This post needs addressing. Apologies for the length. And it is a repeat of what is posted often but it is for readers I post this for context. I suspect that feminists who regularly post on this board will have pointed out the dishonesty of what extremist trans activists have done by way of ‘guilt by association’ and ‘polarisation’. They have done it for emotionally manipulative reasons.
The timeline goes something like this.
The term gender critical was actually a shortening of ‘gender critical feminist’. Gender critical feminists are gender abolishners, they are women and girls, female people, who believe that the only thing that is common between all female people is their sexed body and the oppression that women and girls suffer from around the world. All the rest is personality, and the interactions of society that has shaped that individual.
There is no one way to be a girl or a woman, except for having a body that was formed around the production of large gametes regardless of whether that production will ever happen or not. If your body was formed around production of small gametes, you will be male for your entire life.
Then the term ‘gender critical feminist’ was expanded to fit other groups. The word ‘feminist‘ was dropped. This is significant.
Now, the belief that sex is immutable in human beings is a universally believed, indeed proven and well established fact. But now, activists have dishonestly taken a term and changed its meaning as an act of derogation, of denigration to silence feminists and anyone sharing the feminist viewpoint.
To be clear, that feminist viewpoint is woman and girl are not labels to be assumed through application of stereotypes, and they are not costumes to don by any male person. Instead those words have meanings that only apply to human females with those sexed bodies. And no female person needs to define themselves by stereotypes in looks or actions.
So, now extreme trans activists have stripped the original meaning of the term ‘gender critical feminist’ and are applying ‘gender critical’ to a huge group of people who all believe the universally believed and established fact that sex is immutable. But now they are applying it to people who believe in gender stereotypes and gendered roles.
It could be discussed also that extreme activists who want loosely similar (not the same) outcomes as feminists have also adopted the now chopped off label without understanding what it means. Their goals and motivations are NOT the same as feminists. They might ignorantly use the term ‘gender critical’ because they don’t understand that it meant ‘gender stereotype critical’.
Therefore, like the word ‘woman’, and ‘tolerant’, the term ‘gender critical’ has been used in a way by a group of people to mean the opposite of the original meaning and intended meaning of the word. That same group of people who have forcibly attempted to change the meaning of other words such as ‘woman’ and ‘tolerant’.
The forced teaming with the wider group is used to silence feminists because we are supposed to believe that neo-Nazis share the feminist goals. Therefore feminists = neo nazi. Leading to ‘feminists are Nazis’.
The term ‘gender critical’ is now meaningless. However, it is used in an attempt to shame and silence feminists. In exactly the way that butterfly has used it here.
Posters such as butterfly have attempted to use the ‘guilt by association’ and polarisation tactics for a very long time.
They do this by forced teaming. By pointing out that other groups who are extreme and who are hateful share the belief that sex is immutable. Therefore, surely if nazi’s believe it, it must be wrong to believe it. There is that polarisation aspect.
Of course, they neglect to also mention that the majority of the world also believes that sex is immutable. and that many people who are not feminists either also believe that gender stereotypes are to be rejected.
TLDR
When you want to silence women, just point out the Nazi groups agree with them.
That will shame them into silence.