Based on
No.
No. Feminism is not a movement “based on” (or aiming to or meant to or about or for) liberating “all of us.” It’s about liberating women. Women are allowed to have our own movement, and it’s called feminism.
It’s not anyone’s movement to give away to “all of us,” because it’s specifically and explicitly about women, not people in general.
And gender critical feminism is not “ganging up on transgender people,” it’s critical of the ideology that says men magically become women by saying so.
Only disagreement is with the last paragraph. Trans is not an “ideology”. It is a religion based on magical, even supernatural thinking. The 2020s version of Scientology or Mormonism.
Trans ideology has its own Enigma machine; it automatically centers the user and translates all output to DARVO. Women having boundaries and saying “no,” comes out as “ganging up on trans people.”
In the words of the estimable Jane Clare Jones:
Female people’s boundaries are not an attack.
It is rape logic to tell female people that their boundaries are aggression.
It is rape logic to believe that you get to dictate to female people what female liberation means.
We said no.
No means no.
Religion is a type of ideology, I’m pretty sure. My efforts to prove that New Atheism was a religion in college were bloody embarrassing.
Blood Knight: Good point. I did want to emphasize the “magical thinking” aspect, though. Of course, a lot of non-theistic ideologies involve a lot of magical thinking, too (“Free Market” fundamentalists, for example)
The word you’re looking for is “just”. Trans is not “just” an ideology; it’s a religion.
As a leftist, it really is *depressing* to see how the “gender self-identification” idea has taken over most of the British left.
Sarkar, Owen Jones, Laurie Penny, Ellie Mae O’Hagan, Momentum, Novara, Tribune magazine…all denounce “TERFs”, champion puberty blockers, and worship Stonewall and Mermaids.
A nadir was reached by the normally intelligent Richard Seymour, who wrote a screed last week calling gender-critical feminists fascists, dubbed GC ideas “Pig-ignorant John Bullshit purveyed under the trade name of “materialism”, and spat that the dwindling number of UK leftists who disagreed with G S-I had “the sexual common sense of a UKIP voter”
The Tories must be delighted. Ignoring everything that’s happened from Keira Bell to Wi Spa, this sorry group simply doubles down harder on the Judith Butler crap. They thus ensure that the Tories will stay in office for the foreseeable future.
Brian @ 5…it’s not as if I’ve never said anything about the magical thinking of trans ideology!
It seems to me I say it every ten minutes or so, to the point of tedium.
Mostly Cloudly (typo)? – Richard Seymour? Of Lenin’s Tomb? It doesn’t surprise me that he says dumb vituperative things. It’s not the first time.
Should have been Mostly Cloudy. It’s my first time posting here.
Seymour, (yes, he of Lenin’s Tomb fame) always had an aggressive streak, but since it was usually directed against people I disagreed with (Tony Blair, David Cameron, Trump) I was fine with it. There were the occasional exceptions, such as his crass comments about the Charlie Hebdo shootings.
He’s always supported the “gender self-identification” stuff, but he’s never been so bellicose about it as he is now.
Roz Kaveney is even worse. I grew up reading her non-fiction about SF and fantasy as a teenager- Roz wrote with humour and insight about these genres.
But over the last 10 years, Roz’s been spouting what can only be described as the trans version of QAnon tweets.
Kaveney currently has a pinned tweet about the Women’s Human Rights Campaign saying:
“These are the WHRC demands. I regard them – if they were enforced – as a warrant for genocide. When liberal journalists say I exaggerate the threat to trans people, they need to read this carefully.”
https://twitter.com/RozKaveney/status/1437387695433601029
Have these people no sense of proportion? If the hated “TERFs/ gender criticals” are “UKIP Voters” and “fascists” bent on “genocide”, why shouldn’t people have them censored, fired, ostracised, and physically assaulted?
That kind of thing is all too typical. Doesn’t say much for the quality of the thinking, does it.