Thread by @yatakalam

This is unspeakable garbage from @TheAtlantic.

They use trans activist pornographer, bookburning enthusiast and sexism fan G. Lavery as the supreme authority on feminism.

@JeffreyGoldberg
theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

G. Lavery: "I have been dressing like the mignonne bitch of my autogynephilic dreams"

[Autogynephilia: Misogynistic male fetish consisting in a male getting sexually aroused from imagining himself as submissive woman; usually involves the consumption of a lot of porn]

G.Lavery, @TheAtlantic expert on feminism:

"I don't look like a woman, whatever that means."

@JeffreyGoldberg

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G.Lavery, @TheAtlantic expert on feminism:

"a French businessman started hitting on me before he had even had a chance to figure out whether he wanted to do so. I loved that and wanted to snap his tight little tie right off his bouncy white shirt."

@JeffreyGoldberg

G.Lavery, @TheAtlantic expert on feminism:

"As my instagram can attest, my presentation is more than an attempt, even if it’s less than an accomplishment. I speak femme slightly better than I speak French"

@JeffreyGoldberg

G.Lavery, @TheAtlantic expert on feminism:

"I am aware of seeming young, callow, feminine, and suddenly it is impossible to disentangle my foreignness from my transness, and from my relatively junior status."

[file under "Autogynephilia"]

@JeffreyGoldberg

G.Lavery, @TheAtlantic expert on feminism:

"Occasionally the female faculty (myself [sic] and a couple of French professors) would step in..."

@JeffreyGoldberg

G.Lavery, @TheAtlantic expert on feminism:

"An Oxford degree and a game smile got me a series of well-compensated short-term post-college gigs with similarly well-educated post-grad boys."

@JeffreyGoldberg

G.Lavery, @TheAtlantic expert on feminism:

"The motherfuckers wouldn’t look twice at me now. And I fucking love it. "

[Being overlooked in academia is something every woman aspires to, of course. A very validating and feminist point of view]

@JeffreyGoldberg

G.Lavery, @TheAtlantic expert on feminism:

"There is something about being treated like shit by shit men that feels like affirmation itself, like a cry of delight from the deepest cavern of my breast."

[Yup that's all we women want, excellent feminist point]

@JeffreyGoldberg

G.Lavery, @TheAtlantic expert on feminism:

"To be the victim of honest, undisguised sexism possesses an exhilarating vitality, as well as a kind of moral clarity."

@JeffreyGoldberg

G.Lavery, @TheAtlantic expert on feminism:

"I’m not delusional; being the object of French male sexism isn’t the same as passing for une femme. Nobody really thinks I am French; people only think I am une femme in a sort of abstract sense."

@JeffreyGoldberg

G.Lavery, @TheAtlantic expert on feminism:

"It is truly possible to change sex."

@JeffreyGoldberg

https://twitter.com/yatakalam/status/1295805685716803584

G.Lavery, @TheAtlantic expert on feminism:

"I DO encourage followers to steal Abigail Shrier’s book and burn it on a pyre."

@JeffreyGoldberg

https://twitter.com/yatakalam/status/1328000280257064960

G.Lavery, @TheAtlantic expert on feminism:

"Book-burning is destruction of contamination by fire"

@JeffreyGoldberg

https://twitter.com/yatakalam/status/1328003854995165186

G.Lavery, @TheAtlantic expert on feminism, is also on the editorial board of Transgender Studies Quarterly.

Some morsels:

S. Stryker: "I mentioned to a precocious teenage lesbian relative that the next issue of TSQ would be a special issue on porn"

https://twitter.com/yatakalam/status/1328011615334232064

G.Lavery, @TheAtlantic expert on feminism, is also on the editorial board of Transgender Studies Quarterly.

From that publication:

"Next they're coming for our bank accounts with the End Banking for Human Traffickers Act."

https://twitter.com/yatakalam/status/1328012456661307399