Oger trolling
The loathsome Morgane Oger is gloating about Vancouver’s withdrawal of education funding for Vancouver Rape Relief, because VRR is an all-women organization.
A “purity test” he calls it. A man who pretends to be a woman calls a women’s organization for women who have been raped “a supremacist organization with a purity test on womanhood”…because it doesn’t agree with him that he is a woman. It’s as if Michael Bloomberg were a trans poor person and accused people who don’t agree that he’s a poor person “supremacists” conducting “purity tests.” Women are women, only women are women, men are not women, men are men – none of that is purity, it’s just humdrum daily reality, that doesn’t magically become something else just because we tell it too.
“Standing strong”=defunding part of VRR’s work.
It’s not VRR who should be embarrassed.
The organization does “recognize female persons to be female”; it doesn’t recognize male people as female, nor should it.
The male entitlement rises off Oger like steam.
Ah, I see. They arbitrarily exclude “some women.”
Ugh, Morgane Oger. Loathsome is exactly the right word. His life is one of the verymost privileged in all of human history — rich, white, straight able-bodied educated employed Canadian male with a good income living in literally the most livable city on the planet at the peak of its most prosperous peaceful period. And he dares to explicitly call himself “more disadvantaged” than the women who require the services of Vancouver Rape Relief — women in utter crisis, with basic needs like shelter and support and food not met, often with children in tow, apparently disproportionately Indigenous (so, in a way, not really living in the same luxurious Vancouver as he is but inhabiting an overlapping but very different nation)…
Infuriating. Here’s hoping the spell is broken, the tides turn and assholes like him get all the social comeuppance they deserve.
“Females and other women”. I never thought I would live to see the day such a statement would be taken seriously by so many otherwise intelligent people.
“Supremacist” is the word that jumps out at me. What is that word doing in that salad? Does this creep have a theory that actual women doing things for actual women are enacting some theory of female supremacism? That’s what excluding him is? Female supremacism? Christ, what is it with woman-hating TIMs?
Here in Japan, the first coach in trains on my line (and other lines) going into Tokyo during morning rush-hours and, conversely, the last coach on trains leaving Tokyo in the evening rush-hours are for women only – and are used by women who find it not altogether comfortable to be pressed up against a number of besuited males and, as too often happens, to be touched up by one or some of them. Most Japanese people (apart, no doubt, from the touchers and feelers) consider it a good idea. Incidentally, men in wheel-chairs or with severe disabilities, male helpers of women or men in wheel-chairs or with severe disabilities, and pre-pubescent schoolboys who may face, or have faced, the same problem as women do on trains, are also allowed to use this coach, at least on my line. No doubt Morgane la Fay would find all this objectionable. What’s a bit of harmless Ogling when everyone who claims to be a woman or a young boy really is one?
Ogre is really getting tiresome…
Chum in the water for the woke brigade. Paint your enemy with right words and you just have to sit back and let others join in the attack. Supremicism (like “exclusion”) is bad, and is usually linked with “white”. Clearly this is what Oger is trying to evoke in this case.
Reminds me of this B&W post http://www.butterfliesandwheels.org/2019/step-right-up/
featuring a photo in which a young white(!) woman(!!) is carrying a placard saying “WHITE FEMINISM AIN”T SHIT”, presumably intending to accuse GC feminists of being somehow racist for opposing trans ideology. (The same image shows a protester carrying a guillotine intended for SWERFS and TERFS). It doesn’t have to make sense. It doesn’t have to be true. It’s a signal to engage the enemy and give no quarter. The enemy is reprehensible, beyond redemption and not to be debated, bargained or negotiated with. How can you debate with evil, (White) supremicist SWERFs and TERFs?!! DEbate and discussion must be avoided at all costs, as it is not an arena in which TRAs can win, as reality is not on their side.
YNnB, that appears to be a new form of Godwin, doesn’t it? It’s also right up there with “Okay, Boomer”. It doesn’t require thought. It doesn’t require knowledge. It doesn’t require anything but the right buzzwords. So if you put up a slogan, and someone approaches you with thought and knowledge, you just attack them with a buzzword, and then you don’t have to do the hard work of thinking and learning.
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That one stood out to me, too. It’s stupid and insane and insipid.
Unfortunately, it’s also insidious. Linguistic tricks of this sort have a way of softening rational resistance over time. After a while, even right-thinking people find themselves adopting such phrasing, at which point they become the new normal, allowing the next insane bit of newspeak to work its way in like a wedge in a door. None is ever the final one that satisfies the forces of irrationality.
No ground can be given or surrendered, lest it invariably become a foothold for further invasion. Taking such a stance, of course, means being tarred as bigoted at worst or callous at best, but it’s strategically necessary. Anything less leads nowhere but inevitable, eventual defeat.
Yes, I agree. Give them an inch and they’ll take Bulgaria. Even the word “transwoman” gives too much ground, concedes too much to the TRA position. Many TIMs seem to get a lot of mileage out of insisting TWAW, to the extent that allies and useful idiots attempt to use it as an irrefutible, unanswerable, unarguable Truth. Yet TIMs also rely heavily on the beligerent entitlement that they’ve absorbed with their male socialization. They don’t seem to have picked up on the empathy thing much at all, though I suppose not surprising given that the most vocal and demanding people in this movement seem to be blessed with a large dollop of narcissism.