Jan 13th, 2024. India Willoughby, a reality TV level celebrity who happens to be a trans woman, writes a (now deleted) tweet about abducting three women: Scottish MP Joanna Cherry, gender critical campaigner Maya Forstater, and JK Rowling. Willoughby refers to Forstater as Mayo Potato and Rowling as “the witchfinder woman.”
This is one of your best. Thank you. This is exactly the crux of the issue.
I am still a woman when I run a chainsaw or work as hard as a man clearing my property or have dirt under my nails or wear steel shank logging boots. I am still a woman when my hair is frizzy and my face is covered in sweat and my clothes are covered in dirt. I am actually a very satisfied woman.
Glam does not a woman make. You can't define me with the word "feminine," although sometimes it applies to me, when I choose to embody that energy. Femininity is not a whole. It is only a part.
Also, I see that JKR is no longer pulling her punches or trying to make peace with these zealots. This is good. She shouldn't submit to their attempts to cow her.
Some trans women are starting to sound an awful lot like angry, deranged men trying to sell the idea that they have a right to dominate women's spaces and define women's identities - more right than women themselves. They are not happy to simply exist as trans women. They need to own "womanhood." This is exactly how (some) men act. It is not how (most) women act. It is the least female behavior - to dominate, to own, to conquer. This is commonly acknowledged as a male behavioral trait. I wonder if militant trans women know how ironic they appear to others?
Jonathan Willoughby is disintegrating before our eyes, so absorbed in the fiction of his femininity that he thinks he can charge England’s wealthiest woman with a crime for speaking simple truth
I think the term trans woman is misleading and confusing to many. It should be TIM (trans identifying male). Irrespective of how much a man “passes” as a woman, due to surgery, hormones, etc, he is still no kind of woman. Language is important, and we find ourselves in this situation because of the consequences of not treating it as such. I can call my dog a trans cat, dress him up as such, but he is just a dressed up dog.
The weekly virtual cocktail hour my friend has been holding every friday evening, in which we're asked to bring answers to the question of the week, this week ask "What do you think a time-traveler from the year 3000 would think of what we are today?"
I don't know how I'm going to answer, but it will be honestly and *delicately*, as the hostess's 'child' is non-binary, her spouse is a transwoman, and I'm hoping someone puts an end to gender-affirming crap before their son is old enough to perhaps trans.
They're both sweet people, the TW wouldn't harm a soul, and I keep my opinions mostly to myself, but I will say as diplomatically as possible that I think this is going to be our 'Halley's Comet is going to destroy us' belief that we would bring back from the year 1000.
Fortunately, said friend is actually a major stickler for facts and evidence, and she doesn't talk about trans stuff too much. So she won't get mad.
I am impatient for this madness to end. Lord almighty.
This is one of your best. Thank you. This is exactly the crux of the issue.
I am still a woman when I run a chainsaw or work as hard as a man clearing my property or have dirt under my nails or wear steel shank logging boots. I am still a woman when my hair is frizzy and my face is covered in sweat and my clothes are covered in dirt. I am actually a very satisfied woman.
Glam does not a woman make. You can't define me with the word "feminine," although sometimes it applies to me, when I choose to embody that energy. Femininity is not a whole. It is only a part.
Also, I see that JKR is no longer pulling her punches or trying to make peace with these zealots. This is good. She shouldn't submit to their attempts to cow her.
Some trans women are starting to sound an awful lot like angry, deranged men trying to sell the idea that they have a right to dominate women's spaces and define women's identities - more right than women themselves. They are not happy to simply exist as trans women. They need to own "womanhood." This is exactly how (some) men act. It is not how (most) women act. It is the least female behavior - to dominate, to own, to conquer. This is commonly acknowledged as a male behavioral trait. I wonder if militant trans women know how ironic they appear to others?
Great closing paragraphs there!
Jonathan Willoughby is disintegrating before our eyes, so absorbed in the fiction of his femininity that he thinks he can charge England’s wealthiest woman with a crime for speaking simple truth
He has become deranged.
I think the term trans woman is misleading and confusing to many. It should be TIM (trans identifying male). Irrespective of how much a man “passes” as a woman, due to surgery, hormones, etc, he is still no kind of woman. Language is important, and we find ourselves in this situation because of the consequences of not treating it as such. I can call my dog a trans cat, dress him up as such, but he is just a dressed up dog.
The weekly virtual cocktail hour my friend has been holding every friday evening, in which we're asked to bring answers to the question of the week, this week ask "What do you think a time-traveler from the year 3000 would think of what we are today?"
I don't know how I'm going to answer, but it will be honestly and *delicately*, as the hostess's 'child' is non-binary, her spouse is a transwoman, and I'm hoping someone puts an end to gender-affirming crap before their son is old enough to perhaps trans.
They're both sweet people, the TW wouldn't harm a soul, and I keep my opinions mostly to myself, but I will say as diplomatically as possible that I think this is going to be our 'Halley's Comet is going to destroy us' belief that we would bring back from the year 1000.
Fortunately, said friend is actually a major stickler for facts and evidence, and she doesn't talk about trans stuff too much. So she won't get mad.