From The Terf Island Playbook by Helen Joyce:

This new belief system means abandoning the healthy individualism of classical liberalism, which involves respect for differences of opinion and emphasis on “freedom rights”. Within it, notions of a shared human nature and the common good are no longer regarded as normative or aspirational but instead as coercive. It prioritises freedom to do as thou wilt. It’s freedom for the strong, not the weak; freedom to impose, not freedom from being imposed upon. It’s all about the swinging fist, with no concern for where the nose begins.

And that’s why it’s women who suffer when you say that “man” and “woman” are opt-in categories. It’s just fact – unwelcome fact, but fact nonetheless – that women are physically weaker, that we’re the rapeable sex, that we bear nearly the entire burden of reproduction, that we commit few violent crimes and almost no sexual ones, and are victimised far more often than we victimise. We need “freedoms from” more than men do, and men enjoy “freedoms to” more than we do. Freedom for women means constraints on men.

I’ve been thinking about that lately – about women and reproduction and the different jobs and the relationship of all that to female subordination. Of course I’ve always been thinking about it, as I assume women do, but a bit more so in the past few days.

One thought is that in a way it’s just bizarre that women are the entire source of all humans and for that reason we are treated like shit. Why not the other way around? Eh?

I suppose because people are more like Trump than whatever the opposite would be. When in doubt, bully. When a living resource is very important, be sure to dominate and police and punish it.

So the upshot is women make all the people therefore they must be lifelong political prisoners. The most obvious illustration is darling Islam: put bags over their heads, watch their every move, kill them if they so much as blink. Don’t love them, don’t help them, don’t protect them, just punish and terrorize them. If they take a single step outside bury them up to their waists so that no Other Guy will get to see their genitals, and throw stones at them until they die. It’s their own fault for being the ones who make the people.

Like for instance this imam at the (notorious) Green Lane Mosque in Birmingham.

According to the Sharia again, when it comes to women, they must be, there must be, there must be a hole dug in the in the earth, in the in the ground, and she must be covered up to [places his hands at his waist] half of the body, so that her [sounds like suttah] does not appear.

Is that plain enough yet? There are several sources for this clip, and they all flinch away from spelling out that last bit. They don’t want to admit that this guy says you have to stick her in the ground up to her waist so that nobody can see her crotch. That’s the important thing. The woman is so much garbage; it’s her magic portal to 1. sex 2. making new people that must be buried and concealed while she is tortured to death.

So, yeah. What Helen said. It matters. It matters, it’s fucked up, it’s always been fucked up, it’s pathetic that humans can’t get it right after all this time.