Why there’s the culture of fear now
Gender critical women are the new…what…bosses? Priests? Scabs? Enslavers? Colonialists? The new all-powerful sneering unjust overlords who need to be overthrown and punished.
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Gender critical women are the new…what…bosses? Priests? Scabs? Enslavers? Colonialists? The new all-powerful sneering unjust overlords who need to be overthrown and punished.
Oh dear.
Remind me: which side is it that always needs to be centered, celebrated, loved, cherished, protected, uplifted, valourized, and held to be sacred?
Would that be the side that is constantly referred to as “our _____ siblings”?
That’s the one.
Failure to believe that (some) men are women is, by definition, hateful bigotry. Ditto anything less than complete surrender to the demands of these men. This has become a state-enforced religious belief, a blasphemy law backed up by the power of the police and courts. It is the equivalent of secular nations outlawing depictions of Muhammad, and prohibititng the consumption of pork and alcohol at the behest of Islamists. Belief is being forced upon unbelievers. Welcome back to the sixteenth century. We are living in de facto genderist theocracies, with captured and compliant government and private institutions spreading, upholding, and normalizing trans ideology, all without proper public input and accountability.
This is all reminiscent of the (possibly apocryphal) comment about evolution supposedly made by the wife of an English cleric: “”Descended from the apes! My dear, we will hope it is not true. But if it is, let us pray that it may not become generally known.” Except now it would be: “Men can’t be women? My dear, let us redefine these terms to change the facts of the matter. But if that doesn’t work, let us do our best to make sure that nobody is permitted to say it out loud.”
I propose that this be accompanied by a second question that asks if they were happy for men to share the same facilities. Those who answered “yes” to the first question and “no” to the second would then be asked to write an essay-length justification of their responses, explaining the exact nature of the difference between “trans women” (i.e. men) and “men.” The entry deemed by our judges to be the most hypocritical, duplicitous, and misogynistic would be declared the winner of the Ella Gordon Prize for Coercive Fiction.
It is hoped that this be the one and only occasion upon which this prize is handed out, as there is no desire to turn this into an annual event.
As a point of law, gender-critical views are in fact a protected characteristic. That has been decided in that jurisdiction, and I am not aware of any further appeal. Her statement is simply incorrect. Hachette’s failure to discipline her for this assertion of an eagerness to discriminate constitutes evidence of the environment which is one of the claims of the suit.
Somewhat off topic, but the central police station in Edinburgh has a poster up for Beira’s Place.
Maybe, maybe not. No poll, no data.
From the polls I’ve seen: yeah women actually are mostly fine with mixed-sex facilities… IF the stalls are private rooms with locking doors and without all those absurd gaps at the floor and between the door and walls, and the sink area is open.
I despise the dishonesty of people misrepresenting the characteristics of the groups they’re talking about, and using lies as “evidence”.
KBP @6 – well that’s interesting.
A lot of people are fine with a lot of things until they’re faced with the reality of those things and consequences they hadn’t really considered.