Here is a fun story, in thread-form, about something that happened a few years ago on FB. A man named Kenneth kept not listening to terves who were attempting in good faith to educate him with well-sourced research papers. 1/8
Kenneth kept whining that all the sources being provided were too long and complicated. So I wrote this for him. I decided to revive it here today, and I would like to now dedicate it to Seth. 2/8
"Here is a very brief essay. I will call it, 'For Kenneth and Other Dudes who Don't Like it When Women Stand Up for Ourselves.'... 3/8
Men started oppressing women thousands of years ago. They stole our communities, turned us into their property, forced themselves on us, made us take their names, and refused to allow us to participate in public civil society... 4/8
They took away our right to govern our own bodies. Then, feminists started to speak up and things started to change. We demanded the right to vote, and we won it. We demanded to be able to serve on juries, and we won that too... 5/8
We demanded the right to reproductive sovereignty. Pseudo-win (now in serious danger). We demanded the right to have credit cards in our own names. Win. We demanded the right not to be raped by our husbands. Mostly win... 6/8
Today, men are demanding the right to tell us who we are, on the basis that they 'feel like they are really a woman inside.' We aren't having it. The end." 7/8
I didn't hear from Kenneth again after that. 8/8
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