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RadFems vs. Trannies: Will Feminists Let ‘Gender Queers’ Boss Them Around?

Posted on | April 12, 2014 | 75 Comments

The ongoing conflict between radical feminists and transgender activists, which I first noticed in January and revisited last night in the context of the Dana McCallum rape case, has escaped the notice of mainstream liberal journalism. Liberals tacitly side with the transgenders in pretending that the radfems — a/k/a TERFs (Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists) — have no legitimate grievance.

What the TERFs perceive is that male-to-female transgenders are cynically seeking to usurp and co-opt the “feminist” label for their own advantage, thus shunting aside biological women and demoting them to second-class status within their own movement.

Of course, the instinctive conservative reaction to all this is to pop some popcorn and enjoy the schadenfreude. But the very fact that liberals want everybody to ignore this obscure conflict should be a clue that the conflict is, in fact, highly significant. Much like the Hugo Schwzyer “male feminist” controversy, which long raged on the margins of Gender Theory discussion before erupting into headlines, the TERF war against transfeminism (and vice-versa) tells us a lot about the problems of contemporary progressivism.

Let’s start with Cathy Brennan’s site Gender Identity Watch. Cathy Brennan is a radical lesbian feminist whose adamant defense of “female-only space” against transgender intrusion has made her a primary target of the anti-TERF campaign. Make no mistake: Brennan’s enemies are trying to destroy her, going so far as to petition the Southern Poverty Law Center to label her site a “hate group.”

Well, who is hating whom?

Brennan has chronicled some of the obscene, violent and threatening reactions she has received from transgenders and their allies, and why? Simply because Brennan won’t back down from her radical (“essentialist”) view that womanhood is a matter of biology and genetics, as opposed to the gender identity view that womanhood is a “social construct.” It doesn’t matter, for the sake of this discussion, whether you agree with Cathy Brennan, although I do. (“The science is settled!”)

Brennan probably hates my heteronormative patriarchal Christian conservative perspective even more than she hates the transfeminist gender identity crowd, but that’s OK: Cathy Brennan has a right to hate me, and her hate does me no harm.

Well, why can’t the trannies tolerate Brennan’s hate? Because it hurts their precious little feelings, that’s why!

The anti-Brennan crowd contains some of the most pathetic whiners imaginable, who insist that being called by their preferred label is so crucial to their identity that it’s an act of hate to use the wrong label.

Exhibit A? Charlie Hale, a British “genderqueer, kinky, polyamorous pan/bisexual” male who insists on the pronoun “they.” (No, I’m not kidding.) Hale wrote a guest column for a feminist blog calling for ostracism of anyone who associates with TERFs, a column which got a mocking rebuttal from a TERF blog here. When I say “mocking rebuttal,” I mean, they re-posted some of the photos Hale posted on Twitter:

Despite being male, Hale identifies as a “queer feminist” on Twitter, where he/”they” constantly whine(s) about “cishet male sexuality,” i.e., the way normal men have sex. Also, Hale is avidly pro-abortion, which is rather convenient in view of the fact that there is a near-zero possibility that Hale could ever be capable of making a woman pregnant, even if any woman were insane enough to wish to be impregnated by him. (Or, I should say, “them.”) Among his/”their” work is “An Introduction To Non-binary Transgender Identities,” which might just as easily be entitled, “How to Cooperate With Charlie’s Psychotic Delusions of Infinite Human Plasticity.”

What Hale’s “genderqueer” agenda boils down to is a desire to compel everybody to participate in his/”their” hallucinatory approach to sexual identity, an ongoing project of deconstruction: “We’re here! We’re queer! We’re hopelessly confused!” Neither male nor female, gay nor straight, “genderqueer” is sexuality as a multiple-choice exam in which the answer to every question is “none of the above.”

