The New Yorker writes about why some feminists do not want to accept trans women as real women, and do not want them using women's restrooms or attending women-onlyevents. Radical Feminist events have even been cancelled due to protests by trans activists. One radical feminist convention wasa ctually held in secret partially due to threat received from trans people. The radical feminists even released a document stating how alarmed they were at the violent threats they received from these trans people. Quoting a feminist from the 70's:
"I will not call a male “she”; thirty-two years of suffering in this androcentric society, and of surviving, have earned me the title “woman”; one walk down the street by a male transvestite, five minutes of his being hassled (which he may enjoy), and then he dares, he dares to think he understands our pain? No, in our mothers’ names and in our own, we must not call him sister...
Trans women say that they are women because they feel female, that, as some put it, they have women’s brains in men’s bodies. Radical feminists reject the notion of a “female brain.” They believe that if women think and act differently from men it’s because society forces them to, requiring them to be sexually attractive, nurturing, and deferential. In the words of Lierre Keith, a speaker at Radfems Respond, femininity is “ritualized submission.”
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/0...n-2?src=mp
Steve Sailer gets a kick out of this, noting:
"There’s a certain historic irony and inevitability to lesbian feminists being routed by the only people claiming to be women who are even more ferociously masculine than themselves: individuals with actual Y-chromosomes."
http://www.unz.com/isteve/world-war-t-ne...dominance/
Its very complicated for all these different factionsvto get along...
"I will not call a male “she”; thirty-two years of suffering in this androcentric society, and of surviving, have earned me the title “woman”; one walk down the street by a male transvestite, five minutes of his being hassled (which he may enjoy), and then he dares, he dares to think he understands our pain? No, in our mothers’ names and in our own, we must not call him sister...
Trans women say that they are women because they feel female, that, as some put it, they have women’s brains in men’s bodies. Radical feminists reject the notion of a “female brain.” They believe that if women think and act differently from men it’s because society forces them to, requiring them to be sexually attractive, nurturing, and deferential. In the words of Lierre Keith, a speaker at Radfems Respond, femininity is “ritualized submission.”
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/0...n-2?src=mp
Steve Sailer gets a kick out of this, noting:
"There’s a certain historic irony and inevitability to lesbian feminists being routed by the only people claiming to be women who are even more ferociously masculine than themselves: individuals with actual Y-chromosomes."
http://www.unz.com/isteve/world-war-t-ne...dominance/
Its very complicated for all these different factionsvto get along...