I am beyond pissed-off.
It's #InternationalWomensDay next week & my TL is full of stupid people & businesses/oganisations whining that men should be included.
No. Fuck off.
IMD was in November.
And even fucking worse, they want to exclude me, & every single woman I know.
They only want to include men who pretend to be women & women who are so desperate for male approval that they define themselves by regressive & repressive stereotypes.
Men who pretend to be women will NEVER be a subset of women.
It's a ridiculous notion & if you pretend that they can, then you're letting your ancestors & future generations of girls & women down.
You're telling every single woman & girl who has suffered, due to being born female that their suffering was caused due to their "identity" & that they could have simply "identified" out of their suffering & oppression.
You're telling the legions of strong women who fought, & died, for women's rights, that they fought for the rights of men who have so little respect for us that they think being a woman is wearing a cheap wig & pretending to have a period.
It's less than 100 years since women were granted the right to vote in this country.
Less than 50 years since women had the right to open a bank account in her own name.
We still don't have equal pay.
We still take on 2/3 on unpaid work in the home.
Men still run 91% of FTSE 100 Companies.
67% of NHS Consultants are men, despite women accounting for 60% of all medical school admissions.
The USA still hasn't had a female President.
The USA doesn't even have paid maternity leave.
Our institutions now talk about people with cervixes, womb-havers, non-men loving non-men & birthing people.
They don't talk about people with testicles, prostate-havers, non-women loving non-women or jizzers.
And you want us to celebrate men & not ourselves on #IWD?
Just because you live an inadequate, pathetic, sad life doesn't mean you get to shit on us
Your unwillingness to accept your sex isn't our problem
It's not our responsibility to protect you from members of your own sex
You may have noticed over the last few days there's been a couple of small protests by, mostly, straight men protesting about the Scottish Secretary protecting UK wide equality legislation, but pretending it's about Trans Rights (nobody knows what these "rights" are)
You may also have noticed that Women's Rights activists did not turn up in their balaclavas to counter protest & assault the protesters.
Nor did they turn up & scream right in the faces of these protesters.
They said a GRC was simply an admin issue to make the lives of those who pretend to be the opposite sex easier.
They lied.
They've just argued & won a court ruling that a GRC changes a person's legal sex for every scenario.
So, they're changing the law that means every boy, man, girl & woman over 16 can change their birth certificate to a different sex, whether they have gender dysphoria or not.