He’s happy to announce
New editor of student philosophy journal announces no tolerance policy for questioning of pet ideology.
https://twitter.com/latesebastian/status/1035561285918842881
Since the label “TERFs” is used to bully and ostracize women who dispute parts of the rapidly evolving but nevertheless mandatory dogma of trans activism, the new editor of the student philosophy journal is congratulating himself on a policy of not tolerating analysis of a new and ever-changing political dogma that is noisily and explicitly hostile to feminism and, in practice, to women in general.
I feel that by accepting “TERF” we are conceding that doubting trans ideology is necessarily a radical position. It’s probably impossible to change it, but maybe we could retaliate.
Could we start using the noun FERT (Female-Exclusive Radical Transgender)? Adjective: fertive.
I like ‘FERT’.
I second Tigger’s like.
I think Female Averse Radical Transgender has the right smell to it.
I like FERT, and FART does reflect the stink they kick up, but I also like Shouty Misogynists Usurping Rational Feminism.
Hmm, what to do? A twitter-based referendum wouldn’t put the cat among the pigeons*, would it?
*Unless the cat self-identified as a pigeon, of course. Not sure the CERPs would welcome it, though.