We are all “pro-women”
Ok, classic. Absolutely classic.
Do you see it? The two paragraphs after “Mate I really don’t wanna get involved or argue” –
We are all “pro-women”. Birdy, you, me, all of us. All of our little festival family are. Of course we are. Great!
But when Birdy uses the word “woman”, she only means people who were born with biologically female genitalia. The vast majority of our festival family (including me) think that other types of women exist too, and that Birdy is denying their identity and rights.
The stupidity just overwhelms. The stupidity and the blank obstinate deranged absurdity of it. Imagine saying that about other familiar nouns – daffodil, brick, dog, airplane, house, lion, banana, moon, bicycle, garlic, rain, hat, fire, walnut. Imagine blathering away like that about a word that people have understood for centuries to mean “people who were born with biologically female genitalia” and then saying that we the cool ones think it means other things too and that’s why we can’t be friends with you any more.
What are these other types of women? Men who claim or pretend to be women remain men, because claiming and pretending doesn’t change anyone’s sex. What are the other types? He said types, plural, as if there were a whole bouquet of types of women. Well what’s in that bouquet?
The word “women” still means women, and it would be stupid to make it mean men who claim to be women too, because then we would need a new word for “women” and when we introduced such a word, goons like this would just steal it too.
Get your own god damn word for men who pretend to be women. If you don’t like “trans women” come up with something else. That would be good, in fact, because men are not any kind of women, so “trans women” just confuses people.
But don’t go around trying to force people to agree that there are lots of “types” of women who are not the kind of women who have female genitalia. It’s stupid, it’s a lie, it’s an insult. Stop it.
I imagine all of us here are aware of the existence of men who pretend to be women. But those who have been living in caves for the past decade may like to know that today is the “Transgender Day of Visibility, a day to improve awareness of transgender people, to draw attention to the challenges and oppression [they] face, and help people understand [them] better.” Quoted from a post to alt.origins. I thought every day was a Transgender Day of Visibility.
The writer continues: “One of the ways I can fight for my existence, and that of several of my friends and loved ones, is by being visible as myself, answering questions, and demystifying trans people.
“I am a transgender woman. I am visible. Ask me anything.”
Ok here’s one. “Why do you think anyone on the planet cares?”
If you hurry up there’s one whole day at the end of November that still hasn’t been dedicated to trans.. Oh, wait, it’s taken. Nevermind.
Or the bit that thay never say/write:
But when Birdy uses the word “man”, she only means people who were born with biologically male genitalia. The vast majority of our festival family (including me) think that other types of men exist too, and that Birdy is denying their identity and rights.
Why is that? Misogyny? Ignorance? That women are perceived as easier to beat than men?
Why indeed. Why the fuck indeed. I have been wondering since before the pyramids were a gleam in some pharaoh’s eye.