What's wrong with the mainstream media

The mainstream media are useless. In addition to their longstanding bias against government and in favor of business, they now are obsessed with glorifying the agenda of the trans borg. I can't follow the mainstream media without imagining a trans version of Ayn Rand in control of everything.

Protecting my freedom

I have the right to freedom of association not to allow trans* into womyn-only spaces. I have the right to choose whether to have an abortion, for any reason or no reason. I have the right not to have my tax dollars pay for a trans* to "transition." I have the right to speak out on all issues. But libertarianism is still wrong about everything.

Minimum wage

It is self-evident that we should raise the minimum wage, but plutocrats resist and argue that it will cost jobs. There's a very easy solution. Raise the minimum wage, and also pass a law forcing businesses to hire more minimum-wage earners. The fact that people don't acknowledge the wisdom of this solution just shows how much capitalists want to oppress us.

Trans activists really need to lighten up

From the always awesome GenderTrender:

Transsexuals’ histrionic response to every slight only confirms how flimsy their identity is.

Why are transsexual activists so sensitive to criticism? * * *

And the trans lobby is even more sensitive than that, reacting with censorious anger not only to insults but also to people’s allegedly incorrect use of language, to being called ‘a transsexual’, for example, rather than ‘a member of the trans community’. They even picket the offices of newspapers that have the temerity to piss them off. Why the extraordinary touchiness?

I think it reflects the fundamental flimsiness of the trans identity, the fragility of this so-called community. Transsexuals’ hopping-mad reaction to any perceived slight doesn’t confirm that they are a well-organised, increasingly cocky gang holding the world to ransom, as some have claimed. Rather it reveals the opposite – that this is a ‘community’ so sadly uncertain of its own claims, so instinctively aware of the largely phoney nature of its arguments, that it must protect itself from any form of public ridicule or questioning lest its facade be knocked down.

The rule of modern-day identity politics and offence-taking seems to be this: the less rooted and real one’s identity is, the more obsessed one becomes with erecting a forcefield around it in order to keep at bay awkward query-raisers.

In addition to showing the problem of the trans* cult, this shows why I am so proud to be a lesbian. We lesbians do not react to criticism in that way at all. When people criticize us, we do not engage in emotional outbursts, try to shut down all speech that is imperfectly adulatory of us, or become the word police. We are perfectly happy to discuss issues in a calm, rational, and adult manner.

Mansplainin'

Yesterday, I ran into a group of people in which one person -- a man, of course -- was explaining the male point of view about their topic of conversation. First, no one cares, and second, being a man, he was completely wrong about everything. I interrupted to explain to him, in small bites so that he could understand, the reality of the male point of view. He responded with the extremely misogynist comment that he might possibly know his inner life better than I did. Yes, of course: Being a man, he was automatically right, and how dare a womon, especially a lesbian, ever question his infallibility.

Racism in dating

White racism in dating manifests itself in many ways. There are those who seek to date only other whites, which is clearly racist. There are others who seek to date only other races, which is racial fetishization and thus also racist. Still others date on a “colorblind” basis, but if you know anything about anti-racist discourse, you know that colorblindness is also racist.

Trans "women" show their male conditioning.

It's often remarked that trans "women," who of course are not FAAB and never will be, let their masks slip and reveal the male conditioning that they received as boys by acting in typically privileged male fashion. For example, they tend to assume that their opinions are always important to be heard, even though other people's opinions aren't necessarily. Even the way they sit shows male privilege, as they sit to take up space. You never see authentic womyn, especially authentic lesbians, behaving in that way.

Gay men invading lesbian-only spaces

We read here about how people other than lesbians incessantly try to appropriate lesbian-only space, including "gay guys from the Castro feeling they HAVE A RIGHT to be in the [SF Dyke] March." How would gay men feel if we lesbians demanded equal inclusion in gay-male-only spaces?

Why I left Christianity

I was brought up as a Christian, but as I became more enlightened, I increasingly saw that Christianity includes many obviously made-up elements designed to cater to a white, Western, middle- to upper-class audience that did not want to think too hard about theological issues.  I could, of course, no longer accept such a religion, and today I am proud to identify as a Wiccan.

A typical male response from a typical male

A man who made the mistake of thinking that I care what men think told me in another forum that my previous post contained something that he called the "no true Scotsman" fallacy.  If the people who came up with such nonsense cannot find a less sexist name than "no true Scotsman," why should I care about it?  Besides, people who accuse of others of using logical fallacies are just indulging in the sort of linear, syllogistic, Eurocentric thought processes that more enlightened people have rejected.

What's wrong with BDSM

As a vanilla dyke, I understand that BDSM is objectively immoral, as it is all about the subjugation of women.  Even in the cases of femdom and gay male BDSM, the forms used are the same as those for the subjugation of women, so the link is still there.  (I am omitting any mention of lesbians because no authentic lesbians would engage in BDSM.)

Also, it is specious to argue that the submissive in any way "consents" to BDSM.  Only false consciousness would lead someone to believe (mistakenly) that she is consenting.  Engaging in BDSM plainly has nothing to do with the right to make choices over one's own body.

What's wrong with dystopian novels

When I was in high school, we had to study dystopian novels such as 1984 and Brave New World.  I remember a vague sense of discomfort when I read such works.  Now I understand why.

Who writes dystopian novels?  For the most part, Western white men do.  They therefore privilege a Western, white, male view of freedom that is completely at odds with everything that I hold dear.

One exception is The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood.  That book, however, has another flaw, in that it rests on the ridiculous premise that the religious right and the radfem left could ever find common cause on any issue.