German state bans burqas, niqabs in schools

jkfinn · 2020-07-22T14:47:40+00:00

Catholics have never been subject to dress bans, nor have various Protestant sects like the Amish, Shakers, and Quakers so why should Islamic persons, young or old. It just seems part of the long deep western prejudice toward Islam. I would definitely side with that wing of the Green Party that sees these bans as anti-Islam or racist in origin. (Dress traditions are not the same as those that involve physical mutilations, or those demanding the use of force to exact--there’s just no crying need to intervene with outright bans)

jkfinn · 2020-07-14T19:41:33+00:00

Proclaim yourself as feelings. You can have a whole life, or lifestyle anyway, based on nothing more than honoring the inner erotic child.

jkfinn · 2020-07-26T01:47:12+00:00

The #MeToo list just multiplied 10-fold. That’s right, 10,000 TiMs impersonating women by day and Harvey Weinstein by night.

jkfinn · 2020-07-22T16:59:54+00:00

"Islamophobia" is a very modern term--and very false. Centuries of racism cannot be pathologized. And to focus on face covering when every kind of mask is being used and explored to fight a plague seems, at best, poor timing. Nuns and Amish farmers dress is what I had in mind, not Catholic school children. Both are criticized for being dangerous under some situations and unhealthy under others, but no one has ever suggested banning them. (Also, I'm not playing any card... I don't even know how to play cards, and as to this being a radical feminist forum so how dare I... anti-racism is very central to radical feminism and has been from day one)

jkfinn · 2020-08-08T15:35:46+00:00

Let's save the "funny" vote for humorous posts. Remember it means plus 1, not minus 1.

jkfinn · 2020-07-26T15:27:27+00:00

It seems that often "assigned" is used with roles as in a grade school play, and similar to being assigned a desk or a composition. And I now get the impression that "assigned at birth" is used among this age group as something that can serve their rebel or ego instincts, as in refusing a an "assigned sex" is like refusing a role in a play or a seat too close to the window.

jkfinn · 2020-07-24T17:41:15+00:00

So, if you don’t FEEL totally attuned to your sex, or to your “birth sex,” you’re a DEMIGIRL. Thus, girls are demigirls and boys are also demigirls.

Very convenient. Demigirl girls aren’t really female, but half female so cannot qualify as feminists. And demigirl boys can assume transgender status because aren’t male enough to be boys so must be the “weaker” sex.

This adds up to a lot more trans gals, and a lot more half gals... so a great reduction of real women, and actual feminists.

jkfinn · 2020-07-16T23:20:14+00:00

So much for men’s raging sex drive.

jkfinn · 2021-05-27T23:05:32+00:00

You didn't understand a word I said, but assume you understood everything I said. Typical social media response. ??????? You re-write my every word and misinterpret every sentence. But this said, I do believe you would burn Adrien Rich's essay on "Compulsive Heterosexuality," which I don't think even went far enough in its recognition of how CH affects ALL SEX. What to hell is wrong with me saying that if sex objectification ended, we would be living in an unrecognizable world, an egalitarian one... no prostitution, no porn, no wars, no earth destruction...

jkfinn · 2021-05-27T17:15:42+00:00

Sexuality is built around male objectification of women (or her substitute)---men doing the objectifying and women having to deal with it via a array of responses which include both acceptance and rejection. Sex is a political act--or how women are made inferior and how men achieve dominance.

What would male sex be like without objectification? My conjecture is that it would be far less significant, far less practiced (if at all), far more private and, of course, far more egalitarian and real. It would also mean a new day for women’s sexuality which would slowly transform into something perhaps unpredictably different from its present forms, because the heterosexual determinant, which everyone practices or constantly has to reject, will have vanished. It would also end gender altogether, and those hundreds of labels that are supposed to derive from “natural” or “cultural” “sex attraction” to this or that sex and gender--although there would, undoubtedly, be far more lesbians.

jkfinn · 2020-09-22T01:07:56+00:00

Engage in radical feminist politics. 24 hours makes no difference, because the scheme is so much bigger & convincing than any fun pause. It's like a prisoner being given an afternoon of exercise on the roof once a year, and refusing it, so she could further plot her escape.

jkfinn · 2020-08-15T14:52:44+00:00

Regarding this, there’s a couple other very current issues that come to mind: any slight criticism of vaccines or G5 at reddit, and I assume other major social media, brings on the downvote brigades & attack comments. I don’t care how cautiously you approach this or to what extent you embed your opinion in science/research, you’re just NOT sufficiently with the program, and you’re immediately tossed in with Flat Earthers and Birthers.

jkfinn · 2020-08-11T20:51:46+00:00

"Harmful masculinities." Everything post-modernist is in the plural, lots of boxes for men, lots of boxes for sex, lots of boxes for gender, lots and lots of boxes for sexualities. What to hell are the good masculinities. And whatever happened to that class called MEN, you know the ones who rule the world, the group that dominates all of reality--and oh yes women too. I mean what category a man are you... are you a libra or a leo... while you're figuring all this out, we’ll just blow up the earth, and displace women with some of our less macho masculinities.

