This is not your experience
Remember Charles Clymer the “male feminist” who was always talking over women? Then declared he was “Charlotte” and it all made sense? As Charlotte he gets to talk over everyone.
And Charles is a man. He is not a woman. Being a woman is not his experience (7 years in the army azza man) and he is not qualified to talk about what is and isn’t offensive and intrusive and misogynist to the female community. Stay in your lane Charles.
It’s notable I’ve been hearing horror stories about Charlotte Clymer’s behaviour from people online for *years*, even from folk who have no sympathy for gender-critical feminism.
There was that time she fawned over the despotic Iranian government (that persecutes gays and lesbians):
https://twitter.com/cmclymer/status/1403126286378311680
Clymer also launched a series of bullying attacks on political activist Briahna Joy Gray, someone who (unlike Clymer), actually tries to help working people instead of being a careerist.
Also, I hate the whole “stay in your lane” argument- that you shouldn’t discuss the issues around a marginalized group if you are not a member of that particular marginalized group.
“William Lloyd Garrison isn’t Black. Why is he trying to abolish slavery? He should stay in his lane!”
While I am courteous enough not to deadname the Slimeball Formerly Known as Charles, I will never call him “she.”
“While I am courteous enough not to deadname the Slimeball Formerly Known as Charles, I will never call him “she.””
Reminds me of the old Reddit joke:
“Never forget Charles Clymer got canceled so hard he became a woman.”
Cloudy,
Yeah. Since I didn’t go to the LGBA conference on Thursday, I spent much of the day arguing with the protesters. Every single one of them, when the arguing got tough, switched to asking “are you LGB? Stay in your lane.”
I began by asking whether they’d actually noticed that they were attacking the rights of LGB people to meet, organise and discuss issues of importance to them. This was supposed to be a kind of ironic gotcha; a sort of “you say we’re the fascists and you’re the one trying to stop lesbians, gay men and bisexuals talking…”
But they just called me a fascist anyway. Not a single one of them seemed to know what they were actually protesting.
And probably even less of an idea what a fascist actually is.
On a heavily pro TRA forum I once tried to argue that, while transgender people were indeed the best authorities on what being trans is like, how they feel, and what they want, they’re actually in a poorer position to examine and understand claims about Gender Identity than someone without a vested interest. They’re too close, too biased, too needy, and too emotionally involved to be assumed to be experts on the topic. What’s needed instead is a dispassionate analysis.
After all, Biblical scholarship done by fervent Christians isn’t more likely to be true.
Didn’t go over well. As I recall, the trans people went apoplectic with outraged virtue. But it’s standard Skepticism 101.
But how can you do skeptical analysis without lived experience, Sastra?
Funny how quickly ‘intersectionality’ is tossed away when it might infringe on their aggression.