Feminism must stop being about women
Why do so many women keep buying into this line?
"We can argue all day, but trans people are dying, and I don't want to be part of a feminism that allows that to happen…"
Important, empathetic talk from @MillyAbraham on why feminism should be allied with trans rights #LwithTheT #ComeOutForTransEquality https://t.co/pnHCyz7K0q
— Stonewall (@stonewalluk) January 16, 2019
We can argue all day, but trans people are dying, and I don’t want to be part of a feminism that allows that to happen.
I haven’t watched the TED talk and don’t intend to, I’m just addressing that one sentence that Stonewall UK thinks is so convincing.
Why in hell does Milly Abraham single out feminism as somehow allowing trans people to die? And why does she announce that trans people are dying as if women were not dying? Why does she connect feminism to the death of trans people when lethal violence against women is so very common? Why does she make trans people the responsibility of women and feminism? Why any of this?
It’s like the Second Shelf bullshit yesterday, and the “Womxn’s March” bullshit also yesterday – why don’t people see it? Why don’t they see themselves telling women to be more “inclusive” while giving men a free pass? Why don’t they see that they are both re-upping the ancient tattered discredited idea that women are and must be the caring generous self-abnegating sex, and engaging in the ancient tattered discredited sport of bullying women because it’s so much easier than bullying men?
You know that old tagline, “I Don’t See Color”? Designed to make people who do notice that people of color are treated like crap look like the bigots?
She is effectively saying “I Don’t See Women”.
The small amount of violence that IS inflicted on TIMs is almost always done by other men and that just never gets mentioned in these attacks on real feminism. Most of the TIMs killed are killed while in prostitution or killed by boyfriends. But, yes, you have it right, it is SO much easier to just bully real women. Most of the TIMs care more about getting into real women’s lives and having their fantasies catered to then they really care about the risk of being beaten up. And some of the TIMs are quite violent themselves – take the Gamestop guy – they could hold their own in a fight against another man.
Because feminist writing is literally killing trans women. Or so I’m told. So the pen is mightier than the sword after all? Do keyboards count as pens? I’ve never understood this threat inflation of criticism/anaysis/questioning =ACTUAL MURDER AND GENOCIDE!!11!!
If feminists thought can kill, why isn’t the patriarchy lying dead in a pool of its own blood?
Business as usual? Background radiation? Because trans women are worth more? Women have cis privilege and must be no-platformed, brow-beaten, and put in their place. They must bow down, abase themselves, and go to the back of the line. Even in death.
Trans people aren’t being murdered and committing suicide because they’re adult female humans. They’re marginalised for their trans status. Feminism isn’t contributing to their deaths. The need to address this matter doesn’t fall under feminism’s jurisdiction.
Why are feminists expected to address everything *except* issues relevant to the oppression of women?
I suspect this was a rhetorical question?