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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Crispin Blunt: Strident women's rights campaigners provoked trans people to be angry and confrontational.

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yourhairiswinterfire · 11/10/2020 21:51

www.politicshome.com/thehouse/article/after-his-furious-public-spat-crispin-blunt-liz-truss-trans-rights

From the article: “You've had strident women's rights campaigners... who have provoked trans people to respond often in an angry and confrontational way, and that is unsurprising because this is a central assault on their identity,” Blunt says.

Yes. "Look what you made me do!". The catchphrase of abusers everywhere. If only we'd done what we were told girlies, we wouldn't have been threatened with rape.

This article has some right gems in it. Apparently women just haven't looked into this deeply enough, not as deeply as Blunt, who has been on it since the summer.

“Unless you get quite deeply into this and think this through and have both the empathy and the time to get yourself into that place of understanding it's quite easy to think that there are real problems here about men pretending to be women in order to assault women. That men will seek to take improper advantage of rights afforded to people to take a particular gender identity for improper reasons,” he explains.

Karen White who, guys?? Blunt reckons women aren't at threat from transwomen, and men aren't going to pretend to be women to harm women. Either Karen White is a transwoman, and therefore women are at risk from some transwomen, or Karen White was pretending to be a woman, and therefore women are at risk from men pretending to be women. Maybe you should have done some more 'studying' before opening your gob, Blunt, that's not the only case of this happening. There's no acceptable number of women harmed before we say enough is enough. One is too many. Maybe try looking 'quite deeply' in to that, and the trauma sexual assault victims are left with in the aftermath.

My personal favourite quote is that some religious zealots are "manipulating" women's rights groups to stop people self identifying, because God wouldn't agree with it Grin I wonder if he did this studying with a tinfoil hat on?

OP posts:
Cocothefirst · 13/10/2020 08:29

@unwashedanddazed

Cocothefirst My niece identifies as a transman and to start with it nearly broke my family apart. I only speak about these issues anonymously because I don't want to hurt her

I'm in a very similar situation and only speak anonymously to avoid a massive family rift. It breaks my heart to see a child being set on a path from age 5 that's going to be incredibly hard to reverse now that puberty approaches.

From 5? Oh my days. Flowers
nearertonature · 13/10/2020 10:13

Bloody hell, just read that. He didn't bother to hide his misogyny did he? It was like a game of misogyny bingo. Women who disagree with his view lack empathy, are 'strident' , have had fears 'stoked' by people manipulating them. Bloody hell, I wonder if he thinks personal liberty applies to women cos he sure as hell doesn't seem to think we are capable or exercising it.

nearertonature · 13/10/2020 10:15

Oh yes, and of course. 'they asked for it.', those moaning, nagging women. Anyone would want to hit them after all that earache, eh?

EsmeShelby · 13/10/2020 10:19

What's wrong with being strident? It's a lot better than being taken advantage of. Not better for Crispin obv.

MichelleofzeResistance · 13/10/2020 11:27

I was in my forties before this stuff began and I realised how many male people really do see females as just kind of animated props in their lives.

SunsetBeetch · 13/10/2020 12:14

*Ereshkigalangcleg

Pretty sure we got that from Sally Hines recently.

We did indeed. I was genuinely astounded to see a feminist academic accusing other women of just being in need of a good seeing to. But there it is.*

Aso Gabby from Bloody Good Period. Just what you want to see from a charity for period poverty. Funny how genderists have such stereotypical views of women, innit?

SunsetBeetch · 13/10/2020 12:31
HecatesCats · 13/10/2020 12:32

@EsmeShelby

What's wrong with being strident? It's a lot better than being taken advantage of. Not better for Crispin obv.
Women are supposed to be taken advantage of, they're supposed to bend to the will of men like Blunt, they're supposed to float around seeping empathy from every pore. Anything else, like asking rational questions, asserting the rights of women and girls etc is unnatural, horrific, just too much.
HecatesCats · 13/10/2020 12:33

Not empathy for other women though, that's the wrong sort of empathy.

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