Things you’re not supposed to say, according to a weaponized, bastardized variant of ‘intersectionality’: - That’s not my problem. - I’m not working on that issue right now. - My activism focuses on X, not Y. Nowhere is this more clear than women’s rights activism, where even speaking about women in plain language has become impossibly ‘problematic.’
Sometimes I think trans activists are simply so narcissistic and egotistical that they can’t stand the idea of not being in the forefront of EVERY. SINGLE. issue.
Then I take my tinfoil hat off and realize, no, they don’t get upset when men have men only events or issues, they intentionally hijack women’s issues. Why? Short answer: misogyny. Long answer: misogyny coupled with entitlement.
Sometimes it annoys me that feminists are the bigger person and so we don’t hijack trans things like the trans day of remembrance, trans day of visibility, pronoun day, etc etc. (It also galls me that when we object to them hijacking things like international women’s day and the memorial to the Montreal Polytechnique Massacre we’re painted as the bad guys by friend and foe alike).
Sometimes I think trans activists are simply so narcissistic and egotistical that they can’t stand the idea of not being in the forefront of EVERY. SINGLE. issue.
Then I take my tinfoil hat off and realize, no, they don’t get upset when men have men only events or issues, they intentionally hijack women’s issues. Why? Short answer: misogyny. Long answer: misogyny coupled with entitlement.
Sometimes it annoys me that feminists are the bigger person and so we don’t hijack trans things like the trans day of remembrance, trans day of visibility, pronoun day, etc etc. (It also galls me that when we object to them hijacking things like international women’s day and the memorial to the Montreal Polytechnique Massacre we’re painted as the bad guys by friend and foe alike).