It’s telling that you have a paranoid reading of every point McGowan makes but are happy to abide everyone describing her as having a “breakdown” or a “meltdown” or, in the bits of this thread supporting you, chalking up her response (which went from measured to angry as this activist made increasingly incoherent…

Maybe liberal notions of consent based on binary choice aren’t useful and that’s what we as queers have been up to all this time! Looking into that might save everyone 290 comments.

you’re not working class.

Let me expand that a little as I didn’t have time to say much more. In all of the rush to decry another aged TERF, particularly in a column arguing that she failed to use reason and got caught up in her emotions, all the commenters basically fail to deal effectively with any of the premises of Burkett’s argument.

it’s a little much that all of you are letting this bit of the above column go in the rush to condemn burkett for being old: