Feminists Accused of ‘Transphobia’: Competitive Victimhood Derby

Posted on | January 4, 2014 | 70 Comments

“If gender is inherently detrimental as the radical feminists maintain and if trans identification occurs in part because gender is rigidly interpreted and represented through normative modalities of behaving, then there will be unceasing dissonance between these two groups.”
— Julian Vigo, “The Left Hand of Darkness”

Following up on last night’s post, “Mental Illness and Radical Feminism,” I arrived at a feminist blog that rejects capitalization:

this is what our oppression consists of and what it is. men get to name it (sex, fucking, knocked up, mother, father) men get to execute it (intercourse, impregnation) and men get to enforce it (rape, heteronormativity, marriage, and legal remedies and lack thereof for sexual and reproductive offenses). note that i am considering rape to be the violent enforcement by men of womens sex role as fuckholes and breeders.

Well, OK, then. Notice the sequence “rape, heteronormativity, marriage” that radical feminism views as equally forms of oppression, assigning women to a “sex role as fuckholes and breeders.” This particular blog, by the way, has an entire category about “PIV” (penis-in-vagina) which is what “heteronormativity” is all about, eh?

By the time a feminist reaches the radical point at which normal sexual intercourse is regarded as inherently oppressive, she has already marched a good distance down the Crazyville Road. Sane, normal people become the Enemy and, in order to maintain her delusions, the feminist seeks out the company of her fellow radicals, who share and confirm these extreme beliefs. The maladjusted thereby exile themselves to a sort of voluntary asylum, where they only encounter lunatics like themselves.

So, RadFem 2013 was a conference in London, which resulted in a gigantic controversy because radical feminists insisted on excluding the “transgendered” from their female-only event, and one of the featured speakers, Australian lesbian feminist Professor Sheila Jeffreys, was about to publish a new book, Gender Hurts: A Feminist Analysis of the Politics of Transgenderism, that was deeply offensive to the “T” people represented in the LGBT acronym.

How crazy did that conflict become? At one point in April, the venue tried to cancel the event after discovering that “certain language was used and some statements were made about transgender people that would go against our equalities and diversity policy.” Another RadFem conference organizer, Cathy Brennan of Baltimore, was meanwhile all over Twitter announcing “transwomen are men” and comparing them to MRAs (men’s rights advocates). Brennan’s outspoken hostility to transgenders led her to take legal action against a transgender activist:

A Twitter message about spitting led Towson lawyer and lesbian advocate Cathy Brennan to file for a peace order against a transgender advocate.
Phylicia Sampson, a 28-year-old Baltimore resident, and Brennan, 42, were engaged in a heated debate on the social media site when Sampson wrote that she wanted to spit in Brennan’s face.
Baltimore County Distict Court Judge Barbara Jung ordered Sampson to stay away from Brennan’s home and place of employment, and to cease contact, according to the peace order. . . .
Brennan, a former member of the Boards of the Gay and Lesbian Community Center of Baltimore, said she has been a gay activist since 1995, but is of the opinion that transgendered women are male and should not have access to “female spaces.” . . .
Brennan said she met Sampson, a graduate student, through mutual friends in fall 2011, and had invited her into her home on several occassions.
“At some point, we came to a fork in the road because she believes transwomen are women,” she said.
Brennan said Sampson had been sending her a slew of aggressive messages and continued to do so even after Brennan asked her to end their communications.
“I’m afraid of this person at this point,” said Brennan, who added that she has received several death threats for her stance. “I take [threats] very seriously.”

The Competitive Victimhood Derby is ultimately a zero-sum game, you see. There can only be one winner, and the transgender claim to equal victimhood is rejected by radical feminists, who view this as an attempt to usurp their own categorical claim.

It’s like a traffic jam on the Crazyville Road, where two politicized groups of wackjobs are compelled by the implicit logic of their arguments to fight each other for supremacy. Therefore, “equality” as codified by British law is oppressive:

How have men/queers/transactivists been so successful at shutting down female-only space? It stems back to the slow, evolving, way the debate about “equalities” cancels out women’s oppression in favour of “gender-based” oppression. . . . By calling it “gender-based” violence, there is political space to deny the structural power men have over women and claim that violence comes from all individuals, equally.
As radical feminists, we know that the true source of women’s oppression, and other oppressions, are embedded in the institutions, systems and structures of society and that this, together with cultural norms, creates “patriarchy”.
Patriarchy is never going to acknowledge that oppression is enshrined in the very fabric of society. The myth of the state, as a neutral arbitrator, supporting the rights of equally competing interests/groups within society, props up that fabric. . . .
Unsurprising then that the Equality Act 2010 has been used with such relish by male extremist groups and queer/transactivists to try and stop radical feminists naming our truths.

