Marie Le Conte decries the “radicalisation” of women over transgender issues in her latest New Stateman column: It may seem like an inflammatory word to use in this context, but I do sincerely believe “radicalisation” is the term that most closely describes what these women have gone through.
It’s like if, suddenly, a very vocal, powerful, small group suddenly insisted on the existence of fairies. If we disagree, we’re denying their lived experience as fairy-friends; we’re erasing their very existence.
Loads of people vaguely go along with the fairy thing because they haven’t really thought about it and it’s kind of cute, but a few of us suddenly become radicals because the fairy theory makes no sense and the world has gone bat shit crazy.
There were Nazi resistance movements too; were they radicals?
It’s like if, suddenly, a very vocal, powerful, small group suddenly insisted on the existence of fairies. If we disagree, we’re denying their lived experience as fairy-friends; we’re erasing their very existence.
Loads of people vaguely go along with the fairy thing because they haven’t really thought about it and it’s kind of cute, but a few of us suddenly become radicals because the fairy theory makes no sense and the world has gone bat shit crazy.
There were Nazi resistance movements too; were they radicals?
Razor sharp reasoning once again.