WTF Wednesday: There Are No Rewards for Being a Handmaiden

This is my response to a post by Brenda Brooks on Feminist Current.

I fell into the same trap. I said to myself "well, what could it hurt to refer to myself as cis? After all, trans people have a much harder battle than I do. They just want to be included, to be normalized." But more and more I saw that wasn't what they wanted. They wanted the entire narrative to revolve around them.

I would see signs proclaiming "trans women are women." I started to wonder why there were never any signs proclaiming "trans men are men."

The trans rights activists were saying that medical terms for female anatomy were "violence against trans women." Meanwhile, trans women were carrying baseball bats and wearing t-shirts with slogans such as "punch a TERF" and "die cis scum." In the UK, Posey Parker was detained by police for "hate speech." This "hate speech" was the phrase "woman = adult human female." I have never heard of any trans person being detained for expressing a desire to "punch a TERF."

None of this sat well with me. I believe the last straw was when I saw women being referred to as "menstruators" and "non-men."

Now I see trans women claiming that the hormones they take are making them "have periods." They are not having a period. A period involves the expulsion of the endometrial lining from the uterus. That is what a period is. I have been TERFed for saying this.

As a writer myself, I was once scolded for referring to trans people in a perfectly neutral fashion. I wanted to modernize a story I wrote in which a voodoo priestess does a spell to change the sexes of the attendees of a frat party who sexually abused her niece. Rather than simply saying "so and so woke up and screamed in horror to discover that he was now a girl," I had the local doctor wondering at the sudden rash of gender reassignment surgeries on the college campus. Since I had the audacity to mention trans women in a neutral fashion rather than the most glowing terms, I was jumped on by commenters. I said "fine, I'm changing the ending back to 'it's magic, I don't have to explain shit.'"

The trans cult has gotten way out of hand. A trans woman could claim that the key to immortality was to chop up your neighbors and bathe in their blood, and everyone would say "Oh, she's so BRAVE!" No-one even questions how screwed up many of the things the "queer" and trans communities are pushing are.

~Sly Has Spoken~

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Twitter Kowtows to "Trans Activists." Sly is Not Suprised.

Meghan Murphy, the founder of Feminist Current, has been locked out of her Twitter account for making critical statements about the behaviors of Lisa Kreut, a transgender dominatrix. Ms. Murphy never called for harassment or endangerment of Ms. Kreut, something which radical transgender activists do to radical feminists (and anyone else whom they've branded a TERF) all the time. Yet Twitter seems perfectly okay with tweets calling Ms. Murphy a "TERF cunt." It's almost as if violence against women is okay with Twitter as long as those women don't identify as transgender.

I haven't had my account shut down because I don't use it that much and, frankly, I mostly use it to poke the bear whenever our beloved Lord Dampnut says something stupid. 

Okay, I do use it at least a couple of times a month. However, although I'm not a heavy user, I get accused of "spreading TERF ideology" whenever I retweet something that is critical of the extreme trans activist agenda.

These people don't listen when I say that I don't have an issue with transgender people, that I approach people from an above the neck perspective. I really don't care what's going on below the waist. But I do have problems with giving kids hormones that are going to permanently change their bodies, I do have problems with referring to people as "menstruators" and with foolish ideas such as terms like "mother" and "clitoris" being "violence against trans women." I have problems with statements which call for violence against women, such as "punch a TERF." 

I have problems with people being completely unwilling to examine their brain-dead agenda. They want a scapegoat and are angry that the bad old Feminazis--excuse me, TERFS, are fighting against being their scapegoat. How dare we not want to be doxxed, threatened, beat up, or called vile names. How dare we not know our place.

If you sling the term "TERF" about without considering that it has become a call for violence regardless of what its original intent may have been, then perhaps you need to take a close look at your agenda. Does disagreeing with someone really make it okay to promote violence against that person?
Again, Ms. Murphy was locked out of her account for tweets which, while controversial, were not violent in nature. The following tweet, however, is deemed acceptable by Twitter. Yes, I do have a problem with that, and I have a problem with the fact that people who deem themselves "good people" are not willing to examine their use of a term which is a call for violence.
Anyone can be branded a "TERF" regardless of whether they actually want harm to come to transgender people or whether they are simply critical of certain aspects of identity politics or gender norms. Since TERF is a call to violence, why do these "good people" not have a problem with this?

~Sly Has Spoken~

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