I’m so tired of seeing men cry crocodile tears over men who pretend to be women in order to invade women’s spaces in order to watch them take showers. SO TIRED of it.
Wtf else would he be?
Even if you think he is in genuine psychic anguish about having a male body, it still doesn’t follow that he gets to move in with women and ogle them when they’re naked. His anguish does not trump their right to get naked away from men.
Why is The Washington Post peddling this misogynistic bullshit?
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In a related story, here’s a real doozy:
Wyoming sorority sisters’ lawsuit to block transgender member dismissed by judge: “The court will not define a ‘woman’ today”
One wonders why the judge couldn’t have consulted a dictionary, as it’s painfully obvious that a sorority is intended to be a female-only association and therefore said bylaws don’t need to define what a woman is. (At least not until recently.) Otherwise, how did men know why they couldn’t join a sorority for as long as sororities have existed? I hope the appeal takes the time to roast this ruling to a crisp. Yes, I know that we’re supposed to be pretending that males are females as a legal fiction but bodies are a biological fact that can’t be denied.
I developed a theory when the Aimee Challenor story broke – a lot of the pandering to these people comes from misplaced guilt and overcompensation. They find Artemis viscerally repulsive as a greasy, creepy, maladjusted man, but they know they’re supposed to #BeKind to trans people. So they make concessions and give him stuff in order to prove they’re not evil transphobes.
Re: pandering, having followed Twitter’s dialogues (which have been skewed by Twitter’s moderation policies that were pro-trans) about transgender issues, IMO main-stream journalism has been very much affected by it. Look at how those like Jesse Singal have been treated for being respectfully skeptical about some of the claims of trans ideology. Journalists are genuinely afraid of getting on the wrong side and getting cancelled. Better to “be kind” and not risk retaliation.
J.A.: to me, it’s become even more noticeable since the recent Israel/Palestine escalation. That’s always supposed to be one of those third-rail topics, but I’ve seen a pretty wide spectrum of opinions from journalists.
Piglet:
I would agree that this is true for most people, because most people do know that these are men, and most people do have some modicum of decency. It’s the very fact that they feel repulsed or disgusted that fuels their fervent protestations to the contrary. Catholicism has long marked a similar phenomenon among people who display extreme zeal, called scrupulosity.
It bothers me to feel like this, but: I don’t believe the story about death threats without actual evidence. Most stories about death threats are believable, but this guy has lied so much, I question even this part of his story.
Sackbut: I would want confirmation on the death threats, but it seems to be a matter of public record that a local unhinged Christian fundamentalist stalked Artemis on campus. Frankly the pair of them deserve each other.
Artemis is a vengeful goddess. The excellent Greek mythology site at theoi.com has summaries of more than thirty separate stories of her vengeance on people who annoyed her.
She didn’t like Peeping Toms:
J.A., the judge could have consulted a dictionary, but how to define “woman” wasn’t the issue. The sorority in its guidelines for membership included “individuals who identify as women” as eligible for membership. As a private organization, the Court said they have the right to set their own membership criteria, and if they want to include men who identify as women, it isn’t the Court’s place to tell them they can’t.
In related news, the Wapo disabled comments on the story from the get-go.
Eava, for a long time, courts have been saying who can and can’t be excluded. The reality is that they will fall back on “private” when it suits them, either because they agree with the party or because they don’t want to make the decision for whatever reason. They do that a lot on religion, too, hence the reason religions are allowed to discriminate in nearly every way now.
iknklast, if this was a black sorority I can’t imagine the judge washing his hands if they hadn’t defined “black”. If the bylaws said they would admit those “identifying as black”, well then they have to accept anyone who identifies as black, right? Right.
I mean, self-ID has its limits.