Vox, on the Tranny/TERF Wars

This isn't cutting edge news, but for some reason was pulled to the forefront on the Interwebs today.

The upshot is that there is more trouble in the intersectional Big Tent, because a group of the radical feminists are fighting with the trannies. In a way, it is completely understandable. After demeaning themselves by marching around in stupid-looking, "pink pussy hats" to secure the special rights they are due, why should feminists have to share their status with a bunch of shitlord men who want to "identify" as women?

Just as Nkechi Amare Diallo raises the spectre of "cultural appropriation," the "transwomen" are objectionable to real, physiological women (at least some of the radical feminist ones) as gender-appropriators. How dare they?? IT'S A GENDER, NOT A COSTUME, AND IT ISN'T OK!

I know you are probably wondering, "what about the 'transmen,' then?" Well, it turns out, they are subject to contempt and derision from the feminists as "victims of the Patriarchy," so they don't get any kind of a break either. The radical feminists charging behind the TERF banner disagree with the basic concept that "gender" is a subjective construct, and instead hew to the millennia-old, general view that a person's "gender" is the physiological gender the person was born with. So, in tranny terms, the feminist TERFers are "denying the existence" of the trannies.

It will be interesting to see how this gets sorted out, or whether it even will. Maybe it will be like the rabid antisemitism that has come to be accepted inside the Big Tent simply because some Farrakhan-fan-feminists refuse to give that up. I think the bottom line with the Big Tent is, whether they ever get rid of Trump or not, there will never be any slackening of the discord, because they hate each other just as much as they hate him. Should they ever manage to accomplish the declared, collective goal, it is reasonably clear they will simply turn to shanking each other at the earliest possible opportunity.

https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/9/5/20840101/terfs-radical-feminists-gender-critical