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I don’t know how to put how I feel about this into tweets but,as my Nan would have said,I’m going to offer my two penneth
The spite in the article is jarring.We’re all angry, &worried, &determined but few of us are choosing spite.
It shrivels&it withers,instead of fixing things https://twitter.com/ugmedialtd/status/1312035258343227394
The spite in the article is jarring.We’re all angry, &worried, &determined but few of us are choosing spite.
It shrivels&it withers,instead of fixing things https://twitter.com/ugmedialtd/status/1312035258343227394
The basic premise here could be understood as “allying with trans people is destructive to our cause” but that argument is then saturated&soaked in invective. You wouldn’t even have to disagree with the premise to find it a brutally personalised attempt at making the argument.
Instead of doing the work of making a considered and general case, the article largely settles for drama, emotive rhetoric and comparing four trans individuals currently standing up to their own community to the four horsemen of the apocalypse. Oh and to plastic dolls.
It is not reasoned argument to insult people’s looks,to be snide about one person’s pre-surgery unawareness of how much harm they were going to come to,or to misrepresent some of these individuals views on “trans children” to try&get women reading it on side with this take down.
There are clear thoughts shoe-horned in between barbs but they get lost beneath them. This is not the foundational block of a conversation about concerns. This is poisoning the well of the conversation with all the potions that come readily to hand.
The author, and those who agree with the article, are going to have to come to terms with a couple of things. Firstly,women are not a hivemind.Some of us will ally with people you don’t like, trans or otherwise, and attempts at emotional manipulation are unlikely to change that.
You get to respond to that by choosing whether to ally with us. You won’t control how we navigate these issues or who we stand with.Secondly,you may find it divisive that women have friendships/associations you disapprove of but many of us find what you are doing divisive,too
Instead of granting other women the respect of talking to us properly about what you think&allowing that we are rational beings with our own minds who may not always agree with you, you instead tackle it like this. This sort of viciousness alienates many women you hope to reach.
We are all united only by our desire to save women's rights&protect children.That’s where our credibility is.We don’t need to deliberately hurt individuals to be credible.If you want to do that,fine,but when you put out a call to other women to join you in that a lot of us won’t.
There are amazing women’s voices on here saying all manner of different things and coming to important,necessary conclusions while offering incredible analysis
Some of us are assertive,some of us gentle&all of us are strong
It’s amazing.
Lowering articles like this,not so much
Some of us are assertive,some of us gentle&all of us are strong
It’s amazing.
Lowering articles like this,not so much
