Much proud of TheySelf.
Oh good, wot’s it say?
Introduction
Trans liberation is part of feminism.
Ooh bad start. No it isn’t. Feminism is about fem – i.e. women. Trans liberation is a completely different issue, and in practice vehemently hostile to women, especially feminist women.
Fighting for autonomy and freedom must be a fight for everyone, and there should be no room for transphobia or TERFs in feminist organising.
Bad second sentence, in fact lousy rotten second sentence. Fighting for women’s autonomy and freedom is women’s fight, and we’re not required to staple other fights onto ours. Also, autonomy and freedom in this context need to be carefully defined. It’s not a legitimate “freedom” to pretend to be a woman and force your way into women’s spaces and jobs and feminism. Get out. Feminism is ours and trans people don’t get to help themselves to it.
The “guide” doesn’t get any less stupid after that.
Comments
9 responses to “A guide too many”
What is the proper nonviolent response to a person who releases such drivel with such a Shkreli smirk?
As seen in twiliter’s very own ‘How To Spot Dipshits’ guide!
Chapter 1 — Preferred Pronouns…
twiliter, I’ll take 20 copies of that guide. Thanks.
Thank you for reading it so we didn’t have to. I hope you were able to find something nice as a palate cleanser.
ikn, it’s a real time saver! There’s even a chapter on politicians with combovers. :P
Vapid nonsense. Exactly what I would expect from a man with the hide to run for and win the position of ‘women’s officer’.
“TERFs claim all women, on the basis of biology, experience the same kinds of oppression.”
*No* feminist I’ve ever read-either gender-critical or otherwise -argues this.
“Spotting TERFs in the Field.”
I actually laughed at this. “Is that a Winged Mumsnetter or a Lesser Spotted Helen Joyce-er?”
“Encourage people to unlearn the gender and sex binary…”
I loathe the current popularity of the word “unlearn”. It is a favourite term of woke hacks like David Klion.
Anyway, the whole screed reminded me of this 1950s propaganda film:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkYl_AH-qyk
Perhaps it’s like this parody propaganda film, Billy’s Dad Is A Fudge Packer.
@6 from the image I’d guess that person is a TIF (I think I read that she considers herself ‘nonbinary’)–but even so, one wonders why she thinks both that a) she is not a woman and b) she meets the criteria to serve as women’s officer for an organisation.
@ “TERFs claim all women, on the basis of biology, experience the same kinds of oppression.” I remember saying to someone a while back ‘can you imagine or identify anything that Beyonce and Trayvon Martin have in common? Something that might potentially have affected/restricted their life choices?’