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@iainmacwhirter We could say, use the term 'natural-born vulva' instead!?
I like to think of people as something more than one single level of identification. Fighting biological oppression and other forms of sexism is not the same as forced identification/suppression of identity.
I like to think of people as something more than one single level of identification. Fighting biological oppression and other forms of sexism is not the same as forced identification/suppression of identity.
@iainmacwhirter We call the conservatives Tory's and the origins of that is based on ancient anti-Irish prejudice. Everybody throws around ableist terms in ways that try to keep disabled people out/shamed and/or demonise enemies by tagging that way!? Nobody is using terf or cis that way.
@iainmacwhirter Yes, slurs can have very specific usage windows and still be slurs - except cis isn't in any way shape or form a slur in my head (only just thought of it but I don't know it's related to cissy) and whilst terf is thrown in annoyance and terfy can be used in analytical thought ach
@iainmacwhirter I have a group loyalty and an evidently marginalised group. Maybe in terms of absolute relativism TERF is a slur - words like elite, rich, posh, chinless wonder, nob, hooray Henry establishment too. I will judge those as fair sometimes. And unfair sometimes. And nobody is perfect
@iainmacwhirter When you lot hear TERF you seem to picture yourselves in something like the context of that picket line scene from Billy Elliot, the aggression poured at the buses. But appreciate terfism whiffs of deadly chill insouciance and worse; Thatcher with her scythe. That sort of cartoon
@iainmacwhirter Can U? There's self-righteousness and self-righteousness. Maybe we all fight for existence & team but also for complicated reasons. Is it really like that one scene overall, that intensity? Balance of aggressive pickets is hard to judge, and who is being funded by whom? For what?
@iainmacwhirter Why are we focusing on the language and the aggravation - the whole point is to ask individuals exerting power to focus on the vulnerable!? The priority is not the same thing as the red lines we draw to codify it.
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