i obviously didn’t explain well enough.
Much of feminist theory is based on how male people have been and still may be prioritised, and how that influences the decisions made by people and organisations. Which is comparable to what the Bennett sisters have allegedly described in the email they sent, but from the perspective that trans people’s needs have now been prioritised above the needs of LGB people and women and children. Ie. Gender has been prioritised over sex when sex based needs should have at least equal priority in some instances.
Therefore, in my opinion and to give a comparative example, using the same framing as you have made, a feminist who chose to perform only for female audiences for an particular organisation or group of organisations until female people are treated equally by that organisation or group would be misandrist. Using your framing. Do you see how that works?
A phobia is a fear or hatred or aversion of something isn’t it? What definition are you using if ‘hatred’, even if not explicit. is not integral to the meaning of transphobia? Do you mean to use a much less emotive word perhaps?
Something like ‘the Bennett sisters disagree with the current political direction Pride has taken’ perhaps?
A comparison would be the decision of the feminist performer to only perform for organizations that they feel have given full consideration and equal prioritisation to female people is not based on any ‘fear, hatred or aversion’ to male people. It is a political stance. Would you characterise it another way? If so, how and why?
And Yes. We can disagree. And we are.
In what way have I even mentioned opposing you or ‘fighting’ you or anyone else in any other issue? Isn’t that a rather polarised and hyperbolic approach to take?
Much like the approach in declaring the Bennet sisters as being transphobic? To label someone as being transphobic is a strong judgement call. Apart from the sisters disagreeing over Pride’s political prioritisation of some groups over others, what do you base that accusation on?
So, Because I posted about your mischaracterisation of the Bennett sister’s declaration as being transphobic, you posit that I somehow now will disagree with you about ‘everything’ and that I am somehow ‘fighting’ you. That is hyperbolic. It is an overexaggeration and over dramatisation of our interaction. Why do that?
I can assure you, I don’t take the attitude that we will disagree on everything. And I do believe we are having a discussion about that disagreement.