Such a yawn
Trans activism does wonders for your feminism, I must say. Stamps it right out.
Sally Hines, Professor of Sociology and Gender Identities:
Re GC feminist protest pranks @ManchesterPride, please, just…[GIF of woman making the “sit down and be quiet” gesture]
Thing is, most of them are (at least!) my age and they really have only *just* discovered protest! Such a yawn. I don’t want to people watch them. They have nothing to teach me. I say, with #pride, Please. Just. Go. Away. You are not fun. You are not pretty (though yep, vacant)
Old, boring, and ugly, the professor of gender identities calls feminist women.
We get more progressive every day!
(It’s a Sex Pistols joke, the people cry. Oh well then, not misogynist at all!)
And vacant…the old women as airheads trope. No, I am not pretty. I was once. So what? No, I am not young. I was once. So what? Strangely, I seem to know more now than I knew when I was young and pretty. I have more scars (not that I didn’t have plenty then). I have more experience with misogyny.
And most of us have not just discovered protest. Most of us have been protesting our entire lives. When we were young and pretty and protested, we were told we were…vacant. We were told to smile. We were told to go home. We were told all sorts of things. The same things the trans activists say about us now, without the condescension of noting we are pretty and young. Because we aren’t any more.
I refuse to retire to my kitchen to bake cookies for the activists that are trying to deny the reality of being a woman, trying to claim that reality for men who have never lived it. I refuse to STFU.
Ah, a professor pandering to the young. Nothing new to see there.
And women told to shut up because they’re not fun or young or pretty. That’s as old as time itself.
Yet, my outrage is always new. The double standard is such a slap in the face when the world is run by decaying bags of male flesh who grace the interwebs with their wisdom on a daily basis.
Okay, there are a handful of mature women who are allowed to speak, but when was the last time men were told to STFU for not being fun or young or pretty?
Who cares if they did just discover protest at an older age anyway? Is there an expiration date for discovering protesting?
So what were these “[gender critical] feminist protest pranks” anyway? The tweet has been deleted, so that’s no help. All I could find was this reddit discussion:
https://www.reddit.com/r/GenderCritical/comments/cutn9w/getthelout_at_manchester_pride_uk/
That had a link to this leaflet:
https://www.reddit.com/r/GenderCritical/comments/cutn9w/getthelout_at_manchester_pride_uk/
And it also mentioned there is apparently a “radfem-aligned alternative to twitter”, https://spinster.xyz/. Huh.
Oops, I messed up the link to the leaflet. Here it is:
https://m.imgur.com/a/dgSLeiS
Lots of stuff at this twitter hashtag as well:
https://twitter.com/hashtag/getthelout
I assume that tweet got a lot of backlash, since it seems to be deleted now.
Yes, she says she’s deleted it, along with a cute smirk.
https://twitter.com/sally_hines/status/1165746084494368768
For the benefit of the other two people in the world who know almost nothing about the Sex Pistols and their music, the “joke” appears to be a reference to their song Pretty Vacant.
I’ll crawl back under my rock now.
@7, Google tells me that the smirk “depending on the context and personality of the user … can indicate silliness, sarcasm, irony, passive aggression, or frustrated resignation.” I note her Twitter bio pic is similarly upside down. I’m going with silly passive aggression.
I’m glad I got to savour the delicious aroma of ratio before that happened. I love the smell of napalm in the late afternoon…
Oh, so it was a quote from a Sex Pistols song all along. If only we’d known that…
The opening line of Pretty Vacant could almost be the TRA’s motto: There’s no point in asking, you’ll get no reply. I say ‘almost’ because the next words of the song are not* <iiExcept 'you're just a transphobe, now fuck off TERF and die'.
*The next line is So just remember, and don’t decide’.
Never mine the bullocks, here’s the female genitalia…
@13, I needed that LOL
The thing with joking about someone’s characteristics such as age… whether it is a pop culture reference or not, you are still joking about their age. Does a joke not count if the person is doing it ironically?
The whole point of Pretty Vacant is that it allows Johnny Rotten to scream vay-CUNT as part of the chorus.
GB, #16. That’s not really true, though. Rotten pronounced it ‘cant’, not ‘cunt’.