Transgender activists are actually part of the patriarchy! Somehow, they prevent radical feminists from naming their truths!

Crazy? Sure. But you only reach this kind of radical insanity by passing every exit along your journey down the Crazyville Road.

Do not for a moment doubt what “truths” were named at RadFem 2013:

Sheila Jeffreys then went on to discuss compulsory heterosexuality and lesbian feminism. She noted that it was very strange that so many women in this modern resurgence of feminism are not becoming lesbians as they did in the second wave, despite the horrific tidal wave of male violence and creepy male sexuality that is even more visible culturally. Some reasons she thought this might be were that mixed-space organizing was dulling women’s revolutionary impulses.

The fight for “female-only space” is necessary to radical feminism because only within such space can “women’s revolutionary impulses” lead them to becoming lesbians, as all feminists should be.

They are all about “transcending the norms of gender,” you see.

Men are obsolete, and nobody’s fixing sandwiches for us anymore.

Category: Feminism, Gays

Comments

70 Responses to “Feminists Accused of ‘Transphobia’: Competitive Victimhood Derby”

Notjack
January 4th, 2014 @ 8:15 am

I’ll make that girl with the sign a salad.
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January 4th, 2014 @ 8:28 am

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joethefatman
January 4th, 2014 @ 8:31 am

Andrea Dworkin seems to have been reincarnated.
JAMed171
January 4th, 2014 @ 8:58 am

Your post caps off Vivaldi and a rather ticklish mood, which you aren’t helping. But… that’s a good thing. Good day.
RKflorida
January 4th, 2014 @ 9:16 am

OK lady, you’re a sandwich. Ham sandwich.
Dai Alanye
January 4th, 2014 @ 9:23 am

Feminists who reject the transgendered (altered men, that is) at least make biological sense, which transgendering never has nor will.

As for sandwiches, I first thought she was referring to a courting technique favored by Ted Kennedy.
ThomasD
January 4th, 2014 @ 9:29 am

Braunschweiger.
JeffS
January 4th, 2014 @ 9:29 am

I’d like to offer this, following from their line of feminist (i.e., crazy) reasoning, in a particularly cynical fashion. Any resemblance to a bad science fiction story is purely coincidental … … …

“Men are obsolete” is true if and only if the Anti-Sex League (a/k/a Feminism) is able to get around basic biology, i.e., the right combination of gametes are needed to form zygotes, which eventually result in a human being that can be molded into what they consider a viable life form.

Unless, of course, the feminists are planning for the extinction of the human race, through suicide by failure to reproduce. Which I would not put past some of them.

If they are not planning on species suicide, then technology must be able to support their twisted ideology by eliminating the need for the male gender. This means cloning, or genetically engineering the human species to incorporate some form of parthenogenesis*.

Since (AFAIK) current technology can’t support their twisted ideology, men are not obsolete, but a necessary evil (from the feminist perspective). Until (and if) technology is able to do so, feminists need men to, er, help provide a pool of suitable candidates for “recruitment” into their ranks.

So one must assume that feminists will somehow, ummmm, “harvest” male
gametes in sufficient amounts to maintain a viable population. How THAT happens entails many ideas and options, ranging from volunteer beta males to turkey basters, and is subject to much debate. Some of that will be humorous, much of it not. Seeing as “breeders” has been offered as an insult by some gays), I can’t but help think that this could turn ugly in short order.

(Maintaining a viable civilization is a different matter, a point that I’m sure is not being considered at all by feminists.)

Which means that feminists are either purely crazy and self-centered, looking at immediate and personal self-gratification without thought to the consequences, OR … … … they are simply crazy, but ideologically focused (like all good fascists), and are planning for the long term, including adequate stockpiles of turkey basters, and the training to use them effectively.

None of this bodes well for this tired old planet if this particular form of liberal madness gets any closer to mainstream thought. Which we already know, but it’s getting to the point that unlikely worse case scenarios can become likely without much effort, especially when Teh Crazy is involved.

