Strange bedfellows and uncomfortable alliances are one thing, but I'm seeing a lot of parents who seem pleased as punch, downright eager to be working with "god hates f***" homophobes. If they don't dial it back several notches, and fast, they are going to be standing alone.
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Replying to @DykeSolidarity
There are a lot of parents who feel they have been shafted by the left, by (liberal, but they might not see the distinction) feminism, by medicine and media and by LGBTQ+ orgs that are all about pushing T as the latest groovyist step on the path of progressiveness. >
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Replying to @dad_gc @DykeSolidarity
Waiting for permission to speak, from the left, from media, from the sort of feminism with a voice, isn't going to feel like progress to parents whose kids are 6 months or less from a T script or mastectomy. >
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Replying to @dad_gc @DykeSolidarity
Yes we have to be strategic, but we have to have a credible resistance for parents to pins their hopes to. In the UK we are lucky, we have WPUK, PP, Venice, Man Fridays, we had Magdalen, We gained a voice in the Times and the Mail, we had well known feminists like Bindel. >
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Replying to @dad_gc @DykeSolidarity
If you are a parent in Portland, where is your hope?
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Replying to @dad_gc
Lost my dad 3hr ago so gonna take a pass other than say I've always been supportive of strategic coalition & really *anything* that will help reach a mainstream audience in helpful way. That's not my issue here. At all. But I very well may be misreading you in this moment.
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Replying to @DykeSolidarity
I just find it painful when people I respect on both sides tear each apart. I've read Wolfs analysis, seems sensible to me, but I've also read Brennans and I respect her. The thought of Brennan leading a chant over Linda Bellos is like watching your parents punch each other. >
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Replying to @dad_gc @DykeSolidarity
IANAL, I cant pretend to speak about lesbian or feminist politics, I can empathise with the pain of parents, I know their rage. I have felt it. I'm not saying I was right in that rage, but I can see where it comes from.
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Yes sometimes we have ti put our emotions on hold, for years. Sometimes we don't do that very well.
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IMHO, this isn't about "putting emotions on hold." The discussion some of us have tried (but failed) to have is: If you want to reach a wide audience, why ask a whole group of people/orgs who have built their brand on extreme homophobia to write for and sponsor your work?
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Replying to @4th_WaveNow @DykeSolidarity
I don't disagree with you. I think its very unfortunate that homophobic orgs were able to use parents pain to sneakily push their homophobia.I value the way DTs have told us how much of the pressure to trans comes from societies homophobia. But, >
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Replying to @dad_gc @4th_WaveNow
You can always stop without the "but" and let that acknowledgement sit, lol.
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