We hate hatred except our own hatred
Good grief.
Yet again they honoo and stannd wif the “2SLGBTQIA+” memmers of our communinnee…while of course they don’t “stand with” those boring evil hags known as “women.” If only women could be done away with altogether! And they “stand against hate in all its forms” – except of course they don’t. This very statement reeks of hatred. They hate women who talk back, they hate women who are just women instead of trans women. They hate women who have their own opinions and think they get to utter them. They hate women who don’t just shut up and obey.
Trans rights are human rights, they intone like robots. But what are “trans rights”? For the billionth time, obviously trans rights should have human rights, but what are trans rights? How can we agree anyone should have them when they’re not spelled out?
They promise to confront all forms of hate while they’re in the very act of inciting hatred against feminist women who don’t want trans “activists” to destroy women’s rights. They’re inciting hatred in this very (shockingly childish and crude) “statement.”
But … so what? So what if someone feels unsafe? Feeling something to be the case doesn’t mean that it is the case, and if someone feels something to be true when it isn’t, that feeling is something to be corrected, not catered to.
NiV, so right. I felt I was a waste of a human being, to the point that I didn’t eat. My doctor didn’t “validate” that feeling. My doctor helped me work through it.
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…we would say they were mistaken, or possibly even delusional.
And this isn’t just “catering” or “validating” but suggesting and exacerbating this conceit of persecution and un-safety. Those marchers were out to get you!
It’s like the constant invocation of suicidal ideation in trans people, should their gender identities be questioned in any way at all. “GIVE THEM WHAT THEY WANT OR THEY’LL KILL THEMSELVES! (You will kill yourselves, right? It’s what we’ve told them to expect, so play along. They won’t just give you what you’re demanding, you know. Carrot and stick. The carrot is you not killing yourselves. The stick is, well, the other. Do try to be convincing! We’re counting on you! We’re on your side!)”
I do a lot of built environment work, and am often asked to advise on space design. It comes up over and over, as it should, that we want to create spaces in which women ‘feel safe’. I keep pointing out to people who use this phrasing that I appreciate that they care whether women ‘feel safe’, but would appreciate it even more if they focused on creating spaces where women (and men) can BE safe.