Guest post: There’s no undoing any of this
Originally a comment by Artymorty on There she is now.
There’s not going to be any recovery from this, for groups like Amnesty to have gotten basic women’s rights this wrong. If the people in charge of these groups were ever reasonable, if they were perhaps too afraid at first to challenge the young zealots in their staff, and somehow unable fully grasp the magnitude of what they were conceding, it’s too late to turn back now — the lunatics have well and truly taken over. They’re so deep in it, there’s no undoing any of this. Amnesty International is a massive NGO, and I genuinely don’t think their reputation can recover. How are they ever going to walk this back? “Oops, we accidentally declared that women have no human rights, but we’d like you to still trust us as advocates for human rights”? That’s simply not going to happen.
So that’s it: Amnesty is gone, forever. Same for UN Women. Same for countless others.
So much of the institutional infrastructure of the global human rights movement is being completely destroyed by gender madness. Completely destroyed.
This is not a good sign for the continuation of free society.
Moreover, as Artymorty says, there appears to have been no internal factional division in AI or any other human rights organisation over the issue. It’s not so much the lunatics taking over the asylum: more the prowliing rapists taking over womens’ spaces, whenever and wherever they please.
Possible solution: a fully armed and trained female guard in every women’s washroom. That’s the price of bullshit.
So much of Genderism succeeds because its supporters have no skin in the game, which lets them play a different game entirely. They face none of the consequences (as far as they can see, at least) of the policies they support, but their support earns them social credit. It’s in their interest to be blind to consequences that don’t affect them and to those that affect them less than the status they might gain. Setting men aside, handmaidens to the trans movement do not perceive significant consequences to themselves, so they will not see significant consequences to other women, because that sight would lose them status. Just look how casually they dismiss as trivial the trampling of other women’s sporting dreams. The vast majority of people, never mind women, have no hope of participating in high level competition, so there’s no skin in the game. Male incursion into sport will never affect them, so it can be ignored. Pro-life women exhibit the same myopia, perceiving pro-choice descriptions of real consequences to be no more than rationalizations to avoid the consequences of promiscuity.
And why should we expect otherwise? Rationalizing consequences away is normal. After all, in the absence of real consequences, you’re free to play the status game, and you really want to play that game. There is status and prestige to be gained (within your tribe) by supporting your team. The more zealous your support, the more status you earn, which necessarily means that you earn less by having any reservations or criticisms. People have to be scared out of playing the status game, because only when repressing a concern obviously costs more status than voicing it do you allow yourself to even become conscious that you have any concerns in the first place.
But by the time that should happen, you very likely have been complicit in the construction of social dynamics that elevate the cost of dissent beyond the immediate cost of compliance. The young zealots who have rewarded you for nodding along will turn and feast on you in a heartbeat, and you know it. So you stay silent, both internally and externally, and your bright red line gets pushed back. And it happens again and again and again as you voluntarily cooperate in building the walls of your own prison.
Compromising moral principle for social benefit is like eating Pringles: once you pop, you can’t stop.
[…] a comment by Nullius in Verba on There’s no undoing any of […]
I was just thinking about [some of] that while out for second walk in the rain. The how easily people shrug off our concerns part.
I believe there was internal ructions and objections at Amnesty about their strange stance to support “sex work”. I know I read about them, but in a Tiny Corner of the Internet You Find If You Know Someone way, not a The BBC reported on this way. So I imagine that either there were objections to this too, or those pesky harpies had all been purged after their objections to prostitution.
When rights organizations twisted themselves inside out to support genderism, they not only ignored the lack of gay rights and women’s rights abroad, they harmed their ability to defend rights domestically, and let those slip backwards. If women are oppressed because they are female, and being a woman isn’t a matter of birth but a matter of choice, then anybody choosing to be a woman can be said to choose that oppression. In a country like England, the genderists will avert their gaze as girls are forced into hijab or into servitude of other sorts. After all, they could just choose to identify as men and not do it. The assumption of fantastically absurd privileges obscures the lack of the most basic rights. Women are arrested for calling transwomen men, while at the same time actual violent crimes against actual women go unsolved and unpunished. Creeps like this “Roxanne Tickle” can force their way into women’s spaces where they are not wanted, with all the power of the law, and if they commit crimes while they’re there, well nobody could ever have imagined that could happen, and they’ll be at best shoved round the revolving door of justice one time.
Our paper was just full of a case of two women prison guards being charged with sexually abusing male prisoners. There has NEVER been a story about women prisoners being abused by prison guards of either sex. \
One is so rare it’s news, and it sounds resolvable. The other is so common it isn’t news, and the solutions are ones a lot of people don’t want to hear or implement. A woman sexually abusing a man (apparently this involved touching of genitalia without permission) is an aberration; a man sexually abusing a woman is the expected behavior. It’s so normalized we don’t even bother to talk about it much.