She's not doing he activism for the good of you or me, obviously. But there still can be a symbiotic relationship, and there is.
When you do that, you're playing right into the hands of man-hating swamp scum like Megan Murphy, who will turn on you as soon as she gets what she wants from you, and use the right's own rhetoric about "protecting women's spaces" as a stick to beat yet another generation of young men into submission and alienation.
How exactly?
And even if she does, you need to be able to distinguish between major threats and minor threats. So what if she continues defending women's spaces? Who cares?
However toxic and destructive some of the troons' behaviour is, the overwhelming majority of them are just a bunch of broken men. Our anger should be reserved for the forces that broke them.
That's like saying that you shouldn't be angry at rabid dogs, but at the rabies virus.
you need to be able to distinguish between major threats and minor threats.
Again, I would argue that you're the one who is mistaking the smaller threat for the bigger one.
That's like saying that you shouldn't be angry at rabid dogs, but at the rabies virus.
Vaccinating your dogs against rabies prevents them from going rabid. That is how you solve the problem of rabid dogs. By preventing the virus from reproducing inside its host.
The feminist movement is responsible for the multi-generational destruction, denigration and demonization of men and masculinity: to the point where entire generations of young men have been raised to hate themselves simply for being male. The trans phenomenon is merely an offgrowth of that, if a particularly unpleasant one.
And yes, the trans movement has been latched onto by groomers and predators and pedophiles, who are always looking for new and inventive ways to normalize their behaviour.
But let's examine for a moment the psychology of grooming. Its central goal is to wear down the victim's emotional resistance to the abuse they suffer: to use their own desires against them, and to convince them to blame themselves for the abuse they suffer, to gaslight them into believing that they were somehow asking for this abuse, that they somehow made it happen, and that they somehow deserved it.
Well that precisely describes the techniques that the feminist movement has spent decades deploying against the entire male gender and especially against boys and young men, whose inexperience and emotional immaturity made them more susceptible to the grooming.
What we are (rightly) lambasting the troon ideology for doing to some children in schools and libraries or at pride parades, the feminist movement has already done to three entire generations of boys. Just because the abuse wasn't specific, doesn't mean that the emotional trauma and life-changing consequences of it aren't real.
But we let them get away with it, and we are continuing to let them get away with it by allowing them to carry on as if they are somehow the victims of the consequences of their own actions and rhetoric. They created this problem. You can not solve this problem by siding with them.
She's not doing he activism for the good of you or me, obviously. But there still can be a symbiotic relationship, and there is.
How exactly?
And even if she does, you need to be able to distinguish between major threats and minor threats. So what if she continues defending women's spaces? Who cares?
That's like saying that you shouldn't be angry at rabid dogs, but at the rabies virus.
Again, I would argue that you're the one who is mistaking the smaller threat for the bigger one.
Vaccinating your dogs against rabies prevents them from going rabid. That is how you solve the problem of rabid dogs. By preventing the virus from reproducing inside its host.
The feminist movement is responsible for the multi-generational destruction, denigration and demonization of men and masculinity: to the point where entire generations of young men have been raised to hate themselves simply for being male. The trans phenomenon is merely an offgrowth of that, if a particularly unpleasant one.
And yes, the trans movement has been latched onto by groomers and predators and pedophiles, who are always looking for new and inventive ways to normalize their behaviour.
But let's examine for a moment the psychology of grooming. Its central goal is to wear down the victim's emotional resistance to the abuse they suffer: to use their own desires against them, and to convince them to blame themselves for the abuse they suffer, to gaslight them into believing that they were somehow asking for this abuse, that they somehow made it happen, and that they somehow deserved it.
Well that precisely describes the techniques that the feminist movement has spent decades deploying against the entire male gender and especially against boys and young men, whose inexperience and emotional immaturity made them more susceptible to the grooming.
What we are (rightly) lambasting the troon ideology for doing to some children in schools and libraries or at pride parades, the feminist movement has already done to three entire generations of boys. Just because the abuse wasn't specific, doesn't mean that the emotional trauma and life-changing consequences of it aren't real.
But we let them get away with it, and we are continuing to let them get away with it by allowing them to carry on as if they are somehow the victims of the consequences of their own actions and rhetoric. They created this problem. You can not solve this problem by siding with them.