I post a link to an article attacking sections of the left for enabling violent misogyny and it provokes a bunch of irrationalist denunciations.
Louis, for instance, claims: "Phil uses the word "trans-identified" as a label for ISO and British SWP members." I do not. Trans-identified males are men who identify as transwomen, NOT the membership of ISO or the SWP. There is a significant section of them who post hideous exhortations for the rape, stabbing, torture, maiming and killing of gender-critical women, on their facebook pages alone. There is an increasingly oddball section of the left that defends this, apologises for it, and is happy to see the capitalist state used against feminists who hold a materialist analysis of sex, rather than embracing a postmodernist, Judith Butler-style analysis in which gender rules and is "performative" (to use a Butlerism). A lot of the left has become swamped by postmodern gender theory and rejected material reality and materialism. And it has done so to the extent where it simply looks the other way when faced with men threatening women with maiming, raping and killing women. If this was whites claiming to be blacks and demanding to be accepted as black and going into any and every space won by black people and putting out violent hatred like this would not be tolerated at all. But, apparently, when directed at women, there is a bunch of left men lining up to excuse and defend them. It's ugly, it's hideous and it's a sign of the degeneration of chunks of the left. Fortunately, there is also a section of the left getting organised to push back and continue to defend/support women's rights. Phil -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#5348): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/5348 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/79562697/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
