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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

From LSE Gender Studies paper (via Sex Matters)

177 replies

ChristinaXYZ · 26/07/2021 14:48

If any LSE alumni on here feel like penning a complaint... How can this be acceptable in an academic paper?

"“If TERFs think trans* is an endemic threat to feminism, let us be the threat to feminism…

Picture this: I hold a knife to your throat and spit my transness into your ear. Does that turn you on? Are you scared? I sure fucking hope so.”

Matt Thompson, LSE GENDER STUDIES MSc STUDENT"

I'm pretty speechless.

twitter.com/SexMattersOrg/status/1419643247522103303

sex-matters.org/posts/the-workplace/gender-studies-and-sexualised-threats/

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KittenKong · 28/07/2021 11:40

@Imnobody4

Yes - that’s a really good letter!
KittenKong · 28/07/2021 11:41

She has also written to Cressida Dick.

TheCountessofFitzdotterel · 28/07/2021 11:53

I agree about the Class War stuff too. It’s probably only of interest to the Mail and probably the Telegraph so their readers can froth about it. This is far more wide reaching.
A BBC journalist has also tweeted at LSE saying he emailed them. This isn’t going to go away.

timeisnotaline · 28/07/2021 11:58

The mail article linked on the LSEs class warfare society demands says richard Holden MP is an alumni, could include him in tweets

merrymouse · 28/07/2021 12:08

Do the LSE have any duty of care towards students? They seem to be normalising what can only be described as incel like behaviour in somebody who (for all I know) may be vulnerable.

DdraigGoch · 28/07/2021 12:18

The genderfucker is indeed a recent alumnus of a grammar school.*

He has extensive experience working with young children, and volunteers with CoppaFeel! on a Uni 'Boob Team' to raise awareness of breast cancer among non-females.

Quite the CV. Also did a year at a New England private liberal arts college....

Privileged upbringing, time in America, private liberal arts college...

Utterly predictable. All we need now is for them to have done an internship at the Guardian and my bingo card will be full.

Artichokeleaves · 28/07/2021 12:25

I'm thinking yet again of that letter from the Deptfords Women's Project about how highly privileged, expensively privately educated, affluent students wanted to come and tell their homeless, struggling with DV, struggling with addictions clientele all about how they, (the students), were far more oppressed and in need, and to educate them on proper language and social justice concepts. Near a fetish of gentrified working class fantasy.

There comes a point where LARPing has to be limited by reality and the right of other people not to have to put up with it.

transdimensional · 28/07/2021 12:28

Wonder if the individual concerned would identify their gender as "genderfuck" when speaking to children? It's interesting that we have a situation where it's possible to have a gender identity that can't be spoken in polite company or with young children present.

YetAnotherSpartacus · 28/07/2021 12:33

I wonder if when they are all grown up they will use it in an interview (I don't mean for the Graun or the SNP).

TheCountessofFitzdotterel · 28/07/2021 12:43

In the world of gender studies departments nobody ever needs to grow up. You can stay a teenager forever.

YetAnotherSpartacus · 28/07/2021 12:44

As long as you or your parents can keep on paying for it.

TheCountessofFitzdotterel · 28/07/2021 12:46

Or the research funding bodies.

nauticant · 28/07/2021 12:47

Although that twitter thread was deleted Artichokeleaves it was archived, and I think it continues to be worth sharing:

web.archive.org/web/20180315031511/https:/twitter.com/LucyLoveslife1/status/973852316787933184

EmbarrassingAdmissions · 28/07/2021 12:48

I'm thinking yet again of that letter from the Deptfords Women's Project about how highly privileged, expensively privately educated, affluent students wanted to come and tell their homeless, struggling with DV, struggling with addictions clientele all about how they, (the students), were far more oppressed and in need, and to educate them on proper language and social justice concepts. Near a fetish of gentrified working class fantasy.

Yes! Those observations continue to be completely on-point and sharp.

TheCountessofFitzdotterel · 28/07/2021 12:48

And fees from the next generation of incels eager to sign up for your Practical Misogyny degrees.

Helleofabore · 28/07/2021 12:48

@YetAnotherSpartacus

As long as you or your parents can keep on paying for it.
It would seem so these days.
Artichokeleaves · 28/07/2021 12:49

@transdimensional

Wonder if the individual concerned would identify their gender as "genderfuck" when speaking to children? It's interesting that we have a situation where it's possible to have a gender identity that can't be spoken in polite company or with young children present.
Judging by their paper, they would identify 'polite company' and concern about what to expose young children to as bourgeois social conventions in urgent need of queering.

I keep thinking of the young ones and Rik Mayall. We seem to be repeating the seventies with the mindless 'just smash everything' urge. There's a point that is no longer a politically justifiable thing; it's indicative of a serious problem with empathy, social awareness, respect for others and antisocial behaviour. And enjoying acting out and getting away with it. I often wonder if this is why MN sees so clearly through all this: we are very very used to this kind of behaviour on a daily basis. My toddler's just a bit less articulate and a bit more up front 'My smash it!'

Artichokeleaves · 28/07/2021 12:52

[quote nauticant]Although that twitter thread was deleted Artichokeleaves it was archived, and I think it continues to be worth sharing:

web.archive.org/web/20180315031511/https:/twitter.com/LucyLoveslife1/status/973852316787933184[/quote]
Thank you for sharing the link!

So important points in that letter, so very well articulated.

NecessaryScene · 28/07/2021 13:23

Did any of this reach the level of a 'microaggression' yet? Still finding modern academic terminology fuzzy.

YetAnotherSpartacus · 28/07/2021 13:31

As a woman in academia, I have experienced 'microaggressions'. In fact, I experience them daily, as do my womyn colleagues. They are very much a thing in the deeply sexist world of academia. 'Microaggression' is another way of verbalising the kinds of day-to-day sexism that women in many arenas face.

Anotheruser02 · 28/07/2021 14:04

@WhatKatyDidNot

I see there have been some reports to Prevent under the grounds of extremism. Good.

I think this should go further and we should campaign to have this as a dedicated Prevent strand. This dangerous extremist is not the first. We've had gun making at Brunel, bomb threats to WPUK, PCSOs making videos of themselves smashing images of women...

... dedicated Prevent strand. Now.

Is there something we can do collectively?
Tesla73 · 28/07/2021 14:55

Not exactly related but found this article from The Critic to be quite relevant when talking about the privileged elites clogging up HE

thecritic.co.uk/issues/august-september-2021/schoolboy-error/

Artichokeleaves · 28/07/2021 14:59

It is precisely because such schools are so privileged, and removed from the reality that they wish to pass judgement on, that they feel able to voyeuristically become involved

Nail on the head.

herewegogc · 28/07/2021 20:04

'It is precisely because such schools are so privileged, and removed from the reality that they wish to pass judgement on, that they feel able to voyeuristically become involved'

See also: politicians

Coatandhat · 28/07/2021 22:23

This from Matt Thompson's LinkedIn profile:

"Hoping to pursue an academic career in Gender and Feminist Studies, I have tailored my degree to revolve around such an interest. My research experience includes feminist theory and epistemology, queer theory, rural queerness, affect theory, polyamory/non-monogamy theory, Black feminism, trans* theory, queer temporality, whiteness studies, postcolonial studies, Marxism, anarchism, intersectionality, and oral history. My undergraduate dissertation interrogates the potential for queer and anarchist non-monogamous movements to destabilise common conceptualisations of relationships, love, and identity, using affect theory as a means of bridging the gap between queer and polyamory literature."

Ignoring all of the other dog's dinner of words, how can Matt pursue a career in Feminist Studies?