( BraveAndStunningTERF )
Most people will accept being shit on if they have someone that they themselves can shit on.
And thus a TERF blew up yet another irony meter!
( Iridescence )
The Handmaid's Tale: TiM edition would be a terrifying story of complete patriarchy... the women contributing to women's oppression is a major theme in the original, but it would be a truly horrifying element to see even those women replaced by male pretenders.
Surprise, surprise: TERFs appropriate The Handmaid’s Tale, despite its author having had EXPLICITLY acknowledged that she sees trans women as women. Oh, speaking of the author, Margaret Atwood — she already addressed the following utterly ridiculous bit of speculation, within the scope of her literary universe (where the US had become the Republic of Gilead, a totalitarian Christian theocracy):
( emissch )
Historians and experts in the last year or so have been warning about the increasingly likely fall of US democracy as we know it, and that we are barreling full steam toward a far right Christian theocracy/autocracy.
At surface level, you might expect TRA to diminish if a far-right authoritarian government came to power, but I would argue that trans ideology wouldn't be erased at all. In fact, I think it would be readily accepted as a type of social enforcement arm of the US government to punish women and homosexuals.
So… what did Atwood say about that very idea?
Mother of the first true Goth (@ambeanmhor) {note: this is a TERF}
Why couldn't they choose to be men and run Gilead?
Katelyn Burns (@transscribe)
Gender traitors were hung in Gilead, no?
Margaret E. Atwood (@MargaretAtwood)
Yes exactly. Those who did not fit into the ordained boxes. Hanged on the Wall.
She also linked an article from Scientific American earlier in that thread which explains how neither sex nor gender are binary.
In other words, her response to the TERFs is a metaphorical middle finger :)