Organizing
The Seattle Public Library is (of course) being flooded with how dare yous.
One source of the very high volume of response is on reddit:
The Seattle Public Library is hosting a TERF event on February 1st. If you have time, please call and leave a complaint, (206) 386-4636
What group is this? r/MtF. Not an umbrella group for trans people but a group specifically for men who identify as women. Is it possible that the thinking of some or many or even all the members is tinged or saturated with gut-level hatred of women? I’d say it is possible, yes.
That’s two months worth of time to organize a protest, choosing Seattle for this was pretty dumb on their part because they’re in a LGBT mecca. I don’t live in seattle but I know a lot of ya’ll do, I encourage you to get together and show SPL you wont have your tax dollars being spent supporting the people trying to eradicate many of said tax payers.
Be mindful though there will be alt righters there trying to stir shit, like the flies on turds they are.
Mm, yes, that’s definitely the goal, to “eradicate” a bunch of people. I love the “trying to stir shit” remark immediately after accusing feminist women of wanting to eradicate people.
Sent several emails and will be making a call on Monday morning, they’ve already been getting contacted by a lot of people over this, so we should keep it up and we should hopefully be able to get them to cancel it. If not I think there should be some sort of protest, like they did at the Toronto public library. If they have the right to be violently transphobic in public, than we have the right to loudly protest against it.
“Violently.” Yes, women standing up and talking=”violence.”
If the event continues, we should protest the hell out of it… these are the Westboro Baptist’s of Feminism and must be stopped!!!
Yes, we definitely consider ourselves aligned with Westboro Baptist. Also Savonarola, Torquemada, and Vlad the Impaler.
And most recent comment:
Just put a sealed box with bomb written on it in the middle of the event and it Will be canceled
But we’re the violent ones.
Really? Why would you try to become a woman if you hated them? I figured the path toward the unpleasantness (to put it mildly) we see would be a desire to become a woman followed by rage toward people who refuse to accept that it’s possible. So they’d hate specific women not letting them into the club, but not women generally. Otherwise why would they want to be one?
Hopefully the library will stay strong. It’s unbelievable to me that women who simply question whether men can become women and bring up safety and unfairness issues that result from accepting that can be so demonized.
Why would you try to become a woman if you hated them? Because you know how to do it better. Also because of jealousy also because misogyny is like the air we breathe.
Anyway I’m not making the claim a priori, I’ve been observing it for years. It just is the case that a lot of trans “activists” are raging misogynists.
It’s pretty easy to write a story, so to speak, that goes from envy to resentment to contempt to anger to hatred. The amount of imagination required is small.
That sounds a bit like the argument, “why would men want to hurt women when they love them” that I’m sure I’ve heard among MRA types.
I don’t think a lot of these men truly want to become women in anything more than a superficial sense. Most of them certainly don’t want to part with their penises. They’re sexually attracted to the idea of possessing feminine characteristics, and they believe that makes them entitled to special access to women. I don’t think people who truly want to live as and among women would go around shouting at women to suck their lady dicks. I would imagine people who are truly committed to living their lives as women would spend a whole lot less time lobbying for sexual access to women (some of these guys act like the “cotton ceiling” is the central focus of their plight) and instead would focus on, say, being able to participate in the workforce free of discrimination (you know, like that boring old “glass ceiling” those entitled “cis” women are fighting to break). I think if these people really wanted to live among women they’d be reaching out to women and working towards acceptance by demonstrating their trustworthiness, and not threatening to murder women with pink-painted baseball bats wrapped in barbed wire.
I think a lot of these men want to keep every bit of their male privilege and take the benefits of disadvantaged-group-identity, too. In fact, I think they’re intoxicated on the power it gives them over women. That rage they express is men getting off on making women feel powerless and afraid. Tale as old as time.