Powerful. I've recently had someone I know write to the chair of a board I serve on to report me as a transphobe - based on my twitter likes and RTs. fortunately my board dismissed this nasty and chilling accusation but they did investigate (!). I've asked them if they have heard of Maya Forstater. Now I'm thinking I should definitely post this poem. Enough is enough.
"Colin' Montgomerie misogyny" is right. So happy Aja's speaks his 'dead' name. That's where the truth is. Strip him of the appropriated ultra 'feminine' name that provides him so much stolen and unearned 'feminine' cover. Names are magical and contain tremendous power. Just ask Rumpelstiltskin.
Powerful testifying. This whole charade needs witnesses, it needs hearts and minds to chronicle and register every act of aggression and appropriation, so that when the tide turns and those cowardly backs are against the wall, we can identify each and every liar and thief, each and every entitled narcissist.
Lol. Yeah. Well, first nature. Once a man, always a man. Literally. Suck it up, semen producer (or has he had his cods off? Mind you, so did my dog, didn't make him a bitch though!)
Not sure that race should be a factor here. It's certainly wealth privilege as we don't tend to see this social contagion at lower income levels but I am not sure their needs to be the racial component that she adds as we have certainly seen black and brown high income people boasting of their kids' non binary bullshit. Maybe it's just me but hearing how casually people utter the words,"jewish" "white" "black" with utter contempt in their voice is just racism masquerading as "anti-racism".
It isn't. She's not adding it - she is responding to the massing swirl of racist misogyny that compares 'trans' women to black women. It is done frequently - any quick online search will show you just how many people compare 'trans' women to any 'other' women they see as not the 'norm', that's black women, disabled women. So those women are other are we? Othered by? Those men who view some perverted stereotype of women as this ideal that they pretend they are.
She has contempt - I see it as justified - for those that do this. I have contempt for them too. White men like Colin Montgomerie forcing others to accept the delusion they are women, and 'most marginalised' is particularly piquant and using other rather more famously marginalised women as props - that is why she refers to women and black women who were slaves. Slaves to white men. Do you see the reasons why now? The parallels and power imbalances? It is Colin that got her removed and silenced from Twitter. Like all the others. Trans activists will use any group to claim their marginalisation - they scream trans genocide and holocaust comparisons regularly.
She is not masquerading as anything - her voice is pure and true and honest!
It still boggles my mind to hear "if black women can be women, why can't 'trans women' be women?" from those who consider themselves progressives. It's two prejudices for the price of one! Racism?: "black women are (supposedly) ugly, therefore more men than women". Check! Sexism?: "being a woman is first and foremost about being pretty". Check! How can they not be ashamed of themselves? These are loathsome attitudes that they'd rightly condemn if expressed by white supremacists or macho make-me-a-sammich types.
Mine too. Look it's even down to how deep a woman's voice might be. How short her hair might be. Still a woman.
This whole exchange has shown just how well the trans distractions work - someone (I assume a man) was distracted by the racism and slavery angle and couldn't see the point being made. Which is women have been putting up with this 'what is a woman' shite for so long, and having certain women peeled off for being not quite 'proper' enough women. The unbelievable racism inherent in saying a man in a dress and lipstick is somehow 'like' any black or disabled woman. I doubt he is aware of how black women have been accused of being 'manly' for so long and the particularly nasty way racism manifests. He is likely unaware of the issues with hair and the distress that causes. How school uniform polices have until recently viewed curly hair as breaking uniform rules. All that passes people by.
It was Windier SillyWilly I think who said women who don't shave their legs aren't real women. It almost made me want to go and try to grow a beard and never pluck anything ever again.
I appreciate your response but it represents a myopic view of slavery. I would suggest reading Black historian Thomas Sowell who presents the history of the horrors of slavery, that Europeans enslaved Europeans, Africans enslaved Africans etc. and goes into detail about the far larger numbers of Europeans enslaved by the Barbary pirates from Africa who sailed as far as Ireland to kidnap people into slavery. He details the African countries (or kingdoms like Dahomey) whose entire economy was built upon slavery long before Europeans set foot on African soil and those who profited such as slaver Tippu Tip. He describes the shock and horror of these societies when the British set to ridding the world of slavery (they simply couldn't understand what was wrong with slavery) and at how great the cost was both in European lives and financially to save these African lives, far greater losses than ever were the benefits ironically. There is also of course the horror of Turkey who imported an estimated 20 million (edit:sub-Saharan)and castrated the men so they couldn't reproduce, sexually enslaved the women and murdered any mixed race children produced by their rapist slave masters. Maybe a thought could be spared for those enslaved in China and throughout North Africa today...
Indeed I do, the treatment of those poor girls in Rotherham and more was horrifying. And the treatment of the labour MP who tried to bring it to people's attention...again the unwillingness to tackle an issue for fear of the accusation of racism.
