The feminists are speaking up and being punished for it. Cancelled, abused, sacked, smeared, persecuted, being sent rape threats — and yet, they persist. If you cannot hear women's voices that's your cue to understanding how actively silenced and de-platformed we are. If a woman wrote what Steve writes on Medium she'd be banned without n…
The feminists are speaking up and being punished for it. Cancelled, abused, sacked, smeared, persecuted, being sent rape threats — and yet, they persist. If you cannot hear women's voices that's your cue to understanding how actively silenced and de-platformed we are. If a woman wrote what Steve writes on Medium she'd be banned without notice, her account would just disappear (I know women this has happened to). Kudos to Steve for artfully dodging this fate.
But in some ways your question 'where are all the faminists' is fair. There are some feminists — liberal feminists I guess — who are cheering this on, as though participating in their own erasure. It has taken me a long time to figure it out, but they are basically the most elite of liberal women. They know they're unlikely to need a rape centre or a DV shelter, they have private health insurance and can pick and choose their carers so they'll never be in a public hospital ward forced to have intimate care by a man calling himself a woman. There is no cost in this to them so they have the luxury of being 'good people', eschewing their privilege (which they feel guilty about), to campion the latest underdog, and getting points for talking down to the 'bigots', but at no expense to themselves. Frankly, it's almost masturbatory.
I've been on the left all my adult life, but I'm from a blue collar background, I know how to separate myself from their excesses, but I also understand them to a degree (not fully).
The feminists are speaking up and being punished for it. Cancelled, abused, sacked, smeared, persecuted, being sent rape threats — and yet, they persist. If you cannot hear women's voices that's your cue to understanding how actively silenced and de-platformed we are. If a woman wrote what Steve writes on Medium she'd be banned without notice, her account would just disappear (I know women this has happened to). Kudos to Steve for artfully dodging this fate.
But in some ways your question 'where are all the faminists' is fair. There are some feminists — liberal feminists I guess — who are cheering this on, as though participating in their own erasure. It has taken me a long time to figure it out, but they are basically the most elite of liberal women. They know they're unlikely to need a rape centre or a DV shelter, they have private health insurance and can pick and choose their carers so they'll never be in a public hospital ward forced to have intimate care by a man calling himself a woman. There is no cost in this to them so they have the luxury of being 'good people', eschewing their privilege (which they feel guilty about), to campion the latest underdog, and getting points for talking down to the 'bigots', but at no expense to themselves. Frankly, it's almost masturbatory.
I've been on the left all my adult life, but I'm from a blue collar background, I know how to separate myself from their excesses, but I also understand them to a degree (not fully).
But hey, I didn't see any of this coming.
Well said. Yes, we all determine what cost we are willing to pay for things where costs are not the same.