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Title: The Gender Politician
Post by: Natasha on September 16, 2009, 04:51:50 PM
Post by: Natasha on September 16, 2009, 04:51:50 PM
The Gender Politician
http://sophiaofthescythes.wordpress.com/2009/09/16/the-gender-politician/ (http://sophiaofthescythes.wordpress.com/2009/09/16/the-gender-politician/)
by sophiaofthescythes
9/16/09
It comes to something when I find myself now classed as a part of the Vancouver radical feminist movement. It could not get more absurd when here I am on a blog, writing about how nasty the media coverage of Caster Semenya is getting (I have made a few choice remarks about Germaine Greer's "opinion") and how in the UK my human rights don't exist because I am an individual with one of the conditions mentioned during the press speculation. Then someone appears (We all know who) now proclaiming I am a radical second wave feminist right wing extremist.
So what do I do? Get painted as an extreme transphobic right wing second wave feminist? Well there is nothing I can do about that is there? The fact that I have written on numerous occasions that I avoid single sex spaces or do not agree with some aspects of second wave feminism seems to mean very little to a certain gender politician.
http://sophiaofthescythes.wordpress.com/2009/09/16/the-gender-politician/ (http://sophiaofthescythes.wordpress.com/2009/09/16/the-gender-politician/)
by sophiaofthescythes
9/16/09
It comes to something when I find myself now classed as a part of the Vancouver radical feminist movement. It could not get more absurd when here I am on a blog, writing about how nasty the media coverage of Caster Semenya is getting (I have made a few choice remarks about Germaine Greer's "opinion") and how in the UK my human rights don't exist because I am an individual with one of the conditions mentioned during the press speculation. Then someone appears (We all know who) now proclaiming I am a radical second wave feminist right wing extremist.
So what do I do? Get painted as an extreme transphobic right wing second wave feminist? Well there is nothing I can do about that is there? The fact that I have written on numerous occasions that I avoid single sex spaces or do not agree with some aspects of second wave feminism seems to mean very little to a certain gender politician.