Becoming more closely connected
Well now we all want to know what “dinner party TERFs” are and why we haven’t been invited.
It’s some guy called Ryan Broderick who came up with the label, but it’s very misty what he meant by it. It’s something about Glenn Greenwald and a NY Times reporter called Taylor Lorenz which is too uninteresting to describe further.
Greenwald is part of a cadre of writers who position themselves as neither left or right-wing, instead focusing on culture war Twitter drama about being “canceled” and trans people in bathrooms and woke college students to make the actually very standard and traditional right-wing status quo that they’re defending sound slightly less tedious. Other writers in this network are people like former New York Times columnist Bari Weiss, Andrew Sullivan, Jesse Singal, and, I’d argue, Slate Star Codex writer Scott Alexander Siskind, as well. There are more. They are becoming more closely connected to the “dinner party TERFs” in the UK and Ireland. Almost all of them use Substack as their home base.
Ah, you think, there’s the clue to what he meant by it: follow the link. But no, the link is just to Graham Linehan on Substack. The rest of the piece is just a lot of inside baseball that makes my eyes glaze over after ten words, and I still don’t know what I have to do to get a dinner around here.
Are the dinners at TERF dinner parties cooked by Karens?
The weekly seafood dinner is called Surf and TERFs.
I’ll see myself out.
My guess is that the writer is referring to the American perception that people in England and Ireland still invite TERFS to dinner parties as if they were ordinary, desirable guests that were safe to sit next to. Whereas even a TERF who stays on safe topics is dangerous because her very presence can simultaneously normalize a point of view equivalent to committing Nazi war crimes and curdle the cream.
Hahaha great punchline.
This is really annoying because I know there are a lot of good jokes in there somewhere, but I’ve got nothing.
@Bruce Coppola #1
That’s SWERF and TERF.
I propose that impossible sausage and vegan fish not be on the menu. I am happy to host. Rest assured, my brisket is unabashedly beef.
It’s just an appeal to others to claim that our reasonable exteriors shouldn’t fool anyone when we’re actually raging Nazis inside? Indeed, the *more reasonable we look (and sound)*, the more suspicious one should actually be of us.
Saying things like “women produce ova” is in fact, our way of disguising our True Agenda, which is, world domination, genocide, men in trousers etc. Apparently.
Gee, Arcadia, I was hoping for men in tights. Sigh.
Jaimi Shrive suggested mangetout be served:
That’s more like it.
Meanwhile Singal is busy on Twitter getting Broderick to take back his scurrilous imputation that Singal opposes trans bathroom access via gender identity.
https://mobile.twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1370403144811823111
*beats head gently against a wall*
Given how very deeply Singal has looked into this, how can he still hold the position that it’s in any way relevant that he has a view on which men he thinks should access female only spaces; and hold the position after all this that unfettered male access to female only spaces is fine; and not notice the conflation of sex and gender that is inherent in the concept that bathroom (or any) access should be via “gender identity” and not sex?
Pleased to see that feminists are definitely giving him shit for this.