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[–]yousaythosethingsFind and Replace "gatekeeping" with "having boundaries" 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

I totally agree with your read. That was jarring, alienating, and unhelpful to read. It gives false credence to the idea that this is a liberal vs conservative issue.

[–]our_team_is_winning 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

It gives false credence to the idea that this is a liberal vs conservative issue.

When you have the man in the White House signing away women's rights on behalf of trans Day One, and the entire Democrat party pushing the Erasure of Women Act, and the VP putting pronouns on her Twitter, and Biden announcing that violence against TWOC is a crisis in America, it DOES give the impression that the Democrats are TRA. You're not going to see the issue being presented as not so "liberal vs conservative" until more liberal voices can be heard opposing this.

[–]yousaythosethingsFind and Replace "gatekeeping" with "having boundaries" 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

This is true and I have no delusions about why it looks this way, but I think it’s the responsibility of people opposing this movement who do not consider themselves conservative (which includes me and should include Jo Bartosch who is a radfem) to explain why this is the wrong takeaway and the circumstances of how we ended up in this position. And that’s largely the result of the liberal media blackout on this issue.

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

largely the result of the liberal media blackout on this issue.

Totally agree. I wish "why isn't the liberal (in USA 95% of!) the media covering this?" should be a mantra.

I wish every big media name had to sit down in front of a camera, live, and tell us (not reading a script, but tell us) "why do you frame these stories as anti-trans instead of as children's well-being issues? Why do you say 'anti-trans' instead of 'protecting women's rights to safety and privacy'?"

[–]Q-Continuum-kin 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Liberalism (the ideology not the incorrectly implied left) aligns perfectly with gender activism though. Anything which can swing more power into the hands of corporations while using vacuous minority identities as a shield to pretend to be progressive aligns perfectly and the most empty of all minority identities are gender identities. Amazon can spam BLM signs on their website then operate operate like a feudal state making their mostly POC serfs piss and shit in bags but people can see the incongruity because it's obvious what a black person is and obvious that their messaging doesn't align with the way they treat workers.

Corporations can spam pro gender TRA stuff and everything is so ill defined that it's easy to seem ultra progressive while doing nothing.