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Good old ACLU. On International Women’s Day, here they are to bully us for saying that we are women and men are not. On International Women’s Day, they think it’s the best possible day to tell us to shut up about men trying to usurp the word “woman” and the ontological status “woman.” On International Women’s Day they shout at us for continuing to think that women are women and that fantasies and let’s pretend games don’t change that.
On International Women’s Day here’s your reminder; you know, the one you didn’t ask for and don’t want, the one we decided to shove in your faces because we can, the one that insults you and belittles you and pretends your sex is a matter of choice and self-declaration. That International Women’s Day.
And no one gets to tell us what it means to be a woman, but the ACLU does get to tell us, women, what we are required to think about who is a woman, and that we are not allowed to say that men are not women.
If their claims had some merit this endless bullying repetition of stupid “Because I said so” might eventually persuade, but since what they’re endlessly bullyingly repeating is utter childish bullshit, all it does is make us more furious every time they do it. Here’s your reminder that grapefruits are locomotives, and no one gets to tell us what it means to be a grapefruit or a locomotive.
Here’s your reminder that the ACLU has gone both stupid and bossy.
Yes, indeed, the two tweets are incompatible.
The first polices womanhood. The second claims policing womanhood is bad.
Like … I mean … I’ve been doing a lot of natural deduction proofs over the past few days (for fun), and it’s driven home the horrible quality of what passes for argumentation in the public sphere.
So, translated:
ACLU: on International Women’s Day, here’s your reminder that all men are women if they say so.
No one (except us) gets to tell us (who?) what it means to be a woman. Not our bosses. Not the government. (But the ACLU will have them in line in a jiffy that men are women.)
Policing womanhood is bad for all women if we exclude men.
The obfuscating language does so much of the heavy lifting in obscuring how appallingly bad their arguments are.
There’s gold in a lot of the push back.
Well that’s going to complicate a lot of people’s travel plans or breakfasts.
@YNNB? only bigots complain about eating locomotives for breakfast or travel via grapefruit. Locomotive travel is a colonial construct and you should check your privilege, you white supremacist.
This…. isn’t ACLU’s job…. is it?
I mean, they have an actual job to do, right, and it’s not…. this.
latsot, didn’t you get the memo? It is everyone’s job, and only important job, to chant TWAW! Repeat constantly. Then kill TERFs.
That is what the world is supposed to be, isn’t it? Centered on trans?
November 20th is International Children’s Day.
The ACLU will remind us that even trans kids who are prepubescent aren’t too young to decide for themselves to go on puberty blockers, take cross-sex hormones, and have surgery.
Protect the children!
And November 19 is men’s day. No one will remind us of anything. Because…men.
I’m surprised there hasn’t been a shitstorm directed against Google for their Women’s Day search engine whimsy that, as far as I can tell, was directed at women.
I was surprised that they didn’t put some TIMs in there myself. Looking in a little farther, I did notice the section on sports mentioned discrimination because of “gender,” but otherwise, it was better than I’d thought it would be.