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Crispin Blunt: Strident women's rights campaigners provoked trans people to be angry and confrontational.

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yourhairiswinterfire · 11/10/2020 21:51

www.politicshome.com/thehouse/article/after-his-furious-public-spat-crispin-blunt-liz-truss-trans-rights

From the article: “You've had strident women's rights campaigners... who have provoked trans people to respond often in an angry and confrontational way, and that is unsurprising because this is a central assault on their identity,” Blunt says.

Yes. "Look what you made me do!". The catchphrase of abusers everywhere. If only we'd done what we were told girlies, we wouldn't have been threatened with rape.

This article has some right gems in it. Apparently women just haven't looked into this deeply enough, not as deeply as Blunt, who has been on it since the summer.

“Unless you get quite deeply into this and think this through and have both the empathy and the time to get yourself into that place of understanding it's quite easy to think that there are real problems here about men pretending to be women in order to assault women. That men will seek to take improper advantage of rights afforded to people to take a particular gender identity for improper reasons,” he explains.

Karen White who, guys?? Blunt reckons women aren't at threat from transwomen, and men aren't going to pretend to be women to harm women. Either Karen White is a transwoman, and therefore women are at risk from some transwomen, or Karen White was pretending to be a woman, and therefore women are at risk from men pretending to be women. Maybe you should have done some more 'studying' before opening your gob, Blunt, that's not the only case of this happening. There's no acceptable number of women harmed before we say enough is enough. One is too many. Maybe try looking 'quite deeply' in to that, and the trauma sexual assault victims are left with in the aftermath.

My personal favourite quote is that some religious zealots are "manipulating" women's rights groups to stop people self identifying, because God wouldn't agree with it Grin I wonder if he did this studying with a tinfoil hat on?

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yourhairiswinterfire · 11/10/2020 22:18

@SisyphusAndTheRockOfUntidiness

Yet another victim blaming article written by someone who grew up with male privilege & will never be disadvantaged by this issue. Yawn.
Exactly. I'm a woman, I've suffered directly because of it and the way some men view us, which started when I was a toddler. Crispin hasn't got a fucking clue, he wouldn't even be able to begin imagining.

Campaign for trans rights if that's what you're passionate about, but he can fuck right off telling women what we should and shouldn't be worrying about, that we just need to educate ourselves a bit better.

I'm surprised there was no 'hysterical' thrown in there, that was the tone of it.

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RozWatching · 11/10/2020 22:16

Apparently women just haven't looked into this deeply enough, not as deeply as Blunt, who has been on it since the summer.

Oh dear Grin
A strong contender for Mansplainer of the Year.

My personal favourite quote is that some religious zealots are "manipulating" women's rights groups to stop people self identifying, because God wouldn't agree with it Grin I wonder if he did this studying with a tinfoil hat on?

Sounds like a bog-standard-sexist-arse hat with added tinfoil. Women with independent thoughts and opinions? Impossible!

HecatesCats · 11/10/2020 22:14

Blunt doesn't much like women

Datun · 11/10/2020 22:14

“Of course there are threats, there is a threat to women from men. And women will have experienced that intimidation and violence… The threat is not coming from trans women. Of all groups of people from whom women might feel a threat, trans women are probably the least likely source,” Blunt says.

Is he living under a rock?

Representatives for Truss did not respond to a request for comment.

Shocked.

Tedious tosser.

DialSquare · 11/10/2020 22:12

Strident women Mr Blunt? You have no fucking idea.

Quillink · 11/10/2020 22:10

Gosh, yes. Nothing worse than a strident woman, eh? We are womaning defectively.

SisyphusAndTheRockOfUntidiness · 11/10/2020 22:08

Yet another victim blaming article written by someone who grew up with male privilege & will never be disadvantaged by this issue. Yawn.

BlackWaveComing · 11/10/2020 22:01

Strident, assault....yeah, it's never the abusive man's fault, she always 'made him do it's and her words are literal violence that 'make' him respond in actually violent ways.

Blunt justifies like an abuser, down to considering himself as the empathetic one.

Just another man with zero respect for independent women.

FloralBunting · 11/10/2020 21:59

Yes. The unprovable deity doesn't agree with the unprovable innate gender identity over-riding physical reality.🙄

And really, no fucks given about the views of a man blaming women for getting rape threats because they just wouldn't shut up. Kiss my strident arse, Blunt.

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