What a tit. Imagine spending your time that way
Heās a classic TERF right? From what Iāve gathered in that post. Didnāt know about anything he had done until now sadly, what a bell end. So self righteous about it too
To me it seems like arguing on Twitter sent him utterly mad, I think he was banned from it in the end.
Is he the guy who wrote Father Ted? If so he can be forgiven quite a lot.
I googled it but is that basically people being against the idea that a trans woman is a woman?
So he went on a lesbian dating app and identified as a woman to prove a point?
I need these things mansplaining.
I think a TERF is a radical feminist who thinks that men canāt become women, JK Rowling is often called one, as is Germaine Greer
They worry about the loss of women-only safe spaces.
Greer thinks a man whoās had a sex change operation is a āmutilated man.ā She says āyou can surgically attach a snout and a pair of floppy ears but it wonāt make me a cocker spaniel.ā
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Aye a terf stands for ātrans exclusionary radical feminismā and a lot of terfs arguments are that trans women arenāt āreal womenā and shouldnāt be given the same rights or support, completely forgetting that trans people are often subjected to a lot worse marginalisation, oppression and lack of safe spaces. A lot of their bullshit arguments are just the same old āwell if it can happen then it willā kinda vibe, usually blaming the oppressed for existing as themselves rather than the oppressor for being the bully, using isolated cases to try to make their wider points about a large group of people. Fuck terfs!
As Warwick said, Germain Greer and JK Rowling are two people willing to die on this sword.
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Co-wrote Father Ted, IT Crowd, Iām Alan Partridge and a few more. Him and his Father Ted co-writer Arthur Linehan were the 2 Irish guys in APās āDereās more to Oireland den disā episode.
/pubquiz
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Black books too. Great writer
Stop getting Partridge wrong!
- āThereās more to Oireland den disā
You of all people too.
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Ahemā¦
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Hahaha! Fixed. Should have calmed down before I typed.
you know what, i feel a lot of the JK Rowling stuff is really difficult. i think one of the issues around all of this is that language doesnāt properly describe people anymore and a lot of people are dying on that hill. itās not helped by that opinion that anything that isnāt blind support for trans is seen as hateful and transphobic when there are some real issues that need addressing - prisons and sports being prime examples. itās not as simple as āi am whatever i want to be and everyone has to accept thatā unfortunately
instantly, reading back what i just wrote, it sounds really bad. might delete. my point being that society is barely accepting of race and sexuality in 2021. we donāt have the vocabulary to describe people properly anymore which is why you get the whole āonly women can be womenā dinosaurs
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No donāt delete. Iām not clued up on the subject but my girlfriendās spent a lot of time reading and talking around it. Her conclusion: thereās right and wrong to both sides and whilst there are extreme outlier positions, most people just want to do by right by what they see as the majority. Nothings ever black and white is it. Twitter rage can never be expected to stop and question false dichotomies or oversimplified binaries though can itā¦
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this. i donāt like that any debate gets shut down immediately because itās not helpful. it must be so, so hard to feel like youāre in the wrong body let alone feeling like you donāt belong in society. we all need to improve the discussion and governments need to start thinking about how to let everyone feel safe and have a place in the world
i think the younger generations are doing a lot of this themselves. do we just have to wait for everyone over 20 to die to improve things?
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Yeah these issues arenāt black and white at all, and your rationale is very normal especially if itās the first dip into the conversation! All terfs are being transphobic but not all terfs are transphobes I would argue if you get what that means. Itās important to work out what the best solution is to ensure positive progression for all parties.
Itās just most of the most vocal terfs usually show a total disregard for trans women and transphobic comments coming out left right and centre so you can usually see through their intent and find those underlying biases.
For example, JK Rowling is the queen of virtue signalling after doing so little to promote her politics in the past.
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iāve been among the lgb community for over 2 decades and a fair few people i know really hate the way this is going. instead of focus being on people just being who they want to be its now on pigeon holing. āi am a man/womanā and āi have these personal pronounsā really forces terms and language on a society that still thinks black people are below white people.
my wife worked at a school that had a trans pupil. the parents of the trans person didnāt agree with any of it so the school had to refer to the girl by her birth name and gender. there wasnāt allowed to be any reference whatsoever to her identifying as a boy. that just seems really messed up and something that will absolutely destroy someoneās self worth
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I think thereās a lot of sensationalism from the TERF side, eg. that women are in danger of being raped by a trans woman if they share a bathroom. Thereās no evidence really to support that and demonises trans people as mentally unhinged.
I understand why a lot of TERFs find this so difficult though. Many are second-wave feminists who fought extremely hard for things like anti-sex discrimination legislation. The gender landscape has shifted since then and they feel a lot of the progress theyāve made might (wrongly) be under threat.
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There seems to be a disconnect between trans rights and womenās rights in these discussions and we end up ridiculous initiatives like āchest-feeding centresā.
There has to be a way of being inclusive without warping language.
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The only thing I agree with or have an opinion on is that any person born a man shouldnāt compete in womenās sporting events.
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