Welp, @ElleCanada is certainly getting a richly deserved ratio this morning. If you're not caught up on this story, here's a quick recap. If you haven't heard this one yet, it'll make your blood boil 🧵
It started yesterday when trans activist Fae Johnstone tweeted out his thanks to Elle Canada for including him in their story on "women breaking the glass ceiling", which raised some eyebrows because Fae is well known to be male, wtf is he doing in a story on the glass ceiling?
Ppl were naturally quick to jump on the Elle article, pointing out how awkward it was to centre two men in an article about "breaking the glass ceiling", a metaphor used to describe the difficulties ACTUAL women tend to face climbing the corporate ladder
And then ppl started posting some tweets of "Fae's",where he proudly displays his hatred of women, specifically the ones below where he makes some unbelievably misogynistic comments that really show how deep his hatred of women runs, specifically:
Like this one, where he makes clear that he is fighting to create a political environment where women who don't bend the knee to his ideological beliefs that men can become women be hounded and bullied out of the public sphere, too intimidated to "speak their views publicly"
Or this one, where he angrily demands that WAGE (a government organization) "shuts down!", any women who refuses to "unequivocally affirm that trans women are women".
IoW, if women refuse to believe that men can become women, they shouldn't be allowed to speak in public.
And so Elle is getting dragged so much today because not only did they centre two men in an article about female excellence,they centered a man whose primary political activism is geared towards silencing and shutting down any woman who dares to advocate for her sex-based rights
It's bad enough @ellecanada centres men on a story about female excellence, but to centre men who actively hate women and whose main political goal is to silence them & keep them in their place - UNDER THE GUISE OF FEMINISM, no less - is just absolute peak gender insanity.
If you'd like to stop a line and let them know how you feel about this, here's a link
Another angle on that delicious ratio, the OP has 46 likes while Sall's response to it is over 4500.
Yikes 😬
Great point. Of course attitudes play a role in the glass ceiling, but there are tangible,real world things (mostly based around child bearing/rearing) that provide a mechanism for a large part of the GC, and these will never be a factor for men
Ok, time for a nuanced discussion on this topic, and some backstory:
I suspect a large chunk of ppl who currently are absolutely opposed to ANY man in women's spaces today (myself included) would have probably agreed with Chad here 5+ years ago (myself included).
Most of us probably would have thought something similar, like "well, if the person is passing and looks like a woman, I don't see the problem with them just using the bathroom". And if that's all that was happening - ppl who pass as women just using the bathroom - the current backlash occuring now likely would never have happened.
But that isn't all that happened, is it?
Over the past few years, it became increasingly clear that something else was going on, and that accelerated when Elon Musk bought this platform and prioritized the ability to speak truth against politically convenient narratives. We started seeing videos of men masturbating in women's bathrooms, started seeing SM posts of very obviously non-dysphoric men taking "trophy hunting" pictures of themselves triumphantly posting pictures of themselves in women's bathrooms, smugly bragging about their new access to these spaces, and gloating about the fact the actual women whom these spaces were created for couldn't do a thing about it. All of these things that we saw were things that we never saw on pre-Musk Twitter, and anyone posting them was banned.
And very quickly, we were radicalized.
There was a window - albeit brief - a few years ago when the trans community could have done something to prevent much of this. They could have acknowledged that self-id was a disaster, that it was a safeguarding nightmare, and that the so-called "true trans" (for lack of a better term) was outnumbered 10 to 1 by predators, perverts, sexual deviants and sex pests PRETENDING to be trans just to satisfy their paraphilic desires. This was obvious to any impartial observer easily a few years ago. Had the trans community correctly recognized the issue, recognized the safeguarding nightmare it was creating, and began policing itself and made very clear that these types of men did not represent their community, things MAY have turned out differently.
But they didn't. Instead, they doubled down, they said "anyone who claims to be trans IS trans" and called anyone concerned about the safety of women and girls in these spaces bigots, Nazis and transphobes. They refused to compromise even one inch, while demanding women give up everything. Absolutely no sacrifices were required by the men who wanted in, and every sacrifice demanded by the women who said no.
And so we were forced to come to the logical conclusion that, well, apparently these predators and sex pests must actually BE part of the trans community. And since they're the majority of the trans community, that must mean the community as a whole is a degenerate, sexually deviant group of predators who are a danger to women and girls, even while we acknowledge that there DO exist trans ppl who are not that, who really just DO want to live their lives in peace. Unfortunately, they are the minority. And in short order, we were radicalized.