You may well ask, “How do people get that screwed-up in the head?” Your guess is as good as mine. Maybe they spent so much of their adolescence wacking off to hentai cartoons that it left them permanently incapable of relating to normal human sex. However, you may wish to read Charlie Hale’s account of his adolescence:

I love queer, nerdy, kinky sex — and it’s the only sex I’ve ever known. At 16, I had my first “proper” relationship: it lasted about 3 and a half years, all told, and we were each other’s first sexual partner. On top of the standard teen sex-related anxiety, we both had unresolved gender issues . . . that neither of us were aware of at the time. . . .

(Charlie’s teenage girlfriend became a “transman,” i.e., a female-t0-male transsexual. We need not wonder why.)

This made following the “normal” scripts of sex quite difficult: PIV sex was basically impossible and, frankly, didn’t interest me a massive amount. As well as getting very acquainted with using my hands and mouth, it turned out we both had kinky interests, too: we laid our hands on a few toys (as far as we could in our nervous, impoverished teenage state) and messed around, experimented, and tried to find out what it was that worked for us. . . .

(So, “PIV sex” — penis-in-vagina, normal sexual intercourse — “was basically impossible”? Let me tell you something, Charlie: Whenever there is a vagina in my vicinity, it’s always possible.)

Creativity is what I think defines queer, nerdy, kinky sex: the ability to experiment and — as is often essential in the case of trans people — improvise. The world outside of cisheteronormative  sex is a wonderful one, but the social scripts surrounding sex are so strong that it doesn’t really come easily. . . .

(Pardon the unintentional double-entendre.)

While I had a very curious mind, and I’d had fantasies for years, the thing that really spurred us to experiment was the fact we couldn’t do what “all the other people” were doing. Our bodies and minds weren’t cooperative — due to things that, in hindsight, were probably caused by dysphoria — so we had to make our own way.
It wasn’t always rosy. Not following the ideas of sex that had been drilled into us was liberating but also challenging. Many times I remember my partner despairing, thinking that they weren’t “good enough,” because their genitals “didn’t work.”

Eh, you can read the rest of “Young Weirdos in Love,” if you wish. You get the point: Charlie spent three years in a dysfunctional relationship with a girlfriend whose vagina he never managed to penetrate with his penis, a failure he attributes in hindsight to “dysphoria,” probably because he doesn’t want to confess his own helpless sexual ineptitude. With his sour-grapes rationalization handy, however, he dismisses “cisheteronormative sex” with some intellectual jargon about “social scripts” that had been “drilled into us,” and congratulates himself on the wondrous “creativity” of “queer, nerdy, kinky sex,” as if normal male-female couplings are devoid of creativity.

This failed male, then, presumes to tell feminists they must banish from their conferences and publications — “no-platforming,” as it is called — anyone associated with radical feminists who refuse to accept transgenders as being the same as women. So if a feminist author participates in a “non-inclusive” (TERF) conference, then she must be blacklisted from other feminist conferences because, to quote Charlie Hale, “Inviting such speakers not only negatively impacts the climate of the movement, but actively makes marginalised people feel less safe and welcome in the event and the movement as a whole.”

And thereby — voila! — a man appoints himself the arbiter of who is acceptable within the Official Feminist Movement.

Does anyone think radical feminists are going to let themselves be bossed around by pathetic sissyboys like Charlie Hale?

Oh, hell, no.

If hard-core Marxist lesbians wanted to be bossed around by men, they might as well just invite me to their conference — call it “The End of Feminism: Surrendering to the Patriarchy” — and then they could all take turns making me sandwiches.

 

Category: Feminism, Gays

Comments

75 Responses to “RadFems vs. Trannies: Will Feminists Let ‘Gender Queers’ Boss Them Around?”

  1. JeffS
    April 12th, 2014 @ 11:57 pm

    “….and then they could all take turns making me sandwiches.”

    Which would result in a significant weight gain. Assuming you have the constitution to eat their offerings.

  2. robertstacymccain
    April 13th, 2014 @ 12:09 am

    Well, I’m sure I’d find some way to burn off the excess calories, because whenever there is a vagina in my vicinity …

  3. Kirby McCain
    April 13th, 2014 @ 12:31 am

    Charlie, ya’ll are so f*cked up and lame nobody wants to associate with you. Form your own group. WeirdQweers or something, the ultimate in diversification. Ya’ll could invite everybody and then have hurt feelings when only you and a few of your lame ass friends showed up. And Charlie there’s nothing else in nature like you. Freak.

