There was a discussion on a Facebook group I’m in that a young girl started. She wanted older women to give advice to younger women to help them and also try and make it less embarrassing for younger women - you know, get rid of the stigma. Anyway someone commented that we all had to be mindful because ‘it’s not only women who get periods’.
annoying right? some people have no self-awareness at all. When we talk about BLM or increased racism against a certain group there's never the same amount of people going "let's remember x,y and z also face massive racism" because it's not the point/topic of discussion at the time.
And this is what I meant the other day when I said a lot of these people are not bright. I don’t mean that in a disparaging way. These are very difficult issues to get your head around if you aren’t very educated and I’m sure these people really genuinely hold these beliefs. ‘Transwomen have female brains it’s science’ ok, in that case I want to see a peer reviewed paper in a reputable journal like JAMA or The Lancet to back up those claims. Sick of people throwing this rubbish around unsubstantiated when anyone who works in science knows you don’t make an empirical claim like that without evidence. Unfortunately for me it’s also the law that people don’t understand and having degrees in science and law makes all of this especially annoying!
some of these people who won't see the red flags of this are college educated with several degrees, the thing is they can't look past the "most oppressed class" qualifier and recognize there are some faults to this.
Yes I agree, I don't think I was right in using the word 'educated' where I did. You can be educated in these issues without having a degree and I'm certainly not saying people who don't have degrees aren't bright enough to understand all this (I don't think degrees = intelligence for the avoidance of doubt) but the people you refer to rarely have degrees in relevant areas. Take Jolyon Maugham for example, clearly an intelligent man, but is forever being pulled up on his misinformation about legal areas he has no experience with. Some people get a degree and think that makes them experts in everything. And then I do think there are some people who are just incapable of understanding this stuff past the surface level 'oh noes transphobic bullies! the science!' whether they have a degree or not. I'm not convinced that undergraduate degrees these days actually teach you to think critically, but that's another story.
it’s a mess tbh.If you're questioning all this stuff women are being told about ourselves, our identification, our bodies etc I'd say you're not dopey or uneducated at all tbh! It's the people who swallow it without thinking twice I give the hairy eyeball.
Really have no idea, unless she’s thinking of the “trans umbrella” which seems to claim various identities as their own in order to control the narrative. Have you heard of TRAPs? Essentially guys who want to look as feminine as possible but are happy with being men. TRAs insist that they should consider themselves trans
