Won’t someone please have some sympathy for the poor beleaguered fragile trans laydee who makes racist taunts?
He’s deleted the tweet but there are many many screengrabs.
The enlightened sympathize with India but also remember to be intersectional.
But don’t ever ever ever be better than calling a woman a cunt. That’s absolutely fine, in fact it’s obligatory.
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How exactly is omitting a space supposed to be a counterpunch of note? Whether it’s “black woman” or “blackwoman”, it still refers to a woman who is black. Whether it’s “trans woman” or “transwoman”, it still refers to a man who claims to be a woman.
I don’t get it.
Well I guess there’s not much to get, but it’s just seen as rude (and worse). It’s not the convention, so doing it is a provocation. Willoughby agrees that it’s a provocation and that that’s why he did it.
A bit like “Karen” maybe. It’s a fine name, but it has this other meaning.
He’s blocked me on Twitter, so too late for a screencap. In trying to justify “blackwoman” he also claimed to call him a transwoman was transphobic.
Guess I was blocked for saying that made him a TERF.
@Nullius
Nowadays “transwoman” is considered an insult because trans is just an adjective to “woman”, whereas “transwoman” suggests that they are not women, but something else. So “blackwoman” implies that black women are not really women.
But probably you know that and your comment meant something else?
Nullius, the argument goes: trans woman stated as two words is an adjective-noun combination, and so describes a type of woman akin to saying ‘black woman’; transwoman stated as one word is a single noun and so implies an object that is distinct from a woman. In other words, it’s an argument about semantics made in ignorance of the existence of compound nouns.
@Holms:
It’s also an argument made in ignorance of privative adjectives. Fake leather is not leather, imitation pearls are not pearls, false teeth are not teeth, and trans women are not women.
It’s interesting how none of the pronouns-in-bio crew seem to have said to India “I know you’re upset about what she said, but that was racist.” Normally they jump at the opportunity to call out a Privileged White Woman for racism.
(This is because they don’t really think India is a woman.)
ATSRU: That’s rather my point. Whether a noun is modified by an adjective or a noun has no bearing on whether the thing in question actually is whatever the noun is.
Aha, privative adjectives; what a useful category. Thanks As the Smoke!
NiV: what we used to refer to as the Democratic People’s Republic Syndrome.