New guidance just like the old guidance
Rape Crisis Scotland still crapping on women.
Rape Crisis Scotland (RCS), the organisation which provides support to rape victims, has published new guidance on how it defines a woman – saying that this is anyone who self-identifies as one.
The new document, called Draft Guidance On Protected Spaces For RCS Member Centres, says a woman can also be “someone whose sex at birth was assigned as female and lives as a woman”.
Oh gee, thanks for the permish. A woman can be a woman, but it’s second-best; the ideal kind of woman is the male kind.
The document, which has taken almost a year to prepare, aims to set out detailed guidance on the provision of women-only spaces within Scotland’s 16 rape crisis centres, along with options for inclusion of trans people.
Why? Why along with options for inclusion of trans people? Why not just include female people and leave it at that?
In the document, RCS – which receives millions in public funding – explains that when it uses the word “female” it is “signifying an ordinary biological perspective on women.”
It states: “This language has been selected as it corresponds to the language of the Equality Act in relation to the protected characteristic of sex.
“When we use ‘woman’, we mean anyone who self-identifies as a woman. We use this language as it corresponds to a gendered perspective.”
So females are women but women are men and women.
Campaigners have now criticised RCS’s long-awaited new guidance, with one describing it as “just another set of weasel words allowing men to continue using the service.”
Former child protection officer Jane McLenachan, of women’s rights campaign group the Evidence-Based Social Work Alliance, said: “Rape Crisis Scotland continue justifying their belief gender ideology is more important than biological sex.
“Rape Crisis centres were set up to support women who have experienced violent assault and rape by men. Victims shouldn’t have to work out this nonsensical definition of female and women before accessing services. Clear words such as ‘men who identify as transgender’ should be used instead of the obfuscated language RCS has adopted.”
But that would hurt the men’s feefees. It’s far more important to make men happy than it is to make women safe.
Brindley said: “We are committed to ensuring that anyone who needs support can access it in a way which feels safe and right for them.
“Local rape crisis centres are independent organisations overseen by their own governing bodies, who are responsible for employing staff and the operation of their services. RCS do not employ staff in local centres.
“We are working with member centres to develop a shared approach, so that no matter where in Scotland someone lives, they know what they can expect when they reach out for support from what survivors describe as a lifesaving service.”
That is, male someones know they can expect to be welcomed into rape crisis centres whether women like it or not.
Quite apart from the inability to understand what the objections are to allowing men into rape crisis centres, of all places, they can’t even understand basic English.
Female is the sex category. Feminine is the gender category. Woman is the species category for an adult female of the human species. It doesn’t apply to female ovines (ewes), bovines (cows), or poultry (ducks and hens) for example, even though they are all female. And it doesn’t apply to men, even though they’re adult humans, because they are male; like rams, bulls, drakes and cockerels.
I invite anyone who thinks that woman is a gender category to attempt to milk a bull.
I think I realised how unique the word “woman” is when taking the dogs for a walk the other day. I could say “I’m taking the girls for a walk” or “I’m taking the ladies for a walk” and it would sound fine in that context. But “I’m taking the women for a walk” doesn’t work, does it?
One of the big problems with defining “woman” (or “man”) according to gender instead of sex is that you can’t get a logical contradiction out of it.
If we use a sex-based definition, then “Mary is a woman who produces sperm” and “Bob is a man who gave birth to twins” are impossibilities. The sentences are internally inconsistent.
Contrast that with “Bob is a man who decided to live as a woman” or “Mary is a woman who doesn’t consider herself a woman.” Both of those are conceivable in a way that “a male female” isn’t. There’s no logical contradiction.
In fact, you can never ever get a logical contradiction out of a definition which involves a self-defined category. People are allowed to be what they want and do what they want. Individualism has run amok.There is no characteristic, attribute, or ability that a man can have, but not a woman. Sex categories aren’t just fuzzy — they’re empty.