[Blog/Commentary] [USA] The RadFem Crocodile Tears and Lying Claims of Persecution

[Stephanie Stevens]

Women Born Transsexual, USA


The RadFem Crocodile Tears and Lying Claims of Persecution

06/30/2012 — Suzan


When you are partner in a law firm that represents some of the most
irresponsible and reprehensable Wall Street Banks and Financial
Institutions you are not one of the common people.

You are the problem and not the solution.

When you and another lawyer write letters to the UN urging them to not
extend basic human rights protections to transsexual people then you
are more like a Nazi than representitive of any progressive movement
that has ever existed.

This makes any claims to being a feminist highly dubious.

Targeting a minority group that world wide comprises a tiny fraction
of humanity (some where between one tenth and one quarter of one
percent of all people) and blaming that tiny minority of people for
all oppression of women and for both misogyny and the perpetuation of
the patriarchy bears a strong resemblance to the behavior of
anti-Semites who want to blame the Jews for all the problems and
oppressions suffered by anyone in the world.

This is one of those What The Fuck propositions.

How in the world can a tiny oppressed minority of people who have
often endured serious physical and emotional abuse muster such a level
of power as to be able to oppress 50% of the world population?

I mean I could see it if this tiny minority were among the wealthiest
of the wealthy, like the people the above mentioned lawyer works in
the service of, but way too many of my sisters and brothers have live
lives of poverty and deprivation.

Many of us have been so abused we suffer PTSD and yet we are told to
suck it up, that we are only imagining the horrible abuse we endured
as kid and as adults.

Or worse yet we are told we deserved the abuse because we are
transsexual or transgender freaks.

Nearly forty years ago the APA removed political diagnosis of mental
illness form gay and lesbian. Then a little over thirty years ago they
created an equally political diagnosis of mental illness and stuck it
on TS/TG people.

Now the radfems are using that APA perpetuated fraud to beat up on
TG/TS people with the same zeal their religious right and Tea Bagger
allies do. The same way their allies uses fraudulent studies to
perpetuate anti-gay/lesbian bigotry.

Lately the hate group that calls itself “Radical Feminists” have
taken to confronting TS/TG people verbally abusing them and demanding
their exclusion from women’s events and the lesbian community. during
the 1990s and until recently TS/TG women were welcome at Dyke Marches.
Now Radical Feminists are demanding our exclusion.

If TS/TG women refuse to passively submit to the verbal and emotional
abuse heaped on us by the radfems they try to label us as violent.

This is fucking Nazism. Just like the number the Nazis ran on the Jews.

From Raymond/Daly onward these people have called for TS/TG people to
be eliminated and denied medical treatment and we are not supposed to
be angry or point out that we will meet violence with violence.

The radfem’s expectation that TS/TG people will not react badly to
having all sorts of repulsive and dehumanizing verbal abuse hurled in
our faces is unreasonable to say the least.

This is like expecting African-American people to passively submit to
white racists who insist on addressing them with the “N-word” and
heaping other sorts of racist abuse upon them without lashing out.

Most people are not Martin Luther King or Gandhi.

People who have suffered a lifetime of abuse and who have gained self
respect and pride thorough uniting with other TS/TG sisters and
brothers are likely to react badly to being verbally and emotionally
abused by radfem bullies.

I saw where Cathy Brennan was upset that the Michigan Women’s Music
Festival has finally taken the side of decency and humanity by
recognizing the rights of TS/TG people to attend.

Now Brennan claims this makes her feel unsafe.

The MWMF isn’t infringing upon the radfem’s rights by refusing to go
along with the radfem’s bigotry.

Harming others by exercising your bigotry is not a human right.

People have as a human right the right to be treated equally and be
protected from bigotry.

Now I’ve been beaten by police for refusing to move during non-violent
actions, I’ve also fought the police during other actions. I am not a
pacifist nor will I allow someone to actually physically abuse me.

But letting these pseudo-feminists goad us into threats of violence is
unwise, as they use these words against us.

Better to expose them for the bigots they are.

References:

http://www.hudsoncook.com/section.cfm?section_id=5#consumer

http://radicalhub.com/2012/06/29/why-i-wont-be-going-to-michfest-this-year/
<http://roseverbena.tumblr.com/post/26155909826/do-you-really-expect-civil-discourse-after-attacking>
http://pretendbian.wordpress.com/2012/06/29/so-if-you-react-to-feminists-like-you-are-mentally-ill-are-we-supposed-


http://womenborntranssexual.com/2012/06/30/the-radfem-crocodile-tears-and-lying-claims-of-persecution/