“Having watched for many months now cishet women’s ‘tears’ being used to weaponise the complaints process to vilify and smear queer people within this party so that certain people can remain in positions of power has tested my patience to the limit and beyond."
This is some interesting powerplay stuff. Remember when a bunch of trans types left the Scottish Greens recently to go to Your Party.
The attacks on Patrick Harvie.
The recent NDP in Canada drama in another thread
LGBTQ+ leftist identity politics which is a crabs in a bucket mentality.
How did Chapman sail through when she has no card to play except being a woman? In these type of politics everyone gets cards but some people use them better.
Always check people's backgrounds. The Chapman family had an expat background and she attend Dominican Convent in Harare – Zimbabwe’s oldest school. Her family wasn't massively rich, but going to an elite all girls school like that is going to potentially give you a powerful sense of self confidence and an ability to navigate social hierarchies, not like a crab but like a eel. You are way more likely to get to the top, because that stuff makes sense you grew up in the bucket. Look how she has the effortless self confidence to slag off the Supreme Court.
Chapman could have joined the Tories, Labour, SNP it doesn't matter. She would weaponise anything she has to get higher and feel an endless sense of self confidence in doing so.
Both men and women with that kind of background can do well. Women though are on average more likely to be particularly good at a certain type of social advancement, because lets face it there is more aggressive internal politics amongst girls than boys, socially we are different. We have to recognise this, because it is key issue in getting women's equal rights, the biggest obstacles are often other women. Individual women will happily get themselves up social ladders while screwing over other women further down and not even recognise they have done it. The most effective supporters of men in dresses are actual women, we all know this, and they use the type of social shaming stuff that is incredibly effective in internal women dynamics. You have to be nice etc.
The problem for "Emma" Cuthbertson is like a lot of trans women they have a sense of ruthless male entitlement and competition which gets them so far, but sooner or later they are going to run into actual political women who will effortlessly out manoeuvre them and they then just have to throw a tantrum because they don't know how to deal with it. Sturgeon used Cuthbertson like Chapman used Cuthbertson as a prop to get social/political advantage. They can call it transphobic, but the reality is both Chapman and Sturgeon are,though awful people, are obviously effective female politicians in the basics, getting and achieving power and crushing others trying to take it away from you.
It almost makes you feel sorry for Cuthbertson, on onside the awful Terfs womening all over the place successfully on the other Chapman doing the same. Why is Cuthbertson so upset? Because a women outmanoeuvred a man politically. That is what it boils down to. Any successful women will recognise men going a bit crazy when they see that happening.