The real issues
UK Women’s March has a statement about itself.
*Our Statement*
With Donald Trump set to return as US president in January 2025 and Nigel Farage picking up the anti-abortion mantle here in the UK, it’s time to make our voices heard.
We are marching because violence against women and girls in the UK has increased by 37% since 2018 and has now been declared a national emergency.
We are marching because abortion in England and Wales, if not carried out according to the strict requirements of the Abortion Act 1967, is technically still a criminal offence carrying a maximum penalty of life imprisonment.
We are marching because reproductive rights are being removed state by state in the US making it increasingly more difficult to access safe abortions, and where vital healthcare is needed to save a woman’s life.
Big yes to transatlantic solidarity.
But then
We are marching because discrimination and violence against trans women and girls has increased around the world. Anti-trans rhetoric prevents women from addressing the real issues they encounter by reinforcing the gender stereotypes that have oppressed women for centuries.
No. It’s not a “gender stereotype” that men are not women. It’s not “anti-trans rhetoric” to point out that men are not women. Men helping themselves to everything that belongs to us, including even feminism, is what prevents women from addressing the real issues we encounter.
We are marching because women in Afghanistan under Taliban rule have been effectively silenced by being banned from speaking in public. They are no longer allowed to access education or work and are prevented from freedom of expression.
Indeed, and you know what? Those women are the real thing. The Taliban doesn’t bully and stifle and kill men who call themselves women, the Taliban bullies and stifles and kills women, real women, the kind that can get pregnant.
*Our feminism is intersectional*
Inclusivity is at the core of UK Women’s March. We acknowledge how race, gender, class, sexuality, and disability intersect. Women are exposed to racism, ageism, ableism, homophobia, and transphobia, not just sexism and misogyny. This means we must acknowledge how these differences interlock for feminism to work.
Wrong. If you include men in feminism then it doesn’t work.
At least they consistently use the words “women” and “girls” rather than “people/persons” even if they consistently misunderstand the definitions of “women” and “girls”.
I have struggled ever since the Great Gender War that exploded at that other place to understand how so many seemingly intelligent and knowledgeable people fell for these lies. How could they make it such a big part of their lives?
But look back to history, it has always been a very few, very dedicated and highly focused individuals who have managed to convince others that underneath his nakedness, the Emperor really is wearing a robe of the finest thread. Lenin, Hitler, Mussolini, Peron, and Don Corleone all had that ability and all drew in a vast crowd of followers, quite often more highly educated followers.
Humans are more easily duped than dogs.
I suppose that for UK Women’s March, women are defined as a group by their common gender identity. Regarding women as being of a specific sex reinforces “the gender stereotypes that have oppressed women for centuries,” because it amounts to ascribing said sex to that gender identity.
How can they be unaware of how patently ridiculous and backwards this line of thinking is? Female humans have been oppressed for quite a while because of their sex. Any notion of “gender identity” that Women’s March might now regard as the basis for womanhood is the direct result of that oppression, not the cause of it.
A major reason men feel the need to control women is to make sure they (the men) don’t waste their resources on some other man’s child. That’s not a concern with men who pretend to be women, because men CAN’T GET PREGNANT.
This statement is another example of that Schrodinger’s Ally statement concept I mentioned a little while ago. They seamlessly slip from women meaning sex to women meaning gender, relying on the reader to ascribe good faith to them at all times. Pointing out the inconsistencies means *we’re* evil, not them, blithely letting it pass by is what proves we’re good, even if women are harmed as a result right under our noses.
“Gender is the oppression” needs to be said again and again though I will refrain from doing so here because that would be silly (and not how things work).