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WeekendZebraJune 5, 2023
It is lovely to see that this message is being shared to a wide audience on television!
Posted June 4, 2023 by WrongToy
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I have never watched her, hardly know who she is, and I'm glad she has changed her mind.
However she includes gender being a social construct as part of what she used to believe. That part hasn't changed. It's like she still isn't getting it.
I don't understand how anybody could have ever thought, or still think, that men should be in women's bathrooms. If it's just to use the toilet, then why isn't that true for anybody of either men's or women's bathrooms? Why do we even have men's and women's bathrooms? Why do we have men's and women's anything?
Bathrooms (and all sex-based facilities) aren't separated based on what's in a person's head.
She’s still very much a right winger with the same views as Walsh etc., and meanwhile plenty on this “feminist” site are putting her (and many, many, omg so many similar women/men) on a pedestal for one reason alone. Not a good look and I’m beginning to understand what TRAs are saying about “GC” “Feminism”.
Yeah Megyn Kelly is a known conservative, and like many conservatives she’s against TRA ideology but for mostly different reasons than us. I admit I don’t follow her so I don’t know for sure her stance on other social issues especially ones affecting women but while it’s good she’s speaking out about this, it’s important to point out she isn’t totally on our side.
I do think though that women on this site are just happy to finally see some well known people or politicians, with platforms, speaking out against this stuff finally, even if they don’t totally align with us. Conservatives coming out against TRA ideology is rather new and for a while there, at least ime, us GC radfem types felt crazy and alone with our feelings on TRA ideology. Before people started really pushing back rather recently I was like, am I the problem? Does no one else really see this how I do??
If Matt Walsh’s What Is A Woman or Megyn’s reading of the 14 year old’s poem will reach more people and help them peak, no matter where they stand politically, then I’ll fucking take it, idc. Liberals in the US sure as fuck aren’t helping us, quite the opposite really.
I agree with you. I really think that society at large needs to get over the idea that if you agree with one position a person has, it means you have to agree with every position that person has. I disagree with Megyn Kelly and Matt Walsh on the vast, vast majority of issues, but I agree with them on the gender issue, and that's totally fine.
No matter who it is that pushes back on TRA rhetoric, there will be dirt to be found on/thrown at them and they will be villified somehow. Hell, GCs & feminists have an amazing spokeswoman in JKR, and the TRAs have successfully tarnished her reputation. Not saying that I think Megyn Kelly is some sort of victim of a smear campaign, but hopefully you get my point.
I really long for the days where we can accept that it's okay to disagree with each other, and that it doesn't make someone your enemy. Who would have thought that a former Fox News anchor would spurn a call back to civil discourse (ha!)
Very fair, sometimes I need a reminder that we don’t get much representation in the media and even crumbs seem like a good thing.