend. Alongside Transgender Postmodernism, the two should form a memorable combo.

  4. Nullius in Verba Avatar
    Nullius in Verba

    The sophomoric character of their reasoning never ceases to make my eyes roll. I’ve never seen anyone have a harder time understanding the problem with saying that people in the past didn’t [dis]approve of something that didn’t exist and wasn’t conceived of until recently.

  5. Ophelia Benson Avatar

    Same. And this is presumably a grown-ass adult and a law professional, and yet here is this drivel.