Throw the turkey at them
Golly. Last I knew Rewire News was focused on abortion rights. My mistake; it turns it it’s all about the violence-encouraging misogyny.
Yet again, I’m surprised. Yet again I blink and stare and wonder. How did it become hip and woke and right on and funny to stir up hatred of women, including violence against them?
Oh but it’s a joke, pies in the face are a joke, yadda yadda. Right. Do we see lefty white people tweeting “jokes” of this kind with black people as the targets? Or asylum seekers? Or people with disabilities?
Like hell we do.
Updating to add the rest of the sequence:
This sounds like a great way to convince women that trans-identifying men do not represent a possibility of violence.
That’s some weapon-grade misogyny! My latest novel has someone throwing food because she is mentally disturbed; I presume people who go around throwing food at people are not mentally stable.
I have spent many a Thanksgiving with anti-woman members of my family, and never once did I throw a turkey…or anything else. The mashed potatoes stayed in the bowl, the pie stayed on the sideboard. It was upsetting, disturbing, invalidating, and in every possible way disturbing. But I did not throw food. I dealt with my emotions like an adult – and I was 10, 12, 14…actually, every year from birth to 21…and some after. But I dealt with my emotions like an adult, because being hated sucks, but being a violent asshole sucks even more.
And if you are not prepared to engage in reasonable debate, then be prepared to never win anyone over. Reasonable debate is part of advocacy…but when you have no reasonable evidence, you have to pretend it’s just too, too awful for “Aunt Karen” to insist on disagreeing with you, and that you will commit suicide unless she calls you “she” or “her”, even when you have a beard, a penis, and throw turkeys when you get upset.
With every announcement, every tweet, they couldn’t make it plainer that they aren’t women and that they don’t really believe that they are women. They don’t even like women. In fact, they hate women so much that they harbour huge resentment at women having anything at all that they can’t have – so they have planned a way to invade and colonise; and take over, and away, everything that women have built for ourselves in the teeth of the patriarchy. They are patriarchy’s last stand. And the left are cheering them on, proving that they were never on the side of women, any more than the right is.
Throw food, ignore, mockingly mimic. It’s like they’re going out of their way to show us how intellectually empty their position is. If they were really women, they’d know that this is a surefire way to not convince the family of anything. God, just imagine a women trying this on a conservative family to convince them to become pro-abortion.
And that sort of gives the game away. If they were really women, no one would let them get away with it.
But the Rewire News staffer who composed this chain of garbage apparently is a woman. I couldn’t find anything that says she’s trans, and I looked, because yes, it is so bizarre to see a woman who clearly thinks she’s highly enlightened talking about and to women this way.
Dehumanization is a vital part of any war. If you want people to be beastly towards others, you must first convince them that those others are less than human.
Indeed.
I enjoyed Meghan Murphy’s response:
https://www.feministcurrent.com/2020/11/23/is-there-a-sane-human-at-your-thanksgiving-dinner
Good stuff.
Sackbut, that was good. One thing I like about this site – I learn about people like Meghan Murpphy and Jane Clare Jones. Of course, that does extend the time I spend reading on the internet instead of working on my novel.
One of the things I’m thankful for is that I entirely “missed out” on this apparently common experience of having holiday meals with people you can’t stand to be around and/or can’t have a civil conversation with. Growing up, we never did huge events with extended family (mostly an issue of geography), and these days it’s strictly Friendsgiving-type events for me. No racist uncles, or busybody aunts wanting to know why I’m not married, and nobody ranting about politics… oh wait, that last one is probably me, isn’t it? Shit, I think it’s me….
Don’t tell my wife, but I’m okay with COVID keeping my in-laws away. They’re Trumpies, and it’s pretty much guaranteed they’ll say something egregiously idiotic, offensive, or mean. My father-in-law will pretend he knows stuff he doesn’t, and insist I do things the wrong way. And then my mother-in-law will have a fit about not being treated with sufficient respect.
Both my parents ran away from home as teenagers. So we didn’t have much in the way of grandparents, cousins, aunts, or uncles around when I was growing up. Depending on how you look at it, either I never developed the tolerance I might have, or I became accustomed to Thanksgiving being a particularly joyous holiday. Consequently, I am considerably more thrilled to be cooking for immediate family and friends.