And vice versa with terfs cozying up to sexists who would have all the transphobic women in the kitchen as slaves to patriarchy when they win. Guess hating us is enough to break people's brains forever.
My favorite take on this meme is
Oppenheimer when the bomb he created to cause mass destruction causes mass destruction
Me when I am become death: Fuck Yeah!!! Yes!!
Me when I am destroying worlds: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck
saying she hates cis men is giving her too much credit. she is consistently far more worried about imaginary trans woman as predators than actual real cis men being predators
Radfems fear and despise anyone amab, seeing them as inherent sexual predators. For the cis men, this is just a fucked up brush to paint like half the population with, but radfems aren't in a position to oppress men. For trans women terf rhetoric leads to concrete harm and material actions against trans people instead of being only just fucked up and mean.
that's true, but i don't actually think jkr is a radfem. i think she's just a transphobe who happens to be friends with radfems and uses some of their language. she's too chummy with men for that
Wait, does JK Rowling hate CIS men? Honestly I haven't been playing close attention.
Kinda? Everything I've heard from her is Christian-style gender complimentarianism. It doesn't paint a flattering image of "either" gender, but of course it still elevates men over women
It's pretty much baked in to radical feminism.
women have a right to hate men sorry, y’all, misandry is justifiable
The modern right wing movement vesting itself in consumerism as a tool of political struggle is just not something I can bring myself to worry about.
Whatever they think they're doing with a played out franchise and a mediocre video game is dust in the wind.
Hierarchies of oppression degrade all participants, and I think the cooperation of figures like Rowling and Walsh is only confusing from the correct perspective of believing that people deserve better than oppression
We do deserve better, but both of those figures more or less share each other's views on "both" genders, just from a selfish perspective. Both of them believe that men and women each have an intrinsic nature and a proper "place" - and both can haughtily dismiss the other's statements based on gender whenever convenient. It's sort of like the complimentarian affirmations for members of Brave New World's different castes:
Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm really awfully glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid. They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki. Oh no, I don't want to play with Delta children. And Epsilons are still worse.
Always remind right-wingers that the "RF" in TERF stands for "radical feminist."
I remember getting linked to a Quillette article in which a TERF got silenced by her university for transphobia and the commenters gleefully pointed out that she had a blog where she freely silenced anyone who didn't agree with her. It was all fun and games when she got to do the censoring but the moment anyone did it to her she immediately ran crying to a free speech platform.
