FEMINISM, TRANSGENDER & ME

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When I was at university – late Pleistocene – I shared a flat with two women. Just two women. I really have been a woman loving man hating person all my life. One of those women, briefly my lover, was the President of the Liverpool University Guild of Undergraduates Women’s Group. The other woman, longer time lover of the woman briefly my lover, was the...
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jimdoxsee42:
I’ve just read your most recent blog posts.  As a 60 year old straight white cisgender neuroatypical man, I have lived a somewhat sheltered life.  Your blog posts were an education. I was disillusioned by what you said about Isaac Asimov and Robert Heinlein, in high school they were my favorite authors.  But as Sam Harris said “Being embarrassed by our ancestors is the price we pay for moral progress”. I live in the San Francisco Bay area in CA, most public restrooms here are now gender nonspecific.  I got used to this very quickly. It’s no big deal. Did you ever read “I Will Fear No Evil”?  I imagine his views were uninformed.
lucyamy:
@jimdoxsee42 Yes, I read that. I cannot relate it to the real world because it's just its own kind of weird.

NOT POSTMODERNISM AND FEMINISM

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OK, so recently I've been reading up on postmodernist thought & feminism, a whole topic that I will freely admit makes me want to vomit before I even start. So sick bags on standby (though that's actually a joke, because I never in fact make it to the subject). So, so informed/warned, read on.

First, all works I can find on the subject are, not...
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ROBERT ANSON HEINLEIN AND HEBEPHILIA

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It’s hard to believe that Robert Anson Heinlein (July 7, 1907 – May 8, 1988) was not a hebephile. I for sure believe he was. I suppose I should explain what a hebephile is, for those lucky enough not to have come across the word.

“Hebephilia is the sexual preference for early adolescent children (those roughly ages 11 to 14). Some evidence suggests that hebephilia...
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ISAAC ASIMOV & FEMINISM

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Isaac Asimov was a feminist. At least, in his own mind, Isaac Asimov was a feminist. Isaac Asimov was certainly one of the Big Three writers of Science Fiction’s Golden age (along with Robert Heinlein - I'll write about him later – and Arthur C. Clarke), and was my favourite author throughout my childhood.

But he was sure as hell not a feminist.

What is...
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littlejohn22:
His books read like this too

THE SILENCE OF THE VICTIMS

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Most women don't speak out when they're sexually harassed or even assaulted or raped. This is a documented fact, even in liberal societies where such harassment is illegal, and - in the workplace - even in companies that have good ways if dealing with it, HR departments that care, and have well-defined processes to follow. There are several reasons why women don’t speak out:

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Me and Me 2

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Chatting with my dear friend Casey (F, NY), we were discussing gender issues, and I’d suggested to her – in what I hope was a not-at-all-weird way – that I wished she had been my mother (no, seriously, in context it wasn’t weird, and I’m not really at liberty to explain the context). And Casey asked: “Serious question, if you were my little boy(?) what...
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Me and me

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Chatting with my dear friend Casey (F, NY), we were discussing gender issues, and I’d suggested to her – in what I hope was a not-at-all-weird way – that I wished she had been my mother (no, seriously, in context it wasn’t weird, and I’m not really at liberty to explain the context). And Casey asked: “Serious question, if you were my little boy(?) what...
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FEMINISM & TRANS WOMEN

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This subject always reminds me of the problem in feminism (thankfully now much diminished) of how to deal with and treat women who were not feminist, or worse, who spoke up against it. I never liked the idea of treating as traitors a fair proportion of the people we claimed to be fighting for (now men who fit that description, they’re obviously fair game). So...
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SO WHAT IS TERF ANYWAY?

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@LUCILOSER used this term in a comment on a post of mine, so I thought I really should do a blog to explain what it means.

TERF is an acronym for Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist, or bastard git¹ for short. The term was coined - or at least popularised - in 2008 by Viv Smythe², a trans-inclusive cisgender radical feminist blogger. Originally applied to...
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