"Why isn’t transgenderism ‘cultural appropriation’?" Brendan O'Neill/Spiked

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Brendan O'Neill's latest Spiked article: Why isn’t transgenderism ‘cultural appropriation’?

This will no doubt ruffle a few feathers...

Great piece by Mr O'Neill. I've often wondered the same.

It is objectification for sure.

That was a good read, Brendan. I liked the contrast between the ring-fencing of things cultural and racial, and the celebration of men who appropriate womanhood - fixed and fluid.

Apologies are to the permanently offended as babies are to the Canaanite god of Moloch: things they devour in order to become more powerful and arrogant.

That tickled me.

Now I must go to bed. Look at the time, ffs!

Cleverly argued. Thanks, Brendan.

Fabulous and so clear.

"The end result of both of these woke approaches is to promote a peculiarly conservative view of the world."

Bang on. Wish he'd expressly talked about how homophobic the transgender industry is.

Didn’t a certain doctor claim in a Sky News interview that women had appropriated the word woman

Yes, the certain doctor was raging about it.

Because the word woman belongs to men, clearly.

That's a brilliant piece by Brendan. I'm almost starting to like the man.

Bang on. Wish he'd expressly talked about how homophobic the transgender industry is.

This is a good piece that talks about it.

quillette.com/2018/10/23/the-unspoken-homophobia-propelling-the-transgender-movement-in-children/

I don't know really. Drag rather than transgenderism could be argued to be cultural appropriation. At its extremes TG goes far beyond cultural appropriation as it seeks to redefine what a woman is rather than borrow from it.

Also I am not convinced by these cultural appropriation rows. This vogue one is so far from CA that I suspect russian trolls.

Ah, yes, Brendan O'Neill the famous contrarian. And what do you make of his view that victims of historical sexual abuse should just stfu? And that it's okay for working class people to yell racist things at football matches?

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_O%27Neill_(journalist)

MsVanillaRoseAuntof7

We have so few male allies that we should accept anyone who sees the attack on women for what it is. We will never agree with everyone in the whole world on everything, so we can't afford to ditch and alienate those who are on our side in the important things.

MsVanilla
So he's said some things that I don't agree with, but with respect to this article, what point are you trying to make?

OvaHere - that article is excellent, thank you for sharing it!