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*: Thereby rendering any discussion concerning transgenders or “female only space” obsolete. This is certainly “suppressing” opposing views (a leftie specialty), and might be considered genocide by some .
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January 4th, 2014 @ 10:11 am

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Socialism: Organized Evil
January 4th, 2014 @ 10:38 am

I’ve always been curious to find out who bestowed this white, male privilege that I allegedly enjoy.

No one seems to have an answer.
Evi L. Bloggerlady
January 4th, 2014 @ 10:45 am

They have to be the biggest bunch of unhappy nut clusters I have ever seen.
Evi L. Bloggerlady
January 4th, 2014 @ 10:46 am

It is like Dwarkin metastasized to women studies deaprtments across the U.S. after she died.
bridget
January 4th, 2014 @ 10:50 am

“There can only be one winner, and the transgender claim to equal victimhood is rejected by radical feminists, who view this as an attempt to usurp their own categorical claim.”

Does that make me a radical feminist? After all, I’ve long said that the entire construct of “transgender” flies directly in the face of feminism. Women fought hard for Title IX and to be taken seriously as athletes; the “transgender advocates” now want biological men on women’s sports teams. We’ve fought hard for women-only spaces and programmes; now the transgender freaks want to invade our bathrooms, locker rooms, dressing rooms, science clubs, etc.

We’ve talked about stupid gender norms (“women can’t change their own oil!”); now transgender people are telling us that sex roles are REALLY important.

Ugh.
jakee308
January 4th, 2014 @ 10:56 am

have that thing with the sign step up to the butcher’s block so we can clean and dress it out and we’ll make some sandwiches out of those hams of it’s.

The OTHER white meat.

Or as the native american Samoans would say “long pig”.
jakee308
January 4th, 2014 @ 10:57 am

I just want to know where I can get mine.
storibund
January 4th, 2014 @ 11:02 am

Well, this has been an educational morning. I’d been wondering what the whole “cis privilege” thing is about.

A few examples of when rad lefties, um, disagree: http://bugbrennan.com/trans-people-say-the-darndest-things/
Wombat_socho
January 4th, 2014 @ 11:02 am

H8R! (j/k)
CalRWinn
January 4th, 2014 @ 12:24 pm

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William_Teach
January 4th, 2014 @ 11:42 am

Only in an advanced modern society do idiots like these femiwackos have time to be bat guano insane.
richard mcenroe
January 4th, 2014 @ 11:52 am

I’m not sure what the subject of that picture is transforming into, but I’m pretty sure it chased Steve McQueen into a diner once…
richard mcenroe
January 4th, 2014 @ 12:02 pm

When your only real power derives from your supposed “authority” to define gender and gender roles, you cannot afford challenges to that “power” from either side of your position: particularly when challenges from the more extreme side of your position mean you clearly haven’t been progressive enough, when that is one of your own principal tactics for keeping your own side in line.
It’s Alinsky’s Petard. You can never fully live up to your own beliefs, either. So you have to either redefine your beliefs or redefine – demonize – your opponents.
Gahrie
January 4th, 2014 @ 12:05 pm

“How have men/queers/transactivists been so successful at shutting down female-only space? ”
Seriously? Feminists have spent the last forty years eradicating “male-only space” in the name of equality! But then, they have never been ashamed about demanding the hypocrisy of female-only space while attacking male-only space.
richard mcenroe
January 4th, 2014 @ 12:05 pm

It’s Alinsky’s Petard: they can never fully live up to their own beliefs, either, particularly when the challenge comes from the more extreme end of their own position. And that’s intolerable, because that’s their most effective weapon for keeping their own supporters in line. So they either have to redefine their own beliefs or redefine their opponents – demonize them.
RKae
January 4th, 2014 @ 12:35 pm

Exactly! Off-topic, but sort of not: I was discussing body integrity identity disorder with my brother. (That’s where people want their legs chopped off because they believe “Those aren’t my legs!”) My brother stated bluntly, “People don’t get crazy ideas like that when they have actual worries in their lives – things like ‘Where will I find food?’ or ‘How will I survive winter?’ They only wander into such nonsense when they are too comfy.”
RKae
January 4th, 2014 @ 12:38 pm

I LOVE the idea that transgenderism is actually a Trojan Horse concept from the patriarchy! It’s a way for men to keep on invading female-only space! I hope this idea gets legs! Keep it up, crazies, and you’ll all just implode!
Mike G.
January 4th, 2014 @ 12:38 pm

Just to be perfectly clear…if it came to a radical feminist or that “gal” in the picture making me a sammich or making it myself, I’d rather make it myself. Just sayin’.
rmnixondeceased
January 4th, 2014 @ 12:51 pm

+1 for the “The Blob” reference!
Taxpayer1234
January 4th, 2014 @ 12:55 pm

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*catching breath, wiping eyes*

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

I think I peed a little.
Aslaug Lodbrok
January 4th, 2014 @ 1:16 pm

I’m so confused. First they told me it was just an alternative lifestyle (choice). Then, they told me they were born that way (no choice). I don’t know what the proper terms are anymore.

