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Gender Critical Feminism
Feminism is the movement to liberate women from patriarchy. We stand up for the rights of women to control our own bodies as individuals and to control women-only spaces as a class.
Women are adult human females. We do not believe that men can become women by 'feeling' like women or 'identifying' as women. We condemn the erasure of females and female-only spaces, the silencing of critical thinking, the cancelling of feminists and critics, the denial of biological reality and of sex-based oppression. We oppose the 'cotton ceiling' and the pressure on lesbians to have sex with men. Women are oppressed to exploit their biological sex characteristics, and women have a right to a movement that is about their own liberation from that oppression. We resist the redefinition of both "women" and "feminism" to make them serve men.
"Women do not decide at some point in adulthood that they would like other people to understand them to be women, because being a woman is not an ‘identity.’ Women’s experience does not resemble that of men who adopt the ‘gender identity’ of being female or being women in any respect. The idea of ‘gender identity’ disappears biology and all the experiences that those with female biology have of being reared in a caste system based on sex." –Sheila Jeffreys, Gender Hurts
"Men often react to women’s words—speaking and writing—as if they were acts of violence; sometimes men react to women’s words with violence. So we lower our voices. Women whisper. Women apologize. Women shut up. Women trivialize what we know. Women shrink. Women pull back. Most women have experienced enough dominance from men—control, violence, insult, contempt—that no threat seems empty." –Andrea Dworkin, Intercourse
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25 million twitter followers, holy crap. can't explain how relieving it feels to see big institutions/corporations supporting those who speak out against the gender craze.
Just go to show that those TRA are just a tiny vocal minority. I hope people stops paying attention and caving to their demands soon
exactly this - many people can't speak out for fear of cancellation, but what they can do and are doing is to put their money where their values are. we've seen it with how JKR's sales skyrocketed even as her name was being slandered, and we're seeing it again now.
I don't think they are a tiny vocal minority. They have captured academia (well, that's where it started I guess) and some governments. And there is clearly some big bucks behind it. Big pharma and rich TiMs sponsoring groups to erase women.
One of the WoLF surveys said between 75-80% of people surveyed did not want transidentified men participating in women's sports. So, TRAs are a minority, but perhaps not tiny. Let me know if you need me to find the source, although you might be able to find it on your own.
I think assuming 20-25% of the population is nuts is to be expected, frankly. In the US that's the amount of people who still think interracial marriage should be illegal.
I bet Chase Strangio at the ACLU is fuming right about now.
“The book the ACLU tried to ban” has got quite a ring to it. Shrier’s publisher should send Chase flowers.
Strangio should not at the ACLU any more than a pedo should work at a daycare. In both cases, they are there to do vile harm.
It's really disappointing that the ACLU didn't fire her sorry ass after she solicited gender non-conforming kids to DM her on Twitter behind their parents' backs for trans guidance and validation during the pandemic. That's 100% predator behavior.
Wait, are we allowed to send men flowers? ;)
Spray them down with Alex Body Spray first. That way Chase will know they're MANLY FLOWERS!!!!!
Wow that really is quite the rad tagline.
Ha! That laugh felt so delicious.
Long ago I was in the airport after having my heart broken by a guy. I wanted something to read and was in WH Smith’s looking at all the magazines. Of course it was gendered. Tons of boobs magazines (I mean really, can’t we have a plane ride without a guy getting off?) or car or sports magazines (with boobs).
The women’s section had all sorts of delights that showed me what to buy and how to;
Tell if he loves you! Make him go wild in bed! “A” for Adventure!!!
And other instructions on how to blow men. After my experience I already knew I could drive a man wild in bed but a job well done was not its own reward.
I was getting more ticked off by the second.
Then a beacon of light, like seeing a giant emerald amongst rubble; there it was... The Economist
I snatched it from the shelf. I paid the exorbitantly high price. I felt smug I got the last copy. I stocked up on Milky Bars and Kit Kat’s. I made my way to the gate and was told due to overbooking in coach I had been randomly upgraded to business class. I stood there in amazement and looked down at my shopping bag.
Just like the knight who guarded the Holy Grail in Indiana Jones’s Last Crusaders, I could hear it say to me “You have chosen wisely”.
For I had looked past the shiny wastes of time and seen the true treasure. I had been blessed.
Sadly, I later strayed from that most wise path and am now learning where I went wrong. I am going to shell out for the subscription.
lolol – thank you so much for this, I have been having one of the most miserable days, and this is not just funny but instructive post did me the world of good. I now know that both chocolate and The Economist are not only excellent fortification for flights, but also for clearing the brain of those dreadful boob magazines. :)
Lmao, thanks for the laugh this morning. :'D
Streisand effect for you, idiots!
2020 has been a strange year, and gender critical feminism slowly gaining mainstream credibility definitely qualifies as yet another thing I didn’t expect.
It’s great to see a woman succeed writing about women’s issues. It’s been a long time coming.
More great news this week!
\(^o^)/
Yay, that's awesome. Also just glad to see so many people still reading books, lol
Can someone copy and paste the section that discusses the book?
I made an account, here ya go:
I found myself asking, why would there be any expectation that there would be "a drop of animosity in the book"? Then I remembered that for some reason when the TRAs act vilely somehow most people assume that is actually people who are "transphobic."
Wait, I think something just jumped out at me there...
Wow hell yes!!! This makes my lady brain so euphoric 🤡
LOL!! Love the username, btw. :')
Huge!!!