When mature adults talk like addled teenagers.
Rosie Duffield and Putin both know where to look for the sun at dawn, but that doesn’t make them friends or allies. Claiming Putin is a friend of Rosie’s is fatuous.
Again – it’s not fascist to know that men are not women. How is Ghul not embarrassed to talk such childish drivel?
Again – fatuous. We’re not advocating for the marginalisation and erasure from public life of anyone. Men who claim to be women can go right on being in public life even though we point out that they are men. We’re not denying their right to existence as an equal human being – and saying we are is quite outrageous as well as fatuous. People’s right to existence as equal human beings does not depend on forcing everyone to agree with their fantasies about themselves. And it’s not “regressive” to know what women are.
Is she…just seriously stupid? I guess?
Updating to add even more fatuity.
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Yes, we’re quite fine with them having both an existence and a public life. We’re fine with them wearing dresses and make up and tilting their head and pointing their toe. We are fine with them simpering and acting silly. We are not fine with them using women’s spaces, because THEY ARE NOT WOMEN.
As for biological essentialism, the definition of woman and man is based on biology. Always has been. It refers to female and male, which are defined by biological functions in ALL sexually reproducing species.
Some things are essentially biological. Among them are reproductive maturity, species, and sex. We identify women by the essentially biological features marked by “adult”, “human”, and “female”. Further descriptors can apply to each woman; e.g., liberal, conservative, Communist, fascist, biologist, chemist, mother, sister, author, surgeon, lawyer, politician, funny, smart, shady, honest. In what fucking way does this analysis fit the pejorative sense of “biologically essentialist”?
I really can’t stand the pseudo-intellectuallism characteristic of this movement.
Oh, and the whole thing with Putin isn’t just guilt by association. It’s also a variation on “that’s what an X says/would say”. Which, if anyone cares, is the fallacy of affirming the consequent. Even if we grant that if A, then B, we don’t get to infer that A from B.
.For some weird reason, people commonly think that once a statement has been categorised, it’s only one step short of the garbage bin, and so can be dismissed..
Dog lover? Vegetarian? You’re literally Hitler.
Amateur painter? Fond of mountaintop vistas? Hitler Hitler Hitler.
off topic, but . . .
a woman who stood up . . . .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0VpfiMcPPA
She reminds me of kids in the primary school playground long ago. I can almost hear her say ‘nyeah nyeah’ after some of those tweets. (I believe they say ‘neener neener’ in the States.)
Both. We by no means despise “nyeah nyeah” (though we tend to spell it “nyah nyah”) here.
I was attempting to represent a pronunciation that I remember hearing in the primary school playground, in north-west Middlesex sixty-odd years ago, with the second syllable mockingly prolonged. It was also sometimes pronounced (more or less) as ‘nyeah nyuh’.