jkfinn · 2020-08-11T16:36:26+00:00

oh my, i read this headline as refugees (British use of refuges in plural is not used in the USA) and I was questioning whether their racism had become this blatant. And wondered how there cd be a decline in support for something so secret from myself. Oh well, 6 sentences into it...

jkfinn · 2020-08-05T20:09:04+00:00

This may be the real cancel culture. Women are not only supposed to be the fixers in so-called society, but also the fixed in socidety. Rise an inch in good times, shrink in bad times... the incredible shrinking woman, the fixer-up of life and the fixed-in-place by life. But the male internet and its trans troops may be the public face of this ongoing reactionary force you're speaking of--also called the little version of the larger cancel culture.

jkfinn · 2020-07-29T17:53:37+00:00

It’s too bad that the intro to something so political, democratic, and communal has to half-speak in computereze. I have no clue as to what’s being said in this regard and thus have zero input. So, I guess it’s just put the plate on the table and I’ll talk. (I do Latin and Greek tho but promise to speak in english)

jkfinn · 2020-07-28T01:19:23+00:00

Sounds like a combo of a New Age Transformation Coach and a pumped up LGBTQI advocate harshly pushing the new world order of gender ascendancy. (I liked your account--very real)

jkfinn · 2020-07-27T17:39:52+00:00

She added: “The bleak truth is that if and when the scandal does erupt, nobody currently cheering this movement on will be able to credibly claim ‘we couldn’t have known’.”

I think this is one of her strongest statements. (proof she's pushing forward)

jkfinn · 2020-07-26T19:04:46+00:00

Agreed! This treachery entered in the late 1970s, and has never stopped. I believe it arose because some feminists were just not willing to challenge men on their embedded sexual systems. This was going too far. But many of these critics did so silently, and simply continued with their feminist work, which did not include mention of porn or prostitution. But to others it was an all-out dirty war, with no manner of attack being too vicious and since many were artsy media darlings they got way more coverage than did the targets of their attack... and they received full support from the ACLU and the LGB coalition.

jkfinn · 2020-07-19T16:10:52+00:00

Well, physics to males means dna manipulation and nuclearism, so dropping a little identity bomb on his work peers or woke peers, is most probably par for the course, or par for his course.

jkfinn · 2020-07-15T14:32:40+00:00

Talk about TiMs being self-obsessed... The first guy uses the whose-the-real-minority lesbians or trans. argument, and answers himself by saying that trans are 200 times fewer in number--and are thus excluded by lesbians. The second guy says trans guys are lesbians, so the lesbians who refuse to date him are "transphobic pieces of shit." And the third guy, the man-splainer, accepts the premise at face value, but is convinced lesbians want their own spaces chiefly to escape "the gross men in dresses."

jkfinn · 2020-07-08T14:36:53+00:00

Funny. I watched some coverage of this and laughed too. Here we are in the middle of an epidemic and dotting every healthy practice i, & filed with gravity, and these guys and gals are stuffing themselves with hot dogs. I noticed that the male leaders seemed to be far more physically set, as if creating a strong base (like a runner who gets off to a super quick start) to take on the HUGE task awaiting them, while the women were somehow less into it. (not sure what i just said) Anyway, glad the women did far more poorly because they'll probably live longer.

jkfinn · 2020-07-07T01:18:40+00:00

I'm a very intelligent guesser when it comes to voices or absent voices (lots of experience with this) But where were the threads, the interest, the learning, the changing.... this was done but only by a very few, who understood the place was not welcoming enough to black women.

jkfinn · 2020-07-06T15:40:08+00:00

Don't you know... women have no boundaries, and black males do have more, if not a lot. It wasn't female blacks that defeated "Black Face," although I'm sure they did much of the work, but rather the estimable input of black males.

jkfinn · 2020-07-05T19:53:14+00:00

I'm wondering about forums vs twitter type formats (following). Which do you prefer? Which do most prefer? What is the Spinster population? Would you say gender is the biggest topic? Can you surmise how many banned GC reddit members have joined. I ask this because I wonder where the diaspora is primarily ending up.

What I really wonder about too is the "follow" system... is that more divisive than the point gaining on most forums (I hated the downvoting=censorship on reddit)

jkfinn · 2021-05-27T23:05:34+00:00

You are on a totally different political or thought wavelength than I am, so my words mean nothing to you and yours have no meaning to me. I never said any of what you assume I said.

jkfinn · 2021-01-20T17:38:34+00:00

No, he didn't "kill thousands." And if you lived in rural NY, you would find yourself constantly defending Cuomo (as arrogant as he is) against the gun-loving, tax-hating, racists who bash every move he makes. The great scandal of Nursing Home deaths in rural NY was not Cuomo's position but the stupid directors of these places encouraging Covids patients to die "at home" (the nursing home) without going to the hospital to receive the latest treatments. In one nursing home near me, 14 out of 15 patients just died in place and only one opted for the hospital. This was murder, but everyone just lapped it up as so caring, so Christian, so in step with the wishes of the family and the patient.... (it's no fun defending Cuomo who I oppose on some key issues but for upstaters it's par for the course)

jkfinn · 2020-12-26T01:03:40+00:00

Well, there's Bille Jean King, and then there's Martina Navratilova. No one would have mistaken the two back then, and not now, I guess, either.