  4. Kirby McCain
    April 13th, 2014 @ 12:33 am

    I got a sammich for Charlie.

  5. Adjoran
    April 13th, 2014 @ 2:40 am

    1. I remember my reaction when I first saw that picture at the top some time ago: “Double meat, double cheese, extra mayo – coming up, sir!”

    2. Who gets to define what a “feminist” or “lesbian” is? Can a man with a functioning penis really be a lesbian in something other than a fantasy? Should lesbians get to define who is a lesbian? But isn’t that circular, since they don’t get a vote unless they are already “defined in”? If a transgender gets to use the Ladies Room in restaurants, does that not make him socially a lady? And if a lady, can’t “she” be a lesbian? Even if “she” plays softball?

    3. While I really don’t mean any disrespect to the people who are struggling with these problems, because if they are struggling with this stuff, then they do have problems greater than mine, there is a certain amount of schadenfreude whenever the contradictory stands of the left hit head on.

    It’s like the unity between the left’s pro-abortion “feminists” and the radical gay activists. Suppose there were a “gay gene” actually isolated? And women began aborting their gay children?

    Son, it would be worth a dollar a quart to see.

  6. Adjoran
    April 13th, 2014 @ 2:42 am

    Does your wife ever read the blog?

    Just sayin’ . . . that’s twice on the same post you’ve said that.

  7. Finrod Felagund
    April 13th, 2014 @ 3:03 am

    I ran across this interesting post recently, where this person called out other non-heterosexual types for their heterophobia. After you wade through the PC verbiage, they actually make some sense:

    http://brianofthelost.blogspot.com/2014/04/hetcis-heterophobia-and-self.html

  8. K-Bob
    April 13th, 2014 @ 3:04 am

    Democrats are supposed to be supportive of whatever end to which this mess is supposed to resolve.

    But when you ask Democrat men to make you a sammich, ladies, don’t say you weren’t warned.

    http://sonsoftherepublic.blogspot.com/2005/08/kennedy-dodd-waitress-sandwich.html

  9. RKae
    April 13th, 2014 @ 3:24 am

    And thereby — voila! — a man appoints himself the arbiter of who is acceptable within the Official Feminist Movement.

    KA-BAM! Target destroyed. Well done.

    I’m slappin’ a $100 bill on the table that says Charlie’s dad and all his pals raped him on every so-called “poker night.” That sort of lunacy doesn’t just appear out of nowhere.

  10. Squawkbox
    April 13th, 2014 @ 6:09 am

    Dear God, It’s Amy Farrah Fowler looking relaxed and comfortable.

  11. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    April 13th, 2014 @ 6:14 am

    This sort of reminds me of the “Aliens vs. Predator” franchise.

  12. Greg
    April 13th, 2014 @ 6:17 am

    Brilliant article!!

  13. ontheleftcoast
    April 13th, 2014 @ 6:32 am

    Kind of soothing having an ideological opponent who is not completely insane and has some guts, isn’t it? Maybe Cathy Brennan would at least agree with that.

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    April 13th, 2014 @ 6:39 am

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  15. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    April 13th, 2014 @ 6:52 am

    So much crazy, so little time…

  16. Paul H. Lemmen
    April 13th, 2014 @ 7:21 am

    Stacy, sometimes God lets us in on one of His jokes. Thankfully, this is one of those times! So break out the sammiches and beer, settle into a comfy chair and laugh all day! God has a sense of humor …

  17. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    April 13th, 2014 @ 7:39 am

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAa_e_L0rpc John Waters is a visionary…

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  19. WarEagle82
    April 13th, 2014 @ 8:35 am

    You know, that pictures seems to be conditioning for me to absolutely hate the mere thought of a sandwich…

  20. WarEagle82
    April 13th, 2014 @ 8:38 am

    Well, in a rainbow flag kind of way, with slap fights and truly nasty glares and killer comments about outfits.

