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the comments thread is entertaining. I'm increasingly convinced that the article was a colossal own goal for her.

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by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Sat Nov 8th, 2008 at 07:47:16 AM EST
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But can she see it, or is everybody else just self obsessed and unreasonable?

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by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Sat Nov 8th, 2008 at 07:51:08 AM EST
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No I don't think she can. One of the things I have noted is that some political philosphies perform the same function in some people's lives as that of religion. It provides a complete and universal set of answers to life's questions and so long as you stay true to the "word", all will be well.

Just as with religionists, a lot of politicos, be they free-marketeers or communists can only interpret the evidence of the world's behaviours in the light of their understanding. Anything that doesn't fit is  rendered invisible to them or inventively explained away. Dinosaurs ? Easy. Children rode brontosauri to school before god sent the flood to kill them all.

We've seen the same with other radfems who seem ot live in a very much different world (a much darker one too) than the one you or I perceive. She is utterly impervious to criticism. Doctors tell her she is wrong about transgenderism and she dismisses them as being part of the transgender-medical complex, a sinister patriarchal organisation dedicated to finding male dupes to mutilate and re-programme to send out into the world to colonise and infiltrate the sisterhood. Fortunately she is wise to their games.

You cannot reach her, which is why we refuse her when she offers "debate" because the only discussion she'll accept is one where she gets to tell us that we're all freaks and wrong and she's right.

Instead we seek to reach out to feminists and most of the LGB community and convince them that our fight is their fight. We keep returning to the point that nobody loses their job for who they sleep with, but how they look or behave. So looking after the T is self-protection for LGB. Radfems can't be reached and it's our job to isolate, not engage with them.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Sat Nov 8th, 2008 at 08:38:59 AM EST
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Some people are just utterly incapable of stepping outside of themselves and seeing how they have been perceived.  

I wonder what it will take to create a social shift in the attitudes towards transgender people?  A colleague mentioned to me a few weeks back how recently ie the last 3 or 4 years, being gay has suddenly taken a shift to becoming far more socially acceptable but without there being one key turning point that we can point to to explain the shift.  Whereas with things like gender and race there are some defining moments that has created a shift in the public consciousness.

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by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Sat Nov 8th, 2008 at 02:52:02 PM EST
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She would probably be happier writing for another newspaper.

The implicit (almost explicit) message seems to be, I've got mine, now why don't the rest of you whiners STFU.

Mary Cheney indeed.

The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman

by dvx (dvx.clt ät gmail dotcom) on Sat Nov 8th, 2008 at 08:17:36 AM EST
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