jkfinn · 2020-10-03T00:41:53+00:00

Or is he the 5th Horseman of the Apocalypse? (see above thread: "The Four Horsemen of the Gender-Critical Apocalypse")

jkfinn · 2020-09-23T16:45:46+00:00

Well, if radical feminism is what "bans" you, imagine how actual radical feminists feel. You have the majority of women to support you and your thoughts, and radical feminists only have their tiny number of cohorts. To boot, I think this site and Ovarit just like reddit gc before, are mainly liberal feminist (esp Ovarit--check out all their subs--hardly a radical notion on them). One can oppose transgender on many different grounds, many of them having little to do with radical feminism, or you can oppose trans and porn but two issues do not make a radical feminist.

jkfinn · 2020-09-17T16:30:32+00:00

While stocking a book isn't an endorsement (good grief, that would be a minefield), and we will always take orders for books that aren't in stock, there are more worthy books to put on the shelf – books that don't harm communities and won't make us sad to unpack them,” a spokesperson wrote.

Even Trump wouldn’t stoop to this bullshit. This is the bottom of the pits, and it’s a goddamn bookstore. Has it not heard of literature? Has it never read about book burnings or book censorship? This is absolutely intolerable and should be picketed with noisy bullhorns (scare away the “clientele)

“More worthy books to put on the shelf.” Oh yeah, like romantic novels loaded up with rape & seduction. And best sellers written by those who just graduated from a “How to write a Novel” course at the local YMCA. Or how about all the stupid, robotic self-help and vitamin books that line the shelves. Or if you’re more high brow... your collection of true crime books...

jkfinn · 2020-08-16T16:39:02+00:00

Pass it on! Play it on your back in a crowd. Screen it atop your roof! Let the whole world know: "This is what transgender looks like."

jkfinn · 2020-08-16T16:20:24+00:00

Reddit deleted all the mask-critical subs sometime last week. I'm surprised anything vaccine or G5 critical would still be there.

Chilling, and just incredible. They should change the name to Censorit.

And it's interesting how a thread on 50% of Russian doctors rejecting their vaccine, was promoted by the pro-vaccine army.

jkfinn · 2020-08-15T14:57:16+00:00

Who needs a red flag, when all you gotta do is look at them. Although many bios don't include a picture, I'll bet the vast majority of trans bios do. And what's most convincing to them is most unconvincing to everyone else.

jkfinn · 2020-08-14T18:32:57+00:00

The oligarchs believe that the people of the world will be so tired of the anarchy, violence, and chaos, that they will beg our globalist overlords for a totally new world order. “Ordo ab chao.”

Well, they got this right!! And the transgender issue right. And certainly a couple other unquestionable points. But definitely to the right, and very religious. Interesting that the original ruling judge was a black woman, and the appeals judge a white woman.

No matter what one might think about this article, I doubt anyone can say it's not somehow compelling. In fact, I hoped it would never end... what a mix of morally right and morally wrong, and somehow amazingly direct--take this you non-believers. Well, I say to you, I'll take the good stuff and thanks for it.

jkfinn · 2020-08-13T16:51:35+00:00

I think real life is meant by many wokes to be held in perpetual abeyance. And born under digitialism, it might be possible.

jkfinn · 2020-08-13T16:41:55+00:00

These trans assholes are not only fucking infiltrators but phallic storm troopers. If this doesn’t convince the so-called LGB coalition to give these plundering creeps the boot, then it should be called Male, Inc.

jkfinn · 2020-08-10T22:29:13+00:00

It's a TIF leading the way for the same reason that rapists very often select a female lawyer to defend them. Women's integrity & civility are being exploited to validate questionable or criminal male acts/endeavors, and this in turn serves to divide the female opposition to those same actions and actors.

jkfinn · 2020-08-10T16:36:56+00:00

What is this: RACIST MONDAY! here.

jkfinn · 2020-08-10T15:59:19+00:00

Reactionary bullshit from a known feminist journalist whose articles are often reproduced for discussion on “rad fem” (one has to wonder) sites. I cringe right off the bat by her addressing GC critics as “Ladies” and at her incredibly romanticized view of San Francisco (porn factories, sex positive, & super rich) as a bastion of civil liberties. As I read along (who can finish this supreme whitewash) what comes back to me like a bolt is the pro-sex movement which split the second wave. These women were also known feminists (most in the performance arts and/or journalists etc) and had names like Erika Lust, Annie Sprinkle, Pat(rick) Califia, or their own famed names like Gayle Rubin and Ellen Willis. But here instead of embracing pornographers and pimps, Solnit embraces men as representative women and feminists, praiseworthy gender rebels, and an even as a more oppressed wing of the category “women.”

jkfinn · 2020-08-09T23:12:14+00:00

Thanks. Will look into this.

