Oxfam Canada pisses on women
That’s nice. That’s charming. Oxfam Canada thinks women don’t get to have a day for themselves. Other subordinated groups get to have a day for themselves, but women don’t. Why’s that? Because we’re such Karens? Is that it?
Fighting for what rights? What rights do trans people – especially trans women – want that they don’t have? What rights do they have to fight for? The right to shove women aside and take all our stuff? That’s not a right. That’s just a continuation of the same old arrangement where men are in charge and women obey or else.
Fae Johnstone doesn’t have a “right” to be celebrate on International Women’s Day. He’s not a woman. He should get out of women’s concerns, leave women alone, stop taking what belongs to women. Oxfam Canada should stop cheering him on.
Also what tf is “the diversity of all identities” supposed to mean?
Re: your question. Why…the76 different special genders, of course
Brian M: 73 genders, you mean? “Man”, plus the 72 “others”.
“Woman” doesn’t matter, obviously.
Swept away in a tide of unthinking “respect for diversity,” unaware that the identities they priorize on IWD are all based on Tumblr fantasies of a decade ago.
Rave on, Ravon.
A week or two ago (in Arlington, Virginia), two young men had a table for Oxfam in front of a drug store where I went inside to buy a couple things. On my way out, one of the guys said something to get my attention. I replied, “No thank you, I give in other ways.”
As I was walking away to my car, he said, “Feel free to give yourself a halo to go with those angel wings — it’s alright by me.”
I laughed it off as I got into my car to leave. I feel totally fine about the whole thing. It’s just weird, if that was in their playbook of things to say.
It was very odd of him to say anything, certainly, but you were under no obligation to inform him about your donation habits. I can see that your brief comment might sound to him like “I’m not giving anything to you, but I must assure you that I’m a good person who gives to charity (or even to your charity) under other circumstances”. But his comment was uncalled for regardless.
Rude and hostile is what it was.
Ah, that smug sense of moral superiority. I was once actually followed to my car upon leaving a grocery store by a fellow who was collecting signatures to get a state initiative on the ballot. I forget what the measure was now, but I remember it was one of those deceptively worded things that people in a liberal university town like mine here would just sort of instinctively support without thinking about it too much, in the same way that many instinctively support the so-called Equality Act. Mister Signature-Collector used his two minutes of following-time to do his best to shame me into signing, but alas, he failed.
“Sir, sir, slow down, I’m trying to coerce you into signing this vital initiative.”