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Again – infuriating.
Why put it that way? Why not put it the more obvious way: this is a victory to treat women as having rights themselves? Why put all the emphasis on trans people and what they want and by doing that, imply that women are 1. the enemy and 2. vicious bullies? WHY DO THAT?
Why the hemming, the apologizing, the anxious propitiation, the quaking sensitivity, along with the blank indifference to women?
But trans people’s rights are absolutely protected…
Who said anything else? Why say that? Why assume that feminist women are trying to take away trans people’s rights? WHY DO THAT?
You know they face harassment and bullying from school onwards…
SO DO WOMEN. So do women, and women are half of everyone, so why are we ignoring the bullying of women in favor of wringing our hands over the bullying of men who say they are women? (That’s what both Radio 4 and Falkner mean by “trans people,” of course – we all know trans men are a distant afterthought.) Why don’t women’s rights matter any more? Even to women? Why has the trans bullying been so very effective?
The judgment holds that Foraster is free to express her belief that men can’t change their sex. So saying that Foraster is therefore not free to misgender someone is bullshit. It isn’t harassment to simply not agree with someone’s claim about themselves.
Did they ever? Isn’t all this TRA crap just old-school misogyny re-packaged in new packaging? Did the feminisit movement ever succeed in preventing men from harrassing and bullying women, from school-age onwards? Aren’t the TRAs just trying to maintain the terrible, terrible status quo?
Well, I think “philosophical beliefs” that aren’t informed by basic biological facts are worthless, whether they are protected or not. People believe all kinds of weird things, and they no doubt have a right to, but it also doesn’t make them philosophical.
#3: The parallels between the woke and the religious nuts are amazing to me. Both groups believe in things that are not demonstrated to be true. Both groups demand special treatment and careful language. If we agree a man can be a woman because he feels like it, then we must believe a bearded Semitic tribal war god really does descend into a Pentecostal and cause them to thrash and moan and babble holy words.
Exactly, which is why I see it as a cult.
Have you seen Arty’s video on the parallels between the gender movement and scientology?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcqqGJrCpFY
@6 Thanks for the link, I definitely regard cults and beliefs in a similar way to Arty. He’s not wrong! :)