Submitted by The author (not verified) on Sun, 10/03/2021 - 08:23
the short answer is yes. We live in hyperreality, alright?
More seriously: this is hardly just about what happened on June 24. I am interested, personally, in social movements and engaging with them - kind of in general, as an insurrectionary anarchist (which is not something we have discussed in this comments section because people are caught up in the facts of this case study) and as a partisan of a tangentially related issue, e.g. nudism, maybe it's ok not evil.
In this context, the most important social movement in the mix is the anti-trans social movement, which doesn't want to see any trans women in any women's spaces anywhere, because they see trans women as men, and that's bad I suppose, but more concerning is that they are taking action to impose their policy preferences on other institutions that have, up to now, had different policies, like Wi Spa. They have used this whole affair opportunistically, in pursuit of their goals, and that's worrisome, and a little bit further along in the trajectory, I think it means bad things for trans people
I now know a bit more about the arrested person, now, thanks to further reading, and my own suspicions that this person was indeed waving an erect penis around (or whatever is alleged) are now heightened. I would disapprove of such behaviour, had it happened; I think a person behaving in such a manner should get punched. But, I do not know, and it is hard for me to care about it either way. I would want to know exactly what happened, and form an opinion on that - not a story of what happened told by people that, in many cases, do not believe "transgender" is "real"
the short answer is yes. We live in hyperreality, alright?
More seriously: this is hardly just about what happened on June 24. I am interested, personally, in social movements and engaging with them - kind of in general, as an insurrectionary anarchist (which is not something we have discussed in this comments section because people are caught up in the facts of this case study) and as a partisan of a tangentially related issue, e.g. nudism, maybe it's ok not evil.
In this context, the most important social movement in the mix is the anti-trans social movement, which doesn't want to see any trans women in any women's spaces anywhere, because they see trans women as men, and that's bad I suppose, but more concerning is that they are taking action to impose their policy preferences on other institutions that have, up to now, had different policies, like Wi Spa. They have used this whole affair opportunistically, in pursuit of their goals, and that's worrisome, and a little bit further along in the trajectory, I think it means bad things for trans people
I now know a bit more about the arrested person, now, thanks to further reading, and my own suspicions that this person was indeed waving an erect penis around (or whatever is alleged) are now heightened. I would disapprove of such behaviour, had it happened; I think a person behaving in such a manner should get punched. But, I do not know, and it is hard for me to care about it either way. I would want to know exactly what happened, and form an opinion on that - not a story of what happened told by people that, in many cases, do not believe "transgender" is "real"