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Hearing on Canada's Bill C-16 regarding gender identity and gender expression

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BlueSunGreenMoon · 11/05/2017 13:01

You can hear Meghan Murphy’s testimony here:

purplesagefem.wordpress.com/2017/05/10/radical-feminist-testimony-on-bill-c-16/

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patodp · 11/05/2017 15:43

Because women are socially conditioned to be patriarch compliant. Conditioned to accommodate.
Conditioned to sympathise with people who identify themselves into alleged oppression.

YetAnotherSpartacus · 11/05/2017 15:41

Fuck knows. I really don't. I see women acting in men's interests all the time and I don't get it beyond when there is enough trickle-down to somehow make it all worthwhile (i.e. a wife supporting a tacitly abusive husband because of some sort of material benefit).

BigDeskBob · 11/05/2017 15:33

YetAnotherSpartacus, yes you are correct, it is about male privilege and the patriarchy. But why are women happy to see something like this passed? Why don't they see the damage it will do?

Datun · 11/05/2017 15:20

The only thing I would like to have seen her done is to have a bit more of what people call the common touch.

So trying to get the general public to relate to what she was saying, rather than people who already understand feminism 101.

Maybe even use a few sensationalist examples that would strike a chord. Like the transman raped in the taxi, for instance.

Many people need a lightbulb moment.

I think she said everything she could possibly say, but I would have stuck the odd Daily Mail headline in it.

YetAnotherSpartacus · 11/05/2017 15:11

Few seem to see how gender identity damage women's rights

Oh fuck it ... they don't care or don't want to know because the whole trans discourbe helps to shore up male privilege and patriarchy.

BigDeskBob · 11/05/2017 15:03

She explains it so well. But its probably going to fall on deaf ears. Few seem to see how gender identity damage women's rights.

YetAnotherSpartacus · 11/05/2017 14:50

Yes, brilliant.

Datun · 11/05/2017 13:45

Yeah, she said it all.

DJBaggySmalls · 11/05/2017 13:18

Meghan is a brilliant advocate for women.