Madame du Bois

Perpetually perplexed and invariably misses the point. XX marks the spot.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

If you don’t think he’s a woman, you’re transphobic. When he claimed to be a woman, he became a woman. He now belongs in women’s changing rooms, bathrooms, hospital wards, prison cells and rape support centres.

If you try and differentiate between him and a trans woman who looks more convincing as a woman, you are promoting patriarchal beauty norms. If you admit to seeing an aggressive and possibly unbalanced man in this video, you’re saying all trans people are mentally ill predators. If you refuse to let him into female-only spaces, you’re removing his right to exist. If you suggest he could comfortably use male facilities, you secretly want him assaulted. If you refuse to call him ‘she’, you are guilty of unpardonable cruelty. If you’re a woman who wouldn’t want to share a locker room with him, or a man who wouldn’t want your daughter, sister or mother to get undressed in close proximity to him, you belong to the far-right. If you point out that there is no objective difference between his claim to be a woman and that of any other biological male claiming a trans identity, you are too stupid to understand the circular arguments explaining why he’s not really trans whereas other men who say they’re women are really trans.

If you’re righteous, you must argue that this man’s self-declared identity overrides any consideration of the safety and rights of females. To be godly, you must agree he’s as ‘valid’ as every other trans woman, because people are who they say they are. No matter what your eyes, ears and common sense are telling you, if you don’t want to end up on the wrong side of history, you must pretend to believe that this angry, intimidating man is actually a vulnerable, oppressed woman.

[Madame du Bois @mazzarati888]

@JournalistJill @Psychgirl211 @AllisonMorris1 I thought Ms Morris was utterly woeful: incoherent, illogical & oh, so blindly captured. She demonstrated such lack of critical thinking & just repeated the usual tropes. Seems we’re all at one with Trump, then!

[Lola @thefempire50]

Girls who deserve female only sports:

Girls that are shit at sports
Girls that come last place
Girls that train really hard
Girls that could train harder
Girls that don’t know they will get into sports as an adult
Girls that come fifth place
Girls doing races that aren’t a race but are timed and record first finishers
Girls that are mediocre
Girls that excel

All of them deserve fairness.

[Sam Morgan @CrunchAlias]

The purpose of sporting categories is not to balance inclusion and fairness; it is to limit inclusion, in order to ensure fairness.

[wokeandwoofing @wokeandwoofing]

I saved my son from toxic masculinity by transing him into a girl. He's still a violent little misogynist but all of that is coming from a feminine place now, so it's all ok.

[Madame du Bois @mazzarati888]

@NiallHarbison Given Rocky’s no longer in the Veteran’s Corner, can I live there..?🤪

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

The attempt to redefine women as a loose collection of superficial stereotypes, often drawn directly from pornography and regressive ideas of female passivity and submissiveness, benefits only the sex who imposed those stereotypes on women in the first place.

[Madame du Bois @mazzarati888]

@esjayXX Crikey. Makes me yearn for compulsory conscription, if only to keep them off the streets🙄.

[Madame du Bois @mazzarati888]

@wil_da_beast630 @CattyArt1 Is it, though? Couldn’t this simply be performative narcissism whereby the man has garnered attention through shocking tactics to make him feel oh, so important? Colin from Accounts in a wig?

[Madame du Bois @mazzarati888]

@fiona_graph @LoudBonnet This was exactly my first thought. God, what dark times.😔

[Emily @EKaht]

Girls' high school sports exist FOR girls. They do not exist to serve as a suicide prevention program for boys. The girls therefore have the rightful claim here, much as you try to trivialize the benefits to them while catastrophizing the impact on the boys.

[Madame du Bois @mazzarati888]

@MrMennoTweets @dollydhalay What I mean is that the exclusion of men in the Olympics (in female categories) simply underlines the ideological nature of Australia’s trans’ policies. Train up a man in a dress in female sport & he hits a brick wall in the Olympics because he’s a man. It makes no sense.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Trouble is, 'trans' isn't an adjective. 'Trans woman' is a compound noun meaning 'man who wants to be considered a woman.' If the individual being described isn't trans, he's simply a man, whereas a bespectacled woman remains a woman even if she's not wearing glasses.

[Madame du Bois @mazzarati888]

@RichardJGrant Your equivalence is false. If I identify as black (yet was ‘assigned white at birth’), why wouldn’t black people want to debate/discuss this, given it impinges significantly on them?

[Madame du Bois @mazzarati888]

@ripx4nutmeg Why accept a post which you know will involve aspects of life you’d rather not be professionally involved with? Shows a complete lack of awareness.

[Madame du Bois @mazzarati888]

@ripx4nutmeg How are we to know the difference between fragile mental health & a bullying sense of entitlement? Seems civil servants are being compelled to bow to both. Stuff & nonsense.

[Madame du Bois @mazzarati888]

@pvshort @ripx4nutmeg @CrunchAlias @bbcpress Quite🙄.

[Madame du Bois @mazzarati888]

@emmajaned0lan @BBC Nope - the BBC is irredeemable. I just need to know what the consequences are of stopping my license: gotta continue to watch GB News🤪.

[Madame du Bois @mazzarati888]

@ripx4nutmeg Oh, ffs.🤦‍♀️