Thread by @poetsoup

the world's so messed up rt now. a global movement righteously mobilises to demand the killing of innocent Black people stop & tragically needs to exclaim that Black Lives Matter. yet women who say that their sex based experience matters are being told, you don't matter enough.

among so many things this most recent tornado has told me is that as a "cis" man, i have no right to talk about the trans experience, but apparently i have every right to talk about the female experience. & i can do so in the most vicious & demeaning way & be applauded for it.

acquiescence is demanded as kindness, biological reality is equated with bigotry, critical thinking abandoned for subterfuge.

i re-read this piece as often as i re-read Garnette Cadogan's "Walking While Black" b/c it is an illuminating & educational expose of female sex based reality from adolescence to adulthood, yet the author Jessica Valenti seems to disagree with JKR.

theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…

but how many biological male's can say they've had this innate, generational experience that she eloquently describes? maybe elsewhere in her memoir she concedes some of her space for biological males, however they identify.

but i don't get how stating biological reality counts as a phobia, how kindness only works one way. maybe some women who follow me can opine on how that gels w/these powerful quotes that seem to reinforce some aspects that only seem to relate the female experience?

the facts of biological reality & sexual dimorphism aren't unkind. just as the support of women's equality on the basis of their sex-class isn't bigotry. women have been discriminated against for all of history based upon it, why shouldn't they be liberated based upon it as well?

it went without saying, but obviously #IStandWithJKR