Aman’s Reviews > Enemy Feminisms: TERFs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation > Status Update

"[As} Bryn {Kelly} reminds us, “Figuring out how to live together is hard. To exist in community with people who constantly piss you off is exhausting, but ultimately: worth it.” Most non-transfeminists are not enemies. In all kinds of intergenerational feminist and lesbian communities, it often happens that someone says, “Hey. Did you know you hurt me? Can we talk about that?”—and is heard."
a moving chapter, 10/10

"[... Beans] Velocci writes, “what sex ‘really’ is, if it really is anything, doesn’t matter.” [Sex} is not in itself the reason anything happens; rather, it is pressed into service as a concept rationalizing oppression. Defining women is not and has not, historically, been remotely necessary for feminism to proceed, and until recently, it was hardly ever feminism’s game."
!!!

"[It] might almost be entertaining to watch [Janice] Raymond careen neurotically in and out of the foothills of a realization [...] that solidarity between trans and non-trans women is logical. “It could be said that all women who conform to [the feminine] are transsexuals, [...]” she writes. Well, sure! But in that case, she is willing [...] to say [...] that cis feminine women are disgusting too—so there."

"This can’t be happening. This woman is insisting that Beth Elliott not be permitted to perform because Beth is [trans]… The vote is overwhelmingly in favor of permitting Beth to perform. She begins … but that small but vocal anti-Beth group makes so much noise she can’t be heard. I don’t know when I’ve ever been so scared….Beth begins to play, though I can’t understand how she can even do it. She is shaking so bad."

crying throwing up learning that Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a terf

"[The 'Let Women Speak'] rally in Melbourne [...] was “attended and supported by white supremacist groups, who marched the streets repeatedly performing the Nazi salute.” Remarkably, J. K. Rowling responded to these headlines by condemning not the fascists but the anti-fascist counter-protestors, one of whom had poured tomato juice on the rally leader (this was, according to Rowling, “Kellie-Jay being assaulted”)."

getting owned by ezra klein of all people should be too embarrassing to come back from

In 2019, a group of Muslim feminists protested a conference in Frankfurt at which [Alice] Schwarzer was pontificating on the headscarf (an item of clothing she has likened to the swastika and Nazism). Footage circulated in which Schwarzer exits the building and approaches the women, only to [...] exclaim—when one of them tells her not to touch her —“I thought it was only men who aren’t allowed to touch you!”

"This is how xenophobic [...] politics become synonymous with women’s rights. {Female} migrants [...] are loaded down on arrival with “How to Live in the Netherlands” starter packs that presume [...] a regressive, sexist starting point [on the male migrants' part] that needs to be “enlightened” [...] (even as the feminist host society enrolls female arrivals in hyper-traditionally “sexed” forms of low-paid work)."

bari weiss mention lol