    Though the potential about double entendre about exactly who is packing what could be endless…

  21. WarEagle82
    April 13th, 2014 @ 8:46 am

    Geez, I swear I typed one thing and another showed up in the comment box.

    Proofreading is really difficult this early in the morning…

  22. LLC
    April 13th, 2014 @ 8:57 am

    Heh, this ties in pretty neatly with a concept for a scifi novel I’ve been tinkering with. It’s a little different take on “Earth is invaded by aliens”, whereas the invasion has been going on since WW2. The invaders don’t actually have the troops to conquer the world, and are restrained by their rules of engagement from nuking the place, so they do their best to weaken the world’s response by creating or encouraging divisions. East vs West, gay vs straight, Muslim terrorists vs everyone else, etc.

    The problem the invaders have is that some of their divisions work too well, and make the splinter groups uncontrollable.

  23. rustypaladin
    April 13th, 2014 @ 9:06 am

    “queer, nerdy, kinky sex” instantly defined itself in my head as lesbians wearing slave Leia outfits. That’s probably because I’m a cismale hetero-normative patriarch. I denounce myself.

  24. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    April 13th, 2014 @ 9:15 am

    If you teamed him up with Schmalfeldt it would be like a twisted sick Laurel and Hardy.

  25. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    April 13th, 2014 @ 9:16 am

    Adjoran, that protester needs an extra big dollop of bitter on her samwich!

  26. RKae
    April 13th, 2014 @ 9:23 am

    And a Star Wars fan. I denounce you for THAT.

  27. Dana
    April 13th, 2014 @ 9:33 am

    Agreed, me being a cisheteronormative Catholic patriarchal man, who appreciates the fact that Princess Leia had to go commando in that slave outfit.

  28. Dana
    April 13th, 2014 @ 9:35 am

    Our esteemed host described himself:

    Brennan probably hates my heteronormative patriarchal Christian conservative perspective even more than she hates the transfeminist gender identity crowd,

    That’s cisheteronormative, sir. Please, make a note of it.

  29. Stanley
    April 13th, 2014 @ 9:35 am

    Yep, if only we identified (in either genomics and genetics) the “genderqueer, kinky, polyamorous pan/bisexual” gene. Then, the “guy” (or is it girl?) up there may have not been so blessed…

  30. Dana
    April 13th, 2014 @ 9:36 am

    Hey, Amy is hot, hot, hot!

  31. Dana
    April 13th, 2014 @ 9:38 am

    Whenever there is a vagina in your vicinity, you treat it (mostly) indifferently, unless it is Mrs McCain’s. Try to be honest here!

  32. Dana
    April 13th, 2014 @ 9:40 am

    Our esteemed host wrote (with my editorial correction):

    my (cis)heteronormative patriarchal Christian conservative perspective

    You know, simply typing “normal” saves a lot of bandwidth.

  33. Squawkbox
    April 13th, 2014 @ 10:15 am

    Sheldon, I wouldn’t dare to disagree…. retreats cautiously….

  34. DaveO
    April 13th, 2014 @ 10:37 am

    No, we want the Feminists and the Gender Queer bullies at each others’ throats. Nothing undermines the messages of inclusion and acceptance like the hatred of people fighting over the definition of “Woman.” We need to encourage this and work for the Gender Queer bullies to win.

  35. Gibson
    April 13th, 2014 @ 11:01 am

    Laugh all you want! The irony is that you guys are going extinct, and the more life is lived online, the bigger media gets, and the old social structures, and institutions collapse due to modern technology, it is Charlie Hale, and his lot, who will inherit the Earth. Is it just me or is there not a hell of a lot of queer and trans people working in the tech industry too? That should tell you something. The Cyberpunk genre foretold all this decades ago.

    Do you really think we’re going back to Mom in the kitchen, Dad out working all day, and 2.5 kids in the burbs? Ha! The middle class is shrinking, young people are fed up with being corporate employees, and are choosing alternative forms of making a living in the online world, and women are not having kids like they used to. Shit even marriage rates are down.

