Excellent! I'm so glad I found DIAG and I look forward to more writing from you. It's time for Dems to step out of the shadows (I say from relative anonymity) and push back on this ideology!
Thank you, Jocelyn! Feminism is at the core of so many things -- women claiming power, women claiming names, labels, and archetypes. and women claiming their bodies. I look forward to the next one.
Thanks for all your hard work! So glad DIAG is on the scene. BTW, just happened over to the DIAG website today, and, for anyone who hasn't dropped by in a while, I highly recommend it. The site has been brilliantly updated, with a great new logo, and includes some superb calls for action with sample text and many other useful materials. I recommend heading on over there and picking out a call for action or two. (The sample letter calling on D Congressmembers to start a bipartisan investigation into "gender-affirming care," and into Admiral Levine’s involvement in misleading the families of gender-distressed children is excellent, and easy to use.) https://www.di-ag.org/speak-up
Sad to read your story about being cancelled. I used to like The Guardian. Looking forward to more of your writing. I do suggest we drop the word “critical” from our stance, though, because for too many people whom we would like to attract the word has a negative connotation like “denier.” I suggest saying we are sex realists or gender realists. Sex is based in material reality, of course, and gender is abstract, unfalsifiable woo, and we are realistic about that, too.
Quote: "I suggest saying we are sex realists or gender realists. Sex is based in material reality, of course, and gender is abstract, unfalsifiable woo, and we are realistic about that, too."
Glad to see this. The women in the UK who have worked tirelessly to critique the new ideology from the left (see Jane Clare Jones, primarily) have had to struggle with the usual suspects on the left letting loose with their (not very well disguised) misogyny and, on top of that, GC women, some pf whom were once their allies, who have started making friends with the right, at first on the naive theory that any exposure to GC ideas is good and that the more exposure the better, even if it means going on Fox News (and worse), but lately just flat out alignment with right wing anti-immigrant groups. Looking at you, Posie Parker. If the left had listened to women in the beginning, or had found any time for the many women who tried to argue these positions, we wouldn't be having to dig our way out of right-wing talking points as we are now. And maybe fewer women would have been exiled from their political networks, and leftist men would have saved themselves from being exposed as effing misogynists who in their heart of hearts are thrilled to have new slurs to shout at women. *cough* Um, so yeah, glad to see you. :D
Brilliant!! Welcome, Jocelyn — what an amazing asset you’ll be to DIAG. And well done, Ellie and Eliza.
Thanks, Jenny. It was your brilliant interview that drew me in!
That makes my day. Also, I'm thinking an interview with you on the podcast would draw others in -- let's talk!
I would love that!
Excellent! I'm so glad I found DIAG and I look forward to more writing from you. It's time for Dems to step out of the shadows (I say from relative anonymity) and push back on this ideology!
Thank you, Jocelyn! Feminism is at the core of so many things -- women claiming power, women claiming names, labels, and archetypes. and women claiming their bodies. I look forward to the next one.
Thanks! Looking forward to future installments!
With any luck we will bring sanity back to the masses. Thank you.
Thanks for all your hard work! So glad DIAG is on the scene. BTW, just happened over to the DIAG website today, and, for anyone who hasn't dropped by in a while, I highly recommend it. The site has been brilliantly updated, with a great new logo, and includes some superb calls for action with sample text and many other useful materials. I recommend heading on over there and picking out a call for action or two. (The sample letter calling on D Congressmembers to start a bipartisan investigation into "gender-affirming care," and into Admiral Levine’s involvement in misleading the families of gender-distressed children is excellent, and easy to use.) https://www.di-ag.org/speak-up
Sad to read your story about being cancelled. I used to like The Guardian. Looking forward to more of your writing. I do suggest we drop the word “critical” from our stance, though, because for too many people whom we would like to attract the word has a negative connotation like “denier.” I suggest saying we are sex realists or gender realists. Sex is based in material reality, of course, and gender is abstract, unfalsifiable woo, and we are realistic about that, too.
Quote: "I suggest saying we are sex realists or gender realists. Sex is based in material reality, of course, and gender is abstract, unfalsifiable woo, and we are realistic about that, too."
Excellent idea.
Glad to see this. The women in the UK who have worked tirelessly to critique the new ideology from the left (see Jane Clare Jones, primarily) have had to struggle with the usual suspects on the left letting loose with their (not very well disguised) misogyny and, on top of that, GC women, some pf whom were once their allies, who have started making friends with the right, at first on the naive theory that any exposure to GC ideas is good and that the more exposure the better, even if it means going on Fox News (and worse), but lately just flat out alignment with right wing anti-immigrant groups. Looking at you, Posie Parker. If the left had listened to women in the beginning, or had found any time for the many women who tried to argue these positions, we wouldn't be having to dig our way out of right-wing talking points as we are now. And maybe fewer women would have been exiled from their political networks, and leftist men would have saved themselves from being exposed as effing misogynists who in their heart of hearts are thrilled to have new slurs to shout at women. *cough* Um, so yeah, glad to see you. :D
oh what about afghan women who not have the rights to work or study or going to hospital what is the solution.