TERFs Are A Satire Of Themselves: Responding To The New Worst Article I’ve Ever Read
One of the defining features of the TERF movement is its ability to constantly attempt to conflate the most reactionary sexist ideology with even the most basic support for transgender rights. It was through this very tactic I first discovered Pamela Paul, who has since become a regular target of mine. More recently, J.K. Rowling compared a meme of an anime girl telling TERFs to “shut the fuck up” to a comic making fun of supporters of women’s suffrage. (Side note: I find this especially ironic given I’ve had multiple TERFs tell me exactly that, one even said I should have my Medium blog shut down because of my criticism of transphobia.)
I mention this because on 1/28/2023 a woman named Catherine Bennett published an article in The Guardian with the headline “Forget Andrew Tate — what about the host of misogynists in Labour’s ranks?” Of course, Andrew Tate is an active misogynist who is currently in prison for sex trafficking — something which the article itself notes — something which the article notes, as it does talk at length about Tate’s words against women.
The specific incident that caused Bennett to write this article was a comment Matthew Doyle — the head of communications for the Labor Party — made about MP Rosie Duffield:
