Sly's Independence Day 2019 Question: Who Are You Supporting?

Next time you decide to support people who spout epithets like "punch a TERF" and "die cis scum," please remember that the person who popularized the term "cis" is Char the Butcher, a white supremacist. 

Not wanting to be affiliated with racists promoting violence is not being "transphobic."

At least think about who you are supporting. 

You are not supporting trans people who are just wanting to live their lives in peace.

You are supporting violent individuals like Char the Butcher.

Please read http://terfisaslur.com

Read it from top to bottom.

This is not hyperbole. This is a call to violence.

So-called "TERFS" are women. Thus, this is a call for violence against women.

Is this really "woke?"

"But I don't hate trans people."

I don't either, and I supported the TRA agenda until I realized what it was really about. 

It isn't about defending trans people from hate.

It's about promoting the TRA agenda.

A lot of trans people don't approve of the TRA agenda either, but they have been bullied into silence.

The TRAs are trying to take over feminism, and liberal feminists are rolling over begging to play ball with them so they don't look like a bunch of fat, unattractive, hairy-legged meany-mean man-haters.

Like the late Andrea Dworkin, I'm a feminist, and not the fun, sexy kind.

"If my feminism isn't intersectional and supporting this, that, and the other thing, who is it for?"

Women.

Feminism is for women.

Feminism does not have to encompass every other group.

We can be supportive of other marginalized groups and not roll them into feminism.

Stop supporting those who are calling for the silencing of women's voices.

Don't parrot calls to violence in the name of being "woke."

Think about what you're saying before you say it.

Think about who is telling you to say it.

This Independence Day, I proclaim that feminism needs to be free from the hateful agenda of TRAs.

~Sly Has Spoken~

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If my feminism is not for women, who is it for?

In Support of Dr. Michele Moore

The following is a response to a post on Transgender Trend in support of Dr. Michele Moore.

McCarthyist indeed. 

There is a big push to make every aspect of life, every choice a person makes, gendered. A little girl who likes playing with trucks is certainly a boy. A boy who loves to crochet is certainly a girl.

I became a feminist because I wanted to get away from this sort of narrow-minded thinking and because I was tired of being told what girls can't do.

I was always fine with being a girl. I wasn't always fine with being a girl who likes boys because a lot of the time boys treated me like garbage, but I couldn't change the way I was wired. (I tried.) I was not fine with being told I couldn't be an air force pilot because I have ovaries. (This was in the early 1980s.) I wasn't fine with being told that my only aspirations in life should be to make babies and make sure my husband has a nice hot meal and to make sure that my house looked like a pictorial from Good Housekeeping. 

Feminism was supposed to be an ideology for the advancement of equal opportunities and better treatment for women. I never minded fighting for equal opportunities and better treatment of trans people too. Hell, I was always willing to accept trans people as they were, to call them by their chosen names and to refer to them using their preferred pronouns. I don't know exactly when the feminist movement got co-opted by TRA extremists, but it extremely distressing.

The left needs to stop kowtowing to these violent extremists. That's the only chance we have of stopping them.

I support Dr. Michele Moore in being a voice for vulnerable young people.

~Sly Has Spoken~

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