All you do is talk about
More Ash. (She’s like a splinter that you can’t…quite…dig…out.)
One, but it’s not all we do. Obviously. It’s not all anyone does. It’s something we talk about when it comes up, and the rest of the time we do other things.
Second, we don’t generally say it’s disgusting…unless she means we say the coercion is morally disgusting. That is something I say, and it’s quite possible I’ve said it about this subject. I do think it’s morally disgusting – worse than bad, worse than wrong, actively repellent and horrifying. Could Ash be confused about that? No, because what she says is “about who you find disgusting,” meaning “too disgusting to have sex with.” She’s translating the absence of sexual attraction into “disgusting,” which is a cheap trick, and in fact kind of homophobic, if you ask me.
Third, and most glaring, it’s not “lesbians don’t want to have sex with trans women because of their minority status” now is it. Of course it’s not. Lesbians don’t want to have sex with trans women because they have male bodies. Having a male body is very far from being a minority status, especially a downtrodden or exploited minority.
Any accusation she can think of in order to justify calling women bigoted, it seems.
Three lies in a single tweet, pretty good efficiency if you ask me. By the way, as a guy that is often a slob, sometimes I am disgusting.
Why have you become like this? So divorced from accuracy, so keen to push the transphobic spin on everything
It seems like the only thing you do.
Where exactly is the “transphobic spin” in this post?
Lynne, just two things.
1. Define ‘transphobia’/’transphobic spin’.
2. Point out where it applies in this post.
1. I’ll help, given that no-one on the reality-denying side has ever defined the word: it means anything they want it to mean at any given time.
So, given that: arguing in favour of the sex-based rights of women and girls is ‘transphobic’; lesbians not wanting to have relationships with anyone except other lesbians is ‘transphobic’; arguing against the erasure of the word ‘woman’ from official documents about women is ‘transphobic’; and not wanting rapists to be housed with women in prison is ‘transphobic’; then, to my mind at least, ‘transphobia’ means, in practice, a DARVO accusation from the most vicious, misogynistic, MRAs. Because none of those things has anything whatsoever to do with trans people.
2. It doesn’t.
Lynne,
Is a lesbian transphobic if she rules out ever having sex with a trans woman? And for that matter, is a heterosexual man transphobic if he does the same?
And why all this focus on lesbians? Surely trans women can find other trans women, or heterosexual women, or even gay men to have consensual sex with.
I read Lynne’s comment @#2 as addressing Sarkar: Forcing a transphobic spin on everything is all s/he ever does.
I quite liked Ash Sarkar when I first came across her on Novara Media. What the ‘left’ is doing now is much like what the ‘right’ do: lump a whole lot of disparate things together (denial of climate change, anti-wokeness, denial of systemic racism, anti-masking, free speech on Twitter for Trump et al, Biden’s ‘tyranny’, etc) into one poisonous bundle that gives you street-cred among your kind by showing you have ticked all the right boxes and hold all the correct ideas. Increasingly, there’s little nuance or little understanding of the complexity of life on either side.