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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

TW accusation that Dr Ray Blanchard is sexually abusive

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SideWonder · 11/06/2023 15:30

For entirely other reasons, I came across a TW's blog the other day, which accuses Prof. Ray Blanchard of being a pedophile and sexually abusive.

Can a random (TW) blogger say this? It's a pretty serious accusation to make, and clearly politically motivated.

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WhereYouLeftIt · 11/06/2023 15:33

Libel or slander? I can never remember which is which. But it's definitely one of them.

highlandspooce · 11/06/2023 15:33

And here you are sharing it?

SideWonder · 11/06/2023 15:35

The blog? Should I share the blog ... ?

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LeilaRose777 · 11/06/2023 15:37

Yes, they can say it even if it's totally untrue. Especially if the accuser is in the US. Frankly, any TW who accused Blanchard of being a wrong 'un is highly suspect. They hate him because he wrote so clearly and authoritatively about trans men being fetishists. It doesn't fit their narrative about being misunderstood and the most marginalised people even with the wrong bodies, if someone who has studied them for years comes to the conclusion that they're paraphiliacs, many with personality disorders.

LeilaRose777 · 11/06/2023 15:38

"ever" not even!

skilpadde · 11/06/2023 15:48

Ack, it's just the next move in the transactivist playbook. A term, which initially carried weight, is used to label so many people that it becomes completely meaningless. People so labelled end up going "whatever, so what?" so the TAs have to move on to the next more shocking term. Eventually, they'll run out of insults to throw at 95% of the population.

We've had transphobic, bigot, anti-trans, existence-deniers, fascist-adjacent, fascist, Hitler, literal Hitler, obsessed with genitals, obsessed with kids' genitals, paedophile-adjacent, and now paedophile.

I saw it directed at JK Rowling the other day. It's all nonsense, and reflects the TAs increasing desperation as more people wake up to their tactics and goals.

MrsOvertonsWindow · 11/06/2023 16:38

DARVO innit?

Thelnebriati · 11/06/2023 18:10

Can you report it to the site that hosts the blog, or bring it to the attention of Ray Blanchard?

guinnessguzzler · 11/06/2023 19:52

WhereYouLeftIt · 11/06/2023 15:33

Libel or slander? I can never remember which is which. But it's definitely one of them.

Slight derail but I remember it as libel is like library so written (presumably same derivation?) and Slander is Spoken.

SideWonder · 12/06/2023 12:42

Thanks for the suggestion of reporting the slander [?] but I very vaguely know the blogger from a roundabout work contact, and they're not a very nice person. And a total nobody. Here's the claim.

https://www.agirlreconstructed.com/2022/04/cowardice.html

I guess it's water off a duck's back for Prof. Blanchard and anyway this TW is a nobody.

COWARDICE

  Once again a cowardly, absurd, wrong in law, clinically illiterate bigothas  attmeptedto post a comment  to the  blog  ....  I am a woman ...

https://www.agirlreconstructed.com/2022/04/cowardice.html

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