lisa greenfield

[Martina Navratilova @Martina]

lol

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

I see that Stella Creasy is accusing me of leading a pitchfork mob against her, because I opined that she is less likeable and more hypocritical than the wild parakeet she mistook for an escaped pet.

For those who don’t know, Creasy is an elected politician and self-proclaimed ‘old-fashioned feminist’ who is ‘still fighting the patriarchy’. She’s more than once publicly defined herself against me (and my reaction was not to accuse her of leading a mob, even though I was probably averaging a dozen death threats a day at the point when the article below appeared.)

I thought it might be instructive for those of us who don’t share Creasy’s brand of ‘feminism’ to examine her campaigning record, so we can learn to do better.

Creasy wants women admitted to the male-only, exclusive, London-based private members Garrick Club, a change that would benefit rather privileged women like Creasy. Creasy is a mother who wants better accommodations for working mothers, a change that would benefit Creasy. Creasy takes selfies at a men-only Muslim march because that reminds everyone how non-racist she is, which benefits Creasy. Creasy asserts that ‘trans women are women’, which keeps her in good odour with her party’s most aggressive activists, and benefits Creasy.

However, keeping cross-dressing heterosexual men out of nurses’ changing rooms doesn’t benefit Creasy, because Creasy has never had to mop up other people’s piss, blood and vomit at work. Challenging the notion that a male basketball player becomes a girl if he says he is doesn’t benefit Creasy, who has no sporting ambitions. Speaking up against the patriarchy as practised by non-white men doesn’t benefit Creasy, who wants those selfie-opportunities. Criticising an ideological movement that persecutes, harasses and openly threatens women who don’t believe some women have penises wouldn't benefit Creasy, because she's already fully-signed up to self-id, where any man who says he's a woman must be taken at his word.

As the late Gloria Steinem said: ‘“Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere.’

Creasy the patriarchy-challenger is provably more than happy to cosy up to men and misogynist movements when it suits her public profile and career advancement, no matter the harms those men might be causing less privileged women. By Steinem’s definition, what Stella espouses is not feminism, but Creasyism, and I suggest the emblem for this brave new rights movement should be an indignant parakeet with severely ruffled feathers.

https://t.co/8lvktG2vI6

[𝐃𝐔𝐓𝐂𝐇 @pr0ud_americans]

There is this crazy thing that Generation X did...🤣

[Jenny Eclair @jennyeclair]

What are we doing about this please - I don’t see anyone doing anything - how can the world allow this to happen

[Jennifer 🟥🔴🧙‍♀️🦉🐈‍⬛ 🦖 @babybeginner]

To whom it may concern:

Pride month is about to start and you are going to be hurt about the people who are angry about this. You will think it is because they are phobic or something. What I am about to say should give your great solace. 1/

[lisa greenfield @GreenfieldLisa]

@BluskyeAllison Right behind you 😊

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

You’ve asked me several questions on this thread and accused me of avoiding answering, so here goes.

I believe a woman is a human being who belongs to the sex class that produces large gametes. It’s irrelevant whether or not her gametes have ever been fertilised, whether or not she’s carried a baby to term, irrelevant if she was born with a rare difference of sexual development that makes neither of the above possible, or if she’s aged beyond being able to produce viable eggs. She is a woman and just as much a woman as the others.

I don’t believe a woman is more or less of a woman for having sex with men, women, both or not wanting sex at all. I don’t think a woman is more or less of a woman for having a buzz cut and liking suits and ties, or wearing stilettos and mini dresses, for being black, white or brown, for being six feet tall or a little person, for being kind or cruel, angry or sad, loud or retiring. She isn't more of a woman for featuring in Playboy or being a surrendered wife, nor less of a woman for designing space rockets or taking up boxing. What makes her a woman is the fact of being born in a body that, assuming nothing has gone wrong in her physical development (which, as stated above, still doesn't stop her being a woman), is geared towards producing eggs as opposed to sperm, towards bearing as opposed to begetting children, and irrespective of whether she's done either of those things, or ever wants to.

