“All the ‘TERFS’ I have been exposed to…” – and exactly how many is that, George?
“…look feminine…” – by whose standards? Feminine? Or simply female? Because you can tell the sex of another person just as well as any of us.
“…but have aggressive male energy.” So aggression is a male trait? Women aren’t allowed to fight, even when our rights are under threat? Or do you just regard anything other than complete submission from a woman as ‘aggressive’ and not to be allowed? That would suit you aggressive males, wouldn’t it?
George isn’t very bright, is he? JKR posed for one celebratory photograph after the Supreme Court victory, with the cigar and champagne – in what way does that mean she “…models herself on Churchill…”?
There’s no contradiction, George. Women aren’t the ones holding people to unrealistic and arbitrary standards of femininity and masculinity. We don’t care if men wear makeup and dresses. I’m not threatened by the existence of a bloke dolling himself up when I have no intention of ever doing such a thing, and if that’s all those blokes were doing there would be zero problem.
But that wasn’t enough for the fetishists, was it? Simply being allowed to wear whatever they liked didn’t satisfy their aggressive male energy, did it? No, they had to stop women having anything to ourselves; and THAT is why we have a problem.
Take away our rights to single-sex spaces, our rights to form social groups without men, to exclude men from our dating pools? Damn right we’ll get ‘aggressive’ – although a better word would be ‘obstructive’. We’ve been using the law to talk about and strengthen our rights. It’s the other side which has been using aggressive behaviour in an attempt to intimidate us into giving up.
I have actually heard gender critical people hold up this clown as a positive example of “gender-bending” done “right”. As far as I could tell, their case was entirely based on the fact that he calls himself Boy George (i.e. does not claim to be a woman/girl).
OK, I am going to be that person and state that JKR was larping a character from the original A-Team TV show. Hannibal was his name, his was the boss of the group and he always said “I love it when a plan comes together”
Mister Boy George can’t even get his cultural references right. And, BTW and IMHO, nothing says toxic male energy like MBG tying a rent boy up and beating him with a chain. Just saying. I won’t be taking MBG’s opinion on proper female or feminine energy, obviously.
I don’t know what he’s trying to say here. Is he saying that women should remain in their strict feminine gender roles, because to be too manly is abhorrent to him?
Sounds like he doesn’t think that gender is only for the male-born to express fluidity, while the female-born are to remain feminine. Do you really want to hurt me, George?
“All the ‘TERFS’ I have been exposed to…” – and exactly how many is that, George?
“…look feminine…” – by whose standards? Feminine? Or simply female? Because you can tell the sex of another person just as well as any of us.
“…but have aggressive male energy.” So aggression is a male trait? Women aren’t allowed to fight, even when our rights are under threat? Or do you just regard anything other than complete submission from a woman as ‘aggressive’ and not to be allowed? That would suit you aggressive males, wouldn’t it?
George isn’t very bright, is he? JKR posed for one celebratory photograph after the Supreme Court victory, with the cigar and champagne – in what way does that mean she “…models herself on Churchill…”?
Another thing:
There’s no contradiction, George. Women aren’t the ones holding people to unrealistic and arbitrary standards of femininity and masculinity. We don’t care if men wear makeup and dresses. I’m not threatened by the existence of a bloke dolling himself up when I have no intention of ever doing such a thing, and if that’s all those blokes were doing there would be zero problem.
But that wasn’t enough for the fetishists, was it? Simply being allowed to wear whatever they liked didn’t satisfy their aggressive male energy, did it? No, they had to stop women having anything to ourselves; and THAT is why we have a problem.
Take away our rights to single-sex spaces, our rights to form social groups without men, to exclude men from our dating pools? Damn right we’ll get ‘aggressive’ – although a better word would be ‘obstructive’. We’ve been using the law to talk about and strengthen our rights. It’s the other side which has been using aggressive behaviour in an attempt to intimidate us into giving up.
I have actually heard gender critical people hold up this clown as a positive example of “gender-bending” done “right”. As far as I could tell, their case was entirely based on the fact that he calls himself Boy George (i.e. does not claim to be a woman/girl).
They were probably talking about his persona from the 80s, not about anything he’s doing now.
Probably, yes. Makes you wonder, though. If a guy in blackface had called himself “White George”, would that be hailed as “race-bending” done right?
To paraphrase a Carrie Fisher meme:
There’s hot, and then there’s JKR with a brandy and a cigar hot!
Everybody should damn well start calling him White George!
There’s hot, and then there’s JKR with a brandy and a cigar hot!
So this. Envy much, George? But hey, let’s stick with stereotypical patriarchal depictions of women. Deeply embedded misogyny is what that is.
OK, I am going to be that person and state that JKR was larping a character from the original A-Team TV show. Hannibal was his name, his was the boss of the group and he always said “I love it when a plan comes together”
Mister Boy George can’t even get his cultural references right. And, BTW and IMHO, nothing says toxic male energy like MBG tying a rent boy up and beating him with a chain. Just saying. I won’t be taking MBG’s opinion on proper female or feminine energy, obviously.
By all means be that person. I never saw that show so I’m clueless about the reference.
Thanks for the reminder, George Peppard was great!
Scratch a TRA to find a misogynist underneath.
Who needs to scratch? Guys like George here wear their woman-hatred like a fucking merit badge.
I don’t know what he’s trying to say here. Is he saying that women should remain in their strict feminine gender roles, because to be too manly is abhorrent to him?
Sounds like he doesn’t think that gender is only for the male-born to express fluidity, while the female-born are to remain feminine. Do you really want to hurt me, George?