I get particularly annoyed when feminists do it. Anna North tweeted about a program to fund sick leave for “people who have miscarriages”. If all people could have miscarriages, the sick leave would already exist. It’s because it’s women who have them, we don’t.
Twenty years from now we will be seeing mothers embarrassing their daughters with Moon parties like they did in the 70’s because women will have been erased from the discourse AND WE’LL HAVE HAD TO F**KING START ALL OVER AGAIN.
A First Moon Party is, as I understand it, a celebration of a girl reaching the age of menarche. I, too, had never heard the term until I saw this commercial.
Back when I was in danger of slipping down the gender ideology rabbit hole, there were three things that pulled me back from the brink. The first was my general annoyance and deep ideological discomfort with being strongly encouraged to plaster “my pronouns” everywhere; even when I was blindly parroting “trans women are women” in my Tumblr hashtags, that demand didn’t seem right to me, and nor did the sneering moral superiority of the people making it. The second was the question of whether a lesbian would be transphobic (and therefore a bad person) for refusing to have sex with a male-bodied trans person; I recall my then-housemate answering “yes” to that question after a few seconds of consideration, and my own revulsion at the notion. To this day it seems like a species of rape.
The third, perhaps the lynchpin, was when I realised that the “advocacy” at the core of trans activism seemed little more than an excuse for men (especially “cis” “allies”) to hurl vile abuse and in some cases physically threaten women. And while I deeply disagree with a few classically “feminist” issues (just wait for another one of my occasional defences of BDSM and pornography), even someone as thick as I am knows that if your advocacy is mostly just you yelling at women and indulging in puerile lurid fantasies of enacting violence against them, what you’re advocating for is not a good or healthy change in society.
Later, after I had already dropped out of the woke, I was completely gobsmacked by the issue of cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers being pushed onto prepubescent children. I am still astonished and appalled by the existence of so many well-meaning and otherwise-intelligent “allies” who heard once, on the radio or from an activist, that these radical medical interventions are wonder drugs which have no side-effects and can be simply and quite easily reversed. I think that if I had still been on the fence, that would have firmly shoved me off of it.
There’s a drive in the UK for pregnant women to get vaccinated. Previously, this was not recommended because, for obvious reasons, the vaccines had not been tested for safety or efficacy on pregnant women. Now the NHS says that it’s definitely better for pregnant women to be vaccinated than not. This gets a big sigh of relief from me and I can only hope that women haven’t been scared off by misinformation.
Anyway, interestingly, all the news reports I’ve seen about this have said “pregnant women”, repeatedly. I’m not aware of any complaints.The sad part is that I noticed it as an anomaly at all.
I get particularly annoyed when feminists do it. Anna North tweeted about a program to fund sick leave for “people who have miscarriages”. If all people could have miscarriages, the sick leave would already exist. It’s because it’s women who have them, we don’t.
Twenty years from now we will be seeing mothers embarrassing their daughters with Moon parties like they did in the 70’s because women will have been erased from the discourse AND WE’LL HAVE HAD TO F**KING START ALL OVER AGAIN.
Moon parties? Google doesn’t turn anything up.
A First Moon Party is, as I understand it, a celebration of a girl reaching the age of menarche. I, too, had never heard the term until I saw this commercial.
https://youtu.be/NEcZmT0fiNM
Exactly as the girl in the video says: “What the hell is a First Moon Party?”
That video is really weird.
I believe “Are you there God? It’s me, Margaret” by Judy Blume revealed the phenomenon to me.
Back when I was in danger of slipping down the gender ideology rabbit hole, there were three things that pulled me back from the brink. The first was my general annoyance and deep ideological discomfort with being strongly encouraged to plaster “my pronouns” everywhere; even when I was blindly parroting “trans women are women” in my Tumblr hashtags, that demand didn’t seem right to me, and nor did the sneering moral superiority of the people making it. The second was the question of whether a lesbian would be transphobic (and therefore a bad person) for refusing to have sex with a male-bodied trans person; I recall my then-housemate answering “yes” to that question after a few seconds of consideration, and my own revulsion at the notion. To this day it seems like a species of rape.
The third, perhaps the lynchpin, was when I realised that the “advocacy” at the core of trans activism seemed little more than an excuse for men (especially “cis” “allies”) to hurl vile abuse and in some cases physically threaten women. And while I deeply disagree with a few classically “feminist” issues (just wait for another one of my occasional defences of BDSM and pornography), even someone as thick as I am knows that if your advocacy is mostly just you yelling at women and indulging in puerile lurid fantasies of enacting violence against them, what you’re advocating for is not a good or healthy change in society.
Later, after I had already dropped out of the woke, I was completely gobsmacked by the issue of cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers being pushed onto prepubescent children. I am still astonished and appalled by the existence of so many well-meaning and otherwise-intelligent “allies” who heard once, on the radio or from an activist, that these radical medical interventions are wonder drugs which have no side-effects and can be simply and quite easily reversed. I think that if I had still been on the fence, that would have firmly shoved me off of it.
There’s a drive in the UK for pregnant women to get vaccinated. Previously, this was not recommended because, for obvious reasons, the vaccines had not been tested for safety or efficacy on pregnant women. Now the NHS says that it’s definitely better for pregnant women to be vaccinated than not. This gets a big sigh of relief from me and I can only hope that women haven’t been scared off by misinformation.
Anyway, interestingly, all the news reports I’ve seen about this have said “pregnant women”, repeatedly. I’m not aware of any complaints.The sad part is that I noticed it as an anomaly at all.