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I am a woman because I say so

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Darrowisred · 04/05/2016 18:39

Bought Grazia not realising it was a special gender issue.

Paris Lees has three pages of editorial.

Gems include;

'I don't need permission to use the label 'woman', I'm a woman because I say so'.

And

'Womankind is a broad church, and it's time to celebrate our wonderfully diverse congregation'.

And

'When my win (as female comment writer of the year) was announced, it unleashed a barrage of transphobic abuse. 'What a farce, Lees is a man' wrote one'.

Finally

'I love being a woman'.

Aaaargh.

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HermioneWeasley · 04/05/2016 20:00

I'm not sure my blood,pressure can take reading the article. Also don't want to support them by clicking

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Darrowisred · 04/05/2016 19:58

Here is the article lifestyle.one/grazia/news-real-life/in-the-news/paris-lees-woman-say/

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HermioneWeasley · 04/05/2016 19:55

Right, I won't be buying Grazia again!

Isn't is Paris who finds being cat called brilliant?

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Darrowisred · 04/05/2016 19:54

I too have reached the rage point, with individuals like Lees and the utter fuckwit women who mindlessly defend them and advance their cause, shitting all over women in the process.

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SqueegyBeckinheim · 04/05/2016 19:53

My eight year old DD saw me reading a trans thread on here the other day and asked what it was about. I explained in the simplest terms I could, there's a trans child at her school so she already knew the concept.

Her comment on the whole thing was "well that's stupid, if you've got a willy you're a boy even if you're wearing a dress, and if you don't you're a girl". Pretty much sums it up really.

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Darrowisred · 04/05/2016 19:53

I'm certainly never buying Grazia again. They also bleat in another article about how older women can learn from the younger generation who are challenging gender norms. And state that '4 year olds are now being asked their gender' as part of a piece on how far we are progressing, like it's a good thing that children are being used as pawns in this fucking Orwelllian nightmare.

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LyndaNotLinda · 04/05/2016 19:47
  • Coquettishly. (Too cross to type properly)

What a fucking insult to women.

LyndaNotLinda · 04/05/2016 19:46

Oh fuck off Lees. Memememememememe.

I have reached peak trans rage with the appropriation of 'woman' to mean I like wearing makeup, dresses and giggling coqui

FirstShinyRobe · 04/05/2016 19:45

I don't need permission to say you're not a woman, Paris. And if you were a woman, you'd have some understanding of why it's important that we don't collude in your fantasy, ThrowWomenUnderABus feminists notwithstanding.

Who is correct? Well, if just one transwoman can define what they think a woman is, we might get somewhere on the understanding road. As it is, there is a perfectly workable and important definition in existence. Yes to womankind being a broad church, though interesting that Paris would rather broaden it further than broadening what it means to be a man. Women are not NotMen.

oliviaclottedcream · 04/05/2016 19:28

Decisive, self assured, confident, commanding? Yes, that's why I luuuurrvve men so much.

noworktodaywahey · 04/05/2016 18:46

What a very male way of thinking! I say so therefore it is so.