So I saw this on Maya Forstater's Twitter feed today: mobile.twitter.com/MForstater/status/1415237869808111616
It reminded me of something I've been thinking about lately.
Years ago, I used to read a lot of atheist-y, science-y blogs/forums. Every so often, you'd get someone who was an evangelical Christian and/or Creationist turn up to spread the good news.
Almost every time, they had the exact same things to say. The same arguments, the same mantras, as if learnt and repeated by rote, rather than understanding.
Depending on the place/time/frequency, this would either get a response of carefully criticising the same old arguments yet again, or a round of eye-rolling, before the would-be missionary retreated.
It strikes me that reading FWR is basically the same. Every so often a new TRA turns up with the exact same by-rote arguments and mantras. They'll post the same old stuff, FWR regulars will respond with critique, exasperation or both. Then eventually the TRA will get bored of repeating themselves and disappear.
There's at least one of these threads going on right now - the same nonsense retreaded once more.
Helen Joyce's comparison of the Forstater case with the Scopes Monkey Trial just struck me that there's more than one similarity between genderists and creationists.