Alice In Wunderland

yeah okay sometimes I have to accept that it might all be worth it

Lots of things are worse about the world than they used to be but one thing that isn't is that "dork" is commonly understood as a compliment nowadays.

is this about you replying to me

Like I come across it most when someone is trying to deflect criticisms of transmisogyny but obviously our exp's are gonna differ

Nah you're good and you're allowed to disagree/correct if you want to. The real trouble is its potential/usage as a not-all-men thing but that shit still fucking sucks for you

I have to go to sleep and destroy it

Tbh bioessentialism is a much MUCH better term to the point that "gender essentialism" feels like an intentional inversion of it.

I mean the critique has basically been at least 60% a "not all men" trojan horse from the word "go"

Exactly that, yes.

when, not if, sorry.

When cis men find "malgendering" it's going to be the worst thing to happen to the epistemics of feminism since "gender essentialism"

Twitter is in its regular "a trans woman is bad so now we trans men get to indulge in a transmisogynistic feeding frenzy" phase atm. Outright blackpilling stuff.

All tech people sound like this btw

Personally, I generally see Feinberg, especially SBB, primarily promoted by trans mascs rather than explicitly transfeminist spaces and that, in either case, the transness is forefronted. She's credited with helping to popularise the word "transgender" lol. I'm sure the discourse gets messy, mind.

Sorry, all things to one side, I don't think I've seen Feinberg brought up in a non-trans context in years at this point. Are you sure this happens?

I think I've got most of the participants blocked at this point. Have barely seen anything

What have I missed?

"The only way to stop bullies is to stand up to them. Anti-trans campaigners have been making legal threats, trying to force trans people out of public life. They thought after the SC decision the whole world would suddenly agree with them. But they've misunderstood the law, as well as human nature"

not only will this put trans men in danger, whether some trans men are accepted (misgendering) and others rejected based on transphobic criteria, trans women still are blanket banned from these places for being insufficiently woman. so like what do people expect to accomplish here. useless tactic

Something needs to be done about the Guardian and the New Statesman. It ought to be utterly unacceptable that they sing from the same songsheet as the rest of the media on this.

It is possible in social gatherings to turn your backs on bigots and not speak to them. GCs believe themselves to represent a majority of women: if this were true, they won't have a problem with being shunned by women who don't agree with them.

Open the WI to all genders and direct complaints to the transphobes.

I know it's all fun and games to do some performative Anglophobia and to point out all that's wrong with it. You do not need to lecture me on any of its evils that were always present. It's still a home that is lost to me, probably forever. And that is something that I can't just snidely sneer at.

I just do not know what kind of way forward is even possible at this stage. I truly don't. The UK is host to a failed culture on top of its failed systems. It's horrible watching people become so much worse. I do not know where the bottom is, either. That's the scariest part of all.

I remember flying back for the first time since the start of the pandemic in 2022. The second I was in a steel tube full of a significant number of Brits, the change was obvious. The behaviour was so much less inhibited, so much less considerate. A trip I've made several times, suddenly so alien.

The radicalisation of the upper classes, for one. The impact of insane internet radicalisation chambers, another. The advent of the printing press preceded centuries of bloodshed. The radio drove the Holocaust. And now, we're at the mercy of the nightmare of the internet. More than we realise.

The UK is a culture undergoing a degradation that scarcely seems believable. For all the limitations, one wonders where the ideas of the 2012 Olympics went. That Britain trying to reinvent itself as part of a metropolitan future. We can point at economic conditions all day, but that misses a lot.

She told me about losing it at work at a transphobe at some point. I think several months ago. She saw red. Others were awed in the way that you can only be awed by a placid person's sudden anger. She works in an educated office space. People are so openly bigoted they don't expect any challenge.