A win for the demonizers – NOT
Updating to say IT WAS ALL LIES. Meghan a few minutes ago:
Hey everyone! My upcoming talk — Gender Identity Ideology and Women’s Rights: A talk and Q&A — has not been cancelled. Trans activists sent a fake email to the media, some of whom have called me to get the story straight, while others, unfortunately, reported before double checking. Anyway, onwards! See you on January 10 at the VPL 💪🌟
Feminist speaker Meghan Murphy, whose planned public talk at the Vancouver Public Library on January 10 stirred local controversy over LGBTQ rights and the limits of free speech, has cancelled her scheduled appearance.
In an email sent to CKNW on Saturday, December 1, Murphy says she’s been receiving way too many complaints, and decided to pull the plug on her planned appearance.
I gotta say, I get that. I’ve been thinking about what it must feel like, and coming up with nothing but “horrendous.” I wouldn’t want to do a talk in those circumstances.
So let’s not make any mistake about this: this is rage-drunk men and some women “allies” deliberately with malice aforethought bullying a woman out of doing a public talk at a big city library. The woman in question is not a racist or a Nazi or a gay-basher or a Steve Bannon, or any kind of equivalent of any of those. Saying men are not women is not inherently far-right or, in fact, even provocative. It should be just a heatless factual statement, similar to apples are not papayas. It should be but it isn’t, and it’s profoundly disturbing to watch so much of the left fall with glee on the opportunity to excoriate and shun and punish feminist women for simply saying men are not women.
I am so glad she’s not cancelling.
So glad it was a lie.
This event needs to happen. With all of the testeria around it, it’s bound to get attention. With all of the hyperbole, the difference between the ravening hateful bully that has been portrayed and the actual Meghan Murphy is bound to be obvious.
In my incurable optimism, I look forward to onlookers noticing which side is reliant on hyperbole, lies, and attempts to silence their opponents.
How I wish I could be there.
Lady Mondegreen, one can hope. I can’t help but expect there will be much ‘both sideism’ going on and the hyperbole and trash talk from the transactivist side with be translated by a helpful media into something that sounds at least vaguely like normal discourse.
I expect they are all congratulating themselves over how principled they are in lying to harm the attendance of her talk, similar to the reversal of victimhood they always pull when punching middle aged women in the face.
Good for her for not canceling. I am always disappointed when people in situations like this give the bad guys a win by throwing in the towel (though I understand why they might feel they need to for safety reasons).
Lady M., I do hope that the word was coined by you because whilst reading your comment, as soon as I reached ‘testeria’ I fell in love with your mind.
Oh, and I cannot but wonder – for purely scientific reasons, you understand – whether trans-balls are as painfully sensitive to a head-on, high-speed collision with a stoutly booted and forcefully swung foot as they are for those of us who have not said the magic spell that turns our normal, male-issue testes into lady-nuts, or whatever they call them these days?
But when an apple decides that is really IS a papaya, suddenly all the magical, immutable, utterly inflexible papayaness of all historical papayas fades to insignificance beside it.