If you google Linda Nochlin: "The Imaginary Orient" you'll find this article (PDF) under wordpress etc. She's an excellent art historian and critic.

jkfinn · 2020-08-09T20:14:32+00:00

It's a major form of colonialism. Best to read the classic Edward Said"s "Orientalism." Or read a substantial review of it. Or examine how European art has depicted the East? (similar to how it has viewed women--picturesque curiosities, erotic. mysterious etc)

jkfinn · 2020-08-08T14:49:46+00:00

To the men of the ‘trans woman’ movement, being a woman is a form of slum tourism (also known as ghetto tourism or poverty tourism): members of a more economically and sociopolitically powerful class satisfy morbid curiosity about how the less fortunate live. This allows the more privileged to gain relief from the boredom and rigid expectations of their humdrum lives, as well as from the self-doubts plaguing their sense of worthiness.

It’s really not much different than the West’s view of Islam. It’s called Orientalism, which is a form of colonization and cultural appropriation. It implies both exploitation and tourism or emotional distance from the lives being observed, collected, and raised up as trophies. The mystery of the Orient and Orientals, and plumbing the mystery of women. The eternal woman question, and the eternal Oriental question. Neither ever to be solved, of course.

jkfinn · 2020-08-06T20:29:37+00:00

Currently, the definition of "woman" ("adult human female") in particular is frequently upheld by hateful individuals and institutions to exclude trans women from womanhood.... We feel this small change goes a long way to show compassion...

Yeah, like radical feminists have real pull over Google’s dictionary. And only in the 17th century were any women referred to as “womanhood,” let alone the rebel ones. Trans delusion is far past mental derangement, and if it ever needed any “compassion” it could only come from the orderlies in an institution for crackpots. Anyway, when the revolution comes it will just blowup all these fussy details that the trans suits lobby for in strained voices.

jkfinn · 2020-08-05T20:24:56+00:00

The invitation to FIST includes radical feminists and other revolutionary women. I wonder about the latter group... who are they? Socialists? Anarchists? Hmm.

jkfinn · 2020-08-03T17:04:28+00:00

Because of the necessity to invoke biology as a primary argument vs trans, there's been an eclipse of the socially constructed principle that was so central to radical feminism. This is where sex expectations were roundly criticized, esp the feminization and sexualization of women (or gender). To counter this socialization of females by males was, in effect, a form of undermining the false distinctions and differences between men and women, upon which much of women's oppression is based. This goes much further than the concept of non-binary and is far more radical and effective. There can be no non-binary if women are liberated from their marked off, enemy status.

jkfinn · 2020-08-02T01:19:24+00:00

Here's to one million views... for starters. (Britain is really coming through on this issue, and may you continue to be part of the wave)

jkfinn · 2020-07-29T01:03:04+00:00

It's all academic in more ways than one. The whole concept of "gifted," "talented," "genius" is individualistic, divisive, and not based much at all in social reality. If I heard someone refer to any radical feminist writer, in these terms, I would cringe. We are all shaped by class, race, sex, personal histories, capitalism, bad/good breaks, illnesses etc etc... not by innate, or inner qualities down deep inside that set us apart.

jkfinn · 2020-07-28T14:53:01+00:00

If it’s decided that this is a good form of protest, I would guess that the best way to do it might be in groups and not as individuals. Or perhaps women could occupy men’s rooms to make the point that women have no bathrooms of their own except these seized men’s rooms. Men would then have to use one of the mixed bathrooms.

jkfinn · 2020-07-27T14:16:44+00:00

In a rape culture, rape includes animals as stand-ins for females. It’s like prison rape--those men with the most female traits get raped. And what animal is more associated with female (and with witches) than cats, esp kittens. (learned sadism so central to male sex)

What is there about this post? It has more power than any animal abuse comment or article I’ve ever read.

jkfinn · 2020-07-27T01:52:50+00:00

I was choked in a metro area elevator by two drug dealers. When the police checked out my neck for marks, they said they wanted to drive me to the hospital to have it examined. I felt recovered enough to refuse and they thought it serious enough to advise treatment. It's impossible to fathom that choking is now a common form of male sexual pleasure, while the police are out driving choke victims to hospitals.

jkfinn · 2020-07-25T18:01:50+00:00

They’ll wash their hands of any action targeting Rowling, insisting that it was the act of a mentally deranged individual that they cannot be accountable for--but, whose crime is at least understandable given her “transphobic diatribes” against the perpetually abused transgender community. And, if this strategy works for a demagogue like Trump, who also instigates multiple violent acts against his enemies, why not for this male cult.