Womanhood isn't a mystical state of being, nor is it measured by how well one apes sex stereotypes. We are not the creatures either porn or the Bible tell you we are. Femaleness is not, as trans woman Andrea Chu Long wrote, ‘an open mouth, an expectant asshole, blank, blank eyes,’ nor are we God’s afterthought, sprung from Adam’s rib.

Women are provably subject to certain experiences because of our female bodies, including different forms of oppression, depending on the cultures in which we live. When trans activists say 'I thought you didn't want to be defined by your biology,' it’s a feeble and transparent attempt at linguistic sleight of hand. Women don't want to be limited, exploited, punished, or subject to other unjust treatment because of their biology, but our being female is indeed defined by our biology. It's one material fact about us, like having freckles or disliking beetroot, neither of which are representative of our entire beings, either. Women have billions of different personalities and life stories, which have nothing to do with our bodies, although we are likely to have had experiences men don't and can't, because we belong to our sex class.

Some people feel strongly that they should have been, or wish to be seen as, the sex class into which they weren't born. Gender dysphoria is a real and very painful condition and I feel nothing but sympathy for anyone who suffers from it. I want them to be free to dress and present themselves however they like and I want them to have exactly the same rights as every other citizen regarding housing, employment and personal safety. I do not, however, believe that surgeries and cross-sex hormones literally turn a person into the opposite sex, nor do I believe in the idea that each of us has a nebulous ‘gender identity’ that may or might not match our sexed bodies. I believe the ideology that preaches those tenets has caused, and continues to cause, very real harm to vulnerable people.

I am strongly against women's and girls' rights and protections being dismantled to accommodate trans-identified men, for the very simple reason that no study has ever demonstrated that trans-identified men don't have exactly the same pattern of criminality as other men, and because, however they identify, men retain their advantages of speed and strength. In other words, I think the safety and rights of girls and women are more important than those men's desire for validation.

I sincerely hope that answers your questions. You may still disagree, but as I hope this shows, I’m more than happy to have this debate.

[lisa greenfield @GreenfieldLisa]

@UKUpdates_co_uk @jk_rowling Yes, yes, yes! Why are we even asking!!!!

[Janet Inglis @ThatAussieWoman]

Women are being compelled to call men women and use female pronouns for them under threat of violence, abuse, harassment, and job loss.
Women are compelled to accept men in our spaces under threat of official sanction and legal retribution.
Women are compelled to compete against men in our sports under threats of disqualification and loss of vital sponsorships.
Lesbians are compelled to accept men in their spaces, apps, and lesbian activism under threat of losing their clubs, spaces and lesbian only apps and social media.
Women are being compelled to accept men as women in every and all circumstances by law, government mandate, violence, and social ostracism.
The consequences for us when we don't are being seen more and more often, and they are serious.
THAT is compelled speech, action and association.
I can't believe the gall of any woman who is not under any compulsion to do any of that having the brass neck to accuse those of us who are of compelling her speech when we object to her referring to men with female pronouns because she's under the mistaken belief it's courteous to do so.
It isn't courtesy.
It's the incorrect use of words that have existed for hundreds of years, and which apply to us all equally, in such a way that harms the cause of all women everywhere.
Except you.
For now.

*For the avoidance of doubt, no part of this reply was screamed.

#CallThemMen
#HeForHim

[Cathy Devine @cathydevine56]

This @guardian article is subtitled 'the week in patriarchy'.
But this journalist wants to dismantle patriarchy by permitting male advantage in female sport categories. And claims this for feminism. Oh please. 1/
https://t.co/fseCjtzqn3

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

Just off to the gym.. 😜 make sure you have the right support ladies! #boycottnike #fairsport #SaveWomensSports

[Andrew Lawrence @andrewlawrence]

This one's for you @KathyBurke.

🎥What 'woke' means.

