i wanted to say that i’m in the US and i just made the connection btwn your book (Annals Terf) and your appearance in the Adult Human Female video. And that’s really significant to me b/c what you say in both is so close to what i’ve been saying in conversation for years. to wit, “there’s never been a civil rights mvmt that demands the rights of another group,” from the video and then further elaborated in the book where you pinpoint that it’s actually men doing this maneuver, so it’s the dominant class demanding the rights of the oppressed class—and then further reversing the oppressor-oppressed binary, making women the oppressor in this fiasco.
i had a really pithy way of saying this and left it as comment on someone’s tweet about trans-whatnot and someone asked me to unpack it for them…so i did, and that comment was immediately flagged as HATEFUL content 🤨 which shows we don’t even have the power to describe our own oppression (on the supposedly “free speech” site). the person asking was a guy and he was genuinely grateful so i pointed him to your work.
just wanted to share and say that i’m a new fan of your work so i’m…dazzled. thank you for this and everything you do. it makes a difference!
Oh god. Even this is patriarchal? I don’t know any patriarchs that think trans is real. At all. If anything was ever not the fault of the patriarchy, it’s this one. Trans. A patriarchy-free phenomenon.
If only women would give up and let males define us and our experiences, our politics, they wouldn't be forced into all that coercive and abusive behavior, innit.
Re "on the savanna," I just read a cracking critique of patriarchal evolutionary theory by archaeologist Anna Roosevelt, who takes an axe to this sociobiological tenet and falsifies its assumptions one after another. "Gender in Human Evolution: Sociobiology Revisited and Revised." In Pursuit of Gender: Worldwide Archaeological Approaches (Altamira, 2002). https://archive.org/details/inpursuitofgende0000unse/page/n5/mode/2up
Jane, thank you. I really needed to read this today after coming across this cool guy's post that comes right out and defines women as long hair and painted nails... always so much empathy for sad men and never a moment's thought about what it might feel like for women to be redefined this way. https://benthams.substack.com/p/why-i-think-trans-women-are-women
i wanted to say that i’m in the US and i just made the connection btwn your book (Annals Terf) and your appearance in the Adult Human Female video. And that’s really significant to me b/c what you say in both is so close to what i’ve been saying in conversation for years. to wit, “there’s never been a civil rights mvmt that demands the rights of another group,” from the video and then further elaborated in the book where you pinpoint that it’s actually men doing this maneuver, so it’s the dominant class demanding the rights of the oppressed class—and then further reversing the oppressor-oppressed binary, making women the oppressor in this fiasco.
i had a really pithy way of saying this and left it as comment on someone’s tweet about trans-whatnot and someone asked me to unpack it for them…so i did, and that comment was immediately flagged as HATEFUL content 🤨 which shows we don’t even have the power to describe our own oppression (on the supposedly “free speech” site). the person asking was a guy and he was genuinely grateful so i pointed him to your work.
just wanted to share and say that i’m a new fan of your work so i’m…dazzled. thank you for this and everything you do. it makes a difference!
Brava, Jane. You've knocked it out of the park again. This crap is everywhere!
Crystaline, as always. And big thanks for the shout out :)
Pah! No merch. Just the wordy words. (I jest!) Such excellent words, such lucid writing. Thank you again for this searing analysis.
Oh god. Even this is patriarchal? I don’t know any patriarchs that think trans is real. At all. If anything was ever not the fault of the patriarchy, it’s this one. Trans. A patriarchy-free phenomenon.
If only women would give up and let males define us and our experiences, our politics, they wouldn't be forced into all that coercive and abusive behavior, innit.
Re "on the savanna," I just read a cracking critique of patriarchal evolutionary theory by archaeologist Anna Roosevelt, who takes an axe to this sociobiological tenet and falsifies its assumptions one after another. "Gender in Human Evolution: Sociobiology Revisited and Revised." In Pursuit of Gender: Worldwide Archaeological Approaches (Altamira, 2002). https://archive.org/details/inpursuitofgende0000unse/page/n5/mode/2up
Jane, thank you. I really needed to read this today after coming across this cool guy's post that comes right out and defines women as long hair and painted nails... always so much empathy for sad men and never a moment's thought about what it might feel like for women to be redefined this way. https://benthams.substack.com/p/why-i-think-trans-women-are-women