Hmmm. Banning a user for political speech. Not good. Barracker has been a Bad Feminist, getting at truths which are intolerably uncomfortable for some.
for her.
"I find it fascinating that whoever feels motivated to reports posts such as Barracker's seem to be so driven by narcisstic outrage/outrage on behalf of others/a need to control other's thoughts and language that they never seem to pause and reflect on that well-known Streisand effect."
This. The narcissistic bullies are policing the boundaries of what we can say here. However, their efforts have backfired. I doubt any of the MN users who have posted on or read this thread, or the thousands of lurkers - journalists included - who come to find out what's fresh with the feminist resistance, will forget the rohypnol analogy...
The unsayable idea/association is of M/TRAs compelling speech with any substance which, when ingested, lowers a person's boundaries, rendering them more vulnerable to suggestion, to going along with the suggester's agenda - however harmful it is to them and those in their care.
That's the aim and dynamic of transgender ideology, in a nutshell. A mass grooming project which benefits the powerful (GBTQ lobbying organisations, pharmaceutical companies, misguided and unscrupulous endocrinologists and psychologists etc.) at the expense of women and children. They want what they want, and will use undemocratic and contemptible means to get it.
If this is not the M/TRAs ultimate aim, how else do we explain their behaviour? At any point in the last couple of years, they could have switched tack and campaigned for third spaces, for trans-specific services where appropriate (e.g. rape crisis centres), for proper mental health support which would avoid their bodies becoming medical 'problems'...hell, they could even have listened to their critics, read some books not on the queer reading list, and explored what the the radical feminist analysis of patriarchy offered them. But no. They continue to insist that we play along - in silence - as they erode our boundaries, our language.
That they haven't changed direction in the face of mass opposition from ordinary women tells us everything. Presumably some TRAs still think there is life in their campaign, whereas the facts point towards a haemorrhaging of hearts and minds at a fearsome rate. They have done - I hope (fingers crossed) - as much damage as they're capable of. The repair works are underway.
Always worth restating, we are not having it. We never were. Everything M/TRAs have achieved by way of money, propaganda, stealth and dishonesty we can undo, given time. And we will. Because it's the right thing to do. Because we would go to great lengths to protect our children from their terrible, selfish, stupid, misogynistic ideas. And because we value ourselves enough to know when to resist.