Peak pedantry
Sally Hines, Gender Studies Academic (as she says in her own Twitter profile), has gender studies academic thoughts on the Guardian’s social experiment the other day. “Wozzat?” you wonder? The Guardian is running a blind date series, apparently – it sets up blind dates and hilarity ensues, or something. A few days ago it set one up between a lesbian and a trans woman without telling the lesbian that her date was a trans woman. Some gender critical feminists consider this a not very nice thing to do, for several blindingly obvious reasons. Sally Hines offered some gender studies academic analysis of their view.
So, the Guardian blind date thing… You’re proper mad. You lot. Simply bonkers. Just lost it. Fuck pig, fucking, crazy.
Sometimes the academic jargon is just way over my head.
You may have seen this mentioned on Twitter:
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2003/oct/30/bskyb.broadcasting
So guest, those dudes are Trans Exclusionary Radical what agains?
Talk about setting someone up to be framed as a bigot. Talk about treating a lesbian as cannon fodder or at the very least collateral damage in making whatever dubious ‘point’ they had in mind.
So here’s a question: if they set up one TIM with another TIM, and told neither of them, would they be disappointed?
Would they be called bigots?
I’d be willing to bet a lot of TIM “lesbians” exclude other TIM “lesbians” from their dating pool. Actual lesbians exhibiting this preference are “transphobic”; TIMs doing this are what exactly? Just being choosy? But talking about TIMs doing this is also, I’ll bet, regarded as “transphobic.”