So where do we go from here? The last chapter is supposed to address that. Chapter 11 He generally has a problem with accounts in terms of racism, sexism, etc., and his stated reason is that everyone should just agree to disagree. It’s not that the trans movement is actually “at cross-purposes with the concerns…
Picking up where the last post left off… Chapter 7 This is the chapter for his thoughts on race. He’s not a trustworthy guide to the topic. Part of it is that he’s actively in favor of mystification, which is another way of putting his rejection of “teleological presumption” in theh previous chapter. Some people…
Picking up where the previous post left off… Chapter 5 It turns out Serano actually does cite Pascoe’s Dude You’re a Fag: If adolescent girls’ expressions of gender and burgeoning sexualities are largely policed via the threat of slut-shaming, then the policing of boys’ genders and sexualities is often centered on a different “s”-word: “sissy.”…
I’ve said many times that I think the trans movement is a great leap backwards from feminism. Feminists had already done the work of describing patriarchy, rape culture, the male gaze, madonna/whore issues, etc. There’s theory of why the world is like this and what to do about it. The problem with “transphobia” is that…
I’ve been reading salon.com for like 20 years. I don’t remember Glenn Greenwald representing himself as anything but a libertarian. Libertarians are far right contrarian types, and they always have been. In the 2000s, you could go on reason.com and find sensible opinions against war and the drug war. Ron Paul was racist, but he…
Trans identity MUST spread through social contagion. It follows from the trans movement’s own premises: gender is a social construction, so it follows that it’s historically contingent. Once, being “trans” wasn’t a thing. Now it is. Obviously, people had to get the idea from somewhere. They got it from “trans visibility” of all kinds. This…