I don’t know if this article is describing this phenomenon accurately, as the first paragraph contains an obvious falsehood: “ A flyer with an image of a gun and text reading “shut the fuck up, terf” (trans-exclusionary radical feminist, a slur) was circulating. ”.
TERF isn’t a slur. No one has successfully beaten and killed a woman while calling her a TERF and then got away with it in court like the gay panic defense and the trans panic defense has. No one was lynched for being a TERF like black people have been. This is a gross talking point trying to claim victim positioning and is inaccurate journalism. The whole article is suspect to be sympathetic to anti-trans politics as a result.
I do want to talk about how much gender has invaded the academic life in a way that gets in the way of education. Obviously, I don’t want even more gender politicking from the other “side”!
TERF isn’t a slur. No one has successfully beaten and killed a woman while calling her a TERF and then got away with it in court like the gay panic defense and the trans panic defense has. No one was lynched for being a TERF like black people have been. This is a gross talking point trying to claim victim positioning and is inaccurate journalism. The whole article is suspect to be sympathetic to anti-trans politics as a result.
I do want to talk about how much gender has invaded the academic life in a way that gets in the way of education. Obviously, I don’t want even more gender politicking from the other “side”!