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Tory men are letting down women - Clover - Jun 27 2024
The Spectator, June 29 2024.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/tory-men-terfs-need-you/
Quote:Some of my good male friends, Tories, are sick of terfs. I can see it in their shifty eyes, in the way they won’t quite look at me when terfy issues creep into conversation, but stare gloomily at the skirting board. Terf stands for Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist, and terfs are women who insist that you can’t change your biological sex, and that the whole notion that some humans are born in the wrong body is not only daft, but catastrophic for our culture and our children.
RE: Tory men are letting down women - Possum - Jun 29 2024
Aren't Tories a conservative party? Of course the men don't support TERFs lol, they're only against the trans stuff because they think trans = gay and gay = icky. Conservative men have 0 interest in the Radical Feminist part, they're only interested in the Trans Exclusive part.
RE: Tory men are letting down women - Clover - Jun 29 2024
(Jun 29 2024, 2:25 PM)Possum Aren't Tories a conservative party? Of course the men don't support TERFs lol, they're only against the trans stuff because they think trans = gay and gay = icky. Conservative men have 0 interest in the Radical Feminist part, they're only interested in the Trans Exclusive part.
I know right?! That's what I was thinking when I read the article. Like, are they really "good male friends"? I'm not very familiar with UK politics, but I also understand Tories to be conservative/right-wing. The idea that conservatives are in any sense allies or would support radical feminists or gender critical feminists is laughable. They only support "anti-trans" legislation, because they find gender non-conformity or any subversion to gender conformity to be "degenerate behavior" I assume. Of course they don't truly care about women's rights and how transgender ideology clashes with that. At best, they pay lip service to worried women in order to get their votes; at worst, they just ignore women altogether.
Expecting men who don't give a shit about women's rights, to give a shit about women's rights, is futile.