I was once frightened out of my wits during the night when I caught a glimpse of a very long-handled feather duster leaning against the wall, and was sure it was some sort of intruding monster.

She also walked back her statement on cornrows, and agreed that the example in question was cultural appropriation — she spoke hastily the first time.

In addition, if a man owns his wife’s body, isn’t the logical conclusion that even when he doesn’t want to have sex himself, he has the right to lend or rent her body out to others? It’s just like owning a cow!

No true Scotsman? In any event, what you imply about Judaism is an absolute lie. Marital rape has been expressly prohibited in Judaism for at least as long as Christianity has existed. See my response to Anon E. Mouse.

More than that, marital rape has been expressly prohibited in Judaism for almost 2000 years — well before any other religion, I think it’s safe to say.

Bullshit. She only supported that trans woman’s right to be treated fairly in prison — like any other prisoner. Despite your best effort to imply that she supported or trivialized the crime itself, she didn’t.

What’s always struck me is how joyful people like her are in their cruelty to trans people, especially trans women. They get such obvious pleasure from it.

You’re wrong. That was from some stupid satire site. Thanks for promulgating transphobic garbage.

Here’s an updated link to the McHugh piece; the link to Greer doesn’t seem to work anymore, but I can assure you it’s an accurate quotation of what she wrote; I’ll try to find a working link.

What I find interesting is that unlike some other transphobic second wave feminists, Greer’s insistence that trans women are not women has always seemed to be based on visceral disgust more than the usual a priori theories (which in any event boil down to “trans women aren’t women because they aren’t women”) — as in…

Maybe it wasn’t even your comment, but somebody made a positive generalization about Polish people — Poles are tough, or something — and said something about Poland’s long history of victimization, that kind of triggered me in a way that made me feel like posting that article (which I had just read). Plus, I guess it…

I don’t think the article I linked — which struck me because I just read it yesterday, and the part of Poland it discusses happens to be the area where part of my father’s family came from — perpetuates that myth at all. In fact, as I stated in another comment, there were more “Righteous among the Nations” (formerly…

I don’t doubt you. There are more Poles among the “Righteous among the Nations” than any other nationality.

I wish people wouldn’t continue to perpetuate the myth that the Poles were all courageous anti-Nazis; it leads to the refusal to acknowledge that this kind of thing actually happened: http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-an…

People in Jamaica are disagreeing you right now about a certain other nation that built its wealth on the backs of slaves. Get off your high horse, and learn when the Civil War was.

Thank you! Every day and twice on Sundays.

Exactly. It’s the extreme brutality and extreme violence of murders of trans women that shows what it’s really about. Heads bashed in until they’re no longer recognizable. People set on fire. It’s horrifying.

I always very much wanted surgery, but I can’t deny that one of the reasons was that I was terrified that I would be killed if someone discovered that my genitals didn’t match my appearance. And that I have one less thing to worry about now.

A lot of women who get dumped or can’t find anyone to be in a relationship with have depression and/or other mental illnesses. They still don’t go out and become spree killers. I’ve got my own issues, and have had two long-term relationships in my life — a 13-year marriage and a 5-year relationship after that. I was…

Sounds kind of like that old science fiction movie “Fantastic Voyage”!