“Why are TERFs so well organized compared to us?”

We cut our teeth on The PTA
Nothing holds any fear after that.

And young men at that, who have presumably grown up with mothers who go out to work.

If we are just socks, we don’t need feeding. Just washing !

They better not because I'm in charge of pudding and I'm catering for six.

It's a very sad reddit community tbh. It's a closed shop where moderates and progressives who truly aren't "TWAW" are ridiculed and kicked out. These forums are exactly how people become radicalised, especially when they jump straight onto the newbies seeking support. It's a fast shift into "your parents hate you, you need to emancipate yourself" and I do worry about the safety of people they are clearly messaging off the boards.

That thread alone shows the lack of critical thinking about any of it, the swallowing of the propaganda about RW funding and low levels of intellect tbh.

Not sure how intelligent I am, and I'm definitely not professional, but I'm in this photo...

they're not coming to the fucking garden party

Just got to look at the pictures outside the courthouse when it was announced. All those celebrating with champagne were housewives of the wealthy or those who’ve taken (very) early retirement

crikey. you see I saw a diverse bunch of intelligent professional women from a variety of back grounds and with all sorts of other views, united by the knowledge that sex is real and sometimes important. and this reddit poster saw housewives and retired people. isn't it funny how differently we all see the world?

'It's much easier to organise a group of 10 people than 200,000'

Hang on! I thought there was six of us. Who let four others join? Are they going to get a share of our wad of cash from the US right?

Full time job that takes more energy than it should, plus elderly parents.

Past child-rearing age, but have a chronic illness that also saps any remaining energy.

Edited to add “took a career break, went part time, lost their pension contributions or most of their wage as it was the one which had to be used ‘for the childcare’, or gave up on a career path so they could work flexibly.” All of this applies to me as well.

I guess what we have has evolved. We do now have some salaried women fighting our corner. They would have been working on other things, but transactivists lost them the jobs they used to have.

Many of us mostly watch while they organize and bung them a tenner when the latest court case comes up.

Oh, to be really in with the in crowd, you need to get a special handshake to invite you to the super secret cauldron parties where we practice our evil cackles and dive into our far right money alla Scrooge McDuck. Our pool boys are the ones filling the money pool.

I wanna go to the garden party!

Goddamit!

I’ve only read the first few posts on the Teddit thread by, my oh my, they’re exhibiting almost Harry & Markle levels of victimhood!

A LOT of this is evident (from Eco’s ur-Fascism):

“Fascist societies rhetorically cast their enemies as "at the same time too strong and too weak". On the one hand, fascists play up the power of certain disfavored elites to encourage in their followers a sense of grievance and humiliation. On the other hand, fascist leaders point to the decadence of those elites as proof of their ultimate feebleness in the face of an overwhelming popular will.”

I saw that yesterday and proper laughed.
One of my guilty pleases is reading them having hysterics on Reddit.

you're missing out on the lawn boy as well

Imagine that eh?

Thinking that the feminists are lying.

Snap!

I can’t believe no one invited me to the garden parties. I feel so rejected 😭😭😭

no, it's because we share our talking points at garden parties

wait!! Are you guys having garden parties and not inviting me?? I feel very rejected

Fascinating thread. Shall we have a hands up who in here has a fulltime job, kids of assorted ages, a house and a side order of elderly parents. If they read the bit of leftwing press we do have in the UK, they’d also know women in middle age have higher rates of disabilities then men in this age group and are usually poorer by quite some margin. Again, hands up who took a career break, went part time, lost their pension contributions or most of their wage as it was the one which had to be used ‘for the childcare’, or gave up on a career path so they could work flexibly.

Because this is the reality of all of my middle class and middle aged friends, all of them. Possibly the most time poor people I know and in precarious financial positions.

What we do have in common is a good education as women since the 1980s have tended to have higher levels of educational attainment and have outperformed men.

But of course, they only deal in truths.

Liked the responder who pointed out that they were highly focussed and didn't get caught up in infighting.

Chances are the middle aged women they’re so contemptuous of are probably the ones doing their laundry and washing their underwear, while they’re too busy playing Xbox to organise themselves !!

To be fair, many of us have wrestled toddlers, teens and abusive men, so as most transactivists channel one or more of those three things, it is something we’ve learned to deal with.

I've only read the first two pages worth of comments because it's already seriously repetitive.

But, fuck me, that's a whole lot of DARVO going on!

They keep harping on about money, being well-funded - um, no-o! I've flung a few tenners into the various crowdfunders, and I expect I'm a fairly average contributor.

I've added an image of the one I find particularly DARVO - apparently we're well-connected, have been "infiltrating disproportionately powerful and influential scenes and building direct, personal relationships with power".

Yes dear; that's why we've had to fight against every political party, every police force, every newspaper (they would only report trans as victims never perpetrators), IPSO who insisted newspaper never mention trans except as victims and use preferred pronouns (or else!), the NHS, government departments, academia, local government, schools, colleges and universities. And banks, retailers, film, tv, theatres and libraries. (Did I miss any of the captured institutions? Oh yes, the fucking census!)

Transactivists had infiltrated etc. before most of us knew what was going on. Total fucking DARVO!