jkfinn · 2020-07-24T15:14:12+00:00

For a million more such examples: https://terfisaslur.com/

(this may be a dead link--can't figure out how do insert a link here)

jkfinn · 2020-07-23T15:30:38+00:00

The "man up" thing exists almost exclusively within the male club... when a woman says it, it's a kind of last daring & risky resort to try to bend a man to get some immediate task or action done and/or to take some responsibility--alas. While “back to the kitchen” is the evolved male’s command to the half evolved female to know her place in the nature of things.

jkfinn · 2020-07-23T00:55:05+00:00

One main point of departure here is the way Islamic refugee or immigrant women in European countries have seen their feminist critiques of Islam exploited by their host country to further its own divisive racism toward Islam. And it's always the more radical voices (both feminists and the left) who oppose this position, and the more liberal voices in the controversy who support both the govt's phony feminist concerns and the rewards they hand out to Islamic feminists who go along with them. I hear and agree with the radical anti-racist position, who support the critique but not the way its being manipulated.

jkfinn · 2020-07-22T22:55:32+00:00

The vast majority of nuns are not monastic. And why is up to Westerners to decide what's consensual or not consensual about Islamic dress traditions.

jkfinn · 2020-07-22T22:06:34+00:00

But this is your or our valid reason. You can be sure these feminist insights are not moving the ban needle. And if so, why in this case, and not in others? A good example is the citing of the Taliban's sexist policy on women for the US war on Afghanistan when it was the very last consideration for it, if it existed at all in the minds of the war-mongers in the State Dept.

jkfinn · 2020-07-21T17:13:51+00:00

Yes--damage for sure. And they’re really two distinct groups. TiFs are girls/women who are most often lesbians or who have lesbian tendencies who are only being enticed into trans in the same way lesbians are enticed into LGBTQ--it’s the ready and now established path to “switch genders” or approximate “male.” I think those here who need to show sympathy for transgender persons should start and end with TiFs.

jkfinn · 2020-07-21T13:08:21+00:00

Yup, trans wants women to believe that “I am you, and you are me, and we are one together,” but obviously what gender criticism has to say about transgender is that trans is the displacement or colonization of female identity, culture, and history or an end to women and women’s politics.

jkfinn · 2020-07-20T01:24:56+00:00

Postmodernism is excellent for de-constructing and critiquing dominant power relationships and socially constructed inst.s and systems, but it went too far and too deep to the point of collapsing the ground beneath. It’s one thing to see hierarchy operative everywhere, and another to dismiss basic truths, objective criteria, and all certainties. This is the philosophical thought that Queer used to push its extremely relativistic and individualistic sexual views in the academy and out. Subjects (male) were to have full sexual license to enact any sexual expression on demand. And this included the right to sexual identities, the promotion of performative sex, and an expanding list transgressive sex acts centered around sado-masochism. And of course, LGBTQ made it an effective delivery system. It was almost entirely male in membership and its mainstream acceptance was never greater. So, Queer took hold and its first hook-up act was with transgender...

jkfinn · 2020-07-18T00:14:01+00:00

Planned Parenthood believes everyone deserves high-quality, compassionate health care that’s appropriate for your needs and concerns — no matter your gender identity or sexual orientation. Our health centers provide education, support, and sexual and reproductive health services for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, and intersex patients.

PP has been referring to pregnant women as pregnant persons for a few years now. And it has no qualms about being a facilitator of the world’s largest, most sexist, and most dangerous cults. (tens of thousands subject to medical experimentation often with irreversible outcomes in the name of self-diagnosed gender transition)

jkfinn · 2020-07-17T19:08:29+00:00

Just as no amount of pronouns is okay, so no amount of porn talk is okay. If you don't sense this right away, you will soon grasp that practicing or tolerating either is only confirming trans and porn.

jkfinn · 2020-07-17T16:17:41+00:00

If the men say they have ladybrains, then you can bet that they do. But if the child says “the emperor has no clothes,” that’s what’s true.

Pseudo-science mixed with pseudo-psychology magically arrives at a ladybrain.

jkfinn · 2020-07-12T19:18:45+00:00

In this view, racism is a individualist "moral" problem. Go hash it out with your psychotherapist. Meditate over it. Beat your breast. Wallow in guilt. Be manipulated & browbeaten by the male woke left. Anything but politically confront the structures of systemic racism and sexism.

jkfinn · 2020-07-12T15:37:00+00:00

No, nuttin to do with hormones. It’s called male supremacy, which is totally dependent on female inferiority. Men fight it out among themselves for dividing up this power they gain through forced & socialized female subordination. In other words, since male superiority is based on violence, its weapons are always at hand, less they lose it--or the practice of violence against females (or substitutes for) is how male identity is established.

jkfinn · 2020-07-12T14:44:36+00:00

"De-facing" a road. Are these people calling in the cops and turning the public into state snitches the same people who once condoned burning the flag. My how the tables are turned when you yourself become the mainstream. "Meet the new Boss, same as the old Boss."

jkfinn · 2020-07-11T17:32:37+00:00

Whilst technology companies will point the finger of death at anyone, there is a philosophical reason for the silencing of feminists. This goes right back to the existence of a ghost in the machine at the dawn of the internet. The idea of creating oneself online, on having an existence independent of one’s body is part of the belief system of technologists.

