Thank you for this! I've been trying SO hard not to post HUH?! in response to the suggestion I was comparing suffrage to "modernity". Yup, that really would be ludicrous. I found the post as a whole rather hard to follow, but that was favourite.
Still, I'm going to try... a bit (cos tired)...
Apples & oranges.
Has always irritated me. An easy get-out. You actually can compare apples and oranges: both are round and edible but have different textures, both are maddening to peel. It's possible to compare what I did, too. But you need to get into the honest detail to do it.
Comparing suffrage to modernity is ludicrous given the obvious cultural & structural differences that functioned as barriers.
Clarification needed. I think what's meant is, "Comparing women's past campaign to be recognised as a distinct political demographic through suffrage laws, to women's current campaign to be recognise as a distinct demographic in sexual discrimination laws," is ludicrous. How? Tell me more (again, detail needed!)
And Just because a similar styles of argument are made doesn't mean the substance of what is being argued is the same.
Depends how you define substance. Just to start, I'd say that both
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Dismiss women as a distinct demographic ("You don't need the vote" ≈ "You don't need a word")
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Position women as secondary to, and represented by, men ("Men will decide what you need (in voting for you)" ≈ "Men will decide what you need and are (in removing the spaces many of you want by redefining you)"
I could go on (and on, and on... but wouldn't want to be incessant, would I?)
I would say, though - bloody hell, don't 1) and 2) show how women's equality is regressing...
Hence the mass disinterest particularly from those who it's supposed to help.
The "hence" here is currently hanging there unexplained, without a bit more explanation of what you meant by the previous bolded bit.
For a movement to get traction it actually has to make a meaningful impact on people it's supposed to affect like the METOO movement did.
How are you defining "meaningful impact" here? I get the impression you're equating it to momentum or popularity? Because (regrettably) I honestly find it hard to see how Me Too had more concrete impact than a High Court case in Oz, a Supreme Court judgement in the UK and multiple other cases worldwide. And thousands of crowdfunders and job losses, and hundreds of grassroots campaigning groups, internationally - and (frankly, in comparison to MeToo) tens of thousands of media headlines. And to be more literal... how could it possibly have had more "concrete" impact than GC feminists argument for the (literally - sorry!) concrete walls around single sex spaces...
Trans people being infinitesimal in numbers don't have that kind of an impact.
As Helle points out, there's a fatal inconsistency in this argument, given that you're trying to convince us that this "infinitesimal" group should upend the language and social contracts of centuries...
Are Australians & Canadians abnormally misogynistic for some reason including their female populations? That would be a a very difficult comparable argument to make given their commitments to women's rights issues over the decade.
Also a bit hard to follow without rewording and a bit more detail.