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Invasion of the body snatchers

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RadandMad · 11/08/2021 22:23

I've had a horrible week. At work someone in my office I've known and liked for years started commenting to a nodding colleague about how Graham Linehan is clearly mentally ill, and going on about how bigots and transphobes like JKR and anyone who agrees with her have set feminism back years. A couple of days later a friend announced that following a conversation with her son - as if teenage boys are now the authority on what a woman is - she now agrees trans are the most vulnerable people in the society and women's spaces aren't really that important compared to their suffering.

I feel like one of the remaining sane humans surrounded by a sea of people who have been infected by some kind of terrible mind virus. I can't deal with it. It's really really getting me down.

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IvyTwines2 · 11/08/2021 23:05

With some of them, I wonder if it's bled over from Brexit and election shock, especially given how vociferous #FBPE hero Fox Killer is on the issue? It's like they need another cause to cling on to now, and they've chosen this.

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RadandMad · 11/08/2021 22:45

It's so mind bending, isn't it? I sometimes feel almost physically disoriented, like I've woken up in a world that just doesn't make sense to me any more.

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RoseAndGeranium · 11/08/2021 22:45

Me too. I’ve distanced myself from some of my oldest friends because they’re so vociferous and abrasive about trans rights. I could never talk about it at work — very woke organisation. The idea that we have to invoke legal protection of a philosophical belief if we want to say publicly that biological sex is real and immutable makes me feel like I’m losing my mind, honestly.

IJustLovePirates · 11/08/2021 22:37

I’ve been lurking on here for ages. I tried to talk to a group of friends about safe spaces for women and was told I was transphobic and “You think all trans people are rapists” .Nope. I just want safe spaces and female sport being kept for females. There isn’t a day I wake up and don’t think the whole world has gone mad.