{"id":24662,"date":"2014-03-13T07:06:22","date_gmt":"2014-03-13T12:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=24662"},"modified":"2014-03-13T07:06:22","modified_gmt":"2014-03-13T12:06:22","slug":"feminist-writer-picks-fight-with-the-trans-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/03\/13\/feminist-writer-picks-fight-with-the-trans-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Feminist writer picks fight with the Trans* community"},"content":{"rendered":"

Julie Burchill is a British feminist who writes for the Guardian<\/em> and the Spectator<\/em>, and has had spats with the Trans* community before. Her most recent provocation was in the comments section of an article at Vice<\/em>, where she got particularly cranky<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Burchill made the comments on a Vice Magazine<\/em><\/a> column by prominent trans activist and journalist Paris Lees, in which she talked about catcalling, and questioned whether enjoying the attention of men in the street effectively made her a \u201cbad feminist.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Sugar Rush writer said: \u201cParis, you like it because you ARE still a YOUNG GAY BOY. And that\u2019s what YOUNG GAY BOYS LIKE! Bless!<\/p>\n

\u201cParis, if you were a BORN WOMAN, bothered since the age of 12 by GROWN MEN, you wouldn\u2019t find it fun. You\u2019d find it boring, wearisome, wearing. When you\u2019re a plain old trans, ten years from now, you\u2019ll get a big old identity crisis on, if you rely on random lechery for self-esteem.<\/p>\n

\u201cI bet B*tch [Paris Lees] will come up with a \u2018sexy reason\u2019 for foot-binding next. [Female Genital Mutilation], even. Didn\u2019t I hear that a \u2018transwoman\u2019 thought we Radical Feminists were fussing about too much about FGM? What price the genital mutilation of a 7 year old brown-skinned girl child when THE MOST IMPORANT THING IN THE WORLD is big white blokes having their cocks cut off on the NHS?<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

She went on: \u201cNo human who did not grow up as a girl can call themselves a woman. Any more than a white human can become a black human. Delude yourselves all you like, but in the way you lot harass born women, your bully boy side always shines through. And no amount of lipstick and plastic tits can cover that up.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

She deleted the comments and posted an apology, but clearly the damage had been done.<\/p>\n

H\/T to Kathy Shaidle<\/a> for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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