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One of my friends is a talented writer. She’s had an extremely complicated and interesting life and so her writing always has a lot of power. Her professors and those who read her work keep telling her she will go far.
She was saying to me that she finds the moral compromise being asked of writers, particularly women writers, so huge though. Her professors expect her and all the other budding writers to start by reciting their pronouns each time they meet.
Like the morning prayer spoken aloud before the real work begins.
The idea trans women are women is also being made pivotal to their careers because it is the belief you must hold in order to be accepted at all.
The idea trans women are women is also being made pivotal to their careers because it is the belief you must hold in order to be accepted at all.
To fail to say your pronouns would be to jeopardise your whole future. To fail to agree that even the people currently threatening women, and parading their fetishes in public, are somehow women, too, would mean never getting a career off the ground.
As a writer who is politically left, there is no place for her if she is honest about what she believes (which is that transwomen& women are different groups of people)
She sent me a screenshot the other day showing a group of women talking about birth control and side effects
She sent me a screenshot the other day showing a group of women talking about birth control and side effects
Into this discussion a transwoman entered and said that they were lucky their girlfriend had an implant and they could “continue to slam their giant T girl cock into her for hours at every opportunity without risk”
She was outraged to see people on the thread being piled on if they werent treating that behaviour like it was normal&it was mostly women who were pointing out the extremely male nature of the comment who were abused
She didnt even feel able to comment as her teachers follow her
She didnt even feel able to comment as her teachers follow her
We talked about how she really needs to earn money, and she needs to eat, and how because of this she is trapped into a situation where she has to either choose to stay quiet and tolerate what is happening, or speak up and lose the career and opportunities she has worked towards.
It demonstrated to me that while this is, crucially, a women’s rights issue, it is also a workers rights issue. Companies and institutions are violating the rights of workers by censoring their ability to tell the truth about something as basic as who is a woman.
It’s as nonsensical&draconian as if they were firing,blacklisting or disciplining people for correctly identifying an orange in the cafeteria
No matter who an employer might be,from a publisher to the civil service,this is a clear display of power against the common man&woman
No matter who an employer might be,from a publisher to the civil service,this is a clear display of power against the common man&woman
When the choice becomes so stark, people will keep silent for the sake of food and a roof over their head. As well as to avoid overwhelming abuse. They will comply because they are being compelled. Their basic needs are being leveraged against them.
If @Keir_Starmer really wants a Labour Party that makes a difference here, and one that stands for the people, he must consider how the rights of the worker, as well as of women and girls, gay men and the transsexuals who are also erased by gender ideology are at stake here.
The autonomy, freedom of speech and even physical safety of all of these groups is under serious threat of being lost for many years to come because of the authoritarian nature of the narratives being pushed.
It is outrageous that a party which is meant to stand for the vulnerable and for the ordinary people of the land is failing so spectacularly on both counts.
Which side are you on, boys?
Which side are you on, boys?
