The feminism of fools

To prove that some women and some feminists are actually indeed horrible, Lewis put up a slide which included two photos of Posie Parker (aka Kellie Jay Keen), including the time she and Julia Long confronted the HRC spokesman, Sarah McBride, in Washington DC, incorrectly stating that their trip was funded by the Heritage Foundation. (That someone could still be harping on about this very minor episode five years later is really rather petty, even Kathleen ‘they turned back feminism 20 years’ Stock stopped two years ago.) Lewis had been commissioned to write a piece about trans exclusionary radical feminists at that time, in January 2019, as Americans did not know anything about terfs, and Lewis, having lived in the UK and in the US for several years, was perfectly placed to explain to the yanks that ‘no nonsense anti-utopianism prevailed on terf island’, though ‘anti-trans feminism wasn’t universal,’ she consoled the assembled pro-trans students and academics.

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Addressing ‘gender-based’ violence the abolitionist way

I listened into this webinar just out of interest, the ‘abolition movement’ isn’t strictly my niche, however I was disturbed enough by what they had to say to feel it worth posting about.  If you didn’t know, abolitionists want to destroy all policing services and remove punishments for criminals, though for some time they have been scratching their heads how to square this aim with their adjacent cosily-named ‘gender-based violence’ schtick.  As we all know, the crimes of rape, sexual abuse and domestic violence, are overwhelmingly committed by men, with women largely the victims.  To solve some of the problems around this issue, the UK prison abolitionist squad has developed a booklet to shove at people when anyone might question them about why they felt someone like Wayne Couzens should escape the criminal justice system. 

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Review of film: Anhell69

The Chronic Youth Film Festival is curated by the Barbican Young Film Programmers, whose intake apparently changes on a yearly basis. I suppose that avoids anyone getting -gasp- old. The two young women who presented the screening looked as if they were early-twenties, so not that young. Not proper Village of the Damned anyway. A young man with a camera crouched nearby, snapping away, as they gave their introductory speech, stood stiffly together, no doubt having flashbacks to prefecture and assemblies.

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Executive Briefing: Allies Coming out for Trans+

The day before it started there was a faux pas; a demand for proof of identity on entry because ‘duty of care is paramount in this toxic environment’, with a lame assurance that if the name we booked in didn’t match our legal record, we would be treated discreetly, without clarifying what this actually meant. ‘Not really trans allyship, is it?,’ I thought, and it seems an assortment of pink- and blue-hairs concurred, as 24-hours later, we had another email, more or less saying ‘we didn’t really mean it’.  Of course, the fear was that some angry terfs were going to gate crash and liven things up but alas this happens only once in a blue moon.  It’s really only our events which get disrupted.

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Who’s afraid of gender?

On the issue of ‘lexical capture’, they need to steal the language back that gender crits had stolen, the word ‘harmful’ for example, as in ‘puberty blockers are harmful’. Interestingly Judy had a little Freudian slip when she described them as ‘gay affirmative healthcare’, before quickly correcting herself.

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