Include some sewage in your ice cream

Newsweek pretends to be surprised that women don’t particularly like seeing something called International Women’s Day being incloooosive of men. Being incloooosive can be good some of the time, but when it’s a matter of celebrating the half of humanity that gets shoved aside and ignored when it’s not being mocked and belittled and raped, you kind of miss the whole point by inclooooding people who are not part of that shoved aside disparaged half.

Things that are supposed to be for everyone should be inclusive. Definitely. That’s what “for everyone” means. But things that are supposed to be for a specific set of people? Being inclusive of people not in that set? No. That just misses the whole point. Yes be inclusive of all kinds of women, obviously, but no, don’t be inclusive of men who claim to be women, also obviously. If you throw a birthday party for your friend, you don’t have to be inclusive of the whole neighborhood or city or country. If you throw a party to celebrate women, you don’t have to be inclusive of men, even the ones lost in a fantasy that they are women. In fact them especially.

Some social media users have called for a boycott of Hershey’s products over its decision to include a transgender woman in its International Women’s Day advertising campaign in Canada.

Yes, because a transgender woman is by definition a man.

The chocolate manufacturer brought back its SHE bar for a third time on March 1, to “shine a light on the women and girls who inspire us every day.”

One of those chosen for the promotion is Fae Johnstone, a transgender rights activist, who said they were honored to be featured.

But it’s not his turn to be honored. Honor him on one of the many days that celebrate trans people. Don’t do it on the one day that’s about women.

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