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Exactly this. And when I see friends tying themselves in knots trying to "bridge the divide" and "focus on what we share" and "both sides, both sides," my head goes into my hands.
Because your calls for compromise will not protect you. It is full capitulation or die in a fire.
Because your calls for compromise will not protect you. It is full capitulation or die in a fire.
And when one day those same friends come to me bewildered (and they will) saying: 'But I used the preferred pronouns. I said trans women were women. I didn't complain about gender neutral toilets. All I said was that I could understand why some females might still want *some*
sex segregated spaces *sometimes*. And now someone has called my boss trying to get me sacked and my inbox is full of death threats, I will resist the childish urge to say, "Ah well. Both sides, both sides."
Because I am bigger than this. I really do hope I am bigger than this.
Because I am bigger than this. I really do hope I am bigger than this.
I feel bitter though. I've seen too many women who should know better turn their backs to save their own skins.
I think the women I respect most in the world now are all vocal feminists. Prepared to roll up their sleeves and fight for what matters.
I think the women I respect most in the world now are all vocal feminists. Prepared to roll up their sleeves and fight for what matters.
I truly believe that one day we will defeat these terrible ideas. Because they are predicated on preposterous untruths. Male people are not female people just because they say so and the majority population will never get on board with this (which is why so much change is having
to be pushed through via the back door.)
We will return to fact based and sensible practicalities ie protecting trans people from discrimination and violence on the basis that they are trans/a third category, not literally the opposite sex.
And then we are going to see some
We will return to fact based and sensible practicalities ie protecting trans people from discrimination and violence on the basis that they are trans/a third category, not literally the opposite sex.
And then we are going to see some
selective amnesia. Brace yourselves.
We'll have the likes of Owen Jones and Laurie Penny insisting that they always stood for, and believed in protecting, women's sex based rights. Those friends who would not put their heads above the parapet will insist that they of course
We'll have the likes of Owen Jones and Laurie Penny insisting that they always stood for, and believed in protecting, women's sex based rights. Those friends who would not put their heads above the parapet will insist that they of course
agreed with you all along and yes they did speak up actually.
Politicians who claimed to be able to see peoples souls will wax lyrical about how wonderful it is to have found a sensible solution.
Peter Tatchell will still be well dodgy.
Politicians who claimed to be able to see peoples souls will wax lyrical about how wonderful it is to have found a sensible solution.
Peter Tatchell will still be well dodgy.
It's all coming. I hope, for our daughters and granddaughters sakes, that it is soon.
