@KnownHeretic This sounds like what sexual predators do. They start having "secrets" with other people's kids. That's how they start grooming them. Any good parent knows that your child should know that they can tell you absolutely anything no matter what. That's how you keep them safe!!!!
Language Matters: The Dangers of Confusing Kids About Language
Language development is also the development of epistemic trust—trusting the process of knowing–a child’s growing confidence that what they perceive, feel, notice, and know can be relied upon.
When a toddler points to a dog and says, “Dog!” and the parent responds, “Yes, that’s a dog,” something profound is happening. The child is not merely learning a word. They are learning:
I can perceive reality.
I can make distinctions.
My observations have meaning.
The people I trust recognize what I recognize.
My experience of the world is real.
Every successful act of naming is simultaneously an act of authority building.
Developmentally, children spend years learning to coordinate multiple sources of information:
Their sensory experience (”I see a dog.”)
Their bodily experience (”Something feels wrong.”)
Their emotional experience (”I’m scared.”)
Social confirmation (”Yes, you saw that correctly.”)
When these align, children develop a stable sense of self and reality.
This is why affirmation matters so much.
A child who says, “That man is angry,” and is told, “You’re right, he does look angry,” learns to trust perception.
A child who says, “I don’t want to hug him,” and is told, “Okay, you don’t have to,” learns to trust bodily signals.
The child is building an internal reference point.
The danger comes when adults repeatedly undermine that process.
Take a question like:
“Is milk bigger than water?”
Adults often see this as harmless wordplay. The problem is that the question violates the child’s attempt to build stable categories.
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There is no such thing as a trans woman.
This is addiction to fetish. He has an obsessive thought, objectification of women, compartmentalization of women, consumerism and consumption of women, control of women as the self made object, and self objectification.
While I might have sympathy for his addiction. I don’t condone his public fetishizing of women.
These men objectify women, then self objectify themselves as their fantasy woman.
They think their autogynophilic self objectification makes them more of a woman than women who don’t hyperfeminize and sexualize themselves.
@crit_gen@BBCWomansHour@joannaccherry If a man can be regarded as a woman solely on the basis of his own assertion, then a woman is equally free to reject that assertion and say she does not believe he is a woman. One person's right to make a claim does not obligate others to accept it as true.
This is what I mean when I say, LANGUAGE IS THE BATTLEFIELD.
Language controls the realm of allowable thought. Even Fox News is reporting that there is a “ban on trans athletes.”
An athlete’s trans status is IRRELEVANT to the ruling. The ruling is an upholding of the category of sex when it comes to female sports. Women who claim trans identities will still be able to play on female only sports teams as long as they are not doping on testosterone.
This reporting reifies the category of “trans” as something real. Thinking people reject the notion of trans outright. No one is “trans” and mental beliefs are irrelevant when it comes to safeguarding and fairness in women and girls’ sports.
(Thank you to @babybeginner for collecting these headings.)
@MissyReiss@Phoenixsnot6@BriannaWu There is no such thing as “gender dysphoria.” There is no such thing as an innate gender identity. The term “gender dysphoria” is a propaganda term to normalize adult male fetish by claiming kids can be “born in the wrong body.”
@HazelAppleyard Telling the truth is not bullying, its cleansing. I encourage everyone to walk outside, announce the earth is round, it orbits the sun, humans cannot change sex and men who insist otherwise are mentally disturbed.
The massive mistake many of you made and still make, is to call them transwomen. The second you use that word to describe a bloke who’s wearing a dress, he’s winning, because you’ve used the word woman in relation to him. He’s not a transwoman, he’s a bloke. Call him a bloke
And yes, Blackface and Womanface are the same in all but name.
And, to those asking how we 'regulate' clothing.
Well, we 'regulate' it in exactly the same way as we 'regulate' Blackface:
That is, by way of the social contract, where:
1. Adults (in this case, transvestite men), put a lid on their ego-driven, narcissitic behaviours.
2. Society (in this case us), stops celebrating the behaviour of such men.
We stop platforming them.
We stop putting them on TV at every opportunity.
We stop constantly producing sympathetic articles and 'news' features about them (here's looking at you @BBC).
We stop commissioning shows like 'RuPaul's Drag Race', (like we stopped the 'Black and White Minstrel Show'.)
That was once prime-time viewing, (the BBC again, do you see the pattern?), with its peak at 21 million viewers per episode.
That's nearly half of the then British TV-viewing population tuning in of a Saturday night to watch white men in an outrageous blacked-up caricature, dancing with white women.
Back then, this was not only acceptable behaviour.
It was celebrated.
It was indeed quite literally, applauded.
But it would be inconceivable now.
So we simply have to stop acting as if men dressed in public as women and wearing fake breasts is normal.
Because it is not, and pretty much everyone knows this.
But even back in the grim days of the Black and White Minstrel Show, there was concerted opposition, starting from almost its first airing in 1958.
The BBC ignored complaints (see a pattern?), and this disgraceful spectacle lasted another 20 years in its TV run, until it was finally, thankfully, taken off air in 1978. (It was a weekly humiliating, mortifying cringe-fest and I clearly remember my parents being both ecstatic and profoundly relieved when this happened.)
The show also had a 10-year theatrical run at the Victoria Palace Theatre in the West End, where it was described as a 'commercial juggernaut'.
The @VictoriaPalace is still going strong.
Would they now put on a theatrical run of the Black and White Minstrel show?
We all know the bloody answer to that!
So, that's how we stop men doing the insulting, degrading, paraphillic performance of Womanface.
We stop it by not normalising or excusing it.
Or by pretending that we can't bloody do anything about it.