Please enjoy Margaret Atwood and Laurie Penny not understanding what they have been supporting for the last five years

Uh-oh, trouble is brewing for the author who turned into an Aunt.

Margaret E. Atwood @MargaretAtwood

Why can’t we say ‘woman’ anymore? thestar.com/opinion/star-c… via @TorontoStar

thestar.comOpinion | Why can’t we say ‘woman’ anymore?Society is in danger of entering an outer orbit of linguistics where both women, as a gender, and “woman” as a noun are being blotted out, writes Rosi...

Now, I’m not for spooking the newly peaked, and I would have been delighted at this development, but for this extraordinary follow up.

Margaret E. Atwood @MargaretAtwood

Read her piece. She’s not a Terf.

Leigh Angel @revafisheye

@MargaretAtwood @TorontoStar Ugh, not you too. 🤦🏼‍♀️

So that’s Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid’s Tale, casually throwing out a word used primarily to tag women as acceptable targets for harassment and violence. Like, ooh, what’s a well-known example, hmmm….Oh, yeah! JK Rowling! Maybe that particular cultural moment passed her by? Oh, no wait, she joined in with the abuse!

But don’t worry, the right side of history who are definitely not misogynists saw Margaret’s tweet and are on the case! First wave: the blue-ticked polite educators!

Katie Mack @AstroKatie

@MargaretAtwood No one is banning the word “woman.” Many organizations are — rightly — opting for precise language when talking about things that have to do with biological traits rather than gender identity. It’s not an attack on womanhood to NOT equate gender with specific biology.

Jon Christian (halloween era) @Jon_Christian

@MargaretAtwood @TorontoStar Margaret no

Mx. Amanda Jetté Knox @MavenOfMayhem

@MargaretAtwood @TorontoStar I’m disappointed you shared this because it’s factually untrue. We can still say “woman” & we can also say “people” when it makes sense to use more inclusive language. I’m nonbinary. I also menstruate and gave birth to 3 kids. Saying “people with periods” includes women AND me.

Amanda Jette Knox, there, taking a break from ‘discovering’ that another one of her kids is trans.

Tweets from the blue ticked dipshits of Twitter quickly segue into the Alliance of Openly Misogynistic Bearded Leftwing Men!

Then there are the completely anonymous accounts that compare feminists to Nazis, and in so doing create the algorithms that allow people to make tik tok videos about feminists being Nazis.

Rathe @SniperRathe

@MargaretAtwood im a trans woman, i love your books, i dont want to ban the word woman, no one does, this line is being used as a wedge issue to recruit well-meaning people to TERFism and from there to other far right hate.

dailydot.comTikToker demonstrates how interacting with transphobic content puts the far-right on your For You pageIt happens really fast.

As one of our own put it…

(((Sara Gee)))⁷ ✡️ #FBPAZ @saralikeclara

@MargaretAtwood You’re so close to getting it. What if the terfs aren’t terfs either.

As for Laurie Penny, well, this just says it all.

Now watch her pretend she doesn’t notice what’s happening with Atwood. Or watch her participate with the abuse and gaslighting. Just another day on the right side of history.