Activism being active
The adventures of The Most Oppressed:
The equalities watchdog has told trans activists that personal attacks on her and her staff have “got to stop”.
Baroness Falkner of Margravine, the chair
manof the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), appeared emotional as she revealed to MPs that she had to cancel one meeting after police warned of a “serious risk” of violence.She said that while feminist campaigners had acted in a “dignified and respectful” manner, trans rights activists had made it harder for her staff to come to work in safety.
Well yes but that’s because they are THE MOST OPPRESSED. Of course people who are the most oppressed are not going to worry about the safety of other people. It’s all very well for those privileged bitches the feminist campaigners to be all dignified and respectful and shit, but trans people are MORE OPPRESSED THAN ANYONE so they are forced to be abusive and threatening. Forced, I tell you.
Women’s rights activists who do not believe in gender ideology, the idea that sex is a spectrum and that people can change their gender identity, have had to run the gauntlet of intimidating protests from the trans rights movement for years.
After the Supreme Court ruled in April that the word “sex” in the Equality Act refers to biological sex, trans rights activists took to the streets, with one carrying a placard showing an illustration of a gallows alongside a slogan suggesting “the only good Terf (trans-exclusionary radical feminist)” is a hanged one.
Ya that was good old “Sophie Molly”.
Lady Falkner said those on the gender-critical side of the debate, “who felt disadvantaged or felt the law was not supporting them, did so in a dignified, respectful manner, frequently using the last resort of a tribunal or a court to pursue justice for themselves or their loved ones”.
Talking about trans rights activists, she said: “Here we have a group that I appreciate is vulnerable, but I don’t think it is fair because women and girls are vulnerable as well.”
Not just as well. More. Being female is a much bigger vulnerability than being trans is. Violence against women and girls is routine, and very rarely prosecuted, let alone convicted, let even more alone punished.
“The level of agitation that they can cause in terms of personal attacks, libellous attacks, defamation, where our family members are affected – our intimate family members have to think about how they’re going about to their place of work – has got to stop.”
Lady Falkner was then prevented from continuing to talk about the attacks the EHRC has faced by Sarah Owen, Labour MP and the committee chair.
Thanks, Labour. Throwing women overboard yet again.
No, they don’t give a shit about “gender identity”, they are opposed to the political weaponization of delusional belief that humans can CHANGE SEX, and that imaginary “gender identity” over-rides and should take precedence over the material reality of binary, immutible sex, usually at the cost of women and children. GET THIS RIGHT.
I don’t think it’s too far off, though it would be better re-stated as:
“Women’s rights activists do not believe in gender ideology, the idea that sex is a spectrum and that there is a relevant phenomenon called gender identity”
Let’s face it, nobody has even yet proposed a coherent definition of ‘gender identity’, let alone demonstrated that it (a) exists; (b) can be reliably detected; (c) has any effect beyond the imagination of a person who claims to have one; never mind (d) should be regarded as more important in law than the material reality of sex.
Why did so many people go from the suggestion that this undefined concept might exist, straight to (d)?
Because having to go through all the steps is impossible for them. They can’t define it. They can’t prove it exists. They can’t prove it has any effects outside of the imagination of those who claim to instantiate the phenomenon. Requiring such proof is cruel and transphobic. These children want skip immediately to dessert without eating their vegetables. If you don’t give them the cake and ice cream they want RIGHT NOW, they’ll kill themselves.
I used to think Russell’s “The Superior Virtue of the Oppressed” needed to be updated for the kids, because it was apt to be misunderstood. Naive of me. No amount of updating the language or the cultural references is going to disabuse people committed to misunderstanding it, and texts like it. And there are many people of such a disposition.
(A quick scan of Reddit, with people claiming it blames the oppressed for their oppression, is about as much confirmation as I want right now – on top of everything else).
You have to wonder if Sarah Owen could get half way though Russell’s essay before stopping to disingenuously seek confirmation that he wasn’t suggesting something horrible, before skiving off to do something more comfortable than thinking.