The nail-studded bat
This is one way we know trans women are not women.
That’s not “activism.” It’s not struggle, it’s not consciousness raising, it’s not social justice. It’s just an image of an angry man brandishing a bat studded with nails, by way of telling us we are under orders to agree with him that he is a woman, and that refusal will be met with murderous violence.
I don’t want to be any kind of ally with men who threaten to smash women to death for failing to agree that the threatening men are women.
We’re stuck in a tight circle here. That nail-studded bat simply underlines and entrenches the impossibility of 1. seeing the bat guy as a woman and 2. agreeing to pretend the guy is a woman. The threat is supposed to make us surrender but all it does is make us say: “See? This is just same old male violence and domination, so hell no.”
A second thing. That “not up for debate” trope is supposed to suggest the obvious justice of the claim and the irrationality of failing to agree with the claim. But how can it? How can we be expected to agree that men claiming to be women is just obviously both true and progressive? It’s not that kind of claim. The “activists” want to pretend it is, but it isn’t.
It’s not a human right to force people to agree that you’re a woman when you’re obviously a man. It just isn’t. Knowing the difference is a very basic bit of animal knowledge, and forcing us to pretend otherwise is not a right.
I wonder how many “good liberals” who were appalled at MTG’s gun-brandishing “Squad’s Worst Nightmare” photo think this is just a-ok.
I propose a new dictum*: What is not up for debate can be dismissed with out debate.
*No I won’t go there. I’m classy, you know!
I will never get past the appropriateness of violent trans activists choosing a mutilated phallic object as their special brand of threat.
That might be what it’s supposed to suggest but to me it just says shut up and do as you are told. It’s a diktat, an order from on high that one is not to argue against no matter how irrational it is or how much one might disagree with it. The thug with the nail-studded bat is clearly intended to suggest the consequences of ignoring the diktat.
That’s not good. I’m an old man. I’m gay. I don’t want to be trans. I don’t want to be a woman. I don’t want to fight with women because we live together. We help each other. We have been working on this for thousands of years.
There are trans people. We know that. We are ok with that.
It seems to be more of a cause for young people to say- “look at me! i am different!”
“You have put me into an impossible situation! I am very angry! You have fucked up everything and now you expect me to go along peacefully!”
But i still don’t understand this trans thing. Some people are treating it like a fad or political cause. My thoughts about this probably are showing my ignorance.