A Dyke A Broad #102 The idiot edition
In which so-called feminists privilege males over and over and over again. JFC.
Hello from Paris!
It is cool, drizzly, the sky that luminous multi-hued color that redefines grey. My theory when I lived closer to the Seine was that all the dazzling greys had something to do with reflections on the water. But now that I’m much further from rivers and canals than the swing of a cat or the throw of a stone, the slight or dramatic gradations are still there. Maybe it has to do with the pale stone of many of the buildings, or the angle of the sun. Or the haze in the air. I don’t care. I find the color and light seductive and spend far too much time staring out the window at the sky which today has a giant red crane moving through it.
This weekend in Paris there was a lively demo supporting women in Iran, and a big “feminist” figure from the ecologist left, Sandrine Rousseau, practically got booed off the stage. The crowd yelling «dehors collabo» “Get out of here, collaborator.”
Why? As one woman, said, it was because people like her from the maghrebine community were sick of lefties like Rousseau who, in the name of fighting so-called islamophobia, ended up as shills for islamist imams framing oppression as freedom, pressure to veil (backed by violence) as choice, and totally ignoring women inside those communities who were fighting for basic rights.
She defends Islamist men like the rest of the Left… We, Muslim and maghrebine women know the pressure women are under to submit. There are women, right here, even, who have been beaten because they don’t want to wear a scarf. But Sandrine Rousseau doesn’t say anything about that. No, on the contrary.
She doesn’t belong here…
You can’t defend Iranian women and at the same time support the spread of the scarf here, because the objective of Islamists in Europe, let’s be honest, is to impose the scarf on women, to impose sharia law, and the doctrines of the Muslim Brotherhood.
I’m sure most of the hecklers were familiar with that interview from 2021 in which Rousseau was demolished by Fatiha Agag-Boudjahlat who said, among other things, that Rousseau should deconstruct her “white, bourgeois privilege” and think about why those like Rousseau who love criticizing the white bourgeois patriarchy, never recognize patriarchy in communities of color, and especially never have anything to say about how religion is a tool of the patriarchy that is particularly effective because it gets the individual to internalize patriarchal values so that you impose the constraints on yourself. In France or elsewhere, the veil meant the same thing. It was about female purity, modesty, virginity, etc.
Meanwhile, while nice white feminists in France defend the glories of the hijab, in Iran, at least 92 people have been killed protesting the death of Mahsa Amini, beaten to death by the morality police who judged she wasn’t wearing hers properly.
Speaking of Feminist Collabos
I was horrified (but not surprised) this week, to learn that the "feminists" of the European Lesbian* Conference are now in the business of purging gender WrongThink, banning former board member, Faika El-Nagashi, from their latest conference.
Denounced online as a TERF, the pioneering Green Party parliamentarian and lesbian activist apparently ran afoul the “core values” of transidentitarians and their useful idiot allies by acknowledging the scientific certainty that males and females have different bodies, and hence different life and social experiences, unashamedly suggesting that “naming difference is not a devaluation or denial of existence. There can also be strength in our differences.”
Or perhaps they were offended when El-Nagashi asserted that when it comes to tension between gender issues and women’s rights “we need less escalation and more bridges.” And that’s why instead of considering dialogue, they proceeded to burn theirs.
It’s gotten so that a warning bell goes off in my head whenever a lesbian group proudly declares itself inclusive. I know it’s only a matter of time before the comfort of males who identify as “lesbians” will be prioritized, and the first people on the chopping blocks will be those homo females —especially homo females of color like British lesbian Allison Bailey — who refuse to be marginalized in their own movements, and insist on having their voices heard.
In fact, a year or two ago I told a board member of the European Lesbian* Conference that I thought the asterisk in their name was a huge mistake. And that “lesbian” didn’t need a footnote reassuring everyone about their inclusivity, because it seemed to imply that, in fact, lesbians AKA homo females didn’t actually deserve their own organization.
Apparently, we don’t. Not if the facts of our lives might make someone, somewhere, uncomfortable. Not if a funder might get cold feet…
A Freddy deBoer piece I like for this statement if nothing else…
Young people understand the allure of being seen; they don’t yet understand the horror of being frozen in other people’s gazes. They don’t understand the costs of being defined.
Seriously, People of All Sexes, Find Yourself a Female Doctor
That’s it for this time,