3/4/2021 the concept of female biology being something taboo and offensive serves the patriarchyRead Now I feel so disillusioned as an American feminist. It seems more and more hopeless that we can pull together a large social movement or cultural shift to make progress in fighting misogyny and women's sex-based oppression. Dividing and silencing women while making us complicit in our own exploitation under the guise of "progressiveness" and "empowerment" serves the patriarchy. Strengthening the concept of female biology being something taboo and offensive serves the patriarchy. And yet the left has bought into it, hook line and sinker.
I'm a feminist, but I don't participate in "feminist movements" anymore. I'm bisexual, but I don't participate in "the LGBT community" anymore. I'm a liberal, but I don't participate in "the left" anymore. Living in a super liberal area with super liberal friends used to feel amazing to me, but it's increasingly feeling more uncomfortable as it becomes "woke" to suppress and erase women. I kind of wish I'd never woken up to this. I used to be a liberal feminist (or "choice feminist") who bought into gender ideology completely. It was easier to be in line with the popular beliefs in my circles, instead of putting up a front and saying things I don't believe while hiding my true beliefs in order to keep from being seen as a bigot and ostracized. And it was a lot less painful not to understand how truly hopeless things are for women, how deep into the core of society our oppression goes, and how it's getting worse for us by the day. 3/2/2021 that you should be unpersoned if you bring any of this up, has me despairing and looking to see if there's any elsewhere for me to goRead Now I'm a life-long Democratic voter, but the unwillingness to even consider that there could be conflicting access needs between women and trans-feminine males, that there might be issues with the sudden rise in trans identification in teen girls might indicate something's rotten in Denmark, that you should be unpersoned if you bring any of this up, has me despairing and looking to see if there's any elsewhere for me to go. I've also stopped supporting any organization that undermines women's rights, so the ACLU, Planned Parenthood, pretty much all of the LGBT organizations I used to support? No more.
Even the local grassroots organizations that long supported that had been about marginalized, abused women now focus more on transgender issues and needs. No more support for them from me. No support for the PTA when the schools are socially transitioning children without their parents' input. And my congresswoman? I'm hoping she gets an opponent I can stomach, because has a trans-feminine child she was front and center waving the pink, white, and blue when they passed the Equality Act in the house, so there's no hope she'll ever care about women and girls. I'm quiet about this, as my daughter's caught up in the gender nonsense, as are all her female friends, but that doesn't mean it's not a huge part of the choices I'm making on what I support going forward. Oh yeah, and how I vote. I was President of my college's chapter of College Democrats. I have met three Secretaries of State, President Obama and Chelsea Clinton, for starters.
Last year I donated to three presidential candidates, and five Senate races. I have completely ceased all involvement and ESPECIALLY all donations and payments until this gender nonsense is taken care of. For documentation of our struggle in the Green Party of the United States, please see: http://www.dialoguenotexpulsion.org/
"The Lavender Caucus of the Green Party has issued a statement calling on the Georgia state party to retract its endorsement of the “Declaration on Women’s Sex-Based Rights” or face decertification by the national party. It is perfectly normal for Greens to have different viewpoints on this issue, as we do on many issues. The Green way to resolve such differences, however, is to talk to each other with an openness that seeks, at a minimum, a mutual understanding of alternative points of view. We—members, volunteers, contributors and supporters of the Green Party of the United States—therefore urge that instead of the action proposed by the Lavender Caucus a respectful discussion of these and related issues be organized. We ask that all member state parties, caucuses, candidates, and locals of the party take a step back from any suggestion that state organizations or their members be decertified, sanctioned, or silenced for positions they have adopted, or for concerns which they may have expressed on these important issues. We value decentralization, grassroots democracy, and a united Green Party—which will be especially important in this difficult election year. The political principles that unite us remain far more important than the questions where we clash, significant as those questions might be." 3/1/2021 Whether this is the result of progressive naïveté or cynical misogyny -- the Left is openly betraying womenRead Now I grew up with a core set of working-class Democratic ideals for women's advancement -- the importance of education, athletic fair play, economic opportunity, support and protection for the health and safety of women and girls -- that are now openly mocked and derided on the Left. Prostitution has become "sex work," gender roles (which we've labored so long to be free of) have been regressively enshrined by gender ideologues, the science-based language we use to describe our own bodies is being stripped from us, adolescents are being steered to gender transition clinics, and our objections, however reasonable, nuanced, and rooted in scientific evidence, are routinely silenced in progressive journalism and social media.