And so that window for an alternate scenario closed. Positions have hardened on both sides, and all of the people who might have considered compromise a few short years ago have landed on the only reasonable position: that since the trans community refuses to police itself, we will have to do it for them. And since women CAN NOT TELL which men in their bathrooms "just want to pee" and which ones want to jerk off in the next stall listening to THEM pee, the only safe and effective solution to this problem is that ALL men - regardless of how they identify - must be kept out of women's spaces. And for all these ppl, there is no going back.
And the trans community has absolutely nobody to blame but themselves for that.
"ThEy jUsT WaNt tO uSe ThE bAtHrOoM!!!"
And of course, who could forget this lovely lady, who likes making violent threats to women to make sure they keep their mouths shut when they see him in their bathrooms.
The trans community will call you a bigot if you have an issue with this
Seriously dude? You srsly can't understand WHY would predators adopt a trans identity in order to victimize women?
Transgenderism is a predators dream come true, providing them with unprecedented access to victims, social protections & powerful accomplices
A brief thread 🧵🧵🧵
You've got governments actively targeting women, shaming them & telling them to IGNORE the instinctive fear they feel in close quarters with strange men
Not long ago the #1 safety tip for women was "listen to your gut". Now, they're bigots if they do🤷🏼♂️
And then you've got signs like this one that are popping at universities, government buildings and other highly visible places in public society telling women they'd BETTER SHUT THEIR FVCKING MOUTHS if they feel uncomfortable when a man in a dress is in their single-sex spaces
This story is even worse than Imane Khelif, Oliver Browns excellent piece shows how insane this story is & the abject cowardice of the Paralympics & everyone involved is both shocking and infuriating. Let's take a deep dive into this article & look see how bad it really is, a 🧵:
This dude was still competing as a man at 45 years old (guess he just hadn't realized his "innate gender identity" yet🤷🏼♂️) Also in a deeply unsurprising twist, as recently as 2021,he gave interviews where he would "speak dismissively of women" giving the impression of misogyny
Just this past summer, he gave an interview where he announced "you can see I'm a man", highly unusual language for someone demanding to compete against disabled females on the basis of his "innate femaleness".
You can almost envision the smug smirk plastered on his face
I cannot stress enough how absolutely inappropriate it would be for a man to be touching an Algerian woman in this way in public.
There is simply no way an Algerian woman would be touched like this by men in public, Its the literal definition of haram
#ParisOlympics2024
Nope, no way in hell Khelifs trainers believe this is a female, they would never in a million years do this, it would be profoundly scandalous.
Yup. Algerian society is deeply segregated by sex, with a large cultural chasm between men and women that is rigidly enforced. This shows not only is Khelif male, but that everyone around him (and likely most ppl in Algeria) knows this.
Seriously dude? WHY would predators adopt a trans identity in order to victimize women? Were you born yesterday?
Transgenderism is a predators dream come true, providing them with unprecedented access to victims, social protections, & powerful accomplices
A brief thread 🧵🧵🧵
You've got governments actively targeting women, shaming them and telling them to IGNORE the instinctive fear they feel in close quarters with strange men
Not long ago the #1 safety tip for women was "listen to your gut". Now, they're bigots if they do🤷🏼♂️
And then you've got signs like this one that are popping at universities, government buildings and other highly visible places in public society telling women they'd BETTER SHUT THEIR FVCKING MOUTHS if they feel uncomfortable when a man in a dress is in their single-sex spaces
Lots of responses to this post I made the other day laying out the case for why trans activism is homophobic, most of them supportive. For the few that weren't, here's a thread where I brought the receipts. If my earlier post was opening arguments,consider this the full case: 🧵
First up, the charities, such as Stonewall and GLAAD. These are the groups that were originally set up as gay rights advocates, but were retooled around 2015 into trans rights advocates, and - since trans activism seeks to erase homosexuality - promptly began to do exactly that
With the anti-gay activists now in charge and setting the tone, media now takes the reins and begins subtly erasing the very notion of same-sex attraction, suggesting that lesbians who don't want to date ppl with penises, and gay men not interested in vaginas are hateful bigots