Maybe we are talking past each other, what I was saying in my original post was that the fact that she brought race into it was a distraction to an otherwise excellent poem and the context in which she introduced it brought in a-whole-nother issue.
Are you deliberately missing my point? You want to feel offended by someone you are feeling is racist, when they are not? As you have missed her point, and apparently mine trying to explain?
It is trans activists and their 'allies' who compare themselves to black women. And disabled women.
So, to take race out of this - do you understand how calling the experience of a disabled woman similar to that of a man who thinks he's a woman is offensive (as she's not a 'real woman' either)? Disabled women are not defective women or like men in not being women.
It's unquestionably true that slavery isn't unique to the U.S., and that this shameful institution is part of most countries' past (and many countries' present).
That in no way absolves the U.S. for our own involvement in it. The effects of which continue to harm black Americans today.
Certainly I don't think I suggested that I suggested the US did not participate though it is fair to say that less than 100 years after it's founding the country rid itself of slavery (though Jim Crow is arguably equally shameful) whereas we are still awaiting an anti-slavery movement in other parts of the world, including Africa and we know from the writings of the founders just how conflicted they were by slavery and how best to rid the country of it but much like today with people we are willing to put up with slavery as we like the "stuff" and even our wealthiest such as Lebron James instruct us "you don't talk about China' while corporations like Nike, Coca Cola, Apple lobbied against the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act. Again as Sowell pints out the upward trajectory of black people was unparalleled in human history after slavery but it hit a wall in 1968 which Sowell traces as the result of policies brought in to "help" but actually rewarded everything that would undermine family and education, the very things that Frederick Douglas and others had campaigned for for over 100 years. In fact red-lining (a popular go-to subject) prevented giving loans to those of any color who could not afford the mortgage payments. Ironically the very group who were then hit so hard two generations later by the 2008 financial crisis, remember all those loans (edit:which couldn't be repaid)? So often something that sounds like it might help is never truly examined for what the consequences may be.
Again, this isn't about slavery. I have explained how trans activists compare themselves to 'other' types of women - this category they decide on who is more like the 'standard' woman they choose. It is a frequent trope that 'trans' women claim they are marginalised 'just like black women' as if black women aren't just women. Black and disabled women are women and men with dysphoria are not. It is highly offensive for usually white men to wade in to compare their made up struggles to those of black and disabled women.
I am not myopic. I didn't go into what I know of slavery here - it's not appropriate. Please stop distracting and patronising me. And again why are you assuming I am unaware of slavery today. I was trying to help you understand the background of how race and racism is used by trans activism to claim a history of suffering and marginalisation by claiming that of others (and those they 'other').
This was a black woman talking of her own experience. It was you who decided to call her racist for rebutting the way a man decided to shut her down.
She was responding. As is her right - yet she was the one removed and warned.
I agree it shouldn't be about slavery but in telling what is presumably "her truth" she introduced the subject. Her free speech should be left intact, as should ours to agree and to disagree. Unfortunately the "my truth" thing has a lot of men pretending to be something they are not and will never be.
So a black woman isn't allowed to talk about her experience and her life, as men lie and cheat? False equivocation. Why are you putting her statements in quote marks to dismiss them? This is her experience and you are questioning it. Her truth is objectively truth.
Again, no, how many times do you have to have this explained - she did not introduce it - it was a rebuttal - it is trans activists who are using slavery and the holocaust as ways to signal their professed suffering.
Many black people and many (white) jewish people have explained how offensive this is. Many people with disabilities have also asked for trans activists to stop LARPing as 'most marginalised' too.
I did not say or imply she wasn't, or shouldn't be, allowed to speak, not at all, in fact I expressed quite the opposite of that in the comment you are responding to... I have enjoyed our back and forth but I must get back to work, all the best.
Well done to Aja for that very powerful poem.👍. Her poems are always very inspiring. Don't understand how EVERYONE can't see the homophobia and racism within the ' trans ' movement. They barely even try to hide it ,even as they falsely accuse GC people of the same. Just more DARVO !!👎💔🤬🤮😭
Powerful. I've recently had someone I know write to the chair of a board I serve on to report me as a transphobe - based on my twitter likes and RTs. fortunately my board dismissed this nasty and chilling accusation but they did investigate (!). I've asked them if they have heard of Maya Forstater. Now I'm thinking I should definitely post this poem. Enough is enough.
"Colin' Montgomerie misogyny" is right. So happy Aja's speaks his 'dead' name. That's where the truth is. Strip him of the appropriated ultra 'feminine' name that provides him so much stolen and unearned 'feminine' cover. Names are magical and contain tremendous power. Just ask Rumpelstiltskin.
