It’s not odd to question the character of those who wish to be leaders of we feminists.
We aren’t all feminists.
I used to be. But gave up feministing due to this board (although the name of it was different back then) years ago when the only person not dogpiling me for bringing up the cotton ceiling was a poster called DonkeyJacket. Not long after the discussion on this topic became so very very steeped in academic language that it was impenetrable to me, not an academic. So I fucked off from here mostly, and made my small rural town become concerned for mental well-being as I started warning them of the stinking cold Britain had caught that their kids would catch give it ten years or so. They aren’t questioning my sanity now, what with their kids wibbling on about gender identities becoming less and less unusual. Although being small, rural and Italian it’s more the kids lecturing their “awful, backwards, know nothing of life” parents rather than leaping onto hormones, thank God.
I think some people, whose names I recognise from way back when, have principles that they feel they must stand on, principles that are fundamental to who they, personally, are. However, I also suspect that some noses are out of joint. Because after 15 years of slog and social sanctions pushing back against TRA mission creep … their due limelight as the finish line comes into sight been “nicked”. By somebody who has one issue in common with them. But many other opinions, not so much. And she has had an appeal well beyond the circles they were able to reach. That’s a very human, very normal feeling. It has to be a really bitter pill stuck in your throat, to have given up so much, endured so much barracking, lost so many opportunities, suffered so much isolation when you were one of very few to stick your neck on the line and fought so hard … only to become less and less recognised for your Herculean efforts just as the finish line finally shows up on the horizon.
And some people may have both of those things going on. Cos, people will people
I pretty much appreciate any fucker (including AnyFucker), that is prepared to stick their neck out. It is no surprise to me that communists and fascists (real ones, not “I don’t agree with you! relabelled ones, I live in Italy) agree with the GC side. The vast majority of the entire planet agrees with the GC side. Being amenable to reality, less impressed with enforced lying on demand and all that jazz.
Wish some feminists would give those of us who are not feminists, not academics, not (or no longer) ardent lefties the benefit of the doubt that we are not as ignorant and easily led as perhaps we are perceived. Speaking for myself, I’m perfectly capable of agreeing with a huge range of people that a woman is an adult human female without immediately thinking “in which case I must also agree with you that Hitler wasn’t that bad or Stalin had a point”. And a lot of us don’t trust people who tell us “oh don’t listen to her/him ! They are a BAD person, with WRONG views”.
Some of us have a decade+ of being the “BAD” person with the “WRONG” views because we prefer reality to a socially enforced fiction.
And being told we “feminist” wrong.