Mister Smiley

[Mister Smiley @SmileyMister9]

Performativeness is the root problem. People fear censure & seek approval. Social media has exacerbated that flaw like nothing before.

Ideologues who push trendy beliefs, like feminists & TRAs, can leverage this weakness to enforce a superficial sort of acceptance.

[Mister Smiley @SmileyMister9]

@YourMoveLarry What if you don't hate them as such, but do think that they & their 'allies' are a mob of childish & petulant virtue-signalling fannies?

[Mister Smiley @SmileyMister9]

@BellaFurie @KarlaMister9 @AlexJayBrady @parislees It's from a book & film. You might not have heard of it because I don't think they ever made it into a cartoon.

[Mister Smiley @SmileyMister9]

@StephanieJaneG6 @Fact_Fem @KarlaMister9 @HadleyFreeman The answer is that we need to get into the habit of defying these mobs. Any group that will denounce you for disobedience, yes troon or feminist or bender.
It doesn't matter whether you happen to agree with this particular mob's lie. The problem is lies being pushed by force.

[Mister Smiley @SmileyMister9]

@Fact_Fem @KarlaMister9 @HadleyFreeman Feminists are forever talking about what this patriarchy thinks, wants, does. I.e. a deliberate conspiracy. Or you ask 2 different feminists what it is & you get 4 different answers, none of which you may contradict.
Patriarchy = Gender Identity. You're just a different mob.

[Mister Smiley @SmileyMister9]

@DarkEden21 @KarlaMister9 @CarrollMin82867 @stephenwhittle @Docstockk Because Whittle retweeted it. Again, there's a simpler explanation than conspiracy. Nobody in fact is out to get you.

[Mister Smiley @SmileyMister9]

@NewStatesman @youngvulgarian Hard to be indifferent when people, like the author, will denounce & traduce you & others for failing to comply with their ideological demands, and when others on the "right side of history" are threatening the careers, safety, even lives, of women who won't obey them.

[Mister Smiley @SmileyMister9]

@MattIsGay8 I actually do care about women in men's bathrooms. It's a much lesser point than the obverse is with women but still. Plain fact is I don't want birds in my toilet. Taking half an hour to change their fanny pads or whatever. Stinking up the place, causing trouble. Enough already.

[Mister Smiley @SmileyMister9]

@KarlaMister9 @GreenJennyJones The society we should work towards is one where people would respect & admire Rowling, even where they disagree with her.

Not one where people do as the Woke do, seeking yet more praise for forming themselves into a mob that histrionically, even violently, denounces all dissent.

[Mister Smiley @SmileyMister9]

@KarlaMister9 @GreenJennyJones And blocked. This is the petulance & petty tyranny I mean.

"Woke" people aren't actually good people. Good people are people like Rowling, who do good deeds and stand on principle even where it harms them.

The Woke want obedience & praise. Not pluralism & tolerance.

[Sarah G @norfolkmum1]

@catherinerowett @Wild_Womyn And do you really think threatening to block people who question is a really productive way to get your message across? I asked a perfectly polite question. If you refuse to discuss or debate your position don’t be surprised if you get pushback.

[Mister Smiley @SmileyMister9]

@perragrande31 @avyavyavyavery @aletheia327 TRAs in fact are just weapons-grade feminists.

You're not allowed to contradict them just as I'm not allowed to contradict you.

The only difference is that TRAs are pushing a very slightly madder version of feminism. One that's just a bit too mad even for some feminists.

[Mister Smiley @SmileyMister9]

@perragrande31 @avyavyavyavery @aletheia327 The problem is that a society built on lies yields unpredictable consequences. Would've thought that the result of feminism would be women & girls losing their protected spaces/ services/ safeties?
What would the actual result of transgenderism be, or of the next trendy ideology.

[Mister Smiley @SmileyMister9]

@perragrande31 @avyavyavyavery @aletheia327 What TRAs want to achieve is what feminists have achieved, in the effete West. To make certain truths unsayable, so that 25 years from now it'd be as unthinkable to say that a transwoman isn't a woman as it is, now, to say that men are far more capable than women.

[Mister Smiley @SmileyMister9]

@perragrande31 @avyavyavyavery @aletheia327 Still feminists use it as a basis & justification for any number of demands.

You end up in bizarre situations. Feminists pushing rapists into teenage girls' changing rooms, to help abolish gender, to help dismantle the patriarchy. Which, again, never existed in the first place.

[Mister Smiley @SmileyMister9]

@perragrande31 @avyavyavyavery @aletheia327 Feminists can't even tell you what Patriarchy is. Or each claims something different.

Whichever explanation you get, if any, makes zero sense. A deliberate conspiracy, or just the natural order of things?

In fact it's a shibboleth. It exists nowhere except in feminist ideology.

[Mister Smiley @SmileyMister9]

@avyavyavyavery @aletheia327 Feminism is the root & transgenderism is the flower, and you pull weeds by the root.

Women should actively disown the ideology that's now grown so corpulent & effete that it's effectively claiming, seemingly on women's own behalf, that women & girls don't really exist at all.

[Mister Smiley @SmileyMister9]

@avyavyavyavery @aletheia327 Yet still feminists claim that they & their ideology speak for women. They get away with this only due to a female nature they then deny.
Masquerading as women's voice & will, they have inflicted a greater catastrophe on women & girls than any imaginary Patriarchy ever could.