Trans-identifying man Brianna Wu tells women we’ve never been denied anything so we just don’t get it.
I think for a lot of women, particularly after childbirth, their sense of being female is biology. And I fully admit that you have those experiences and we don’t.
But respectfully, I think because you’ve never been denied any area of expression, there’s a lot women take for… https://t.co/K8Wb74nwLC
Yes he actually wrote that. Women have never been denied any area of expression, he says, blithely ignoring all the many many areas of expression we have been denied, and in some cases punished for trying to enter. Man lectures women on how we have never been told “No” so we just don’t understand.
…you’ve never been denied any area of expression, there’s a lot women take for granted. You’re not punished every time you act in a way that is feminine. You don’t know what it’s like to be forced into a lot of toxic male social dynamics that feel terrifying. You don’t know what it’s like to feel your brain malfunctioning on testosterone.
Now let’s talk about all the things you don’t know what it’s like, Mister Wu.
What’s extra crazy is that Brianna Wu has been marketing himself as a kind of “middle ground” moderate trans person. He’s dabbled in presenting himself as a “rational trans.”
Yet he fails so spectacularly at any attempt at reason or rational thinking. I’m afraid that his idea of “rational trans” is analagous to “Independent Scientologist.” Trying to hold onto half the cult’s worldview while abandoning the other half just doesn’t work. You’re either all in or you’re all out. You can’t really half-believe in The Evil Intergalactive Overlord Xenu, and you can’t really half-believe that you’re a woman who was born in a male body.
(I say “for the most part,” because I know people whose relationship with their transgender identities is genuinely rational and pragmatic. They’re distressed about the sex characteristics of their bodies and they’ve found that modifying them has been a pragmatic solution. They don’t ascribe magic “sex change” qualities to their decisions to modify their appearances. I have no beef with them. That’s a different thing.)
Ignorance of history runs strong through the trans movement. Women were told no on a lot of things; even as late as the 1970s, it could be difficult to impossible for a woman to get a loan in her name. Getting equal pay for equal work hasn’t happened yet. Getting to complete a sentence without a man talking over you? Hasn’t happened yet. Being an expert on a topic who is asked a question, but some man in a different field jumps in and answers? All too common.
This is like the young man (born in 1992) who took precious time to explain to me exactly what it was really like to be a woman in the 1980s. I was a woman in the 1980s; I was married, a college educated professional, and had a child (born in 1982 so my son is older than this dude). But whatever I said about being a woman in the 1980s was wrong…he knew, I didn’t.
What’s extra crazy is that Brianna Wu has been marketing himself as a kind of “middle ground” moderate trans person. He’s dabbled in presenting himself as a “rational trans.”
Yet he fails so spectacularly at any attempt at reason or rational thinking. I’m afraid that his idea of “rational trans” is analagous to “Independent Scientologist.” Trying to hold onto half the cult’s worldview while abandoning the other half just doesn’t work. You’re either all in or you’re all out. You can’t really half-believe in The Evil Intergalactive Overlord Xenu, and you can’t really half-believe that you’re a woman who was born in a male body.
(I say “for the most part,” because I know people whose relationship with their transgender identities is genuinely rational and pragmatic. They’re distressed about the sex characteristics of their bodies and they’ve found that modifying them has been a pragmatic solution. They don’t ascribe magic “sex change” qualities to their decisions to modify their appearances. I have no beef with them. That’s a different thing.)
Ignorance of history runs strong through the trans movement. Women were told no on a lot of things; even as late as the 1970s, it could be difficult to impossible for a woman to get a loan in her name. Getting equal pay for equal work hasn’t happened yet. Getting to complete a sentence without a man talking over you? Hasn’t happened yet. Being an expert on a topic who is asked a question, but some man in a different field jumps in and answers? All too common.
This is like the young man (born in 1992) who took precious time to explain to me exactly what it was really like to be a woman in the 1980s. I was a woman in the 1980s; I was married, a college educated professional, and had a child (born in 1982 so my son is older than this dude). But whatever I said about being a woman in the 1980s was wrong…he knew, I didn’t.