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You hate to see it, but again male entitlement and fragility win out over the concerns of women. Apparently, this billboard is considered offensive and not allowed in the public sphere.
Of course women who continue to fight for their rights within Canadian society, are no strangers to small setbacks. I sense this is only the beginning, as I imagine this billboard will be going up across Canada to raise awareness of how totalitarian the gender identity crowd is becoming.
Clear principled resistance. Unapologetic radical feminism at its finest. Thank you Ms.Slatz for showing how it is done.
Twitter usually isn’t the best place to find valuable insights into complex topics and ideas. I do like to be proven wrong though, and that was very much the case when I saw this thread by “H”. This person precisely identifies a several key points where the ideology of transgender has gone markedly afoul. Much has to do with the correspondence between their activism and narcissistic male entitlement.
Common threads do exist between feminism and the trans movement. The current focus though of putting the validation of (usually) men’s gender-delusions ahead of female rights makes progress in this area difficult at best.
Gail Dines bringing it home, as always, with cogent analysis and the material facts about the situations women and men face in our culture.
Scary topics made safe for dudes. :)
Our second installment here at DWR of what those wacky transactivists have to argue with when confronted with people who will not take the knee and accept the tenets of their misogynistic gender religion.
I have yet to see any feminist (gender critical or not) state that trans people do not deserve human rights. It would be very nice to see a list of rights that trans individuals do not already possess under the law. One must keep in mind though, that forcing others to accept and play along with your personal identity (gender or otherwise) is *NOT* a right.
You may indeed feel like you are 100% the opposite sex, but no provision in a free society, forces people to share that view with you.
So, like many of the TRA statements, they are arguing against ideas and statements that have not been made by their opponents. The straw is heavy in most cases, as here is what Rowling actually has said –
So. remember folks to argue cogently, please try and address what the other side is saying, not your (often emotive) ‘hot take’ on what you think they are saying.
Being on Twitter is something of a mixed blessing, as being able to network and share with other feminists is a good thing, but the downside is that one gets to see the staggering amount of righteous misogyny and stupidity that is being arrayed against females on social media. The nuclear level of ignorance and tribalism is quite something to behold.
I’d like to share some of the regressive gems of anti-wisdom I’ve had the displeasure of coming across on my journeys through Twitterland. This is also my enticement to myself to start writing and thinking again in a medium that can handle more than one terse, short paragraph.
So here we go with gem number one:
The notion that feminism, to be “good” feminism must be “inclusive”. A derivative of this argument is for feminism to be good, it must be intersectional, but that is another post.
Feminism is the struggle, by females, to emancipate themselves from the patriarchal structures/normative values of society. So, for instance working for rape crisis centres where females can be safe from their abusers, or campaigning to changing the laws that restrict female reproductive autonomy would be examples of effective feminism in action. Whichever material aspect of society that needs to be addressed the actions of feminists are meant to benefit everyone who belongs to the class we call female.
That, in effect, is inclusive feminism. It is a feminism that advances the rights of all women. Sadly I must put in this rejoinder, by woman I mean adult human females.
There is a notion that exists, as the tweet indicates, that feminism to be ‘important’ must also include men and their needs in feminist action.
This notion, is patently false.
Any feminism that includes males in the equation must be looked upon with a healthy dose of skepticism because the primary people who stand to lose a bit of their standing in society or change their ways, are men. Thus including men, who currently benefit from the status quo, in feminist action is a risky endeavour. Many men lack the theoretical background, empathy, and understanding of what it is like to be raised as a woman in our society and tend to make the feminism that includes them, about them – which then categorically disqualifies it as feminist action.
So, when you see the inclusion angle being played, be wary of exactly who the person in question want to include in their version of feminism.
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