On to the original OP…
As the trans agenda has marched onward, I've noticed two things that really underpin society's simmering misogynistic attitude. First, that this lobby is incredibly well-organized and funded and apparently has been planned for a good long while, because it has succeeded in infiltrating many layers of government, public services, charities, lobby groups, all over the western world, wholesale, a tidal wave of misogynistic reform.
Ah yes, the International Trans Conspiracy. Where a cabal of wealthy trans women and assorted elites have gathered to take over the world, bring down western civilization, and despoil vulnerable women. I suppose we wrote it down in some Protocols, too?
Either there are a very few very evil men funding this who don't care about women, or the vast majority of men genuinely don't see a problem with womanhood being a sexist fucking costume that men can wear. Well, as time has ground on and this farce has continued, worsened, become more insane... it's obvious it's the latter. Perhaps that part was always obvious, but for me, 80s kid... well, I was lied to. By men. By society. By everyone. I thought common sense would prevail in time. But truly, when they said I was equal, they didn't actually mean it, not once, not ever, not even for a moment.
Oh look, some feel-good messaging that was being bandied about in pop-culture turned out not to reflect the actual reality of the world. Shock & horror!! I WAS BEING LIED TO, OMIGOD!!!
God… you say you lived in the 80s, yet you sound like a child who just realized Santa isn’t real!
You don’t even understand that transness is not a “sexist fucking costume men can wear”, and you talk about common sense? Really.
Also, you might not want to appeal to “common sense”. For many, that was — and still is! — that women are less capable and more ‘hysterical’ than men. That women are not sufficiently serious for certain jobs. That racial differences in intelligence and more are just “common sense”. That certain ethnicities are by their very nature inferior and barbaric.
That… that Jews are self-absorbed, self-interested and all too willing to exploit others… including as “very evil men funding this” lobby that is “incredibly well-organized and funded and apparently has been planned for a good long while, because it has succeeded in infiltrating many layers of government, public services, charities, lobby groups, all over the western world, wholesale, a tidal wave…”
Do you realize what you sound like? Do you??
Fuck me that's a heavy load.
Indeed, what you’re saying here is one heavy load.
Of bullshit.
Second thing I've noticed is that when the trans agenda pushes for something new and insane, something that even the most cursory commonsense observation would see is absolutely insane and rife with problems... the lobby succeeds and they push it forward. […] Did they not stop to consider what would happen for even a second? Are they that fucking stupid?
Or maybe it’s not “insane” to most people as it is to you.
Trans "breast milk"? Insane, even a cursory glance at the facts makes the many reasons why it is insane obvious, and yet... the NHS is saying the milk is better than women's milk... when they harange us for taking a fucking aspirin while breastfeeding? Are you fucking kidding me?
I want receipts on the “better milk” claim. Somehow, I very much doubt that’s what they said.
If they did, obviously that’s nonsense, and I say that as a trans woman.
But trans women breastfeeding is not insane, whether at a cursory glance or not. It’s breast milk, no “scare quotes” around it. Human milk is human milk; women and men are not different species. Neither are cis women and trans women.
Also, I don’t know who’s the “they” who harangue you for taking a single aspirin while breastfeeding, but obviously that’s a shitty thing to do and my sympathy is with any woman who had that happen to her.
But some random breastfeeding trans woman is not the asshole who bullied you over minor things related to breastfeeding. Stop conflating everyone you despise into a single blob of assholes.
TiMs in rape shelters... why only a moron would fail to understand why that was completely bonkers, those women are vulnerable and traumatized and giant men with penises are the worst possible idea for anyone with half a brain and a smidgen of conscience... wait, they're fucking closing shelters that won't take TiMs? They're nailing a rat to the door? REALLY?
Right, because one awful alleged incident somehow represents all trans women everywhere. (/s)
If shelters are being closed for not taking us in, well… this might surprise you, but I’m against that. We need all the rape crisis shelters we can get; there are too few of them as is.
And yes, the topic of our presence in such a place is complicated, and my thoughts on it are not as simple as you may assume. And I’m far from alone among trans women in thinking this way.
But “giant men with penises”? Nice stereotype you got there. Oh, and please stop pretending that it matters to you whether we have a penis; none of you TERFs really give a fuck if we had bottom surgery, since you consider us dangerous by our very nature. Many of you have stated as much explicitly.
And it's obvious which that is. I was lied to. They just don't care. They don't see women as people with a right to safety, with autonomy, with whole lives that don't involve them. They see women as service animals for men, as props, as sexual objects that need to shut up and sit down, men are talking. It was always misogyny, all the way down. I'm fucking angry about it because I was lied to, and I've been sitting with this rage for a while, and here's where I have finally gotten:
That’s false, but whatever. Here’s what I’ll tell you instead: rather than keep whining over and over again how I WAS BEING LIED TO, WAAH WAAH, you can grow the fuck up and realize that feel-good slogans from 40 years ago didn’t mean shit. You were lied to?! No shit, sherlock!
We are ALL being lied to on a daily basis from a hundred different directions! This is called reality, where have you been until now??
When this all blows over they will want us to forgive and forget. But my trust is irrevocably damaged, and I will not forget. I was docile and I believed your lies, and thus was easy to control, but you went full mask-off, and now I'm an angry feminist who will never believe a single word you say ever again.
Yes yes, how very brave & stunning of you.
I don’t think any of you TERFs will ever forget any of the bullshit you believe; being obsessive about your enemies is too much part of who you are.
I don’t ask for your forgiveness and never will; after all, why would I want forgiveness for a bunch of largely made-up bullshit (and the rest is just guilt by association)?
and now I'm an angry feminist who will never believe a single word you say ever again.
And I thought your kind already assumed we were all liars by default. So, that would be nothing new.
I wonder if the men will be happy with what they've wrought. Oh wait, I don't fucking care what they think.
Right, you don’t care… which is why you write long posts about them and how much you don’t care.