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14 Jun

It's not by chance that identity ideology constructs middle-aged women as the enemy, is it? It's all *about* mothers - rage at the mother, repudiation of the mother, mother-hate.

Gender theory is a post-truth fantasy of self-generation, of giving birth to one's own Self. Unbodied/post-bodied - technology-born, all evidence of the blood and guts of birth erased;

human physicality/biology edited until it's reduced, essentially, to sex; pure libido, liberated at last from female-enforced limit.

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@WTFoucault

12 Jun

By ‘building back in a more feminine way’, does Boris Johnson means more equitably, or more .. waftily?

What he actually said was 'in a more gender neutral and feminine way'. So, let's build back in a boiler suit or crinoline way.

let's build back in a more unscented wipes and Marc by Marc Jacobs way

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@WTFoucault

18 Apr

If, as the Irish government proposes, it becomes illegal to say out loud that the man who raped you with his penis is the man who raped you with his penis - regardless of what he's wearing or what he tells you about his 'gender' - we are all utterly fucked. All of us.
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Please, don't soothe yourself with the idea that this is an extreme scenario or straw man. It's happening already. It's the institutionalised psychological abuse of women, and it's leading to the institutionalised sexual abuse of women, in prison and elsewhere. It will only grow.

And don't soothe yourself that we are not all fucked because this is happening in the justice system (for now) and you're nice and won't ever be in prison or a refuge. Or because you're not female so, you know, it's no biggie.

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@WTFoucault

24 Jan

Christ, this insistence that feminism act as unpaid carer to all other activist movements - and sacrifices, without complaint, its own interests in doing so - is precisely why feminism exists.

No other movement is required to consider - let alone centre - the concerns or experiences of any other group; can you fucking imagine?

Feminism is not interchangeable with other movements. Very often the interests of women are in tension, at the very least, with those of other groups.

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@WTFoucault

22 Jan

One reason many younger women don't understand gender critical feminism is that women often only come up against the biological basis of our oppression when we have children. Before that point - if you're middle class - it's easy to believe that battle is won.

Not the only reason - of course not. But I think it explains why *so many* younger feminists buy into the idea that women’s oppression springs from their gender/socialised role- rather than from the simple fact that they belong to the sex class that has vagina/can give birth.

Of course it's not necessary to be a mother to come to this realisation. But motherhood IS a significant turning point for many women - the point at which they first experience the *structural* nature of the oppression of their biological sex.

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@WTFoucault

29 Jun 19

If you are middle-class and pro gender self-ID, please, please ask yourself: am l okay with having people with male strength, male bodies in women-only places because I'm far less likely to be personally impacted? Should I also consider girls and women who aren't as lucky?

The truth is that middle class progressives are far less likely to be at the sharp end of this - just as we're less brutally impacted by structural sex inequality generally. Less likely to be in prison, bail hostel, women's refuges.

We're less likely to be entirely dependent on public services like NHS or social care. Our daughters are less likely to be in Care or on social services' books. They won't experience those layered inequalities and abuses which lead to risk-taking and exclusion.

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