An unjust authority removes property from its rightful owner, and gifts it to an undeserving thief who covets it.
Then a law is passed, declaring the stolen property now belongs to both the interloper AND the rightful owner.
The rightful owner objects.
People then suggest that the rightful owner must be punished for failing to recognise the interloper & thief as a rightful owner of their stolen property.
There is no recourse for the rightful owner to reclaim what is rightfully theirs, or deny the validity of the thief's claim.
The rightful owner is punished more harshly for the 'crime' of reporting the theft & refusing to recognise the validity of the 'new owner' than the thief is for laying claim to stolen property. The thief garners public sympathy as the purported victim of the rightful owner's ire.
The unjust authority who stole and redistributed the property continues to adjudicate the matter.
I talk about all this stuff in real life.
I'm not just anonymous online.
But I avoided one particular conversation with one particular person, for fear it might affect a huge and important source of my happiness.
The cost/benefit analysis definitely didn't stack up.
I firmly support everyone's right to safeguard their own wellbeing in certain circumstances, so that they can retain the resilience to fight the things that need to be fought.
If avoiding peaking your next door neighbour allows you the space to do your stuff elsewhere, so be it.
Pick your battles.
Have a sanctuary somewhere.
Fight what you can, and protect yourself enough that you can find the strength to keep going.
Better to be effective sometimes, than burn out completely.
Are you more influential than you think?
A little test.
(I'm about to make you feel really good)
This exercise may help you understand how powerful Gender Critical twitter accounts are, and why we keep being censored.
Have you ever checked your "engagement rate"? No?
It's a metric used to see how much people engage & interact with you.
In other words, how INFLUENTIAL you are.
A simple way to calculate it is to look at the analytics data on any tweet.
And then calculate this:
Total Engagements
÷
Total Impressions
x 100
This gives you the
'engagement rate'
It's the percentage that saw your tweet and then actively engaged with you, (likes, retweets, replies etc) instead of ignoring and scrolling on by with a 'meh'
What's an average, and what's a good engagement rate on twitter?
Those who are tasked in their formal roles with defending the rights of women and girls, but 'dare not' wade into the 'debate' on whether sexed bodies are intended to MATCH 'sexed minds'?
Understand this.
You stood in the way.
You stood in the way of those of us desperately trying to prevent girls coming to harm.
We could have spared more children physical harm, without your choices preventing us.
Some children have now come to harm, that we might have prevented, had you not demonised us.
Whilst we were desperately telling girls their bodies are not wrong, don't need binding, don't need amputating, that they ARE PERFECT AS THEY ARE,
YOU were saying "Well, we're not sure."
YOU were saying "Those women, they're quite cruel, not like us"
When my ovaries failed early, and I needed to find out which hormones would best eliminate symptoms, reduce my cancer risk, mitigate dementia risk, preserve my bone density
I know *I* definitely needed the advice of men lingering in menopause forums on HOW TO ACCESSORISE
And when the menopause clinic cut my tummy yesterday to insert another oestradiol pellet, I COMPLETELY FORGOT to ask the female nurses to decorate my wound with a flower tattoo AND they never so much as SUGGESTED a different colour of stitch.
They need men in that clinic STAT
Because without men, how will we know whether we are inserting a micronised progesterone capsule with enough FLAIR in our vaginas?
And if taking it orally, does the resultant dizziness cause a swoon onto an ON-TREND FAINTING COUCH, or instead some piece of velvet crap from B&M?
Composing a complaint for another 'males can have instant access to females if they want it cause the law says so' policy.
And I'm furious that the legal architects left any ambiguity in the law.
If the law ALREADY RECOGNISED FEMALES PROPERLY all of these other laws would collapse.
A sex class. The female sex class. A biological group, a bodily anatomy, a reproductive class, a tangible, material reality.
That's what we are.
If the law properly recognised what female IS and what it ISN'T, there wouldn't be any nonsense clauses or laws about how NOT-FEMALE people can be 'recognised' as FEMALE.
Because you can't 'recognise' what is not recognisable.