Today I realized that I am willing to lose my job and reputation over this. I will not be silenced.

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[–]rusalka 38 insightful - 2 fun38 insightful - 1 fun39 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

I hadn’t shared my radical feminist views with anyone in person for fear of being misconstrued as a “bigot”, but recently my close friend came to me with doubts and questions about gender identity/transgenderism, born from all the recent mensuration/JK Rowling talk and her own critical thinking. It felt so good to finally speak about my views with another woman, out loud, and be understood and agreed with. I think this kind of solidarity is so important, and that many women are having these kinds of thoughts but we are all too afraid to speak of them. The opposing side may be very vocal, but our numbers may not be as small as we think. It truly is time to start speaking out if we want to elicit change.

[–]fogellegof 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

To be honest: I think most people are on our side, especially those not involved in social media or politics. It's just common sense. But either they are afraid to say it because it's not PC to say a man isn't a woman, or for those 'normals' who are not involved in lots of debates it's so obvious that it doesn't need to be stated, because... a man isn't a woman.

[–]yoperreosola[S] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

So true. My parents have no idea about this being an issue. I just had a talk about this with my mom. I couldn't even imagine talking to my Abuela about this. It's so over their head.

[–]fogellegof 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Just last week I talked to my mother - my parents live in a non english country in a small village. Even they heard the JKR thing and didn't get it, so I explained it in great detail and she couldn't get it how the world has gone so crazy. But to know that even there, in this tiny village, it was covered by media and it spreaded the word, gave me lots of hope. The people aren't as stupid as one might think they are. And even if "the media" here was mostly very critically against JKR, most people I talked to didn't get it and read JKRs statement and had the feeling like most: "If stating biological facts is transphobic, than maybe being 'transphobic' isn't a bad thing". Which was the reason for the rising of GC reddit (and for the banning).