Reading this, I couldn't help but admire this exquisite piece of work:
I can’t believe I have to say this, but apparently what used to go without saying must now be stated clearly and emphatically: I am a woman, and as a woman, I understand the concepts of female sex and gender in ways that you will never understand, because you were born male.
And what’s more: I, a woman, can speak with unwavering authority on the topics of sex as it pertains to women, gender as it pertains to women, womanhood, the female experience, and feminism. I can speak with authority on my own oppression. I can speak with authority on the patriarchy and its abuses. More importantly, you cannot.
Similarly, I have just as much, if not more, on the line in this battle then you do. My opinion counts, and I deserve a place at the table in these discussions because it’s my table. I will to be heard.
So let me get this straight. You're a woman, and I'm not. This means that you have the authority to determine who is a woman and who is not, since you're a woman, but I'm not so I don't get to say who a woman is.
Excellent circular logic, Judith! Very nicely concealed.
(Also:
In my experience as a woman, when someone attacks me by calling me selfish, what they are really trying to do is police my femininity. They are telling me that it is a woman’s job to accommodate others and that the ugliest thing a woman can do is to set boundaries. They are telling me that it is my social role to be stepped on, so I’d better let them step on me. And I’d better do it with a smile on my face or there will be hell to pay.
- No, we're saying that it's a person's job to respect others' identities. "It's because I'm a woman, isn't it" doesn't work. Saying that "anything bad that happens to me is sexism" doesn't work. Feminists like you give us all a bad name.
- How are we "stepping on" women by imitating them?
Well, you can’t step on me. I’m not going to stand for it. You are hurting me and people like me. You are taking hard fought and hard won human rights away from people like me.
...lol? No? What "human rights" are these? To have a special room for only wombyn-born-wombyn, designated by the state? Sorry, segregation is a violation of human rights. Not a form of human rights.
Also I'M BEING OPPRESSED, DON'T TREAD ON ME, I'M BEING ATTACKED BY THESE PEOPLE, FEAR UNCERTAINTY DOUBT TOTALLY NOT CONSERVATIVE
No one, certainly not me, is going to take your clothing decisions, your hobbies, your friends, your feelings, your medical options away from you. Those are yours. You want femininity? It’s yours. Wear a dress. Paint your nails. Take estrogen. Have surgery. That is yours, if you want it.
Well, there's a few GCritters who'd like to have a word with you. It's "appropriation." First they say we can't be women, then they say we can't be like women. What next?
But here’s what you can’t have: you can’t have the word “woman”.
It's all mine and you can't take it from me! Because definitions are zero-sum, and if you're considered a woman then it hurts me somehow.
You can’t erase my body, my biology.
That's right, I can't. I have no way of "erasing" you by becoming like you. So ease up a little, 'kay?
You can’t define me.
Says the TERF.
You can’t invade spaces that are set aside for people like me.
"You can't invade spaces that are set aside for white people like me. Blacks are dangerous and violent!"
You have no claim to my identity.
"I am this way! You cannot also be this way! Femininity is all mine and you! Can't! Have it!"
You can play with cultural expectation all you want, but you cannot usurp the identity of oppressed people.
...like we aren't oppressed ourselves. Also this makes no sense. Identity doesn't have an internal "oppression" variable. Trans women would identify as women regardless of the political environment.
You can be a man in a dress named “Claire” that uses the pronoun “she/her”, but you cannot be a woman.
Says the TERF who just said "you cannot define me".)
ここには何もないようです