Chaz Bono was born female and declared herself a lesbian. Then, she decided she was really a male, so surgically changed her parts to match. Now, Chaz is male in appearance and in a relationship with a female. So, is Chaz heterosexual or homosexual?

Bill de Blasio, Leftist mayor of NY introduces us to his wife (heterosexual). We learn that she used to be a lesbian (homosexual). So, is it a choice or was she born that way and which way, by the way?

Now, your column what is female and what is gender. My head spins.
Steve Skubinna
January 4th, 2014 @ 2:06 pm

Oh yeah, I remember the day my father took me to the Straight White Male clubhouse and they initiated me into the sacred rites, taught me the secret handshake and told me the magical words of power.

Since then my life has been farting through silk. Never have to exert myself, just bask in the hegemonic glow of my cisgendered superiority and receive all the sandwiches I ask for and all the consequence free PIV I want.
Steve Skubinna
January 4th, 2014 @ 2:08 pm

The term is First World Problems.

As in “the Starbucks doesn’t have enough outlets for me to charge my iPhone, nor do they provide a trans restroom! Oppression!”
Steve Skubinna
January 4th, 2014 @ 2:09 pm

Time for me to dust off that old “No gurls aloud” sign from my old clubhouse all these years ago.
Steve Skubinna
January 4th, 2014 @ 2:12 pm

The problem with living up to their own beliefs is that they really don’t have beliefs as such. An outraged sense of grievance coupled with burning demand for entitlement is not a belief. And so they fight over whose outrage and demands take precedence.

Plus it doesn’t help that many of them are dumber than a sack of hammers and completely devoid of self awareness. A sense of one’s own ridiculousness can go a long way to mitigate lack of intellect. You don’t have that, then there are no limits to what your stupidity will drive you to.
Steve Skubinna
January 4th, 2014 @ 2:13 pm

Whatever… I’m not whacking off Mister Happy just to spite these people.

However I don’t have to. Their raging neurosis have taken charge of their lives.
Alessandra
January 4th, 2014 @ 2:36 pm

Everyone is born heterosexual. After that, they can change and change and change, any which way.
0bamasnought
January 4th, 2014 @ 2:41 pm

Instead of salads, Teddy tossed women in the car, then drove them off a bridge.
Alessandra
January 4th, 2014 @ 2:43 pm

How have men/queers/transactivists been so successful at shutting down female-only space?
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Does queer above include both men and women with a homosexual problem?

If so, then I agree with that. There are plenty of environments infested with homosexual and bisexual women and they are constantly preying and bothering heterosexual women.

Society is in such need of a clean up.

Phil was so on the money when he said homosexuals ‘invent ways of doing evil’. Even worse is that there are just as many married bisexuals nowadays doing to the same garbage.

#istandwithphil
Alan Markus
January 4th, 2014 @ 2:52 pm

If this is one of those “caption this picture” things this is my submission; If Bill Schmaldfeldt had a daughter she would look like this/
concern00
January 4th, 2014 @ 2:53 pm

I think the question that really needs to be asked is whether a transgender can make a good sammich.
Quartermaster
January 4th, 2014 @ 3:22 pm

Nut but no honey.
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January 4th, 2014 @ 3:25 pm

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Steve Skubinna
January 4th, 2014 @ 4:25 pm

Sure, you put a guy on one side and a gal on the other side…

Oh wait, did you mean a sandwich-sandwich or a Kennedy sandwich?
The Real Dan Savage
January 4th, 2014 @ 6:46 pm

I can see that I’ll have to address this issue soon.
Jesus
January 4th, 2014 @ 7:33 pm

That article was awesome in showing what whackadoodles these people are
Dandapani
January 4th, 2014 @ 8:51 pm

Again, I love it when the Left eat their own!