One of her pet peeves
Cis women confusing “erasure” with not being at the center of a discourse is fast becoming one of my pet peeves. Why not be inclusive of everyone who menstruates? There is no good reason. Obviously.
Women who purport to be feminists who talk contemptuously about “cis women” have been one of my pet peeves for years now.
You cannot do that and be a feminist – it makes no sense. Women are subordinated and dominated and treated with contempt because they are women, so using a hostile neo-label for them that means actual women as opposed to men pretending to be women cannot possibly be combined with advocating an end to that subordination and domination. Women do not derive “privilege” from being actual women as opposed to pretend women; women derive second-class status and misogyny and violence from being actual women as opposed to pretend women.
The people who menstruate are women and girls. Women and girls are shunned and persecuted still, to this day, in many parts of the world because and when they menstruate. Menstruation is part of the reproductive equipment that so many people think has to be harshly controlled and monitored, and thus part of why women are kept out of school and work, in concealing garments and purdah, from making their own decisions and deciding how to live their own lives. If some women decide they want to escape all that by “identifying as” men, let them, but that’s not a reason to start pretending that menstruation is an issue for men and boys as well as girls and women. It isn’t.
“Why not be inclusive of everyone who menstruates? There is no good reason. Obviously.”
“Everyone who menstruates” is wholly included within the class “women and girls.” There is no good reason to “include” anyone else. Obviously.
Trans-identified people confusing “erasure” with not being at the center of a discourse is MY pet peeve.
An ally of the group that confuses ‘wrong’ pronoun use with genocide; that classes not being specifically name-checked by organisations as exclusion; that equates biological facts with murder; that labels dictionary definitions as bigoted; that accuses people who choose their sexual partners by sex, not by gender identity, as transphobic – an ally of that group actually wrote that!
Irony meter. R.I.P.
Funny how women expect women to be at the center of the women’s rights movement. Strange thing, that.
With just a simple rearrangement of words, Manne could have said something wise:
“Trans women confusing not being at the center of a discourse with “erasure” is fast becoming one of my pet peeves.”
So close.
Isn’t virtually every complaint made by a transwoman claiming they’re being “erased” actually in response to not being made top priority amongst female persons? And aren’t we consistently required to indulge those complaints and profusely apologise for our monstrous conduct?
Yet women are told to shut up and get over it when issues pertaining to the female sex are sidelined in favour of making sure transwomen’s electrolysis costs are covered by their medical insurance.
Trans dictionary: “erasure n.: not being the focus of every conversation, blog-post, or discussion.”
Non-delusional dictionary: “erasure n.: the removal of acknowledgement of one’s existence.”