{"id":30085,"date":"2015-02-07T03:00:58","date_gmt":"2015-02-07T08:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=30085"},"modified":"2015-02-04T22:26:59","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T03:26:59","slug":"to-the-terfs-it-is-a-genital-form-of-blackface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/02\/07\/to-the-terfs-it-is-a-genital-form-of-blackface\/","title":{"rendered":"To the TERFs, “it is a genital form of blackface”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jim Goad<\/a> on an unexpected new front that has opened up in the social justice wars:<\/p>\n

This is a struggle \u2014 laden with a hilarious level of acrimony \u2014 between men who insist they\u2019re women and women who insist that the most crucial part of being a woman involves popping out of your mother\u2019s vagina with a vagina of your own. The latter group is disparagingly referred to as TERFs \u2014 Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists \u2014 due to the fact that they feel male-to-female trannies are trying to party-crash their struggle against historical oppression. The TERFs argue that for men to pretend they\u2019re women is insulting to real women. To them, it is a genital form of blackface.<\/p>\n

The TERF worldview can be loosely summarized as follows: So-called \u201ctrans women\u201d are actually privileged males who use such privilege in an attempt to co-opt women\u2019s historical suffering without enduring any of the social stigma attendant to bleeding for five days a month without dying. They are essentially delusional men who wear dresses or, in some cases, mutilate their genitals in a near-suicidal quest to validate their delusions. Trannies should under no circumstances be able to use women\u2019s bathrooms or attend events that are exclusively designed for women. For trannies to invade such female-designated \u201csafe spaces\u201d is at best intrusive, at worst yet another form of rape. Since \u201cgender\u201d is a social construct and \u201cfemininity\u201d is a patriarchal imposition, transsexuals are merely reinforcing anti-female memes by aping sexist stereotypes of how women should behave. Therefore it is they, and not the TERFs, who are the true reactionaries.<\/p>\n

Robert Anton Wilson famously said, \u201cIt only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.\u201d Whereas those who would now be defamed as TERFs were on the far bloody cutting edge of leftist politics a generation ago, they now find themselves outdated or, as the kids like to say, \u201cirrelevant.\u201d Without having changed a single idea, they find themselves labeled not as bold freedom warriors fighting the good fight against oppression but as hateful reactionaries who stand in the way of true progress.<\/p>\n

One especially amusing bone of contention between the two groups of shaggy yipping poodles regards the vaginal authenticity of male-to-female transsexuals. Old-school feminist Germaine Greer recently asserted that trannies aren\u2019t women because they don\u2019t realize what it\u2019s like \u201cto have a big, hairy, smelly vagina.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jim Goad on an unexpected new front that has opened up in the social justice wars: This is a struggle \u2014 laden with a hilarious level of acrimony \u2014 between men who insist they\u2019re women and women who insist that the most crucial part of being a woman involves popping out of your mother\u2019s vagina […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,13],"tags":[987,196,912,303,997],"class_list":["post-30085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-usa","tag-feminism","tag-lgbt","tag-privilege","tag-sexism","tag-socialjustice"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-7Pf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30086,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30085\/revisions\/30086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}