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.
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.