Thursday Reads

In this Reddit thread, it notes the numerous comments on a New York Times column by a dude in a dress who was upset over all of the heckling and stuff on that Channel 4 UK show called Genderquake.  Of course this dude wants to shut women up, but numerous comments, as excerpted on the Reddit thread, take huge issue with the dude's comments.

I like this one most of all:

There are two biological sexes based on two radically different reproductive roles and two radical different sets of sex organs: male and female. There are many genders. Transwomen belong to the male sex and the transwoman gender.

I respect your gender. Why can't you respect my sex?

We, who belong to the female sex, are devalued and abused because of our sex -- exemplified most recently in claims against Harvey Weinstein, et al, and the NY attorney general. I see the attacks on women from transwomen as just one more expression of males abusing females.

Women have shared physical experiences which have translated into a devalued cultural identity. For ages, a man's perception of reality has trumped a woman's -- allowing them to get away with rape, if not murder. And now, you are using this very same power to attempt to annihilate my identity.

Your very aggressive attitude toward those of us who refuse to let you define who WE are is just one more example of male dominance.

And to answer your question about why there is no similar brouhaha about trans men -- Although biological females feel and are threatened by biological males both physically and culturally, biological males in our culture belong to the dominant sex. They, including you, define and control reality and are therefore not similarly threatened by biological females, regardless of their gender.

So-called "trans men," of which two of them appeared on this show, are women, and therefore they are not excluded from radical feminism.  Besides being a slur, "TERF," is simply inaccurate.
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