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Glosswitch's response to Rebecca Solnit's stupid Guardian article

63 replies

RoyalCorgi · 17/08/2020 15:32

She puts it very well, as always.

grahamlinehan.substack.com/p/the-strategic-ignorance-award

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JoodyBlue · 18/08/2020 12:24

Glosswitch's letter is brilliant. I am also finding the Glinner website really helpful, especially the video conversation pieces.

SisterCellophane · 18/08/2020 12:19

Oh Ok hahaha thought that was a bit insane!

AmericanSlang · 18/08/2020 11:07

SisterCellophane I certainly hope not! I was referring to the £250k funding The Guardian received in exchange for promoting genderology, which it has been doing assiduously for some time now

WhereAreWeNow · 18/08/2020 10:32

Glosswitch writes so brilliantly. I so hope that Solnit reads this letter. I really enjoyed Solnit's Men Explain Things To Me essays so it's really disappointing to come out with this unthinking drivel.

SisterCellophane · 18/08/2020 10:29

@AmericanSlang are you sayong Rebecca Solnit got paid £250k for that article????

AmericanSlang · 18/08/2020 09:29

I could not believe how bad the Solnit piece was, it read like she was being held hostage by the Guardian editors, desperate for the next piece on genderology in return for the £250k pieces of silver. Glosswitch's reposte is just brilliant - full of righteous anger, articulate and to the point. It's the kind of feminist writing the Guardian used to publish, back when it was worth the paper it's printed on.

YinuCeatleAyru · 18/08/2020 09:28

that's wonderful writing.

nepeta · 18/08/2020 09:15

It was easy to find several examples of toilet/bathroom incidents. Solnit writes that she never heard of a single one. I spent less than half an hour on Google and found several. Solnit also appears rather terminally confused about what sex is and what gender is.

teawamutu · 18/08/2020 08:59

Fuck YES! Brilliant.

littlbrowndog · 18/08/2020 08:43

O M G. This is blistering.

🔥🔥🔥🔥

HoneysuckIejasmine · 18/08/2020 08:30

That was marvellous.

ByGrabtharsHammerWhatASavings · 18/08/2020 07:18

Brilliant brilliant essay. She's nailed it. How many "isolated incidents" do there have to be before we're allowed to add them up and identify a pattern? Isn't there a rule of misogyny along the lines of "basic pattern recognition skills are cruel and evil when they hurt mens feelings"?

quixote9 · 18/08/2020 00:56

Some people understand things that affect them personally, but not so much otherwise, and some work harder at a broader view. Solnit's written some brilliant stuff about mansplaining, which affected her.

Then she was a, to me surprising, disappointment after the Charlie Hebdo terrorism.

Now she turns out to be off in the bozone layer on women's rights.

But it all starts to fit a pattern. If it's not something that slapped her, personally, in the face like a dead wet fish, her analysis just tracks the cool kids and peters out.

Glosswitch / Victoria Smith is always brilliant.

HeirloomTomato · 18/08/2020 00:11

Brilliant riposte to a vacuous piece of virtue-signaling from Rebecca Solnit.

It's so easy to go along with the grain on trans issues and write nice 'just be kind, ladies' stuff but it is so much harder to actually engage one's critical faculties and truly think for oneself as Victoria Smith does here. Harder too, because there is no social approval to go with it. In fact, hatred and name-calling is the only reward.

Victoria is speaking up for women who are being silenced and ignored. Rebecca Solnit is speaking up for the latest on-trend issue of the day. It's easy to tell who's braver.

Socrates11 · 17/08/2020 22:32

The cognitive dissonance from Solnit over male violence is wearying. Glosswitch nails it though 💪

Collidascope · 17/08/2020 21:15

Glosswitch is such a brilliant writer.

OldCrone · 17/08/2020 21:14

Yes, Fallingirl. What sort of man would be most likely to fraudulently claim to be transgender if it gave him access to women and girls in a vulnerable state?

Fallingirl · 17/08/2020 21:07

@OldCrone

”Women are less likely to be assaulted by a male person claiming to be a woman than a male person claiming to be a man”

I assume that's just because there are more men who claim to be men than there are men who claim to be women.

While that is clearly true, if the ratios from the prison service are representative, a male person claiming to be a woman is more likely to be a sex offender than a male person claiming to be a man.

Self evidently, You would expect to come across more sex offenders in prison than in most people’s daily lives, but that is true of all kinds of criminal, so the ratios could be similar.

Clymene · 17/08/2020 19:27

That simmering rage is just glorious. She is such a good writer

Delphinium20 · 17/08/2020 19:22

I heard someone mention glosswitch but had never read her. Wow! She's brilliant!

TheCountessofFitzdotterel · 17/08/2020 18:24

Glosswitch is outstanding.

lionheart · 17/08/2020 18:22

She's good. Such a shame about Solnits--she's written some good stuff in relation to US politics.

boatyardblues · 17/08/2020 17:54

Even so, after years spent on the coalface of intellectual masturbation, I can still see a difference between engaging in circumscribed wanking for the applause of your peers and doing so to shame victims of male violence, characterising their rational fear as something rooted in cisnormative rituals of abject othering of the transcendent blah blah blah.

👏👏👏

SunsetBeetch · 17/08/2020 17:30

This really stood out for me

"Are you sure it’s your superior open-mindedness, and not your privilege, that’s talking here?"

AnyOldPrion · 17/08/2020 17:23

If you are all correct, and that is what she actually means, then her statement is either deliberately misleading, dangerously stupid or (quite likely) both.

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