Too right!
Too right!
Powerful testifying. This whole charade needs witnesses, it needs hearts and minds to chronicle and register every act of aggression and appropriation, so that when the tide turns and those cowardly backs are against the wall, we can identify each and every liar and thief, each and every entitled narcissist.
Brilliant poem, deserves wide publicity!
Ah! Matey Kuntgomerie strikes again! Now why doesn't that surprise me?
You can’t keep a good man down .. scrub the good part.
He's very good at being a man though. Entitled, misogynistic, big and burly, massive hands, I presume a porn habit, etc.
You’d even think it’s like a second nature wouldn’t you …. oh wait.. it is !
Lol. Yeah. Well, first nature. Once a man, always a man. Literally. Suck it up, semen producer (or has he had his cods off? Mind you, so did my dog, didn't make him a bitch though!)
There’s a bitch and there’s a ‘bitch’, we know a real one when we see one.
( not sure about the cods tbh 😏 )
Wow, that is FIRE!
That is so beautiful and powerful. And maybe finally something I can share with my trans-washed daughter.
Not sure that race should be a factor here. It's certainly wealth privilege as we don't tend to see this social contagion at lower income levels but I am not sure their needs to be the racial component that she adds as we have certainly seen black and brown high income people boasting of their kids' non binary bullshit. Maybe it's just me but hearing how casually people utter the words,"jewish" "white" "black" with utter contempt in their voice is just racism masquerading as "anti-racism".
It isn't. She's not adding it - she is responding to the massing swirl of racist misogyny that compares 'trans' women to black women. It is done frequently - any quick online search will show you just how many people compare 'trans' women to any 'other' women they see as not the 'norm', that's black women, disabled women. So those women are other are we? Othered by? Those men who view some perverted stereotype of women as this ideal that they pretend they are.
She has contempt - I see it as justified - for those that do this. I have contempt for them too. White men like Colin Montgomerie forcing others to accept the delusion they are women, and 'most marginalised' is particularly piquant and using other rather more famously marginalised women as props - that is why she refers to women and black women who were slaves. Slaves to white men. Do you see the reasons why now? The parallels and power imbalances? It is Colin that got her removed and silenced from Twitter. Like all the others. Trans activists will use any group to claim their marginalisation - they scream trans genocide and holocaust comparisons regularly.
She is not masquerading as anything - her voice is pure and true and honest!
It still boggles my mind to hear "if black women can be women, why can't 'trans women' be women?" from those who consider themselves progressives. It's two prejudices for the price of one! Racism?: "black women are (supposedly) ugly, therefore more men than women". Check! Sexism?: "being a woman is first and foremost about being pretty". Check! How can they not be ashamed of themselves? These are loathsome attitudes that they'd rightly condemn if expressed by white supremacists or macho make-me-a-sammich types.
Mine too. Look it's even down to how deep a woman's voice might be. How short her hair might be. Still a woman.
This whole exchange has shown just how well the trans distractions work - someone (I assume a man) was distracted by the racism and slavery angle and couldn't see the point being made. Which is women have been putting up with this 'what is a woman' shite for so long, and having certain women peeled off for being not quite 'proper' enough women. The unbelievable racism inherent in saying a man in a dress and lipstick is somehow 'like' any black or disabled woman. I doubt he is aware of how black women have been accused of being 'manly' for so long and the particularly nasty way racism manifests. He is likely unaware of the issues with hair and the distress that causes. How school uniform polices have until recently viewed curly hair as breaking uniform rules. All that passes people by.
It was Windier SillyWilly I think who said women who don't shave their legs aren't real women. It almost made me want to go and try to grow a beard and never pluck anything ever again.
I appreciate your response but it represents a myopic view of slavery. I would suggest reading Black historian Thomas Sowell who presents the history of the horrors of slavery, that Europeans enslaved Europeans, Africans enslaved Africans etc. and goes into detail about the far larger numbers of Europeans enslaved by the Barbary pirates from Africa who sailed as far as Ireland to kidnap people into slavery. He details the African countries (or kingdoms like Dahomey) whose entire economy was built upon slavery long before Europeans set foot on African soil and those who profited such as slaver Tippu Tip. He describes the shock and horror of these societies when the British set to ridding the world of slavery (they simply couldn't understand what was wrong with slavery) and at how great the cost was both in European lives and financially to save these African lives, far greater losses than ever were the benefits ironically. There is also of course the horror of Turkey who imported an estimated 20 million (edit:sub-Saharan)and castrated the men so they couldn't reproduce, sexually enslaved the women and murdered any mixed race children produced by their rapist slave masters. Maybe a thought could be spared for those enslaved in China and throughout North Africa today...
And you might want to spare a thought for those enslaved in the UK today, now in 2022.
