Starve the OBVIOUS ENEMIES
Political discourse today, state of.
good morning @the_point_mag i do not appreciate criticism of my work being put in the same category as the deplatforming of a full blown card carrying terf!!!!! whose “comments on sex and gender identity” you do not even bother to describe!!!! pic.twitter.com/LzjDNro67m
— wife of the mind (@andrealongchu) May 25, 2019
There’s a card you can carry? An official card, with your name on it, issued by the head office? Why wasn’t I told?
deplatforming isn’t predicated on some elitist notion of “protecting” the public from “threatening” ideas, it’s about taking money and resources away from our OBVIOUS ENEMIES, milo’s deplatforming was literally about bankrupting him AND IT WORKED
— wife of the mind (@andrealongchu) May 25, 2019
Oh yes, all about taking money and resources away from our OBVIOUS ENEMIES, feminist women who don’t agree that men can become women by assertion. Much obvious, very enemies.
And in conclusion –
as i believe mao zedong once said, “that bitch is a terf”
— wife of the mind (@andrealongchu) May 25, 2019
Tell us again how “TERF” is not a slur.
“How dare you note the similarities between myself and people I dislike! That would require introspection on my part!”
“Andrea”, who wrote in the New York Times that his neo-vagina won’t make him happy, but “it doesn’t have to.” A full on apologia for hallucinatory Borderline Personality Disorder in the paper of record. Brave and stunning.
If you go babbling about Chairman Mao, you ain’t going to make it with anyone anyhow.
Can I bring myself to read that NY Times piece? I’m not sure…
It’s well worth reading:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/24/opinion/sunday/vaginoplasty-transgender-medicine.html
I disagree on many points but do feel very bad for her. Many will think she’s on the wrong path, but she’s clearly doing this out of a perceived deep need, not as a trend or for attention or to invade women’s spaces. I think this was the more typical, rare transgender experience until recently.
Okay, Skeletor, any annoying comments you have made in the past three days are forgiven for the next 24 hours.
I second Skeletor, the piece is worth reading. Its conclusion is absurd (surgery should be based purely on want, whether or not it actually lessens gender dysphoria or makes a person happier in the long run*,) but its honesty is refreshing.
Chu admits that transition has not made him happier; in some ways, he says, he feels worse–not because of any discrimination, but because
It seems that Chu is complaining because people pointed out that his piece provides evidence for points gender critical feminists and trans-skeptical medical providers have been making all along. “Nuh uh!” says Chu. That can’t be–because they’re TERFs and I’m not!”
It’s as convincing as the rest of his argument.
* Chu:
This is the problem. Somehow they think we are fortunate for having been born women. They think the abuse they receive is because they are trans, and do not realize that it is because they are now women. They don’t recognize the pain, the suffering, the torture many of us have lived with in our lives, because of ‘the mute simplicity of having always been a woman”.
I have never desired to change my sex, but I have desired every single day of my life, and probably will continue to desire every single day of my life, to change the performative expectations that come from being born – or perceived – as a woman. And most trans activists are denying that with their constant invocations of cis privilege, which hides the real torment many of us have suffered from being physically, emotionally, mentally, verbally, and sexually abused by men solely because we are women.
I feel sorry for people who genuinely have body dysphoria. I’ve experienced most of the symptoms myself. But that doesn’t mean that I must give up the right to experience my own pain from my very real crap I’ve taken to center their pain in my being and continually compensate them for their pain. I am angry, very angry, at a world that can’t get it right, and recognize what gender critical feminists have been trying to tell them.
But notice, iknklast, what he’s admitting: that he hasn’t always been a woman. He doesn’t use the tortuous pseudoreasoning of “assigned male at birth on the basis of my genitals which were really a girl’s genitals because I was a girl.”
Upon re-reading the recent tweets, I feel less sorry for her. How did she go from being sad that she wasn’t born a woman to viciously lashing out at anyone that implies there’s any difference between women and transwomen? Ugh.
Skeletor, because that’s how gender alchemy works. ‘I’m not lead, I’m gold. Always have been, even though I still look like lead. Only I can say I used to be lead, because you’re a bigot if you say it.’
I’m sure there’s some logic to it if one looks hard enough. Damned if I can find it, though.
Skeletor:
There is no “she”. This is a man.
And it doesn’t matter that it’s a “perceived deep need.” This is typical Borderline Personality Disorder, which is a mental pathology. Narcissistic people perceive “deep needs” all the time that include taking from and exploiting that which belongs to other people.
He. NOT “she”.
iknklast @8,
At the risk of mansplaining the difficulties of being a woman, I would venture to add that there is no “right” way to be a woman from birth. That is to say, no way of being a woman that will insulate you from abuse or ridicule. Pretty women are dismissed as dumb and strictly ornamental. Not-pretty women are despised for not fulfilling their role of giving men boners. Etc. The idea that having the “right” length of index finger — whatever the fuck that is — would considerably simplify someone’s life is bizarre.
Screechy, not mansplaining at all, simply a valuable addition. I realize that, since you are a man, any explanation of what it’s like to live as a woman can be seen as mansplaining, but I think your credit is good here.
Oh, and something else about this that I have learned in recent years. You can easily move from one to the other. I was once a pretty, young woman being hit on and dodging gropers. I am now 58, and am despised. I am recognized as “smart” now, but that smart is modified to “smart for a woman”. No, they don’t say it, but it’s evident in their vocal inflections, their face, and the way they dismiss or talk over me and see no reason for me to contribute when a man is in the room.