Vulnerable people
By “vulnerable people” she does not mean women, or migrants, or refugees, or workers, or lesbians and gay men, or survivors of genocide, or people with physical handicaps, or people of color, or indigenous people, or homeless people, or addicts, or political prisoners…
One has to be careful when reading these days, because what is being said depends upon who is saying it. Here we have a particular definition of “vulnerable people,” which in fact, as Ophelia shows above, leaves out numerous demographics who are actually vulnerable, in favour of a very small one which is not.
Similarly, McKenna’s “picking on” probably means something completely different if we were to examine the behaviour she’s describing as such. We would probably call it “pointing out,” “commenting on,” or “questioning.” It is not picking on anyone to point out and comment upon the fact that men are not women, and cannot become women. It is not picking on anyone to question policies and practices that are based on the idea that they are and can. It is not at all hateful to resist such practices and policies, as they are based on lies and enforced by bullying and intimidation, usually state sanctioned. The actual “picking on” is likely going in exactly the opposite direction.
I am so fucking mad. I am appalled. Where does McKenna come from thinking that politics is forcing men into women’s spaces rather than defending women’s rights? Maybe she should find another job, because what you get with her is men in women’s prisons, men in women’s rape shelters, men in women’s hospital wards, men on women’s sports teams, men invading women’s spaces, and men stealing and cheating to take positions and awards from women. Tell me again how and why these men are “vulnerable”?
What is the context? What is McKenna responding to?