  36. daleyrocks
    April 13th, 2014 @ 11:40 am

    Are we online? Nobody tells me anything.

  37. maniakmedic
    April 13th, 2014 @ 11:42 am

    I am now unable to brain-bleach the picture in my mind of that Charlie fellow humping a stuffed animal. Because the first thing that popped into my head when he was going on about his inability to do what men have been doing almost certainly instinctively since time immemorial was the thought of a retarded dog going after a stuffed bear. Call me crazy, but I didn’t think this was a particularly difficult thing to do correctly. I’m sure you guys can confirm this.

    He must have been viewing some pretty out there porn at a young age to have such a pronounced sexual dysfunction at 16. Or, as you said, he’s overcompensating for his failure at the time. Or it’s somewhere in the middle. One thing is certain: this guy needs some serious help.

  38. BillClintonsShorts17
    April 13th, 2014 @ 3:35 pm

    I don’t want any of these … women? … anywhere near my sandwiches.

  39. richard mcenroe
    April 13th, 2014 @ 3:47 pm

    well, he DOES put the coaster over the top of his beer glass, at least.

  40. rustypaladin
    April 13th, 2014 @ 3:48 pm

    While I’m not a die hard Star Wars fan I do know enough about Sci-Fi to know Star Trek has no answer to this :

  41. concern00
    April 13th, 2014 @ 4:54 pm

    They seems a whole lot more screwed up than the average progressive, if such a thing is possible.

  42. Käthe
    April 13th, 2014 @ 6:45 pm

    So the future is…chemically castrated people going at it with pieces of plastic? Well the future won’t last more than 80 years at that rate…

  43. Käthe
    April 13th, 2014 @ 6:54 pm

    So on the even farther fringe of the social justice warrior lands, there are people who consider themselves “transracial.” As in, “while I may look white and was born to white parents, I am actually a half-black half-Asian person inside.” These people are almost universally scorned, loathed, and rejected by the rest of the SJW world, because they are “racist cultural appropriators” who should know that your race isn’t something that can be reduced to a FEELING, it’s your family, your culture, and most importantly, how you look and are perceived by other people and HAVE been, unchangably, your whole life.

    I’ve asked progressive friends a couple times why it’s so clear to them that “transracial” is racist and offensive (and insane) but “transgender” is not. Because I feel like being forced to say “that is a woman, yep!” and share space with someone like Charlie is every bit as degrading to me as it would be for a black man to be confronted with some moron in blackface calling him “brotha.” They get incredibly angry and sometimes call “bigotry” because I won’t accept the claims of trans, and they say it’s inappropriate to compare the two. So you can change your gender, but you can’t change your race? And you can’t change your sexual orientation. So only gender–which, scientifically, is a more fundamental concrete FACT than either of those other things–can change? How do they figure?

  44. Dana
    April 13th, 2014 @ 7:16 pm

    The wimp wrote:

    Our bodies and minds weren’t cooperative — due to things that, in hindsight, were probably caused by dysphoria — so we had to make our own way.

    No, it was caused by some guy too wimpy to get a hard on.

  45. Mm
    April 13th, 2014 @ 7:22 pm

    BOOM!

  46. Kirby McCain
    April 13th, 2014 @ 7:27 pm

    Dam Evi, I was going to have dinner…

  47. JeffS
    April 13th, 2014 @ 8:17 pm

    “…women are not having kids like they used to.”

    You might want to ponder that for a while, hey?

  48. RKae
    April 13th, 2014 @ 8:49 pm

    Fool.

    Nancy Kovak!
    http://cache.desktopnexus.com/thumbnails/840036-bigthumbnail.jpg

  49. RKae
    April 13th, 2014 @ 8:51 pm

    “The middle class is shrinking.” And that’s one of your indicators that we’re headed for paradise?

  50. darleenclick
    April 13th, 2014 @ 8:57 pm

    omg, stacy, I’m laughing so hard right now … (wipes tears) I have this uncontrollable urge to make you a sammich …

    would you like chips with it? 😀