Writes Laura Witt at Wear Your Voice/Intersectional Feminist Media.
ADDED: This is some great PR jujitsu.** Men are squealing to body-slam their way into a movie they'd have distanced themselves from. The woman-superhero purveyors have learned something since the lady Ghostbusters flop of 2016. The new idea is to act like you don't want men to see the movie. Suddenly, it's desirable. This movie is playing hard to get. Such a delightfully old-fashioned way to lure men.
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* The announcement read:
“The most iconic superheroine in comic book history finally has her own movie, and what better way to celebrate than with an all-female screening? Apologies, gentlemen, but we’re embracing our girl power and saying “No Guys Allowed” for one special night at the Alamo Ritz. And when we say “People Who Identify As Women Only,” we mean it. Everyone working at this screening — venue staff, projectionist, and culinary team — will be female.”** Sorry for the culturally appropriative metaphor.
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«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 212 of 212I can feel sorry for people who genuinely feel a sexual orientation that does not match their actual genitalia, but what about the child who is tone deaf but wants to be a singer? What about the guy with poor hand-eye coordination who wants to play professional baseball?
Or the blind man/woman who yearns to be a pilot? I half expected this to be foisted on us by the ADA at some point.
My widowed great-grandmother built a small hotel in 1904 and ran it for 35 years, her spinster daughter another 30 years. People did what they had to do before the safety net. Curiously, they didn't allow women upstairs in their hotel.
My grandmother didn't find out until her sister died that she had inherited half of it.
""Cis" is about noticing the advantages of feeling like the sex that you physically happen to be. That sex could be male or female."
Of course, I enjoy the advantages. But I also enjoy not being blind, retarded, having two arms, legs, ears, eyes, etc. But I refuse to accept their moral authority to demand that I put their disadntage, their disability, over those experienced by many others, through the enforced use of invented terminology.
"But that's the point! You're not noticing the advantage. The word is prodding you to notice."
No, not prodding, but demanding, through use of language. Adopt their language, and implicitly accept the disadvantage of being "trans" is more important, more debilitating, than, say, being blind, having Down's syndrome, not graduating from high school, not growing up in a stable two parent family, being a convicted felon, being born crack addicted, etc. We don't invent new words, and then demand their use, for other disadvantages. What makes being "trans" so much more important than 100 other disadvantages in life, for which new verbiage has not been invented and then enforced?
"That's your perspective as you are aware of new disadvantages, but I don't think you are sufficiently tuned in to the disadvantages of being female. You call out the "whiney girl-child cry bully" or whatever, but you think you sound sober and objective when you observe that the male has lost ground over the years. You were used to having the clearly dominant position. That's your point of reference. You've lost some of that. Your assessment of who's ahead now is subjective."
As for the terminology, I was just trying to flip the script. I don't usually talk that way. Normal people don't. And, yes, my view is subjective of which group is where, as no doubt is yours. Still, there are a lot of statistics that are indices supporting my view on which sex is ahead right now, ranging from high school and college graduation rates, incarceration rates, suicide rates, life expectancies, etc.
But I also enjoy not being blind, retarded, having two arms, legs, ears, eyes, etc.
So you've got extra parts? How cool.
"Adopt their language, and implicitly accept the disadvantage of being "trans" is more important, more debilitating, than, say, being blind, having Down's syndrome, not graduating from high school, not growing up in a stable two parent family, being a convicted felon, being born crack addicted, etc. We don't invent new words, and then demand their use, for other disadvantages. What makes being "trans" so much more important than 100 other disadvantages in life, for which new verbiage has not been invented and then enforced?"
This is rich. A key part of this argument is that new verbiage was never invented for having Down's syndrome?! "We don't invent new words, and then demand their use, for other disadvantages." Yes, yes we do. And thank you for the illustration. Man, just so rich...
"The irony that the London screening was cancelled because of Manchester"
The feminist movement died a millisecond after impact - Lucifer's Hammer, where SMOD forced a reality check.
Bruce is also pleasantly ignorant of his Surname Privilege. As a W I was always ordered into the back of the classvroom. My wife was always forced to endure extra scrutiny with the other A's a the front. But not Bruce Hayden, nooooo. He got to live it up in the middle of the classvroom. Everytime he posts and I see his H name, it's like I'm being raped all over again!
I guess we need a new word for those suffering from Surname Oppression. Nutjob and Look just don't cover it anymore.
Myself, I've always identified as a B
End the oppression!
Loon not look.
But I dont undertand why we are even discussing this. The Left assured us that Trump would round up all the LGBTXYZs. Remember all the "safety pin" virtue signalling? So what happened, did one of the camps have an escape?
I find it ironic that the Germans were more 'woke' for feminism than Americans were. In 1918, German women had the right to vote, the 19th Amendment was not approved by Congress until 1919, and not ratified by the states until 1920.
Of course, it would probably be 'Islamophobic' to have Wonder Woman fight the real misogynistic types in the modern day like ISIS.
Scott, I don't know that the Germans share our sexual mores. Remember under Hitler they wanted every Jungfrau to lie with any Aryan soldier and crank out babies, no marriage or commitment necessary. Look at their porn today. Aside from the astonishing sexual acts, they are often having sex in public, sometimes in parks, sometimes on public transportation with apparently real people around them, watching it averting their gazes. They ain't like us.
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