Modern feminism is mainly focused on the struggles facing straight, white, middle-class women, which suggests only they face sexism, private school pupils have been told.
Not that I agree there are those struggles very much any more but.
97% of the population is straight, 99.5% at least is cis. 86% of the UK population is white. Given the lack of manufacturing employment we’re pretty much all middle class these days.
So concentrating upon the cis, het, white, middle classes seems to garner the attention of the vast majority of the problem, no?
We’re not all middle-class. Modern feminism is focused on the glass ceiling in cushy jobs; it has little to offer the Tesco checkout lady (made redundant by an array of self-service tills).
Middle class has become a very slippery concept. Administrative & professional? Trouble is, half of them are either working in the public sector or beneficiaries of regulatory capture. So have opposing interests to the other half. These days university educated. Working class is slippery as well. Entirely possible to working class on a million a year. If the income depends on how effectively the earner works. What’s the difference between that & piece rate or hourly paid? But you’d hardly call the benefit bunnies workers, would you
It’s self fulfilling, isn’t it? Feminism puts a stupid Karen in charge of something, she screws it up, and hey presto, sexism.
To use “Cis”, or any of the the jargon of those who seek to divide where no division is useful or necesary, is to concede the argument to them.
To use “Cis”, or any of the the jargon of those who seek to divide where no division is useful or necesary, is to concede the argument to them.
This. There is no such thing as cisgender. It is an entirely made up, meaningless term used by extreme activists in an attempt to bully us into conceding that they are normal. Refuse to play their game. A bit like the term ‘biological women.’ The word is ‘women’ no need for the biological bit. The fightback here is to start refusing to use their terms of reference – along with their stupid, made-up pronouns. Just don’t play their game. The 99% need to stop pandering to the 1%.
@Longrider
There’s no requirement to use made up pronouns. Second person in both singular & plural are non-gendered in English. Same as our adjectives. Third person, the subject’s being talked about not to. And no one has the right to decide what people talk about. Nor does one owe any obligation to the subject.
There’s no requirement to use made up pronouns.
Quite right and I don’t. Nor do I pander to any request to display my pronouns on email signatures and such because I don’t have any for the reasons you state. I will not play their game.
According to some theories, gender is a social construct.
If we assume this to be true…
This implies that Trans-genderism is also a social construct.
If anyone asks for my pronoun, I just answer “Sir”.