Priceless!
”Helleofabore seems to get desperately annoyed whenever I have the audacity to continue to exist as a happy and successful adult woman with a lifetime's worth of refutations for the usual talking points, hence the constant admonishment. Apparently I have no idea of the situation facing today's female-assigned adolescent cohort which is quite a revelation to me considering my position as a local trailblazer and supporting pillar of the local trans community with an all-too-painful front-row seat to the real-world impact on real kids (of all extremes between male and female) who have found their lives are now a political battleground.”
Again with the hyperbole. Ooohhh. The drama!
Nah mate. I am not ‘desperately annoyed’.
I am here, laughingly sometimes, I grant you, pointing out the very clear holes in your posts and the tactics you have used in the past and now. Including pointing out your misogyny. Which, of course, you cannot see.
No, your experience is nothing like the female adolescent experience of transition.
More misogyny right there in your claiming that your experience is anything like theirs. Your centring your own experience as being typical of theirs is so very harmful.
Along with a huge extra dollop of whatever anyone wants to point out is in these words. “which is quite a revelation to me considering my position as a local trailblazer and supporting pillar of the local trans community with an all-too-painful front-row seat to the real-world impact on real kids”. Vanity? Narcissism? Supreme need to tell us again how very important you are?
However, anyone who knows any child or adolescent who has declared a trans identity in the past years, knows that your experience, which many of us remember, is very much not representative of a female experience. At all. In any way.
I doubt it is also representative of a current adolescent male experience either. The vast majority don’t have the issues around puberty you have stated you have therefore, again, your centring yourself as being representative of their experience is harmful too. But not as harmful because at least you are male and you will have enough similarities to lessen the harm. It is still harmful however.
Yet, you have put yourself in this position of influence of these young people and you give them advice. And you claim to know what is best for them, by centring your own experience. But it is a repetitive cycle, isn’t it?
Anyone reading your posts over time can see you seem to have no care for others. Because, you have to insert your experience and centre yourself wherever you are. You make threads about you and claim victimhood to do so. Every time. But you simply cannot see it.
And that is fine. It is a free public forum where anyone can post. However, wherever you post, so will we. And we will note for readers your tactics and the flaws in your logic, and your misogyny. You are, after all, on a feminist board. Posting crap like how you are a “happy and successful adult woman with a lifetime's worth of refutations for the usual talking points”.
Our posts, because I am not alone in pointing out these tactics, flaws in logic, or misogyny, simply continue to point out that you have no experience as a happy successful ‘adult woman’. You do have the experience of a male person’s version of what they envision is womanhood based on their outsider’s view of womanhood. No one denies that.
But oh… the hyperbole! Apparently I deny your very existence! Again. No. I have never denied you exist. You are a male, who had issues with puberty, who has no female lived experience at all, but likes to portray yourself as having by describing yourself as ‘a woman’. A misapplied term because you are a male living your concept of what that term means, while never being able to live it in material reality.
”Please, by all means, do continue to accuse me of narcissism for relating rare and relevant personal experience however.”
This is a gift that keeps on giving! Your posts seem to try to refute what is so crystal clear to anyone who reads them. I think this sentence is a gem though! It should be framed.