Of course she did.
If we are now equating possession of natal vagina to being lesbian then there's a deep irony there.
— Priyamvada Gopal © (@PriyamvadaGopal) July 7, 2018
Of course she did.
If we are now equating possession of natal vagina to being lesbian then there's a deep irony there.
— Priyamvada Gopal © (@PriyamvadaGopal) July 7, 2018
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10 responses to “A deep irony”
What does that even mean? Everyone with a vagina is a lesbian?
I’m missing something, aren’t I? If I go the the miscellany room, is that a good place to discuss the background of this?
Not a single person is equating having a vagina to being a lesbian. However, all lesbians have vaginas.
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I think she is trying to argue that lesbians’ insistence on having a partner with a vagina is equivalent to insisting that all vagina-havers are lesbians. A conclusion that is not only non-evident, but completely bereft of all logic.
My take is that it’s a clumsy way of criticizing lesbians for insisting that only those with natal vaginas can be lesbians, others need not apply, but I’m not really sure. Whichever way I look at it, I see no obvious pathway to irony.
If you have to have been born with a vagina in order to be a “ lesbian,” then that’s like rain on your wedding day.
Surely if a “trans woman” is a lesbian she is really just a bloke who likes to have sex with women.
If a “trans woman” is not attracted to men then she is probably a straight male. If she is attracted to men, then surely she is homosexual.
Or did I get something wrong?
Okay. I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought the statement made no sense at all. On the other hand, I supposed it makes as much sense as ‘female penis’ (apologies to all the female spotted hyenas reading this).
Sastra–
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God, I’ve missed you, Sastra. So glad you’ve come to the dark side. Does PZ know?
Its making no sense is one reason I posted it. Gopal is a particularly unpleasant wokester, and I’ve posted about her activities in that line a few times. Last time she was bullying Mary Beard.
(I think Sastra left PZ behind a long time ago, longer than I did.)
So we’re going with shallow irony then? One that only shows itself briefly after a rain shawer until the sun dries it out? Or maybe a deep non-irony?