Nerds, star-trekers, and military tech... one hell of a masculine brew... or one hell of an assault on the body as nuisance or enemy. Perfect for transgender with their not-so-hidden agenda of male re-birth and absolute entitled aggression on the women’s body politic.

jkfinn · 2020-07-08T19:39:26+00:00

"The more I think about liberal feminism, the more I realize that it is the opposite of feminism."

At one time, "feminist" mainly assumed "radical feminist." But at the end of the 1970's, the self-named feminist pro-sex movement split the second wave. After that, it was "what kind of feminist are you?" liberal? socialist? pro-sex? And then the liberals feminist began to become what "feminist" meant. So, a kind of reversal, which stands today, at least in terms of numbers and sheer public influence.

jkfinn · 2020-07-08T14:53:03+00:00

I praise J.K. Rowling for standing her ground. She is a hero of our times. She is not transphobic and neither am I. This fight to preserve the free exchange of ideas is worth having; to protect the hard-won rights of women but also to uphold the principles of our free society.

I’m not always on board with Ali, but I am here, and do like her simple and direct statement... aw well as this response from Helen Joyce: “This piece is wonderful. As one of the other women who dares say similar things under my own name in public, I am truly grateful.”

jkfinn · 2020-07-06T15:53:52+00:00

Only small, pathetic males would cite these words in an argumentative sense, or as “toxic.” To me, doing so just points out how literal-minded, close-minded, and opportunistic they are.

This is actually Berns at her best, not at her worst. Here, she’s not bending, she’s not measuring each phrase for its preciseness, not in the least deferring, but rather standing in, holding her own, and delivering a few decisive blows, to boot.

jkfinn · 2020-07-05T15:35:54+00:00

More and more I see the term "Karen" being applied to men also, not in the "sissy" sense, but in the complainant, shrill, ball-buster sense.

jkfinn · 2020-07-02T23:39:15+00:00

She calls the quarantine "house arrest." She wants to make social security optional. She's for withdrawing from the Paris Climate Agreement. She's opposed to foreign aid. There are some positives but they don't seem part of larger & logical political plan. But that first point says it all... "individual freedom" over quarantine.

jkfinn · 2021-05-26T18:33:15+00:00

I'm not sure what you mean by "late in the game," but I'm referring to the fall of 2001 when most of this debate was going on in the US media. Radical feminists had been in contact with the major women's groups in Afghanistan and were working in consort with them at this point and earlier. And if you want to go back further, it had always been a position of US rads to counter and call for an end to all US wars with the understanding that this is what EMPIRE does--eternally go to war, and beat the hell out their outclassed, out-tecked, and under-armed foes.

jkfinn · 2021-05-26T18:22:04+00:00

YES. There should be no need at all in a “radical feminist” space, to even begin to explain one’s position on Israel& the Palestinians. And not up until maybe the last 7-8 years (my experience) had this been at all necessary, because the foundation had been very long and firmly established. One key thing that changed the situation was the rise on feminist social media of exiled Middle East feminists, whose assimilation to the West and western values seemed all too successful. In fact, their fierce critique of Islamic sexism seemed to be their calling card within feminism---in other words, it worked. But not with me--the voices seemed too irate, too ahistoric, too clinging to western values. So ever since way back when (2015 maybe) I’ve been regularly downvoted for offering any kind of polite and measured context for the Islam they hated, which was very often the same Islam that the CIA had promoted for purposes of division.

Another impetus to this reactionary move has been through feminist Phyllis Chessler, who started attacking Islamic sexism (I think around 2015). This was picked up by many young feminists, some GC feminists, and adopted. I finally left Feminist Currents over the debates over her positions, but at least here it was two or three of us against everyone else (things only got worse for me at other sites) The whole damn thing seemed almost as NUTS to me as transgender itself--I literally felt like I was losing my mind, but ended up blaming it all on the superficiality of social media (no time for history, no time for thought, no time for radical analysis, no time for books or delving into the second wave etc) Anyhow... same stuff at Ovarit-- my last few such comments on the subject (erased) I was, as usual, the only downvoted commenter (not a single upvote) in a bobbing sea of plus votes, and that’s as you point out, as the Palestinians, once again, were being basically massacred.

jkfinn · 2021-05-25T16:10:40+00:00

No, I was saying that radical feminism (at least second wave) had a far more sophisticated knowledge of politics, and international politics, in general--no way they would attack Islam on its sexism without also grasping that this criticism could easily used by the West to further its own racism--and colonialism. Also, any critique of sexist Islam would, of course, be accompanied by the same for all dominant religions. I don't know what you call attacks on Islam along with defenses of Christianity and the West, but i would call that some form of liberal/conservative thinking--it surely isn't radical because the thought behind it is superficial and self-serving.

