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Illustration via Isabel Morala.
You must not question your new, straight overlords
30 day Facebook ban for saying that a straight couple were straight. Didn’t Rosie Duffield get into trouble for saying that straight people were appropriating the rainbow? It is true, you know. It’s just heavily, heavily policed.
Keep peaking, people!
The Guardian really, really hate women
“If progressive organisations say “pregnant people”, on the ostensible basis - from the G’s perspective - that female people who identify as men still make up part of the demographic who need reproductive rights, then why don’t they also acknowledge that male people who identify as women still exist in the same cultural context as other male people as a potential threat? Why do tran-identified females still retain the needs, but not the language, of female people, while trans-identified males get to abandon both the language AND any assumption that they retain desires, functions, biases of male people?
We are, according to the guardian, apparently using “inclusive language” for the sex that gets pregnant, by recognising that some members of the sex that can get pregnant don’t see themselves as women. So why are we not also using inclusive language that recognises that all male people - not just those identifying as men - have the capacity to be a threat to women? Why has #yesallmen not evolved to recognise the following: *trans men, as female people, pose far less of a threat than men *trans women, as males, are members of the sex that commits MVAW ? If trans men are not assumed to be transitioning out of their female reproductive capacity, then why should trans women be assumed to be transitioning out of their sex’s capacity to exploit and abuse women?
Or to put it another way
Lib Dems have received a cool one million from Ferring Pharmaceuticals
They’re literally being paid to lie!
Compare that description with the actual episode and make your own mind up.
The fucking cheek of this
I’ll say it again. Owen Jones puts women in danger every day by dehumanising them as bigots when they stand up for their rights. When this is all over, this hypocritical moral midget should never be taken seriously again.
It took a major review to discover the bleeding obvious
Again, duh
The fucking cheek of this
I’ll say it again. Owen Jones puts women in danger every day by dehumanising them as bigots when they stand up for their rights. When this is all over, this hypocritical moral midget should never be taken seriously again.
Another slap in the face
Thread: The women who should have won
Another brave New Zealand woman
We have empowered the worst curtain-twitchers in the world
Transing the dead, again
He’s not wrong
Priorities
Your vote counts!
Remember this
The retconning of women like Pauli Murray as "trans" boils my blood. I spent a year in the US on exchange in the early '90s and first found out about Murray in my women's history class. I was so fascinated by her that I wrote an essay on her life for my major assignment. Decades later, I read the first article - from a writer I otherwise respected - declaring Murray "would have" identified as a trans man. I was still on board with much of trans activist ideology but still thought, "er...NO."
The hypocrisy staggers me also. These people, who get the vapours over the slightest hint of "misgendering" some beardy bloke who announced "I iz wimminz!" 5 minutes ago, have no compunction about "misgendering" gay, lesbian and bisexual people who are dead to suit their objectives. It also whitewashes the very real structural barriers and oppression women face. Why are there so many histfic stories about the 16th or 17th century girl dressing up in boys' clothes to sneak out or run away to sea? Because clothing coded for women was - and still is - designed to restrict freedom of movement. Women couldn't go to uni in many countries until the 19th century. My maternal grandmother was born the same year as Pauli Murray and had to leave school at 12 to work on the farm full time and help her mum take care of the men on the family. My paternal grandmother, who was born a few years later, was made to give up her dreams of studying maths at uni because her younger brother's private school education was the priority and anyway, she was going to get married someday so what's the point of a degree, right? My own mother had to resign her teaching job when she got married. Of course Pauli Murray - already a gender non-conforming girl - felt her life would have been easier as a boy. Of course she felt her desire for other women was a "male" thing because she was surrounded by heterosexuality.
Meanwhile, Frock Flicks' most recent Woman Crush Wednesday subject is...Eddie Fucking Izzard. With gushing in the FB comments of "love her!" Despite the fact that much of the oeuvre celebrated in the post designed to highlight women in the film and TV industry is from the years before Izzard decided he was a woman.
Laurel Hubbard’s award is not an achievement award, but a ‘pity’ award. What an embarrassment for him - lol!