The latest tactic is to make sweeping claims about how we have been radicalised, indoctrinated, live in an echo chamber, are paranoid, or sucked into a wave of moral panic when WE are the people concerned with biological fact and they are literally trying to call a spade a fork, then accuse us of forkphobia when we question this.
If you haven’t read it already, this lazy article lumps us into one homogenous radicalised mass of tragic old women who need to get a life and think about something else:
www.newstatesman.com/comment/2022/02/feminism-has-been-reduced-to-the-transgender-debate
Well dimwit, I’ve felt like this all my life, lived through lad/laddette culture and hated it, wrote my dissertation on the artificiality and limitations of gender stereotypes on which you and your pals now define female and male identities. Mumsnet didn’t radicalise me but thank god it allows me to communicate with other women who prioritise the safety of women and girls.
I’ve amended one of her paragraphs below. No, Marie, you are not a feminist.
“It is infuriating, of course, but also saddening. There are many problems facing women today and we will only be able to solve them by, at times, working with people who we disagree with on other issues. Rape convictions are abysmally low [AND WE ARE FIGHTING TO REMOVE SAFE SINGLE SEX SPACES INCLUDING CHANGING ROOMS AND TOILETS; FOR MALE BODIED RAPISTS AND MURDERERS TO BE HOUSED IN THE FEMALE ESTATE; FOR VICTIMS TO BE DENIED SINGLE SEX RAPE COUNSELLING] and police forces are institutionally sexist [AND HOUNDING FEMINISTS FOR WRONGTHINK]; mothers are still discriminated against in the workplace [DID I SAY MOTHERS - I MEAN BIRTHING PERSON/CHEST FEEDER] and refuges are still woefully underfunded [AND TRANSWOMEN ARE POSTING GLOATING VIDEOS FROM HAVING ACCESSED THESE SINGLE SEX SPACES - WHICH BTW SHOULDN’T BE SINGLE SEX DESPITE ABUSED WOMEN’S VULNERABILITY AND TRAUMA].”