Males think they're brave enough to fight a gorilla but in reality they’re not even brave enough to tell their friend to stop making women uncomfortable.
Imagine a group of white people saying that they know what it’s like to “feel black,” and that because of this feeling, and their enjoyment of stereotypically “black behavior,” they are now not just black themselves, but the most marginalized and vulnerable type of black person.
Imagine them insisting that they should be the main focus of all activism meant to help black people. Imagine them having taxpayer-funded operations to darken their skin and mimic stereotypically black features.
Imagine them walking around in blackface, and saying it’s better than being born black.
Imagine them being referred to as black in the press and supported by celebrities, with laws passed to make white people who identify as black a protected class.
Imagine these people demanding membership in black organizations, and demanding they be given awards created specifically to honor black achievement.
Then imagine them getting their way.
Now imagine mobs of them showing up to black events that don’t include them to drown out any speakers with noise, and coming up with slurs for any black person who doesn’t accept that white people are black if they say they are.
Imagine them calling for the rape, torture, and mass murder of any black person who disagrees with them. Imagine them getting black people doxxed, harassed, assaulted, fired from their jobs, and investigated by the police for saying that you have to be born black to be black.
Now imagine the government supporting their demands.
That’s exactly the position that women are in right now, with a few extras, like being locked in cells with dangerous men, the sexual predation of lesbians via coercion, and the increased risk of sexual assault in formerly female-only spaces.
Our greatest oppressors are now claiming not only the right to oppress us in whole new ways, but the right to erase our identities as women and rewrite the meaning of womanhood in ways that not just include, but prioritize them.
If you wouldn’t support this kind of behavior towards black people, you have no business supporting this kind of behavior towards women.
We’ve all had a few days to sit with @JuliaGillard’s declaration of whoops and as the minutes go by, the angrier I get. Not just at the admission that, basically, it was a “regret” to open up the legal category of women to men, but at the reluctance to admit it was wrong.
And the fact that it’s only now, after amazing UK women & men are putting on pressure by turning up to her events to remind of her of the whooosy, that she dares to say anything.
Not when @jk_rowling was getting countless r*pe & d*ath threat from the very men these kind of laws were changed to include.
Not when a man in his 50s took a pregnant woman (🙋♀️) to federal court, using that very specific Australian law change & institutional capture to his advantage.
Not when @ActiveLesbians were told by the Australian Human Rights Commission that heterosexual men who claim to be lesbians must be included in lesbian events.
Not when @martina came under attack for defending women’s sport, years after already battling for LGB rights.
Not when @KirralieS was dragged through courts for bringing attention to MEN who claim to be women in womens sport.
Not when that very league told the women in that sport if they so much as walk off the field because men are on it *they* will be punished.
Not when media started reporting on school girls not drinking WATER at school because boys were in the only unisex bathroom available to them & no adults would help them.
Not when women prisoners finally got word to the outside that they were in cells with MALE SEX OFFENDERS, locked up with them only because the Gillard amendments to the sex discrimination act (arguably) allowed it.
Not when Jasmine Sussex’s life was turned upside down for stating the fact that men cannot breastfeed infants, and because men can be women in law suddenly she’s the bad guy.
Not when the sex discrimination commissioner told senate estimates that men who claim to be women can have pregnancy protections in law but women can’t have single sex spaces, thereby interpreting the Gillard amendments to give men protections they don’t need while taking away women’s protections we do need.
Not when countless women in Australia and around the world were and are being punished for saying NO to this absolute bullsh-t that men can be women in law.
She said nothing until it started to interrupt her day in the mildest of ways. It’s pathetic.
How in the everloving fruitcake do we live in a country where a man who has sexually harassed more than 150 women IS NOW STILL FREE TO BECOME A DOCTOR???
#NewsCorpse
@AlboMP Women aren’t even defined in law & you’re doing nothing while a single mother (🙋♀️) is dragged through federal court for almost half a decade to reestablish the correct definition when you could do it in a week. Sit down, sir.
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Women and girls do not challenge men who walk into women's bathrooms because they are scared of the kind of men who feel entitled to walk into women's bathrooms. This is not men being "accepted as women", this is men being treated like men.
No Phil, I shouldn’t.
My starting point is I don’t believe a male can ‘transition to be a female’.
Beyond that, I do not consent to losing my right to a single-sex space, in order to satisfy the delusion of men….
In 2013, under @JuliaGillard’s government, the definitions of woman & man were removed from Australia’s sex discrimination act. Gender identity was added. Chaos has ensued.
No one voted for this. Very few people want this. No man is a woman.
Make the law reflect reality.