The Loneliness of The Long Distance Posie

If you make us choose between The Left and Posie, we'll choose Posie

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Posie is still showing such bravery day after day that I almost can’t believe it. I also find it stunning that there are still some undermining her from the comfort of their homes in the UK, using rationales and methods more frequently deployed by trans rights activists: Dishonest framing, unfair demands, guilt by association…Remember how Aaron Rabbinowitz tried to derail a discussion about the incoherence of trans ideology by accusing us of anti-semitism?

Why? Because Jennifer Bilek, to whose work there was a single link he’d found somewhere in this blog, was such a RENOWNED anti-semite that it AUTOMATICALLY discounted anything else we had to say. (I could be wrong but I think he says “Aren’t you embarrassed?”) Sadly, Tablet Magazine sort of put a dent in his day by publishing Bilek’s piece on the big money behind trans ideology, an area she had dominated and one I’d never really examined, partly because I’d been successfully scared off her work by these kinds of accusations.

Why? Well, for one thing, I certainly saw no-one sticking up for her. But now I realise that’s not necessarily a sign of anything in this fight. From this outside observer’s viewpoint, feminism has a real solidarity problem. I saw Arty Morty suffer because of it, and Stella O’Malley, and now Posie. It’s the fatal flaw in feminism that trans activists love to exploit.

Funny story, even after I had gone ‘all-in’ on this fight, I remember still being frightened about sharing a tweet by Julie Bindel. Her name had acquired an electric crackle that made me afraid to touch her work. And it was based on nothing! A joke, so innocuous that anyone reading it would say to themselves “But SURELY there’s more to it than this?”. That doubt is where trans activists get most of their power. Solidarity would help put an end to that tactic, because people wouldn’t be afraid to dig deeper and find out the truth of a matter.

But feminism, as I say, seems to have this solidarity problem. Meanwhile, trans ideology spreads like a brushfire wherever it takes hold. Why? Because it benefits men, and men don’t have a solidarity problem.

Anyhoo, I do my best to stay out of these things but I can’t ignore it any longer because of one single factor.

We all know that trans rights activists include among their number many people who are more than prepared to physically attack women. (Ask Maria MacLachlan, a lifelong lefty, and the woman whose assault brought an outraged Baroness Nicolson into the fray what she thinks of Posie). So far, the women Posie has empowered to speak have had their fingers broken, pies smashed in their faces, they’ve been screamed at and harassed and as with the UK, the cops are just fine with it all.

But there’s one important difference.

They have guns in the US, they have guns.

Now I understand that ‘trashing’ is something of a tradition in feminism. But perhaps we could ask for a brief hiatus?

I’m sure there’s a lot to hash out, but could we for the moment park what issues remain until Posie and the women in her care are safely home?