Cult-like behaviour!
Arguing that every single reputable mainstream organisation is ‘captured’. That includes all major medical orgs, unions, women’s groups, charities, the UN etc. No evidence is given for this except that they have the temerity to disagree with the people on this board.
Idolisation of someone seen as a ‘leader’. Well plenty of evidence for this with regards to JK Rowling on this thread and it extends to demonising anyone critical of her children’s books. One might think that some people have never read further than Harry Potter.
‘Information’ that is only from youtube videos, anti-trans orgs, twitter, or supposedly word of mouth. Many links to far right sites and videos because nothing counts as far right as long as it is against trans people.
Losing friends and family. Many people come on here saying their friends/family disagree with them. Overwhelmingly they are told that they are either ‘captured’, ‘scared’ or ‘stupid’. Advice is usually to get new friends who agree i.e. the people on this board.
‘We are about women’s rights’ - except there is no-one too homophobic, transphobic, racist or sexist as long as they are against trans people. Any criticism becomes a ‘purity spiral’ so that ideas you have, have moved (perhaps without you noticing) to all sorts of bigotry. Women who disagree with you are ‘handmaidens’, ‘stupid’, ‘ignorant’, ‘scared’ or ‘captured’.
If anyone does come with an argument they are repeatedly insulted, told they have no argument, told they are men, told they are trolls or there are numerous posts about tea cakes - until people either agree or go away. They are also presented with false assertions about what they have said, so that the original point made is obscured. It happens so often it is surely purposeful.
There is an obvious shift towards opposing bodily autonomy and reproductive rights. Despite constantly saying that people on here are ‘life-long lefties’ there is no actual evidence of that. Cue much satisfaction from ‘the wise women of mumsnet’, and a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Support for violent men as long as they are against trans people. The Royce White case is one of many where people ignore domestic violence perpetrators if they are ‘on the same side’. And talking of the WNBA, if anyone is actually interested in women’s sports in the US then you should read the real threat, which is coming from the Heritage Foundation as an attack on title IX. MAGA is laughing their socks off at the opportunity this manufactured culture war is giving them. https://www.heritage.org/gender/report/title-ixs-failed-experiment-why-accommodating-sex-differences-beats-engineered-parity
Everyone secretly agrees with you but no-one will say so because they’re ‘scared’. Trans people are both all powerful and a tiny minority who no-one cares about. The cognitive dissonance this must create is - well …
Governments all support trans people to the detriment of women apparently, ignoring that the most powerful government in the world attacks both trans and women’s rights. Trans people are ‘fetishists’, ‘perverts’, ‘AGP’ or ‘mentally ill’ - unless it’s trans men who are ‘vulnerable’, ‘young’ ‘really lesbians’ etc etc etc. Trans children don’t exist, or need saving - until they hit 18 when they suddenly become ‘porn-addled’.
‘Humans understanding biology is not a cult’ - except you don’t understand biology or the fact that the majority of scientists (yes yes I know they’re all captured) think that human biology is complex, interesting, and there is much to learn. Reducing everyone to XX or XY is a simplistic model that leads to seeing women as mere baby carriers. Perhaps that is what the majority of posters on this board want - if so perhaps they should be honest about it.
The attitude to intersex people on this board is pretty disgusting - and I’m sure someone will now say ‘everyone is male or female’ - so ask yourself the question ‘who decides that’ and why, when genitalia, chromosomes and hormones may not match in the way you think they should. Why can’t intersex people live their lives as who they are rather than fitting neatly into a box that society has made.
There is no room in any of these descriptions for nuance, humanity or the fact that trans people, like the rest of us, are muddling through our lives. This is supposed to be a ‘discussion’ board, but the reality is it’s a board for a few hundred people who constantly congratulate themselves on knowing the ‘truth’ and think their gotcha questions are a sign of debate. There is also glee at misgendering as if, somehow, this is fighting for women’s rights.
This whole thread is an example of how, when confronted with some evidence that lots of women don’t agree with GCs and many people think that the board demonstrates cult-like behaviour - the ‘regulars’ come on swiftly to shut the conversation down with lurid tales of trans people.
For those who will now pop up and say I’m a troll or I’ve posted and run. Yes I’ve posted and run - so don’t bother with your gotcha questions designed to put people off. The majority on this board are not worth engaging with because they’re not interested in fighting for women’s rights but maybe - maybe - there are some who are not too far gone.