@Artichokeleaves
Ah. Transactivists demonstrating yet again how they are not only unsupportive of but actively wish to prevent campaigning against femicide (or FGM - or supporting safety of women in prison - or female homosexuality - or accessible labelling of medical services for females - or female accessibility to rape crisis or refuges...)
Anti- female really. Gynephobic. It's alarming how prejudiced they appear to openly be towards biologically female humans. You'd be led to believe by all this political PR they put out that transactivism is incompatible with anyone else having rights or needs, and the only thing about femicide that matters is how it makes less than 1% of males feel that it's not centering them.
Interesting publicity choices there. I wonder what the general public will think.
Absolutely this. Once again, this movement is in and of itself a form of structural abuse of women and girls (female people) by… male people.
It’s just another facet of the oldest form of oppression there is.
Silencing women’s voices on this, constraining the language we use, is on a par with any authoritarian, oppressive regime silencing its dissidents. In fact, what is happening here, now, is as if western democracies were doing the work of those authoritarian, oppressive regimes for them.
Like western democracies and human rights movements actively silencing the voices of and delegitimising black anti apartheid campaigners back when SA was still under white rule.
Or western democracies and human rights movements actively silencing the voices of and delegitimising women speaking out against the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Or western democracies and human rights movements silencing the voices of and delegitimising gay people fighting for their rights in Russia or Iran.
This is where we are now. This is what we’re up against. And the success of TRA propaganda (founded as it is on generations of male privilege, political power and wealth, abetted by all the male-prioritising social structures of patriarchy, including obedient women) is that women speaking up against it are vilified, demonised and suppressed by the very people, organisations and structures that should be supporting us.
In terms of the relational aspects here, the representation of which side holds the power and is harming the other (although clearly not in terms of the actual practices), it’s as if the great and good were saying the black anti apartheid campaigners were the bad guys and the white apartheid government were their victim.
As if they were saying the women of Afghanistan were the bad guys and the Taliban were their victim.
As if they were saying that gay people in Russia and Iran were the bad guys and their respective governments their victims.
This is what is going on here. We have to shift the focus to the true nature of the power dynamics at play here, the extent of the sleight of hand, the fact that this is oppression, abuse. Of us.
Abuse of female people by male people. Deprivation of the rights of female people in order to benefit male people. Dehumanising of female people to supra-humanise male people.
IT’S THE SAME OLD OPPRESSION OF FEMALE PEOPLE BY MALE PEOPLE AS ALWAYS BUT WE’RE THE BAD GUYS?!