Yeah, a good example in the U.S. was the sharp difference between the radical feminist response to the Afghanistan War and that of liberal feminists. The rad’s was both all-out opposition to going to war and to the save-the-Afghan-women-from-the-Taliban pretext for that war, while liberals conveniently agreed with the pretext so that they could support the war.

jkfinn · 2021-05-24T17:01:55+00:00

I find Ovarit more difficult than GC reddit. There's something less controlled, and more arbitrary about the threads... I don't want to sound like a bore, but radical content is very minimal (according to my book) and liberal content maximal. I just find it harder and harder to get into it and the place makes me wonder where all the radical feminist positions on world politics have gone... i seem to get scorned for defending middle east countries (even including Palestinians) or explaining Islam even in a slightly favorable light... such a pro Western place (in my experience).

I have no idea what's better, but there's gotta be some site that insists on radical politics. At this point, I don't even care if it's just plain radical as opposed to radical feminist. I'm open to finding either--because there shouldn't be much difference betwixt the two.

jkfinn · 2021-01-15T17:31:49+00:00

The only explanation that makes sense is that transgenderism is providing new tools to implement patriarchy, filling in the cracks in the system left by the work of feminists. The majority of people, at least in the United States where research has been conducted, do not believe in or want transgender ideology. Professions and organizations do implement it, nonetheless, their raison d’etre is to promote patriarchy.

This is certainly an original and thought-provoking article. It's worth a thorough read, which I will soon do after my more cursory one. It makes a hell of a lot of sense to me in terms of the rapid implementation--like so much of the computer medium which has been disturbingly thrust upon us, mainly through force, in a very short time span.

jkfinn · 2021-01-09T20:02:25+00:00

"Porn's most concerning influence is its relationship to violence."

Or, what pornography propagandizes is violence against women, which is the main building block of male supremacy.

jkfinn · 2021-01-08T18:14:31+00:00

Not only do the cult's language police wipe out women's reality, it also serves to endanger the health and lives of their children. If the value of breastfeeding is kept under wraps once again, there will be a rise in autoimmune diseases, and the world's safest vaccine will thus, once again, be deemed unsafe.

jkfinn · 2021-01-08T03:33:11+00:00

If only half of the surgeries mentioned were performed, the word "danger" would be an understatement--or a replacement of the word "Criminal." And to add to this unparalleled medical crime, is the fact that "gender dysphoria," upon which it's based, is a fraudulent, delusional, and exploitative construct. (superb video--love her personable insistence)

jkfinn · 2020-10-13T01:13:49+00:00

I've noticed this also. As my own taste runs sharp and Radical, I remember back to so many times men and, um, soft/lib women, changed entire groups and missions...

It's easy for liberals to do this because they're not viewed as an ideology or an organized sector, but rather as a large amorphous type body. One might look out for socialists or Marxists or various male formations to take over but liberals... 'no way.' Oh, and I wanted to add to my original comment that not even the OP (apparently) offers a single upvote--that is bad.

jkfinn · 2020-10-12T17:27:07+00:00

I don't have any sense of Ovarit having any male problem--not right now. If anything, it's sometimes overly liberal feminist, and a little on the female ghetto side, esp some of the subs there. Try making a clearly radical feminist thoughtful remark--even as the first comment to a thread on some non GC sub, then check back later and don't be at all surprised if you've received ZERO upvotes. I once got three of these in a row--all to expressed thoughts I expected some discussion around. And it's not that I was the only respondent to any of those threads. It's rather that radical to many there is equivalent to extreme or hurtful or or angry or divisive--all liberal takes in these cases I refer to.

jkfinn · 2020-10-12T17:11:16+00:00

Chomsky makes a lot of good critical points, and he never interrupts Vigo, but he gives very little indication of really listening to her comments and questions. But, again I think this identity politics question is utterly complex and understood differently by every intelligent person, that it seems a trap even to bring it up. To me transgender is much closer to a post-modernism and post-feminism question than an identity politics one.

jkfinn · 2020-10-11T20:57:26+00:00

It’s certainly very interesting that the diversity criticism of the hotel is not based on race and class, but on the rear end of the LGB coalition or queer’s gender parade. So, whose elite-ness is showing most? I think all different stripes of women could offer far better and fairer critiques of the Hotel Zena.

jkfinn · 2020-10-03T16:46:44+00:00

Ha! How perfectly fitting. Yes, it's one thing to acknowledge GL, but "Appreciation Day"?? that does put him on a High Horse.

jkfinn · 2020-09-23T23:15:58+00:00

I do agree with you on your main points. The only exception I take is to your seeing "lack of downvoting" as a problem, because I think of it as a plus in many ways, but certainly in terms of radical feminism and mature thought. And that only exists here on this site, and not at Ovarit, which does offer downvoting.

jkfinn · 2020-09-23T17:08:37+00:00

Only if they achieve enough power to hold science at the point of a gun.

jkfinn · 2020-09-23T17:03:26+00:00

But they don't mind pathologizing their opponents as trans-PHOBIC.

