Like so many of you, I can’t get over the way this biologically male person has taken one of the most distressing things that can happen to a biologically female person and used it just to create a schlocky image of that male person’s penis.
How much contempt and lack of empathy do you have to have for women (ie bio female people) to do that? How completely insensible must you be to women’s actual pain and loss? How could it even enter your head to come out with that truly awful analogy, if you considered women your sisters or your fellow humans in any way?
It really is quite virulent misogyny. Is Lavery angry at women for being able to experience miscarriage? Punishing us for the crime of actually being female, a condition Lavery seems to fetishise beyond all reason but obviously has zero lived experience of?
I think this individual is a hateful person who gets away with writing hateful things about women because of male privilege. Because the world we live in enables biologically male people to parade their hatred of and contempt for women, while it punishes women for merely recognising and naming that hatred and contempt, for naming the sex of the people doing us such great injustice.
Contrast this book with works by women, female authors like Kathleen Stock and Helen Joyce. Imagine if one of them had written anything even a tenth as offensive, insulting and cruel about biologically male trans people/trans activists as the things Lavery has written here about women.
These women could barely get published even when couching their arguments in the most respectful, considerate, conciliatory tones; no publisher would have touched them with a barge pole if they’d written their work even remotely in the style of Lavery’s misogynistic musings.
And yet the proud penis owner has no trouble being published at all. No problem being stocked on Amazon, or anywhere else. Free to disseminate this turgid misogyny to any woman-hating man or self-hating woman who’ll buy it. As the MN expression goes, vom.