@15to1quiz Hello! My dear dad was on the gameshow back in the 90s. I'm desperately trying to find a video of his particular episode. It was back in the 1990s. Do you have any way you can help me please?
@Protag_Man@Fortnite I prefer my twitter feed without bandwaggoning morons who don't understand the difference between standing up for biological women's rights and some performative outrage they claim to feel. But it looks like neither of us are getting what we want today.
@pennygeer@DPJHodges Oh, please. That's tame compared to what most people in this country would like to say to her! It's not immature. It's a perfectly relevant, if not scathing, take on Rachel's incompetence.
What is your objective in saying this? Is it to haul the undecided over to your side with a slogan, or to chip away at the people who already dislike us? Because if it’s the former, it isn’t working. And if it’s the latter, it’s working in reverse.
Over the last five years, this kind of absolutist sloganeering has achieved only one thing, and that is to calcify the public mood. It has not softened anyone, it has not persuaded anyone, and it has given clever people, the Dawkins-type materialists, a free and easy win. They hear “trans women are literally women” and react with obvious disbelief. And frankly, who can blame them? You are demanding assent to a literalism that collapses the moment anyone asks a basic question about biology, and then you label them a bigot for failing to nod along.
Calling people transphobes because they disagree with your metaphysics of gender is not activism, it’s a tantrum. Most people aren’t frightened of us in the slightest, they simply don’t accept the claim that a trans woman is, in the strict sense, identical to a natal woman. You don’t fix that by shouting. You don’t fix it by insisting that disagreement equals hatred. You make yourself sound unhinged, and you take the rest of us with you.
If you said something more grounded, something like, “Trans women are doing their best to live in the only way that lets them function and survive, and even if they’re not biologically identical to women, it is an act of basic decency to treat them kindly,” people would listen. You might even win a few over. But you don’t say that. You choose the most brittle, incendiary framing possible, and then you act shocked when the public rolls its eyes.
All you’re doing is giving ammunition to people who already think the whole thing is absurd. And frankly, for someone who claims to understand public perception, that is astonishingly reckless.
Helen is not merely wrong here, she’s actively making things worse. And someone needs to say it.
This legitimately upsets me. This hero speaks from horrifying experience and from his heart, & he's met with patronising platitudes & the most asinine and tone deaf question - "what do you mean by that?" You know exactly what he means by that!
This country is broken.
🚨BREAKING: British veteran breaks down live on TV over state of the country:
"Rows and rows of white tombs for what? A country of today? No, I'm sorry. The sacrifice wasn't worth the result.
I fought for freedom, and it's darn-sight worse now than when I fought."