Whether this is the result of progressive naïveté or cynical misogyny -- the Left is openly betraying women. Why stay? I've been a leftist since I was 16. I was a member of PFLAG in the 90s and supported the LGBT on the 2000s. In my career, I worked to administer social services to people affected by AIDS, most of whom were gay men. I've always hung a rainbow flag outside my door and donated to liberal organizations that fought for oppressed groups. Since 2018, everything has been called into question. That is when I first saw a woman dogpiled online for stating that women deserve a single-sex rape center. I saw articles trashing feminists like Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for stating that boys and girls are socialized differently. I saw pimps glorified and girls groomed for sex work beginning on their 18th birthday. I thought the left supported women. All these years I've prioritized the oppressed and fought for them. I thought we were a party of camaraderie. How wrong I have been. I no longer trust the left. I have pulled all my monthly donations and transferred them to women's groups. I will never volunteer for, donate to, or vote for another candidate that doesn't know what a woman is and doesn't fight for women to be safe and free from predation.
I can’t take it anymore. I emailed all my representatives this afternoon with the following letter:
I am a voter and California native residing in the (xxxxx) zip code in San Mateo county. I am contacting you about legislation related to gender equality being pushed by the Democratic party. It pains me to write this, honestly. I am a lifelong Democrat. I’ve voted straight blue in every election since I turned 18, but that has changed. Today I re-registered to vote as an independent and will not vote Democrat in the future unless I see serious changes in the party’s approach to trans activism. Democrats want to market themselves as pro-women’s rights, but that’s not what I’m seeing at all lately with legislation like the Equality Act being pushed through Congress. Female-only spaces and sports, which women fought long and hard for, are being erased to appease a small group of men who wish to identify as women. I find this absolutely unacceptable. Women should not be forced to compete against trans-identifying men in sports. Women should not be forced to serve time in prison cells with trans-identifying men, particularly when some of those men are in prison for domestic violence and rape of women and children. Women should not have to accept trans-identifying men into their bathrooms, changing rooms, locker rooms, public showers, etc. I say this as a survivor of violent rape who has been formally diagnosed with PTSD: I do not want to share female spaces with any and every man who decides to call himself a woman. I wish my consent mattered to the political party that claims to support #MeToo. I am appalled by the anti-scientific mantra, “Trans women are women.” It is simply not the truth. Trans women are men and pointing that out is not bigotry or discrimination. It is a simple acknowledgment of reality. I wish the Democratic Party would stop falling in line with this propaganda and trying to gaslight and bully intelligent people into agreement. It’s insulting and irresponsible. Please know that I will be looking elsewhere for representation if the Democratic Party continues to trash women’s rights and treat biological women as if our feelings and needs mean nothing next to a trans-identifying man’s. For the time being, you have all lost my vote and I’m deeply offended by the misogyny I’ve been seeing. 2/28/2021 I've woken up to the fact that the Democratic Party is not the party of women as I naively thought it wasRead Now I'm a woman with a doctorate and a career in a male-dominated field. I'm an atheist. I'm a thinker. I believe that everyone should have equal rights.
I take my right to vote seriously. I'm registered as an independent because I don't like the idea of being a member of one party. I also consider myself an independent voter, but have voted for Democrats in every presidential election since I was 18. Gender ideology has opened my eyes. I now subscribe to the WSJ as well as the NYT. I actually prefer the Journal. I feel as though I've woken up to the fact that the Democratic Party is not the party of women as I naively thought it was. The left claims to be the party that doesn't deny science. But the left is denying the most basic scientific concept: that there are two sexes in humans. There are biological reasons that women need protections. There are biological reasons that women play on their own sports teams. There are biological reasons for separating changing rooms and prisons. Unless something changes, my votes in future elections will be much different. Gender Ideology is just the tip of the iceberg for me. Identity politics in general has completely put me off the left. Add in the embrace of neo-liberalism (corporatism) and I'm done. That all my progressive lefty friends wholly embrace identity politics, gender ideology, and the false solutions of corporate greenwashing in the form of high tech "solutions" to climate change while utterly ignoring women's rights, the hate-mongering inspired by identity divisions, and the real, material, natural world and what she needs... the "left" as embodied by progressive Democrats is an anathema to me now as the "right" as embodied by the Republicans is. I have no political home and unless something changes substantially, it is unlikely I'll vote in any elections except perhaps ultra local elections again.
I'm a lifelong lefty, immigrating to the U.S. It was so frustrating to watch 2016 and 2020 go by without being able to support "the good guys." I did what I could from the sidelines.
I assumed, maybe naively, that once the democrats had a comfortable mandate, we could start having serious policy discussions again. Nope, it's still mindless slogans and no debate. And an "Equality" Act that doesn't acknowledge the existence of female people as a class. I really don't know what I'm going to do in 2022. The Republicans have nothing for me, I'm not stupid enough to think they actually care about women. But I don't know if I'll be able to stomach voting Democrat after this. Protest vote for a third party, I suppose. |
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