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RaveUK Banned Puberty Blockers for Under 18s!!!
I was never so happy to wake up to the news than I was when I saw the UK banned puberty blockers for under 18s.
This will sweep the US & Canada and we will see the most appalling medical scandal of our time fall apart before our eyes.
And it is 100% thanks to actual feminists.
We will (of course) have to push for making ordering hormones etc. Illegal from 3rd party groups a priority as well. But given the damning evidence, that shouldn't be too difficult of a push.
As always, the voices of women led the change to protect kids and other vulnerable people from corporate greed, led the charge for LGB rights and protections for women.
Of course men like Matt Walsh will try to claim credit for the work women did that he simply parroted, but we know the truth.
The next step is yeeting the adult men from our spaces, but that work is well underway. ❤️
Amazing job ladies. May your coffee or tea be hot, and your steps today be light!
I don't believe that separatism is good for humanity.
I also think Soh's argument is based in internalized misogyny and is therefore a weak argument. "Women are mean and catty" is a sexist stereotype. "Femininity is innate to womanhood" is a sexist stereotype. Ms. Soh is using sexist stereotypes to make her points.
Because I believe humans care. We care. We love. We progress. To suggest otherwise suggests the end of humanity. Most people don't like the idea of ending humanity. I believe most people enjoy life, despite the hardships that come with it.
That's why I'm here today, because I care.
How is separatism bad for humanity? It's just the opinion that women should have designated woman-only spaces available to us, that women and girls should have the option of living away from males if we need/prefer it.
This straight woman is all for it.
Even just spending time in online woman-only spaces has strengthened and enlightened me in ways I didn't even know were possible, personally.
I have a different understanding of separatism.
That was what I was going with for my answer. I don't believe this type of separatism is going to help feminists in the long run.
We already have "separatism" going based on your definition: women's bathrooms, women's shelters, women's prisons, girls boarding schools, women's support groups (current trans-issues aside) and women are free to have their own jobs, their own income, their own housing, and live with women, in a majority of countries.
I think you're quoting from the wikipedia article on (feminist) separatism... I mean if you read the whole thing, it's pretty clear that there are many different views on separatism and "women's separation from men" isn't necessarily implied to be universal/permanent. It even mentions an essay by Marilyn Frye where she mentions that all women practice separatism at some point in their lives, and that it only becomes "controversial" when politics come into it.
It's kind of ironic how the trans movement is even attempting to eliminate "benign" forms of female separatism such as women's bathrooms, and even shit like bachelorette parties, baby showers, women's religious clubs, "girls' night out," that kind of thing...
I mean I'm sure there are radfems who think all women should permanently and universally separate from men. Personally? I don't know any radfems who actually believe that, unless we mean in a vague sort of "I hope one day we have the technology to have an all-female society" way. I think everyone pretty much understands "all women should permanently separate from men for good" is a hard sell, to the point of impossibility. Some women are straight, I think we pretty much all understand that they're going to want to interact with men at some point.