Trap indeed

From an article recommended by Mostly Cloudy: The Solidarity Trap.

Young women in their teens and twenties have come of age in an institutional culture that presents support for transgender identity as the natural extension of progressive values they already hold. Feminism, as it has been transmitted to this generation through education, social media, and popular culture, has been substantially reframed around the language of inclusion, allyship, and the rejection of exclusionary boundaries. To question whether a male bodied person should have unrestricted access to women’s changing rooms is, within this framework, not a safeguarding question. It is a question about whether you are a good person.

That paragraph is an article all by itself.

News flash: you can’t have functioning political movements that value “inclusion” above all else. If feminist movements have to be incloosive of rapists and men who bully women and men who sneer at women and men who assault women, then those feminist movements can’t be feminist, can they. Politics is inherently about excluding some values or claims or policies or organizations. Politics is political. That means it can’t be all-embracing without ceasing to be politics.

I suppose that’s why I mock inclusivity by spelling it wrong: because the idea of blanket unquestioning inclusion is death to any kind of Revolt of the Underlings.