She said the way Grace talks about abortions shows Grace is not female. Which I agree with. Just because some women don't find abortions to be harrowing doesn't mean the overall experience isn't generally traumatic (due to access restrictions, family pressure, clinic protests,
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Replying to @rach12sun @matryoshka_core and
The physical experience and the pain). Not all women will have had a bad experience, but to pretend that abortion is something casual, even celebratory, when so many women have suffered for and because of them, shows a deeply deeply male way of thinking.
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Replying to @rach12sun @matryoshka_core and
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#ShoutYourAbortion hashtag was started in 2015, by Lindy West, Amelia Bonow and Kimberly Morrison, all of whom, I believe, were born with a uterus1 reply 4 retweets 67 likes -
Replying to @arthur_affect @matryoshka_core and
Whats your point here? I'm not the one claiming all women have a universal experience of abortion
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Replying to @rach12sun @matryoshka_core and
Okay so did those women suffer from a "deeply deeply male way of thinking"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @matryoshka_core and
Any woman who has had an abortion is entitled to feel any way at all about it. Males, who have never had abortions and have been the biggest barrier against female access to abortions, have no place celebrating the idea of males being able to have abortions as something fun.
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Replying to @rach12sun @matryoshka_core and
Do you put on your cop hat here to police the reactions of all women who've never had abortions, or all women who "can't" have abortions (women with primary infertility), or just specifically trans women
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Replying to @arthur_affect @matryoshka_core and
Do you always involve and center yourself in discussions about female reproductive experiences? I'm not policing any womans reaction. I am disgusted by male abortion fantasy though!
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Replying to @rach12sun @matryoshka_core and
I'm not "centering myself", I'm centering the trans woman who's being misgendered by transphobes
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Replying to @arthur_affect @matryoshka_core and
No, you're centering yourself in a conversation about abortion. This doesn't involve you. Nobody is being misgendered. Male is a sex category not a gender. I have been specific in my wording.
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It involves me in the sense that Grace Lavery is an academic and a commentator I greatly admire and that you are, in fact, being virulently transphobic at her
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