Jasmine running on Nostr: But I wasn't entirely surprised. A few months earlier she'd made a post about Solanas ...
But I wasn't entirely surprised. A few months earlier she'd made a post about Solanas and the SCUM manifesto, her point being that even though there are many things to criticise, there's also some good points—and then she quoted a passage that, when taking the context of the whole manifesto into account, was utterly hateful towards trans women.
So I, named “Blå” (Blue) at the time and technically using gender neutral pronouns, but not actually out to her as a trans woman for another few months, I added myself to the already lively discussion below, where white cis women were expressing their appreciation and discussing the merits of the quoted text.
I used two shorter quotes from other parts of the original text, and explained how the sharpest end of the text she'd quoted wasn't actually aimed at men, but trans women. Solanas was punching down, not up; the violence being paid forward, not back.
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So I, named “Blå” (Blue) at the time and technically using gender neutral pronouns, but not actually out to her as a trans woman for another few months, I added myself to the already lively discussion below, where white cis women were expressing their appreciation and discussing the merits of the quoted text.
I used two shorter quotes from other parts of the original text, and explained how the sharpest end of the text she'd quoted wasn't actually aimed at men, but trans women. Solanas was punching down, not up; the violence being paid forward, not back.
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