[🦖💜🤍💚 𝓙𝓮𝓷𝓷𝓲𝓯𝓮𝓻 𝓛𝓮𝓮 @jennifer_1ee]

What @feminist_rachel said 2 years ago and we're all considerably sicker now ~

"I’M SICK TO FUCKING DEATH OF HEARING OF HOW everything fucking hurts trans people’s feelings & how I’m obliged to erase myself & my reality, constantly police my speech & have it policed for me, & walk on eggshells to center their narcissistic fragility.

I’m sick to fucking death hearing that trans people are the most oppressed people in the entire world. Affluent, western white men in their 30s, 40s, 50s wearing dresses are not fucking oppressed AT ALL, let alone more than poor black & brown girls in the developing world.

I’m sick to fucking death hearing that TW being told they can’t get their dicks out in places where women & girls are vulnerable is denying them rights & the worst possible hardship any human has ever faced. If that’s the worst you ever face you are privileged, not oppressed.

I’m sick to fucking death of women being asked to prove that vast numbers of us are in peril of brutal rape & death for our objections to sharing private spaces with males to be considered valid, & anything short of that being seen as an acceptable price to validate.

I’m sick to fucking death of hearing that TWAW even if they take no hormones, have no surgery, see no doctors, get no diagnosis, experience no dysphoria, & keep their beards, but when we ask questions suddenly all the TW will kill themselves from triggered dysphoria.

I’m sick to fucking death hearing that women talking about surviving male violence are “weaponizing their trauma” against trans people when the entire trans movement is founded on the weaponized trauma of their (supposed) dysphoria & emotional blackmail.

I’m sick to fucking death of hearing “no one’s saying sex isn’t real” & “sex & gender are different” while being told there’s no such thing as a biological female, women have dicks, males have periods & get cervical cancer, a clitoris is just a small penis.

I’m sick to fucking death of hearing how hard it is to be trans when every politician, mainstream media outlet, corporation, charity, & celebrity is in the thrall of trans ideology while women who say humans can’t change sex are vilified, doxxed, fired, & otherwise cancelled.

I’m sick to fucking death of hearing that endometriosis, menstruation, miscarriage, abortion, street harassment, sexual objectification, & unpaid domestic labor are examples of “cis privilege.”

I’m sick to fucking death of being told that women & girls who dare to set boundaries are hateful bigots; that men are entitled to decide whether our boundaries are justified & whether they will be granted; & that straight dysphoric men are entitled to sex from lesbians.

I’m sick to fucking death of white people with BLM in their bios saying women who say humans can’t change sex are the same as nazis and white supremacists while also saying that black women are indistinguishable from dysphoric men.

I’m sick to fucking death of being told that “humans can’t change sex” is the epitome of violent hatred but “choke on my fat ladycock, t*rf cunt,” “kill t*rfs,” “t*rfs get raped with my barbed wire-wrapped baseball bat” are considered justifiable, if not downright righteous.

I’m sick to fucking death of hearing that injured male pride is a catastrophic violation of human rights that must be avoided at all costs, up to and including the sacrifice of female bodies—but female rights & trauma are at best irrelevant.
Sick. To. Fucking. Death."
@feminist_rachel on twitter

[Common Sense @polidotto]

How is this not viral yet?! 🔥

[The State Media @The_StateMedia]

Nicola Sturgeon clarifies matters.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Same shit, different century.

[Enough is Enough @eiecampaign]

In 2010, the UK had 66 foodbanks.

Today, there are at least 2,000 – more than the total number of McDonald’s.

This can’t go on. If you agree, join the fight back at https://t.co/1SeHcIXdMr

[Angelo Isidorou @angeloisidorou]

I am incredibly proud of my friend @preta_6 for never backing down. She is a lesson in the victory of resilience. Never give into the mob.

History will remember feminists like Amy and her sons will grow up knowing their mom is one tough lady. https://t.co/7O4UHFWWkn

[Tim Shipman @ShippersUnbound]

More unbiased reporting from our German colleagues. I don't know a single British reporter who would tweet something like this