Hearth Moon Rising on Nostr: Conservative women have a support network though, through their churches, social ...
Conservative women have a support network though, through their churches, social clubs, and political networks. Radfems don't have that base in their own locale. We're so spread out. And even in conservative-leaning purplish areas, women have lost their homes and jobs for speaking up.
The 1st Amendment stuff makes it harder in some ways. An arrest usually brings media attention--that's the whole point of civil disobedience. Pagan writer David Salisbury, who worked for the HRC and had a big HRC emblem on his Facebook profile, went after Ruth Barrett by contacting Pagan festivals and informing them that if they were even THINKING about inviting Ruth, to be aware that she's a TERF. A not-so-veiled threat. Ruth contacted the HRC and asked if they endorsed that tactic, and Salisbury IMMEDIATELY issued a retraction statement (too late) and the HRC put out a statement declaring they were not behind that. Cuz it's illegal. Salisbury also whined on Facebook that the Ruth "went after" his job and tried to get him fired. He gained a lot of sympathy for that, managed to smear the radfems, and got his point across at the same time, about not platforming Ruth. Something similar happened with Michfest, when the gay rights orgs started an organized boycott against musicians. A lawyer reminded them that the tactic was against the law (secondary boycott, illegal since the McCarthy era), and they "cancelled" their boycott. Open tactics cannot be used in the US, but there are plenty of sneaky ones.
I guess I cannot name many effective left-leaning American pushbacks against the gender cult. I can only name many many many casualties. US media have been disciplined in ignoring liberal and moderate GC women (not to mention quietly getting them fired). The moderator of Fourth Wave Now complained about 5 years ago that she continually got reporters from lib magazines interviewing her for a story, and then the story got killed after it was written. She said she couldn't count the number of times it happened. The NYT did a somewhat balanced story recently, to everyone's amazement, but mostly when the "liberal" media mentions the issue at all, they report on what the conservatives are doing, and sometimes what is happening overseas. They are VERY disciplined. Just because there's a little light shining through now, don't think it's because American women haven't been trying for 10+ years. The effectivenss of British women in Britain has done more than we ever could do to make our media pay attention to the topic. That, and the work of conservatives. Maybe the tactics that work on Terf Island are not the ones we need to pursue. We are small in number, and we've lost too many good women already. I think the legal angle, which conservatives are leading, holds the most promise.
The 1st Amendment stuff makes it harder in some ways. An arrest usually brings media attention--that's the whole point of civil disobedience. Pagan writer David Salisbury, who worked for the HRC and had a big HRC emblem on his Facebook profile, went after Ruth Barrett by contacting Pagan festivals and informing them that if they were even THINKING about inviting Ruth, to be aware that she's a TERF. A not-so-veiled threat. Ruth contacted the HRC and asked if they endorsed that tactic, and Salisbury IMMEDIATELY issued a retraction statement (too late) and the HRC put out a statement declaring they were not behind that. Cuz it's illegal. Salisbury also whined on Facebook that the Ruth "went after" his job and tried to get him fired. He gained a lot of sympathy for that, managed to smear the radfems, and got his point across at the same time, about not platforming Ruth. Something similar happened with Michfest, when the gay rights orgs started an organized boycott against musicians. A lawyer reminded them that the tactic was against the law (secondary boycott, illegal since the McCarthy era), and they "cancelled" their boycott. Open tactics cannot be used in the US, but there are plenty of sneaky ones.
I guess I cannot name many effective left-leaning American pushbacks against the gender cult. I can only name many many many casualties. US media have been disciplined in ignoring liberal and moderate GC women (not to mention quietly getting them fired). The moderator of Fourth Wave Now complained about 5 years ago that she continually got reporters from lib magazines interviewing her for a story, and then the story got killed after it was written. She said she couldn't count the number of times it happened. The NYT did a somewhat balanced story recently, to everyone's amazement, but mostly when the "liberal" media mentions the issue at all, they report on what the conservatives are doing, and sometimes what is happening overseas. They are VERY disciplined. Just because there's a little light shining through now, don't think it's because American women haven't been trying for 10+ years. The effectivenss of British women in Britain has done more than we ever could do to make our media pay attention to the topic. That, and the work of conservatives. Maybe the tactics that work on Terf Island are not the ones we need to pursue. We are small in number, and we've lost too many good women already. I think the legal angle, which conservatives are leading, holds the most promise.