Genderwocky

[WarriorN]

Brilliant exchange seen on twitter today.

Genderwocky is real. You heard it here first!

I'm crying re the reply to her coffee post 🤣

PC Plod, mumsnet's very own coppersplainer a police brutality apologist.

Too long gyring and gimbling in the wabe.

GC feminists have no interest in upholding 'gender binaries'. The clue is in the 'gender critical' part 🙄

Well come to my arms my beamish terf! Oh fraptious day!

I feel like I'm reading a thread written in a drunk tank.

Fuck sake. "Gatekeeping femininity", femininity being a concept forced on women by the damned patriarchy.

And breathe. Well played Mary and Kathleen is the main point, along with nonsense poetry (written by a nonce)

I have a book called 'Drunk Tank Pink'.

Alice in Genderland.

Does that make the person who made that infamous “decapitate TERFs” sign the Red Queen?

I've tried very hard to understand the "TERFs gatekeep femininity" argument and the only way I can make heads or tails of it is that they think our problems are with ahh, the lack of passing shall we say (trying not to get deleted here).

A man must have come up with it, originally.

Maybe even Alex in Genderland 😂

🙌

We have a dual meaning problem, in that feminity/feminine can be used to mean relating to being female (e.g. feminine hygiene products) as well as to refer to archetypes of, and stereotypes applied to, women. The second meaning is more commonly understood and allows statements like this to be technically true, but with an utterly false implication.

She is such a mimsy borogrove it's hard to know where to start.

Definitely burbling.

Sits in corner rocking

The posts on this thread make no sense.

Waaaaaah!

@PaleBlueMoonlight Does it make the statement technically true though?

Perhaps I've gotten the wrong end of the stick, but I feel like for the statement "TERF's gatekeep femininity" to be true, then terf's would also have to have major issues with any effeminate man, like James Charles or Jeffree Star for example, no?
(putting their respective controversies aside for one moment and talking exclusively about stereotypes).

Maybe I've just not seen it, but I don't see anyone in this sphere having issues with men being more stereotypically feminine? There are masculine and feminine men and women and there always have been, homophobia is separate to gatekeeping imo and it comes across that to make that argument, you HAVE to conflate them.

I'd also guess that the person making the argument that "TERF's gatekeep femininity" probably views femininity (as in stereotypes) and literally physically being a woman as the same thing for some bizarre reason.

I will never be able to wrap my slithy toves around this uffish nonsense😅

More like “through the looking glass” given how backwards Emma has got it. The male gaze created and gatekeeps femininity, not the other way round as they state. Also “mere sexualisation” like the sexualisation isn’t the absolute crux of it all?

Who's the rabbit?

<tries not to get self deleted>

DONT ANSWER THAT

I think that the person writing it means relating to gendered expectations rather than relating to being female. I am just saying that because (less commonly) the word feminity means relating to being female (sex) some GC people might agree with the statement because they read it that way, i.e. most GC people do want to "gatekeep" feminity in that sense, and restrict the use of feminine words and concepts that relate to females (eg breastfeeding) to females only. Anyway, clearly I am not making much sense and it doesn't change the basic fact that this is, indeed, genderwocky!

Most beamish. All of it. Come to my arms.

(5) Mary Harrington on Twitter: "@Docstockk And as they bickered about the law The Genderwock, with loins aflame Took selfies in the changing room And grunted as it came" / Twitter

the screenshot is the tweet for those who can't see it

I made one for my car a couple of years ago.

My bandersnatch hasn't been frumious for years.
A poetic offering, with thanks to some pps

Twas brillig and the slithy turves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe
Mumsnet was their borogrove
It made trans women rage

"Beware the gender criticals son
Their words will bite, their truth will catch
Beware that posie parker birds, and shun
The frumious Rowling witch!"

"bird" singular, flipping auto correct

Anyone who claims that terves believe women should be feminine and that femininity to be reserved for women is either

a) lying

or

b) not paying enough attention to recognise the lies being told by the people in category a.

I can’t think of a single public-terf who is gender conforming?
Even the ones who like the aesthetics of femininity are either too gobby or too razor minded to be properly lady-like in the eyes of the patriarchy and/or they exaggerate up their feminine presentation to the point where it becomes quite intimidating to men (more man-eating than man-pleasing!)

Not a mimsy borogrove amongst them

I now have the overwhelming urge to draw PP as a beautiful bird - Perhaps Hunger Games style, what have you done?!😂

I'll be back at some point I imagine😭