Witchfinder Mhairi
If you don’t think men can be women you’re like WHITE SUPREMACISTS. Don’t try to deny it.
Gender-critical campaigners are comparable to white supremacists, the SNP’s deputy Westminster leader has claimed.
Mhairi Black said that “bad actors” and “50-year-old Karens” were responsible for the debate over transgender rights and suggested those who vocally disagreed with her views on such issues could not be “decent” people.
Ah yes those pesky women who are rude and evil and white supremacist enough to stop being 30, they should all be locked up. How dare a woman be 50?! You’ll never see Mhairi Black being 50, because she’s far too enlightened and perfect for that sort of thing.
Progressives today, honestly – going through a box of Kleenex a day crying over men who say they are women, while insulting and belittling actual women every chance they get.
In comments likely to deepen an already bitter divide in Scotland, she said those who made “intellectual” arguments against extending trans rights were akin to past generations who claimed non-white ethnic groups were inferior.
Except that that’s not even slightly true. There are sound reasons for declining to “extend trans rights” so far that they let men invade and destroy and take everything that belongs to women. Men are not the underdogs here. Mhairi Black is thick as ten planks.
For Women Scotland, a prominent gender-critical campaign group, claimed that the MP’s comments called into question her fitness for office.
Well, yes, they do. They’re lies, for a start, and they’re grotesquely insulting. I suspect quite a few of her constituents are women who are 50 and older.
“To me, a decent person is someone who tries to make others comfortable and accept them, particularly when it’s a marginalised, oppressed group.”
I guess she’s unaware that women are a marginalised oppressed group?
Susan Smith, a director at For Women Scotland, said Ms Black’s comments were a “damning indictment of her intellectual capacity and her fitness to act as a legislator”.
She added: “Her inability to grasp why highly vulnerable women in prison, fleeing domestic violence, or being cared for in hospital might not want to share intimate spaces with someone of the male sex suggests that it is long past time she got out of her highly cosseted, gilded bubble.
“Women who disagree with her should not be forced to be silent like some latter-day scold, nor are they the racist or religious fundamentalist bogeywomen.”
Or even Karens.
Without a hint of irony, she is leaving Westminster due to the ‘toxicity’. I guess she just cannot stand people who disagree with her views.
Female socialization.
Very half-assed female socialization since it still allows her to call women she disagrees with “50-year-old Karens.” Trans people (especially the male ones) deserve allllllll the comfort and acceptance, but old people and women are garbage.
Nah, shaming women who don’t go along with the socialization is also part of the standard female socialization. Gotta get those memetic protection mechanisms in place!
Wellllll there’s at least a paradox, even if not a contradiction. That’s why “Be Kind” is such a reliable sour joke among the gender-critical.
“Be kind” is nearly always a sour joke. The only people I know who regularly use the phrase do so in a way to make presenting a contrary view appear mean spirited, or worse. It’s emotional blackmail pure and simple.
I’ve been pondering off and on why so many older men are so resistant to not just the whole TRA thing, but also a lot of the social recidivism regarding women’s rights that we see younger women appearing to be comfortable with. I haven’t reached any solid conclusions and I’m not convinced I know enough to do so. I do wonder if it’s because the women who were at the forefront of second wave feminism were deeply motivated politically and exercised considerable intellectual and political rigour in their feminism. A lot of lesbians were prominent in the movement at a time when that was even less socially acceptable than now. But these were women who had much to gain, and lose, in the struggle for equality and combatting patriarchy. Those battles are widely perceived as having been ‘won’ by women, although not really. Gains to be sure, but there is definitely pushback in many ways, both obvious and subtle. Many younger women have never had to fight for obvious rights and although they may be aware of ongoing wrongs, on its face there is plenty of support for women. That, and a much less rigorous political movement, has allowed residual patriarchal socialisation to creep back in. Toss in the ever present disdain young humans inevitably seem to feel for the old and it creates the environment we see today where young lesbian politicians like Black, feel no apparent dissonance at using ageist and misogynistic disses against those who were fighting for women’s rights decades before she was conceived.
Ophelia: Oh, for sure there’s logical opposition between the two. One cannot consistently believe that one must always prioritize others’ comfort and believe it correct to treat anyone like garbage. Consistently, though. Like religion, gendered socialization isn’t even close to logical consistency. If it were, we wouldn’t chafe under it.
I wonder how old her mother is.