Analogy failure
The stupid it burns.
One of the biggest challenges, particularly in this country right now to trans people are feminists who feel that trans women are not women.
Other way around, sport. We don’t “feel” that, we know it, we realize it, we’re aware of it. The people doing the feeling instead of knowing here are the people who “feel” that men are women if they say so. In short we’re not the ones who have our facts wrong.
They believe that trans women are actually just men
No, again, that’s not what we “believe”; it’s just reality. You’re the one doing the counterfactual “believing” here.
The thing that gets me the most about that argument is that you should see you’re on the same side
No, again, we’re not the ones who need to fix what we’re seeing here. Also, we’re not on the same side. Men who claim to be us are not on our side. If someone claimed to be Jodi Picoult and demanded all her royalties, would Jodi Picoult be on the same side as pretend-Jodi Picoult?
The rest of the clip is about having body-failure in common. Nope.
That’s a big buncha Nope.
Women and men-in-womanface are “on the same side”? In what conceivable way?
It’s a failure of women’s bodies that they are not stronger than the physical violence perpetrated by abusive men? What?
These men’s bodies have not “failed them.” They are perfectly adequate, normal male bodies, that “perform” as male bodies perform. Internal wishes to have been born the opposite sex do not amount to “inadequate performance” of the body.
The male athletes invading women’s sports are counting on the normal performance of their male bodies to outstrip the female athletes at whatever sport they are invading. “Body failure,” my eye. They are also both counting on and indulging their maleness in the invasion of women’s spaces. They are wanting to get their male jollies out of the violation, and to be male-intimidating at the same time, to get away with violations and power plays. It’s infuriating. That’s not the “same side” as the victims of domestic abuse. It’s perpetrating more domestic abuse, and getting celebrated for it.
The dumbth is strong in this one.
Well said.
There are layers of stupid in that piece.
It’s somehow more disappointing when an author rolls out a bunch of balderdash like this than when an actor does. We forgive actors for being dimwitted because they don’t need to write the lines, just deliver them convincingly. So when that band of whinging ex-Potter laddies slag off Rowling, I just wish they’d shut up and do their jobs. But an author’s job includes being insightful; you can’t deliver a ton of codswallop and leave us thinking you’re still good at being an author if you shut up and write.
Truth.