When I post photos like these people say, “why don’t the women just refuse to compete?” It’s not that easy. Often their entire scholarship is tied to their athletics. They can be threatened with expulsion. They can lose out on med school or law school. 1/
They can lose a job that is promised but dependent upon graduation.
People don’t realize just how much power is being wielded against these women. It’s enormous. So much so that college women got naked in front of man due to the threats. 2/
Can you fight the entire school, the DEI requirements in businesses, the President of the United States? He signed an executive order on day one that effectively ends women sports by being inclusive of men. If men are included it isn’t women’s sports any more. 3/
I don’t know if people know just how much power is in play. Students will shout at you, threaten you, mob you if you dare step out of line. It’s not like what you remember school to be. And the administrators will be behind the students doing the threatening. 4/
Women are being brave beyond brave and speaking out. They have people threatening to murder them when they do. Just for saying women should have their own sports. 5/
This common memes have made the rounds. 6/
And this is an academic publication where the professor on the cover is holding a fake? gun, finger on the trigger, in an obviously threatening manner. This was published by Duke University Press years ago. 7/
Now imagine being on campus and facing all THAT.
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Lesbian Action Group has written a brief on behalf of Sall Grover in the case of Giggle v Tickle.
“it is now commonplace for lesbians to be pressured into having six with transwomen, and to face risk of social isolation if they do not agree with that very concept.”
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Giggle is an app that @salltweets created for women only. Mr. Tickle demanded access to it & Sall said no. 2/
That’s it. She just said no. The question in this case is essentially whether women are allowed to say no.
It’s an important case and it is crazy expensive to fight. All that guy has to do is make a demand and Sall’s world is turned upside down. 3/
For three hours today I watched a man go on and on about exactly what criteria it should take to allow men into the ladies room. He’s had surgery so he’s decided that the compromise is to let him into our spaces.
Where do they get the nerve to think they can decide? 1/
Then I watched some women say they were fine with it. One of them I know is a man, but others could be women. Where do they get the nerve to think they can decide to open our spaces to anyone?
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And all of this for what? Because they can’t bear to say no to these particular men?
It’s ok. They’ll get over it.
Better to tell them no than to cross a woman’s boundaries.
3/
So, I posted yesterday about Keith Olberman’d weird obsession with Riley Gaines. Then I did a search for some of his comments about her. This is just the most recent stuff. There were so many comments I’d be taking screenshots all day.
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Here are some more.
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And yet another. All his comments are vicious. He is enraged with her for what? For protecting women’s sports? For speaking about schools putting men in the girl’s locker rooms? For saying no?
What she’s doing is amazing. She’s standing up for young girls. 3/
1. How many times does someone says “including others doesn’t hurt you”? We hear it all day long.
They are wrong. They know it. They don’t want you to know it.
2. Let’s start here. When women are a subset of women they cannot lay claim to anything that was separately a woman’s. In one linguistic sleight of hand, women have lost their individuality that determines who has control of something. Be it sports or prison or their name.
3. Now the woman is just a grumpy member of the group trying to keep something away from other WOMEN.
EVERY reason why we have separate spaces women is instantly wiped out with this trick. We are stunned.
We try to explain. We are sure it’s a misunderstanding.