Indeed I do, the treatment of those poor girls in Rotherham and more was horrifying. And the treatment of the labour MP who tried to bring it to people's attention...again the unwillingness to tackle an issue for fear of the accusation of racism.
So why are why are you claiming racism where there is none?
Maybe we are talking past each other, what I was saying in my original post was that the fact that she brought race into it was a distraction to an otherwise excellent poem and the context in which she introduced it brought in a-whole-nother issue.
Are you deliberately missing my point? You want to feel offended by someone you are feeling is racist, when they are not? As you have missed her point, and apparently mine trying to explain?
It is trans activists and their 'allies' who compare themselves to black women. And disabled women.
So, to take race out of this - do you understand how calling the experience of a disabled woman similar to that of a man who thinks he's a woman is offensive (as she's not a 'real woman' either)? Disabled women are not defective women or like men in not being women.
It's unquestionably true that slavery isn't unique to the U.S., and that this shameful institution is part of most countries' past (and many countries' present).
That in no way absolves the U.S. for our own involvement in it. The effects of which continue to harm black Americans today.
Certainly I don't think I suggested that I suggested the US did not participate though it is fair to say that less than 100 years after it's founding the country rid itself of slavery (though Jim Crow is arguably equally shameful) whereas we are still awaiting an anti-slavery movement in other parts of the world, including Africa and we know from the writings of the founders just how conflicted they were by slavery and how best to rid the country of it but much like today with people we are willing to put up with slavery as we like the "stuff" and even our wealthiest such as Lebron James instruct us "you don't talk about China' while corporations like Nike, Coca Cola, Apple lobbied against the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act. Again as Sowell pints out the upward trajectory of black people was unparalleled in human history after slavery but it hit a wall in 1968 which Sowell traces as the result of policies brought in to "help" but actually rewarded everything that would undermine family and education, the very things that Frederick Douglas and others had campaigned for for over 100 years. In fact red-lining (a popular go-to subject) prevented giving loans to those of any color who could not afford the mortgage payments. Ironically the very group who were then hit so hard two generations later by the 2008 financial crisis, remember all those loans (edit:which couldn't be repaid)? So often something that sounds like it might help is never truly examined for what the consequences may be.
Again, this isn't about slavery. I have explained how trans activists compare themselves to 'other' types of women - this category they decide on who is more like the 'standard' woman they choose. It is a frequent trope that 'trans' women claim they are marginalised 'just like black women' as if black women aren't just women. Black and disabled women are women and men with dysphoria are not. It is highly offensive for usually white men to wade in to compare their made up struggles to those of black and disabled women.
I am not myopic. I didn't go into what I know of slavery here - it's not appropriate. Please stop distracting and patronising me. And again why are you assuming I am unaware of slavery today. I was trying to help you understand the background of how race and racism is used by trans activism to claim a history of suffering and marginalisation by claiming that of others (and those they 'other').
This was a black woman talking of her own experience. It was you who decided to call her racist for rebutting the way a man decided to shut her down.
She was responding. As is her right - yet she was the one removed and warned.
I agree it shouldn't be about slavery but in telling what is presumably "her truth" she introduced the subject. Her free speech should be left intact, as should ours to agree and to disagree. Unfortunately the "my truth" thing has a lot of men pretending to be something they are not and will never be.
So a black woman isn't allowed to talk about her experience and her life, as men lie and cheat? False equivocation. Why are you putting her statements in quote marks to dismiss them? This is her experience and you are questioning it. Her truth is objectively truth.
Again, no, how many times do you have to have this explained - she did not introduce it - it was a rebuttal - it is trans activists who are using slavery and the holocaust as ways to signal their professed suffering.
Many black people and many (white) jewish people have explained how offensive this is. Many people with disabilities have also asked for trans activists to stop LARPing as 'most marginalised' too.
I did not say or imply she wasn't, or shouldn't be, allowed to speak, not at all, in fact I expressed quite the opposite of that in the comment you are responding to... I have enjoyed our back and forth but I must get back to work, all the best.
If anyone has contact with Aja, please pass on my best wishes and support. Wonderful woman with her head screwed on properly!
Fab! I have copied and shared it on Facebook.
Let’s see how long it lasts on YouTube
https://youtu.be/LszRgzeGp_g
Well done to Aja for that very powerful poem.👍. Her poems are always very inspiring. Don't understand how EVERYONE can't see the homophobia and racism within the ' trans ' movement. They barely even try to hide it ,even as they falsely accuse GC people of the same. Just more DARVO !!👎💔🤬🤮😭
Aja is a very beautiful, talented, fabulous woman.
Love it when she rode through the tunnel and 'Thank you' was echoed in a very ironic way. Hahaha Love this woman.
THIS.
Yes, as others have said, Powerful