Oxford union official, Ellie Greaves, sorry for ‘hurting trans people’Oxford union official, Ellie Greaves, sorry for ‘hurting trans people’

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Bloody depressing read:

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/3a918a08-70d8-11ed-a188-d2cb771901d6?shareToken=aeb345cd0257014019db91fd84eccbda

For fucks sake!!!. How dare these authoritarian gobshites bully a women’s officer out of her post? Sexism is NOT solved. Not on campus, not anywhere. If trans students (or whoever) want better representation can they not see how grotesque it is to be leeching it off resources that have been dedicated to a different marginalised group. Campaign for your own officer. Other marginalised groups reps would support them.

I hope that this poor vilified young women keeps her voice because what is happening to her and the women she represents is completely fucking unacceptable. Where is the supportive statement from the University for freedom of thought, expression, freedom of association for women?

Its past time for another Oxford Women’s liberation conference. www.bl.uk/sisterhood/articles/womens-liberation-a-national-movement

Sorry meant to ask where is the Student Union statement of support for her and for the principle of having women’s officers- but Universities have way more to do on this too ofc. This is just crazy gaslighting of women.

The mission of higher education in the 21st century seems to be teaching people just enough so that they can be really, really dangerous. And certainly not enough that they might recognise any issues or problems, or the limits of what they know. What you get is weaponised out of context concepts and absolutely no desire to understand.

Yes, and the comments about prevailing orthodoxy etc are also pertinent.

I do think a very slight knowledge of postmodernism has become de rigeur - to the extent that 'nothing is true' is an accepted truism. It's enough to undermine any attempts at figuring out how things work, stops people from identifying patterns (because the world is presented as one random completely arbitrary mess, and individuals as so subjective they are incapable of ever connecting or understanding anything. It's a very disempowering belief system) and discourages questions because the underlying 'truth' of postmodernism is that we cannot know anything for sure.