RE: How do smart feminists fall for the gender theory?

( shewolfoffrance )
I think smart people are better at rationalizing ideas that are plainly stupid, especially if not doing so would threaten their careers or social standing.

( LasagnaRossa )
Fun fact: in the same chapter she mentions TERFs and says that they are not real feminists. Lol. I can't even.

( Calidris )
5 years ago I would have said that a very compassionate and empathetic person could be bamboozled by the trans cult, especially if they only knew about the topic superficially.

Today though? Unless you've literally lived on the moon, I honestly have to say: if someone appears intelligent and believes in gender ideology, they're not actually intelligent at all, they probably just remember a bunch of superficially intelligent sounding buzzwords and catchphrases. The other possibility is that they profit from gender ideology and use it for the grift but privately do not believe in it.

( Spencer_Shayy )
Exactly. It's best to not presume they come with good intentions or should be too smart to fall for this crap.

Look at how they react when they're questioned. With threats, shunning, and even violence. What person with good intentions does that?

Most of these leftists are not good people. They are self-righteous bullies. That's how they fall for it. It's the latest trend to hop on to give them social clout, head pats, and sometimes even money.

It's time to end the myth of the well meaning trans activist.

( vulvapeople )
It grieves me to note that many people (maybe most) just believe whatever it is they're required to believe. This doesn't explain the early adopters, those women in academia and feminist circles who glommed on to TWAW when it was not at all a popular position. I think those women are functionally misogynists no matter what they call themselves.

But, now, reality denial for the benefit of a tiny minority of men (no one cares about TIFs) is the Correct Opinion that all Very Important and Smart People believe. I'm not sure what it's going to take to reverse that. If it ever happens, though, none of these people will offer a mea culpa or take any responsibility for the harms they've caused.