Thread by @babybeginner

A thread about language.

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.

Why do women need their own exclusive word?

2. 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.

4. We explain and explain and explain. The more we explain the more we are attacked. We explain about our vulnerability we are told we are weaponing trauma. We talk about our safety. They demand we show statistics about harm.

5. Any man violating women’s boundaries is a man violating women’s boundaries. We tell them having our boundaries violated is a harm. They deny it. If you don’t count harm as harm it’s easy to say there is no harm.

6. We try to justify why we have separate spaces. We explain desperately about things we all knew five minutes ago.

We are sure they just don’t get it. If only we could find the right words, we naively think, they would understand.

7. From other men we get endless accusations of NAMALT (not all men are like that). It’s exhausting.

And why are we doing this? To justify our right to get our OWN stuff. We beg for our own stuff back. We try to explain why we should have our own stuff.

8. All because with one linguistic move, women have ceased to be an entity entitled to their OWN things. It’s the ultimate takeover.

9. The mantra is trans women are women and women are c word women. The TW now gains the prominent and controlling place on the title. The women are just c word women. A subset. A minor player. With no rights at all. Full control has been turned over.

10. But the game is not complete. For women are powerful and can speak up. Who would let them take their stuff without complaint?

So now we get to the second genius move. The way to shut women up. We are told we are hateful if we object to having our own stuff taken.

11. We are now just a member of the group taking OTHER’S stuff. Now it is fully theirs. They are entitled to it. We are excluding them from THEIR stuff. They say it is akin to racism. It is ingroup superiority and it cannot be allowed.

Do you see what they have done?

12. You are now a terrible person if you object to the thief inserting his name on the title of your own home against your will. The home you worked for. Paid for.

You are now begging to be allowed a piece of it. Maybe we can compromise you, plead. You want to be nice.

13. Everyone tells you to be nice. They wonder why you won’t be nice. They say they are nice. Why can’t you be nice? We should all be nice and compromise they tell you.

14. When you beg for someone to recognize you as a full being, you are told the mantra again. It is now solidified. You are no longer you.

It has been declared.

And If you DARE even name this as men taking over women’s stuff, you are called a bigot.

15. Without language you cannot name the thing being done to you or by whom it was done. Especially the latter. You cannot state this is the more physically powerful group taking something from the less physically powerful.

16. This isn’t about civil rights this is about property rights. Ownership. Control. That’s the linguistic game here.

17. PS. It is now an instant violation to say the C word on X. It rhymes with miss. It is a slur and it violates the terms of service. Don’t let anyone bait you into saying that word.