I wouldn't say he has organized "critics". It's not like radfems are writing publications demanding he never be published again, TRA style. I want to be clear about that because so often the framing is "oh yes, all the crazies hate me, that just shows you what a reasonable soul I am". There is absolutely no equivalence, no radfems are or…
I wouldn't say he has organized "critics". It's not like radfems are writing publications demanding he never be published again, TRA style. I want to be clear about that because so often the framing is "oh yes, all the crazies hate me, that just shows you what a reasonable soul I am". There is absolutely no equivalence, no radfems are organizing posses to get him (or ever have done so).
I am saying I and other women have noticed that he used criticizing feminist women as a shield for himself: "I am criticizing trans stuff, yes, but not like the Bad Mean Women of Terflandia". And then as it gets safer to say more critical stuff he's just sort of edged his way along into the terrain they were on the whole time, without EVER crediting them or saying "oh actually, they were right all along and it was sort of shitty of me to cast so many aspersions on them in order to clear a little pathway of respectability for myself."
None of us are organizing flying monkey brigades about this. We just see it and give it a blue-pencilly look.
I wouldn't say he has organized "critics". It's not like radfems are writing publications demanding he never be published again, TRA style. I want to be clear about that because so often the framing is "oh yes, all the crazies hate me, that just shows you what a reasonable soul I am". There is absolutely no equivalence, no radfems are organizing posses to get him (or ever have done so).
I am saying I and other women have noticed that he used criticizing feminist women as a shield for himself: "I am criticizing trans stuff, yes, but not like the Bad Mean Women of Terflandia". And then as it gets safer to say more critical stuff he's just sort of edged his way along into the terrain they were on the whole time, without EVER crediting them or saying "oh actually, they were right all along and it was sort of shitty of me to cast so many aspersions on them in order to clear a little pathway of respectability for myself."
None of us are organizing flying monkey brigades about this. We just see it and give it a blue-pencilly look.