One of the oddities of the older feminists, "terfs" apparently, is that they seem to think that men should join them in their battle. One that is in fact between different forms of feminism. The really odd bit is that the main "terf" problem with trans women appears to be that they are simply the same universally predatory evil bastards they believe all males are. It seems curiously self defeating to seek allies from a group you simultaneously label universally bad and frequently predatory.
As you have chronicled here and elsewhere both the ideology and "alliance" between feminism and LGBTQ (etc.) Has only very recently been broken, ironically when a few men decide to challenge gender and be "women"
It is curious that there is not anything like the hoo ha about the girls and women seeking to pass as men, in fact the larger number here in the UK.
And what are the "sex based" rights? Well thus far they seem to be about toilets and prisons.
I have a friend who has been for decades a writer for TV and Radio. In recent years he always submits scripts in his female "non de plume" (an old device in literature) because otherwise it won't get past the first base. I suppose that sort of discrimination is the more hidden "right" women may need to protect.
It saddens me that so many men ARE willing to join with the TERFs in assuming that every transgender woman using the women's toilet is a male predator who's found a new way to victimize women. Far too many well-intentioned men don't care that after 40 years of being shamed for such things as holding the door open for women ("benevolent sexism"), they are now expected to defend women against a feminist-inspired cohort of trans women.
There is a fair bit of hoo ha about girls and women seeking to pass as men--but it's all sympathetic hoo ha. They are seen as victims of an anti-woman culture who need to be saved from misogynistic pressures. But the boys and men who want to be women are never seen as victims of an anti-male culture. They are always assumed to be predators in waiting whose greatest desire is to "erase" women.
You've got to give it to even the dumbest women's rights activist: no matter the occasion, no matter the logical backflips involved, there will always be a way to blame some man. And an awful lot of men will fall for it.
One of the oddities of the older feminists, "terfs" apparently, is that they seem to think that men should join them in their battle. One that is in fact between different forms of feminism. The really odd bit is that the main "terf" problem with trans women appears to be that they are simply the same universally predatory evil bastards they believe all males are. It seems curiously self defeating to seek allies from a group you simultaneously label universally bad and frequently predatory.
As you have chronicled here and elsewhere both the ideology and "alliance" between feminism and LGBTQ (etc.) Has only very recently been broken, ironically when a few men decide to challenge gender and be "women"
It is curious that there is not anything like the hoo ha about the girls and women seeking to pass as men, in fact the larger number here in the UK.
And what are the "sex based" rights? Well thus far they seem to be about toilets and prisons.
I have a friend who has been for decades a writer for TV and Radio. In recent years he always submits scripts in his female "non de plume" (an old device in literature) because otherwise it won't get past the first base. I suppose that sort of discrimination is the more hidden "right" women may need to protect.
It saddens me that so many men ARE willing to join with the TERFs in assuming that every transgender woman using the women's toilet is a male predator who's found a new way to victimize women. Far too many well-intentioned men don't care that after 40 years of being shamed for such things as holding the door open for women ("benevolent sexism"), they are now expected to defend women against a feminist-inspired cohort of trans women.
There is a fair bit of hoo ha about girls and women seeking to pass as men--but it's all sympathetic hoo ha. They are seen as victims of an anti-woman culture who need to be saved from misogynistic pressures. But the boys and men who want to be women are never seen as victims of an anti-male culture. They are always assumed to be predators in waiting whose greatest desire is to "erase" women.
You've got to give it to even the dumbest women's rights activist: no matter the occasion, no matter the logical backflips involved, there will always be a way to blame some man. And an awful lot of men will fall for it.