Hard to believe this isn’t parody

[Violetsrosesandchocolate]

It’s been a while since I last looked at comedy ‘feminism’ website Everyday Feminism so I thought I’d check it out.

Please enjoy this comic about Why Cis Women Spaces Are Transphobic featuring an angry and aggressive male shouting at a woman protecting her boundaries, while understanding that the angry male is the victim of this tale and the woman is the villain.

https://everydayfeminism.com/2015/03/cis-women-only-spaces-wrong/

It’s hard to believe that there are women out there who just unquestioningly swallow this misogynistic nonsense.

I'm confused. Were there any actual individuals who described themselves as women in that group?

The final frame seems to suggest its trans men/non-binaries who should be feeling guilty for taking advantage of the fact that they ARE allowed to use the women's loos and not showing enough solidarity to the excluded trans woman. And overanalysing why they want to. Which ironically is the sort of thought process more commonly linked to female socialisation...

Theres also this cartoon:
What Trans-Exclusionary Feminism Really Looks Like - Everyday Feminism

Conveniently explaining that ugly, harpy like radical feminists actually have a lot in common with ugly Christian conservative women in unattractive clothing. (Apart from the fact that they are ummm.... biological women)

But I would still rather have coffee with either of them than many TRAs.

The final frame seems to suggest its trans men/non-binaries who should be feeling guilty for taking advantage of the fact that they ARE allowed to use the women's loos and not showing enough solidarity to the excluded trans woman.

Oh is that what it was? I thought it was something about there not being any women anyway.

Tempted to bung those grifters a few quid. Not read the text, but from the 2 cartoons upthread I learned that:

People who share a protected characteristic can come in a variety of different presentations and hold different opinions

Women are capable of bonding with other women even when all of their opinions don't align.

Men can seek to erode women's boundaries.

Men can be entitled and aggressive when they don't get what they want.

Women are socialised to enable men.

Trans identities don't disrupt prior socialisation or stop people behaving in ways typical to their sex.

TRAs have no coherent arguments so when they're not force-teaming with genuine rights movements, they resort to methods beloved by the patriarchy such as public shaming of women.

User they specialise in cartoons that present a 'gotcha' that really isn't the gotcha that they think it is.

I see. Not User

I would post the Venn diagram, but it feels redundant. Using superficial similarities to claim that two politically opposed positions are actually identical is this decade’s Godwin’s Law.

Call it Mumsnet’s Law: as an online discussion grows longer, the probability of attributing an irrelevant or widely held opinion to a person with right-wing views (real or purported) and describing anyone who shares that opinion as a fascist approaches 100%.

Or perhaps we should call it the Fallacy of the Undistributed Middle-of-the-Road?

I like the first cartoonist RR. I particularly like that they're a female person who identifies as a man, but who has stopped taking testosterone and decided against surgery long ago. Testosterone gave them hair loss, a high sex drive and an inability to orgasm, which sounds pretty crap. They enjoy cartooning, astrology and tarot, no doubt among other things.

I hope at some point in the future they will find their way back to saying that they're a woman, without changing a single other thing about themselves. Tbh it's what I feel about all the young women I know that have found themselves squeezing down the restrictive gender alley.

Elsewhere on the site, the writer urges parents not to tell their daughters that they ‘have to be pretty’. Err, who does that??!

This. ^^

"I wish to use the support humans!"

Imagine actually using EF’s bonkers articles as a guide to life. I expect many of its writers do. What a miserable, joyless existence. Permanently offended and angry at the world for not living by your particular bizarre twisted moral code, determined to educate everyone you meet so they think exactly the same things as you.

Well dds dad (my ex) constantly tells her she is beautiful - it is the only thing he ever compliments about her. Personally I feel this is sending her the message that it is the defining and only important part of herself. But he is a misogynistic prick so.