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25-10-2015, 09:06 AM | #1 | |||
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This is the video:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34625512 This is a further article where she talks about Caitlyn Jenner, who apparently just wants to steal limelight from proper women!: http://www.theguardian.com/books/201...germaine-greer The reason I find this so interesting is that it's Germaine Greer who's saying these things. I would have thought a feminist intellectual would better understand the dangers of repressing people. Of course she's entitled to her opinion I'm just very surprised that this is her opinion. For example, saying "they don't behave like women" is basically saying that all women should behave a particular way, which surely is blatant misogyny?
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25-10-2015, 09:08 AM | #2 | |||
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She is a TERF - trans-exclusionary radical feminist.
I dont recognise TERFs as feminists at all, because they are essentially saying that the most important part of being a woman is having a vagina. Quite hypocritical given all that shes said.
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25-10-2015, 09:23 AM | #3 | ||
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25-10-2015, 09:24 AM | #4 | |||
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25-10-2015, 09:28 AM | #5 | |||
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Yes. And she's intentionally specific in referring to male to female transexuals and not the other way around. As if to imply that her problem isn't with transexualism in general but more about protecting an ideal of what a 'proper woman' should be
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25-10-2015, 09:30 AM | #6 | |||
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Yeah. This is why so many radical feminists tend to not be feminists at all, they just hate men. (and even women born as men)
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25-10-2015, 09:30 AM | #7 | |||
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25-10-2015, 09:51 AM | #8 | |||
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To play devils advocate can a transitioned female ever truly think/act as a female having not experienced patriarchy or socialisation as a female child?
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25-10-2015, 09:54 AM | #9 | |||
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there is no definitive "girl" experience.
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25-10-2015, 09:56 AM | #10 | |||
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Double standards.
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25-10-2015, 09:58 AM | #11 | |||
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Transgender children feel oppression in a way much stronger than any cisgender little girl would be my response to this.
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25-10-2015, 10:00 AM | #12 | |||
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I disagree there very much is a male and female gender experience of primary socialisation, if you went through your formative years as a boy that experience will be lacking I would have said.
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25-10-2015, 10:08 AM | #13 | |||
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well when GG transgendered people accepted him, i mean her
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25-10-2015, 10:09 AM | #14 | |||
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Wouldn't that be a womb?
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25-10-2015, 10:11 AM | #15 | |||
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25-10-2015, 10:12 AM | #16 | |||
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Meh, probs not a very popular opinion (and i don't really care either way) but I don't think you an truly be female or male (unless you already are, through birth) until you have the operation. But of course you can identify as whatever you want, and we should stand by you with that.
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25-10-2015, 10:14 AM | #17 | |||
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Well it's a good point, and honestly I don't know which is why it doesn't bother me necessarily if people have germaines views because at least it raises a debate, my main issue here is just that its a supposed feminist expressing what I feel are very misoginistic views. I suppose your question raises another which is, how should a woman think/act? Is it how we expect them to based on archaic stereotyping or is it however feels natural to them? I do have a close friend who is a female to male transexual and I had no idea until he told me, but how important should that be anyway compared to how he feels inside? I think these are the things that germaine is overlooking in favour of a more superficial and narrow minded approach to gender identity
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25-10-2015, 10:26 AM | #18 | ||
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25-10-2015, 10:33 AM | #19 | |||
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i don't think your genitals and body parts define you as a man or a woman.
If a man goes to war, and he gets his balls blown off by a roadside bomb in Iraq... now he has no balls, is he still a man? Or a woman gets breast cancer, and she has to have a mastectomy, is she still a woman?
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25-10-2015, 10:39 AM | #20 | |||
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25-10-2015, 10:42 AM | #21 | |||
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25-10-2015, 10:43 AM | #22 | |||
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25-10-2015, 10:44 AM | #23 | |||
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No transgender woman has the XX chromosome so clinically, as they still have only XY chromosomes and not XX chromosomes they are not biologically women. That doesn't mean to say that if they have a need to live their lives as a women they shouldn't do that.
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25-10-2015, 10:48 AM | #24 | |||
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25-10-2015, 10:52 AM | #25 | |||
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i don't think trans women need to be reminded though, and i think it's clear that Germaine Greer is just being a nasty **** by thinking she needs to REMIND trans women of that fact. It's clear she takes some kind of sick discriminatory pleasure in saying it.
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