Oh lord.
I’m finding the whole trans debate and safe spaces for women debate quite depressing. Not least because the debate is seemingly led by men on Twitter. Maybe it’s just Twitter that’s depressing? Maybe as a man, I should stay out of the debate? That would be easiest.
— Michael Legge (@michaellegge) July 22, 2019
Seemingly led by men on Twitter? Maybe just Twitter that’s depressing?
There is no “Twitter” in that sense – no universal or general Twitter. There’s only the Twitter each person sees because of which people she follows. Ok you can see a less curated Twitter via trends and the like, but it’s still not some generalized “Twitter.” It’s a selection.
And, no. It’s not the case that the debate is led by men.
Many women told him as much.
So what did he do? Ignored every single one of them, and replied only to men.
And they wonder why we pay attention to this gender stuff.
https://twitter.com/bailey6117/status/1153414830113665025
Please listen to women or have you tuned out our voices? You are dismissing years of works by feminists, female academics, lesbians, female child safeguarding experts, mums, female scientists, female sports professionals and on and on.
— Dr EM (@PankhurstEM) July 22, 2019
"led by men" ??? You have got to be KIDDING! Women have been speaking about this for ages. I, and numerous others, have entire blogs dedicated to the subject. My blog was censored then closed by wordpress; now I pay for it. We won't shut up. https://t.co/KCd1bSXivN
— Lily Maynard (@LilyLilyMaynard) July 22, 2019
He ignored them and all the others. No wonder he thinks the discussion is led by men.
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4 responses to “Men men men, as far as the eye can see”
Well, part of the debate — the debatable part — is championed by men, with the usual threats, taunts, and menaces.
Someone in that thread posited that he uses TERFblocker, since he was claiming to literally not be able to see many of the replies.
No reason to be curious about why women on the gender critical side of the debate seem to get added to TERFblocker while the men on the same side avoid it. Nope, noting to see here.
Hmm, if he was, he’s not anymore. I know because my twitter account is listed by it, but I can see his tweets, and I doubt that he’s unblocked me specifically. So it appears that he can’t use that excuse; he’s just a lazy, unobservant man.
@James Garnett I see. I’m pretty ignorant about how twitter works – I guess it doesn’t make sense that they could reply to his tweets if he’d blocked them.