The problem I have with transwomen is that they keep trying to speak FOR women

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[–]uglyelephant121[S] 29 insightful - 2 fun29 insightful - 1 fun30 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

I miss GC because at least GC knew to call men 'he/him' instead of tiptoeing around with 'they.' You have good points that Blaire seems to be a more rational TiM, but as I wrote above, 'How do you miss Blaire's numerous videos on 'feminism is cancer' and making fun of radical feminists? How do you miss all the pro-MRA videos Blaire has put up? If you only pay attention to Blaire's videos on transgender people, yes, he'd seem like a reasonable TiM. But you'd have to ignore all of his anti-women videos to come to that conclusion. At the end of the day, Blaire is a man and I feel disgusted that he feels the right to degrade women and radical feminists while propping up men and the alt right.' I get because he passes well (only due to favorable angles/lighting) it is easy to forget he's not a woman and I've even accidentally referred to him as 'she,' but as I said in the previous sentence...

[–]crodish 18 insightful - 2 fun18 insightful - 1 fun19 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

I know there're people here who'll disagree and insist on calling Blaire a he, and that's fine, and you (and anyone who wants to) can do that. I'm just using them/they on my own accord. As long as we know we're talking about the same person!

I'll admit I've only watched their trans-related videos to date, so I can't quite say. I'll have to go back and have another look.

Edit: I've gone back and watched maybe 4-6 videos about BW talking about their views on feminism (especially the "do not 'believe all women'" one, "feminism is pointless" and "'crashing' a feminist party" (where all they did was... walk around and respectfully interview people? no trolling or rudeness at all, although the people they interviewed kinda spoke for themselves lol) and I can't really say I disagree with what they said? Hate the clickbait titles though that are definitely there to incite anger. BW admitted that terrible shit does happen to women, and you should absolutely support the people who come to you with it. But that it's also important to hear out both sides and getting as full a picture as possible before blindly jumping to or reaching conclusions, especially if it comes to celebrity cases and people you aren't close to. Basically the same strategy they do with all their other issues. I definitely don't like hearing that "you should consider that women can be abusers and liars too", but I can't deny that stuff like that has happened, even if only very rarely. There's always extremes to every group.

Edit 2: Of course I don't take their views as them speaking on behalf of women (plus the whole not a woman = can't be a feminist thing), they're just stating their own opinion from a trans woman's perspective.

[–]uglyelephant121[S] 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Of course I don't take their views as them speaking on behalf of women (plus the whole not a woman = can't be a feminist thing), they're just stating their own opinion from a trans woman's perspective.

Me neither, but it's ironic that a man is going to try to tell women how we should live our lives. But because he's dressed as a woman, libfems and others think it's A-OK. It's a bit of hypocrisy. (note: I'm not talking about Blaire White in the first 2 sentences of this comment. Blaire isn't the point of my post if you go back and read it. I'm talking about the phenomenon of TiMs who do that.) Also, you can call Blaire whatever pronouns you want. Call Blaire xey/xem if you please. You're on a gender critical sub and Blaire is a male at the end of the day. Ultimately, I don't care if you prefer to call Blaire they/them. I just think it's a little ironic to do so in a sub like this. But that's just my opinion and you of course are entitled to do what you please.

Besides, it seems you managed to skip a couple paragraphs and just focus in on the words 'Blaire White' and forget everything else I wrote? Maybe you saw the words 'Blaire White,' skipped the rest of my post, and went straight to the comment section to defend him? Blaire White is hardly even the point of my post. He's just one of several examples I was using to make my point.

[–]crodish 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Alright. Thanks.