jkfinn · 2020-09-23T16:57:05+00:00

Which of the two do you think if more attuned with radical feminism? I don't think I care for the Twitter format (as I recall it--I don't like the follow business) but Ovarit is chiefly liberal both in content and tone... very few radical voices there (I think slightly more here perhaps because no downvoting)... and some of its subs seem outright liberal. (sometime i get this ghetto feeling... esp after wide open reddit gc which was open to lurkers of all kinds, some of whom actually learned from it)

jkfinn · 2020-09-18T20:19:57+00:00

Well, I read this in Time Magazine, so I doubt I'm being alarmist. I just reported what I knew at the time. And because he's apologized, doesn't mean it wasn't ignorant and very wrongful in the first place.

jkfinn · 2020-09-18T20:18:02+00:00

Yeah, I agree with this. And yeah to the Oprah part.

jkfinn · 2020-09-18T20:17:09+00:00

Also many more men who infrequently look at porn because they disapprove of it, but who at intervals step around its edges (not the transgressive stuff) because it's online and easier than anything else (who's ambitious when about to indulge in a solo sex session--that's when you vacate your conscious self with those "little" prohibitions). These are the men who can most easily just put an end to viewing porn, but seem to wait for the "right moment," which may or may not, come.

jkfinn · 2020-09-18T20:04:34+00:00

Romance. No way. His opinions are too volatile from left to right. Besides the working class doesn't need turning around, not by Big Time Joe, or by Boss Tweet, because they have no stake and show less interest in the transgender cult. He also has a past (on tape) heavy on the sexism, which he has never apologized for or stated a new committed position on.

jkfinn · 2020-09-18T19:57:11+00:00

Joe Rogan, who has been pushing the lies about Antifa setting forest fires in Oregon, despite the fact that every state agency involved in the fires has zero evidence to this and never did, and has been actively trying to shut down the dangerous rumors which have caused traffic checks by vigilantes, who are ready to assault anyone found with gasoline inside their vehicle. This is the volatile Joe Rogan.

jkfinn · 2020-09-17T16:13:56+00:00

It seems like this anti-birth control movement is in some ways the end result of the breakdown of the Second Wave under the influence of both the New Age and the Pro-Sex movements. Although there was a lot of positives about feminism’s holistic health approach & practices, it did open itself up to the New Age feelings, personal solution, & individual testimony culture. And the sex-positive women, of course, presented the perfect target for the anti-abortionists. They were everything that right wing women despised (it made no difference to them that this pro-sex movement effectively primarily attacked radical feminism). But all three of these negative outcomes for the WLM might have been avoided or better resisted by an insistence on, or a demand for, not only radical feminist politics, but a clear and binding definition of radical feminism. For all three took advantage of this expanding loophole to gather strength and doing so by ripping off & diluting radical feminism.

PS U.S. Catholics have accepted abortion by a majority margin for decades. It is now at a low of 58% acceptance, but has been as high as 77%., and has, at times, been higher than Protestant acceptance.

jkfinn · 2020-09-09T16:57:06+00:00

Men regularly kill pets and animals. Most of the pets they kill are associated with their partners, and most significantly with wife battery) Men are bigger meat eaters than women, because meat is associated with masculinity. Men perceive women as bound to nature and thus closer to animals, and target them as such. Men hunt.

jkfinn · 2020-09-07T16:28:16+00:00

They say you can live or die off quotes. This is one I can live off and others here say they're dying off. Think of a TiM who has made it a female world at so many levels, so convincingly (this is what he fights so hard for), and yet.... yes, and yet, he is still very much a male, and experiencing more male bonding for that. He's kind of a hero in the war on women because his groundwork in EROS assures that. He's a new sexual system not unlike pornography, prostitution, or s-m sex... bonding down the road with the guys.

jkfinn · 2020-09-07T16:05:55+00:00

It doesn’t take much to disappear women, even the most famous ones, because women-as-women are already disappeared. Think of all the once-known women who were buried in unmarked graves, or who died in a welfare hotel. But Woody Allen will always persist as a “pantheon film-maker,” because it takes one hell of a lot more to disappear a male, esp. when he’s one of the renowned ones.

jkfinn · 2020-09-05T20:05:31+00:00

Well, radical feminism, is really the only politics around that is "egalitarian."

But the real problem is that "politics" is forbidden. What passes for "politics," or the political, are its fragments, not its whole. Sexism, racism, and classism are not in any way separate but are all central to what politics means which is a complete understanding of power's workings and a committed resistance to that. The reason "misogyny" is overlooked is because those who insist on it (radical feminists) stand against all the -isms, including militarism, and because they put women first... out of pure necessity because all other political formations place them last. Thus women's erasure from politics and from history.

jkfinn · 2020-09-01T23:09:40+00:00

We often hear of TiFs peaking, but never of them organizing in opposition to trans issues and "victories" like this obvious assault on women. They are actually being exploited in a way that benefits the trans anti-woman agenda, by adding ex-women faces to their campaigns. As are, of course, the liberal feminist cohort which supports the same.

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