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Perhaps if the movement had spent its time & energy fighting the government instead of fighting feminists and for safe, prompt, well resourced & evidence-led support & treatment services instead of trying to usurp women’s rights & deny biological reality we’d have won those
improvements and in the process, tapped, in a unifying way, into enormous levels of potential public support instead of steadily & acrimoniously undermining that support & dividing the movement’s with authoritarian dogmas.
Instead of obscure ‘queer theory’ nonsense that tries, King Canute-like to COMMAND material reality (this time dimorphic biological sex rather than the tide) out of existence, its time for a truly progressive & honest direction.
Stop undermining women & the left with identity politics, start undermining the government with a unifying class politics opposing ALL oppression. We aren’t oppressed by women refusing to erase the huge significance & reality of biological sex, esp’ in a sexist world.
We’re not oppressed because others won’t be forced to believe (or say they believe) what many of you believe about yourselves. Social identity must be socially negotiated. Think what you like about your individual identity but to impose that against people’s will is wrong
& counterproductive. We are oppressed by a (male dominated) capitalist society that has an interest in perpetuating a system of artificial gender norms imposed according to sex & in demonising those who deviate from the norms (for their sex). Fight the system, not the sisters.
