Feminist women to give a talk on being canceled.
Oops, no, wait, scratch that – the talk has been canceled.
You can’t make this up: The New York Public Library has canceled an event, scheduled for Friday at the main branch, that was to feature women who have been canceled.
Organized by the Women’s Liberation Front, a feminist organization that supports a biological definition of gender, the “Evening with Canceled Women” was to feature “five fearless feminists” speaking out about “women’s rights to a life free of pervasive harassment, silencing, coercion, violence, forced lying and endless punishment.”
Well we can’t have that, now can we. Whatever next? Leaving the house without permission?
In a blog post, the WLF’s Natasha Chart recounted how she was informed last week, just a day before the deposit for the room rental was due, that the library wouldn’t be hosting the event. The library gave no reason for the cancellation — which came even though earlier it had assured the women that “the contract was in process.” The NYPL didn’t respond to my request for comment.
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All of the women slated to appear have been victims in one way or another of cancel culture, including social-media bans, protests and hecklers — all for asserting the not-long-ago common view that gender is based in biological facts, not subjective feelings.
Now the trans movement is telling them to shut up and let biological men decide what it means to be a woman. But in the tradition of powerful feminist voices in the past, these women won’t shut up or be nice.
And we won’t repeat the lies, either.
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6 responses to “The library gave no reason for the cancellation”
Perhaps now they can add the banner “BANNED IN NEW YORK!” to their posters.
I’m thinking this story you’ve quoted has made a couple of mistakes, accidental or otherwise. Given that the principles of WoLF include
and
I believe it is a mischaracterization of their beliefs to describe WoLF as
and to claim that their harassment is the result of
(Emphasis added)
also muddies the waters. WoLF thinks gender is bullshit and wants to get rid of it completely. Here’s yet another instance where replacing “sex” with “gender” renders ideas incoherent. It plays into the TRA agenda to follow their playbook in the confusion or conflation with sex and gender. The writer has really missed the point and given TRAs amunition. A corrective rewrite of the article would make WoLF’s stated goals and stance clearer and would be, you know, accurate.
Yes, I noticed the misuse of “gender” but for once didn’t make a note of it, thinking I’d made enough notes of things for today. But yes.
You can never have too many notes! (Pace Joseph II)
In more Silencing Women’s Voices news:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/national-archives-exhibit-blurs-images-critical-of-president-trump/2020/01/17/71d8e80c-37e3-11ea-9541-9107303481a4_story.html?fbclid=IwAR29hkciP0HId34zVHBMhZqdwpK8p0VSSVFjcnAnPoZz4lqzu0DT-uzxIuw
I just saw that on Twitter. Astounding.