Searing and excellent from Victoria Smith

[ArabellaScott]

Superb article on calls for women to shut up, be kind, and get over it.

Gender ideology is an anti women movement that uses society's deeply entrenched misogyny to further degrade and denigrate women.

Stop telling us to be nice when pointing out abuse.

https://open.substack.com/pub/glosswitch/p/more-heat-more-light

For fucks sake autocorrect.

Searing

Link doesn't work for me sorry. I'll go looking for it.

Oh, that's odd. Still works for me! It is well worth seeking out.

It works for me.

Brilliant piece.

Appeasement never works does it? Ask Neville Chamberlain

Brilliant. Thank you for sharing. I feel less inclined to take shit, having read that.

Thanks MN for correcting the typo.

Got there now. Thank the cosmos for Victoria Smith.

Brilliant and breathtaking.

That's an absolutely epic piece. As usual it nails everything, but it's so personal as well... yet I feel most of us can relate to the injustice we acknowledge and internalise at being told how to speak by dishonest bad actors.

I'm doing it now - I rewrote what I wanted to say to make it more palatable.

I love Victoria's writing. Anyone who's ever posted on FWR should read this one.

Thankyou Arabella! That is a storming piece. Honest, personal and beautfully thought out.

That was such a good read.

She’s brilliant isn’t she?

Thanks for sharing Arabella.

Fuuuuuck. That is a killer piece. Permission for us to feel all the anger.

Damn, that should be require reading. For everyone, everywhere.

Powerful and true.

That is fucking excellent.

After the initial relief and celebration died down, I have to admit to some feelings of absolute rage at the mealy mouthed bastard words of political parties, commentators and the media.

Both Sides, my arse.

I went out either a criminal barrister and he was very against “both sides” type thinking. In his experience it’s usually one side being a bastard to the other side.

That is epic. She has felt every bump of this road.

Men who identify as women keep issuing death threats and rape threats, but it's women who are bigots for pointing it out.

A classic piece that, back in the days of Virago, would have appeared in a Women’s Studies Reader book (not that I can recall who published those - and I’ve just now thought how beautiful the Virago covers were.

People talk about genderism being a cult.

It's more like a systemic abusive relationship.

Lovebombing.

'Love is love', 'love wins', 'trans rights are human rights', rainbows, parades.

Othering. Humiliation.

Creating an antagonist, namely, 'terfs'. 'Transphobes'. Loathing, denigrating, slurs, accusations of bigotry, fascism, 'and probably racist' etc.

Isolation.

The most marginalised, the most hate crimed, the most oppressed. Jeffery Marsh. 'Glitter family'. 'Chosen family'.

Controlling.

'Why pronouns matter'. 'Cis'. 'No debate'.

Threatening.

terfisaslur.com

Manipulation.

'better a trans kid than a dead kid'. The suicide myth.

Gaslighting.

Everything is transphobic. Anyone I don't agree with is Hitler.

Glad to see Rachel Rooney got a mention.

It absolutely is like an abusive relationship, right down to all the flying monkeys on the abusers side telling is how lovely it would be if we could just get back in the fold and behave.

Love that she has the courage to talk about the elephant/s in the room - porn & fetishism. Men can get totally addled by their addiction to pornography and their sexual fetishes. We all know from the news/court cases that some of them will do anything to fulfil their sexual desires, including literally having their penises nailed to boards and being castrated in garden sheds, yet we are expected to pretend that men want to cross dress in public and get into women’s spaces solely to assuage their sadfeelz and inner ladyness. They talk about their desire to be degraded and explicitly say that this is what makes them female. The misogyny is off the scale.

It's a long but very interesting read.

I really appreciate the honesty she has in analysing her previous works.

To the woman in the comments section who ironed the plumber's shirt - you did the right thing.