Quality control
The ACLU is really tanking.
They seem to have a very stupid very rude very belligerent person working for them and making them look bad on Twitter.
Oh the irony – the lie is on the other foot. Pamela Paul (her op-ed is clearly the target here) didn’t say that. She said “woman” has become verboten, meaning in general, and then she quoted a comment on the Roe decision by the ACLU that carefully did not say “women.” She did not say “the ACLU forbids the use of the word ‘woman’.” The lie is hers, there is no fallacy, the purported “hate” is in her head.
Please. Language matters. Feminism has always had a lot to say about language. Of course it matters if women and girls are simply airbrushed out of much of public discourse. I’m pretty confident Rebecca McCray wouldn’t sneer so happily at the idea that we shouldn’t airbrush Black people out of public discourse by carefully never mentioning them.
Also what is this “most marginalized” shit? Who says they’re “most marginalized”? Are men who pretend to be women really more marginalized than women, people of color, disabled people, lesbians and gays, immigrants, the working class, disabled people, homeless people? Pffffffff.
Brunt? What brunt? Trans people bear the brunt of the re-criminalization of abortion more than women do? Of course they don’t. Women bear that brunt, and no one else.
Aaaand out comes the nasty childish foul-mouthed brat. Lucky ACLU, having her on the team.
Miss her? How? Are we all supposed to dash around to her place to help block all her access to the NY Times? It’s a newspaper. It publishes op-eds. It can’t “miss” individuals who don’t like a particular editorial.
Transmisogyny doesn’t exist. Misogyny is hatred of women, “full stop.”
I wonder if the less stupid people at the ACLU – if there are any left – are cringing. They should be.
Apart from everything else that’s stupid about this, you can’t “include” and “center” people at the same time, or at least not with a single word. “People” means everyone, including those not affected by abortion rights. You would need another, more specific word to “centre” “the most marginalised people”. Although ideally, if you’re talking about women’s rights, you shouldn’t really be going off on a tangent about people who may or may not be marginalised in a variety of ways. You should be focussing on the people affected by by the erosion of women’s rights, and the word for those is right there.
And is it really marginalisation if a man claiming to be a woman is disagreed with? Of course not, but you wouldn’t know it from the apoplectic ranting from TAs in response to that.
“Miss me with X” is new lingo for ‘I disagree with X’. It’s dumb.
Oh I know it’s new lingo, I just wanted to underline how extremely dumb it is (and how narcissistic, which makes complete sense given the narcissism of what she’s defending).