I am a lifelong Democratic voter, henceforth abstaining from voting for the Democratic Party. I will never vote for Trump or support a party that courts white supremacists. I will also never vote for anyone who refuses to categorically state that 1) sex is real, and 2) sexism is wrong. I will never support a party whose members think that women who do hold these two beliefs (sex is real, sexism is wrong) deserve to be denounced as sub-human bigots, barred from employment and left to the mercy of mobs spouting rape and death threats. I have three very simple demands, which require only ..read more

This post is about, though not in response to, this drivel: http://uncommon-scents.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/another-green-comes-out-full-terf.html Natacha, true to form, begins with a lie. Natacha was not forwarded this letter from an anonymous source. Natacha is on the mailing list for Goldsmiths at the University of London, a group to whom the letter was sent for possible signatures. Except of course, "Natascha" is listed there as Mark Hellen. Mark Hellen is "Natacha's" male name. That's right, Natacha only "lives as a woman" part-time. Apparently, Natacha might also experience a kind of ..read more

There's a lot with which to take issue in this article: Safe space or free speech? The crisis around debate at UK universities, not least of which is the framing: if students don't have free speech, students are not safe. But I'd like to take a look at one passage in particular, which presents the view of Tim Squirrel, former president of the Cambridge Union: “Safe space gets a bit of a bad rap,” he says. “Most of the people involved in advocating these types of policies don’t mind debate; they just they don’t want to do so in their homes with strangers. “Every time you invite someone like G ..read more

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Everyone and their pornsick uncle claims to be a feminist these days. However, many people claiming to be feminists are merely woman-haters in disguise, who spend a good deal of their time engaging in brazen reversals (an old trick of patriarchy) - such as denouncing actual feminists as fake or bad or evil (see: TERF and/or SWERF.) So whenever you are reading an article by someone who claims to be a feminist, I suggest asking yourself if it rests on any of these 10 anti-feminist premises: 1. Ova-producing people are not entitled to a name for ourselves. Feminism is the fight for women's li ..read more

(Totalist in the sense of ideological totalism.) No, of course it isn't. Radical feminism is a framework of ideas, and an amazingly incisive and liberatory one at that. Some radical feminists certainly do practice ideological totalism, however. When I can spend half my waking hours writing and posting about the harms of gender, defending women's language and spaces - imperiling my own employment in the process - and still be attacked as a lesbophobic dick-licking enemy of women because I grant a handful of pro-feminist transwomen (all of whom actively fight the dominant narrative of transge ..read more

I'm in the tiny, grimy bathroom of a tiny, grimy rental apartment in a tiny, frat-infested college town in the middle of nowhere. I'm in my third job post graduate degree, working 80 hours a week for an obtusely sexist, abusive boss, and I still don't make enough to get ahead of the massive debt. Every bill is a panic attack in an envelope sitting like a bomb in my mailbox. I'm in a "relationship," of sorts, with a(nother) tortured writer. He considers himself a "dominant" in bed, which it seems the majority of men do these days, bless their shitty little boyhearts. I let him abuse me. In tho ..read more

Because I'm a gender critical feminist on the internet, I'm often told I need to "just have some damn empathy" for trans people. As is my wont, I go to the dictionary: Of course, this would seem like an impossible demand if I listened to the countless trans activists announcing that non-trans people can never know what it is like to be trans, that we shouldn't even ask for a definition of it (even as we are simultaneously expected to voluntarily define ourselves as not-it), that we should simply listen and accept. Maybe instead of empathy, they really mean sympathy? I do feel sincere s ..read more

This is a post for anyone wondering what the heck is going on with the #TERFweek thing on Twitter. First of all, what is a TERF? Ostensibly, this acronym stands for "trans exclusionary radical feminist." In reality, it is applied to anyone who: 1) Recognizes the difference in potential reproductive role between women and men; 2) Recognizes that men weaponize this difference to oppress women (we call this "sexism"); and 3) Thinks women should be allowed to discuss #1 & #2. If you don't believe me, simply try tweeting "penis is male" or "women are oppressed based on their female reprod ..read more

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