The real fight is not about pregnancy
The ignorance is staggering.
Not anti-women, just anti-women. Women aren’t allowed to get together to talk about women’s rights, that’s blatant hypocrisy and transphobia, and it’s not at all anti-women to say so.
Ahhhhh but what if we don’t call it “the LGBT community”? What then? What if we call it the LGB community? Changes everything, doesn’t it.
News flash: there is no law that we have to include the T. The reality is the T doesn’t have much in common with the L and the G, and it tends to do all the talking and certainly all the shouting, so a lot of people are fed up with the forced teaming.
But it gets even better.
For sure. I just can’t imagine why women would be talking about women’s rights at a moment when the Supreme Court is about to enshrine forced pregnancy in federal law. How selfish and narcissistic women are making it all about them. Let’s talk about how forced pregnancy affects men.
Do better! Stop making abortion rights all about women! Be inclusive of men when you talk about abortion rights!
Sure, hypothetical future incursions against body autonomy might be super bad and might involve men. But the one that’s happening right now, the one that isn’t hypothetical at all, is all about women.
Well, Mr. Koch does says he “writes literary horror and surrealist trash.”
Here I think he’s writing horror and trash simultaneously. Just not in the way he thinks.
Seem to recall an Iranian president insisting he couldn’t be antisemitic because Persians are semitic… He had a stronger if not better point.
One of the moments that made me really start questioning “trans rights” and “inclusivity” was engaging with a TRA (I think an NB woman) after the Women’s March who was complaining about all the exclusive language and signs at the March about abortion and uteruses and how we shouldn’t talk about abortion. When I challenged this person as to how you can advocate for abortion rights without talking about abortion, she said we should just talk about “bodily autonomy”. I went through her Profile and saw pictures of her making a sign that said “keep your laws out of my uterus”. When I pointed that out she blocked me and removed me from the group. The aftermath of the Women’s March, with centering transwomen, and transwomen dictating how women could speak about our own experiences and controlling what words we could use, made me see that this was a movement based in male privilege and patriarchal control of women. It put me on the path to becoming GC. Anyone who tries to dictate how women can talk about their bodies, pregnancy, abortion, menstruation, etc., is frankly an enemy to women. I can’t think of any other word to use.
Cutting the genitals off gay children, and conversion by transy, are homophobic, for starters.
That’s the sort of advanced logic that leads to statements like “Arabs are Semitic; therefore, they can’t be anti-Semitic!” Only worse because the “T” does not imply (let alone entail) homosexuality.
Crocodiles are part of the GAZC (Gnu-Antelope-Zebra-Crocodile) community, so how can supporting crocodiles be gnuphobic?
I suspect the ubiquity of variations on this “argument” has something to do with the proliferation of the word “community”. (Obviously in addition to the obscuring, leveling effect of referring to LGBTQIA↑↑↓↓←→←→BAStart rather than discrete groups.) “Community” conjures images of, well, actual communities, with the “unity” root doing some very heavy lifting. All members are unified; if one goes against another, that implies not unified; therefore, no community member goes against another.
Bjarte that’s perfect!
I’ve grown to loathe the word “community.” It started with the BBC’s endless blither about “the Muslim community” in the UK, by which it always meant the most reactionary theocratic wing of said “community.”
You should compile a list of all the words modern politics has ruined for you.
Did, 15 years ago.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2007/jun/28/awelcomedictionaryoffashio
The Guardian article links to Butterflies and Wheels Dot Com, not Dot Org. (A very strange site, that Dot Com variant is, having nothing whatsoever to do with this one.) The dictionary unfortunately doesn’t come up if I correct the domain in the URL.
Oh, sorry. Jeremy declined to hand over the domain, so things like that are messed up.
Well, at least whoever grabbed the domain name is aggregating stories related to philosophy. My old domain was picked up by a Brazilian link farmer and everything was in portogese and had no coherent theme.