Men: have you considered that maybe the "TERFs" have a point? That they're actually just reasonable women with the good faith & sincere belief being female has affected their experience of being human? That maybe they're not evil witches that need to choke to death on cocks?
Have you honestly listened to a single word any of them have to say? Why can't you form a single coherent argument against them without resorting to making stuff up, name-calling and threats of sexual violence?
Given a big part of the so called "TERFs" argument is for single sex spaces because of male sexual aggression, can you not see that you are just proving their point? I really resent you making it look like men are actually this dumb. Most of us are not
If you consider, just for a moment, they have a good faith position, and have genuine reasons to want to discuss certain social / political issues on the basis that women are female, we can then have a reasonable discussion. If you just insult them & call them TERFs, we can't.
Or is that the point? You don't want to have a reasonable discussion and wish the silly old cows would just shut up? If this isn't your position, you really need to address the fact that the way you're making your argument looks *exactly* like this is your position
I really wish more reasonable men would talk about this, dads in particular. You know full well you being male has given you a different life experience to the woman who gave birth to your children. This difference is real and important. It matters
It is a profound difference, and you know that is true. It exists because sex is real and it affects how we all experience reality, kids or not. No good will come from denying this. Accepting it doesn't mean you hate trans people. You know this is also true
You, a male human, were never at risk of ectopic pregnancy. Or pre-eclampsia. Or hyperemesis. Or symphosis pubis dysfunction. Or episiotomy. Or a caesarean. Or a hysterectomy. These are NOT things you can ID into or ID out of
These are things that are rooted in biological reality. We need language to discuss that these are things that happen only to women, female humans, and don't happen to any male people at all, however they identify
There is a definitely a conflict here. There is also a concerted attempt to diminish, or remove, the significance of sex in law, politics & institutions making it harder to properly discuss this conflict. We need to discuss it as it's to the detriment of women
So, please, at the very least give them the benefit of the doubt. Just consider they have looked at the same situation as you, from a different perspective, and have their own analysis & may have quite reasonably just reached a different conclusion
Consider their conclusion may be entirely related to their own female interests, and has nothing to do with how male people feel about anything at all. As men we really should consider why, for so many of us, this concept feels like an attack
Consider that they've had this analysis for decades. They've campaigned, marched, written books & academic papers on this very basis. They definitely haven't just made all this all up recently to be mean to transwomen. It is preposterous to suggest they have
I don't know about you, but I hate this whole argument. I want it to stop. It's irrational and deeply, deeply stupid. I'd love to stop talking about it. But that will only happen if we actually resolve the conflict that does definitely exist
So we need this topic to be dragged into the light, and freely discuss it in the mainstream. It seems, for that to happen, reasonable men need to stand up for reasonable women saying perfectly reasonable things. This isn't a big ask
The silent majority of men need to stop being silent. We need to get this discussion out in the open and reach a resolution. For the love of god, that I don't even believe in, please help this happen so we can stop having this boneheaded argument
You do not need to agree with women. You can even believe feminism has brought this on itself. But women do definitely have a right to discuss their reasonable position without threats & utter lies misrepresenting them. You know that so please, men, stand up & help this happen
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