TERF is a slur

CassandraNORI

There’s often accusations that the gender debate is toxic, on both sides. I find this claim to be utterly false and a form of DARVO. I spend a lot of time in gender critical spaces online, and discuss with people IRL as well and hand on heart, I’ve never seen anything close to the vitriol, violence and hatred spewed towards GC feminists, or anyone who questions gender ideology as that which is aimed at them.

This website has collected some examples - I find it really distressing and also hypercritical in the case where TRAs are claiming literal violence - warning this pages scrolls down for days filled with some pretty nasty stuff.

https://terfisaslur.com/

CassandraNORI

And so the thing is, that these comments aren’t outliers, and they are often coming from the very people who are being lauded in the media, case in point:

Not even going to examine why a person who believes pampering is part of the fight to live in a gender, but this person is also this person:

There are countless other examples of leaders of the TRA movement directing vile and misogynistic abuse at women. And a special focus on lesbians.

LadySybilVimes

Men don’t get the same kind of sexually violent rhetoric that women get in this debate. Richard Dawkins has had criticism and an award rescinded but I don’t think he got the bombardment of rape threats and invitations to choke on a dick that JK Rowling had.

Klara

So you have these people that get angry at women who don’t believe that identifying as a woman makes you a literal woman and they express that anger with typical male pattern threats of violence and abuse.

What are they expecting - “Right, well in that case, I can see how that threat of rape with your lady dick makes you a woman - my mistake.”

RichardParker

Yes, more like, “I’m scared that not affirming you will get me hurt, killed, cancelled, sued or unemployed so I’m gonna go ahead and say black is white because I’ve been socialised to be kind above all else.”

OnFire

It just feels so surreal, in that males can post and act so violently against women, and it’s acceptable.

A woman dare protect her biological female identity and she gets death and rape threats.

We’re living the modern day version of witches being burnt at the stake.

Sabrina

It worries me how wanting to be seen a certain way is now more important to the left than being able to listen to all sides before forming a balanced opinion. It’s almost like the left has become so eager to be seen as woke and inclusive they forgot how dangerous it is to let the loudest voices take over and any dissent to be silenced.

Dissent is what provides balance enhances transparency and creates a need for both sides to provide facts to get point across. If you can listen to a dissenting view and come up with a good argument why that view is disproved it makes your own view far more valuable than just screaming “I’m right because I want to be” or frantically cancelling everything you don’t agree with.

Gum-boots

So true, Sabrina.