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Unity of opposite sexes is the most fundamental unity in difference /diversity we celebrate; this is the most fundamental unity in diversity, e pluribus unum : vive la différence French phrase vive la dif·​fé·​rence | \ vēv-lä-dē-fā-räⁿs , vē-və- \ Definition of vive la différence : long live the difference (as between the sexes) Woman’s History Month : Revolutionary Feminism Pankhurst correctly refers to the human race impliedly as a sexually reproducing animal species with binary complementary opposite sexes , yin / yang , viva la difference . Race here = Rainbow Coalition, of the human species . All “races” are part of the human race . Pankhurst comradely presumes that the whole human race , or 99.99 % of it , is in need of freeing itself from the .001 %. Practical-Critical Pankhurst proposes a strategy for working class and women’s self-emancipation-revolutionary feminism . “Birth of a Radical Feminist by Jamae Hawkins I reached my peak “trans” moment at the same time I was done being a Liberal. It occurred several days after I marched in the Woman's March January 21, 2017, shortly after Donald Trump's inauguration. Being a dedicated Democratic Liberal, I wanted to bask in the glow of being inclusive to everyone's issue and to object Donald J. Trump being president. Women wore pink pussy hats and vagina costumes, I thought it was clever and expressive. I was participating in the march because I was just damn pissed that we elected a wanna be dictator and wanted to physically be in front of the White House to express displeasure. The march was peaceful and well attended by all people representing all different issues. I no longer saw it as just a women’s march but a solidarity of citizens disturbed about what is to come. Days after the march, social media was flooded with trans activists complaining that they were violently excluded. Huh? They said that by women wearing pussy hats and wearing vagina costumes they were excluded because not all women have vaginas and by that exclusion those women were committing violence against them. WTF? What the hell does that even mean? From what I saw of the march, no one was excluded because everyone is pissed. I discovered that women describing their own existence is offensive to transgender women and their activists. In making the very statement of “Trans women aren't women, Trans men aren’t men”, women were slammed and labeled a “TERF” in comment sections of social media articles regarding trans issues. A “TERF” is an acronym that stands for “Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist”. I FIRMLY believed that left wing politics did not deny science. I only subscribed to casual feminism at best, I didn’t even know what a Radical Feminist was until I was called that name. That by describing basic concepts as: Male is Male and Female is Female. The definition of WOMAN is an ADULT HUMAN FEMALE and a MAN is a ADULT HUMAN MALE. I have been labeled a bigot just making that statement. Then it hit me how much it bothered me to be called a bigot and in that instant I didn’t give a care in the world. Who cares? I can be called any and every name in the book but I will not deny reality for the likes of anyone. That was the moment when I realized that I that my political ideology as a liberal was dead. Males trying to transition to female or females trying to transition to males are not a race or cultural group. They are a small number of men or women who for a range of reasons, usually some kind of mental illness or sexual fetish, who wish to be of the opposite biological sex. The delusion of “being in the wrong body” is a symptom of underlying and untreated mental illness. My former views on transgender ideology were basic, I figured that people who wanted to be of the opposite sex would want to take on the issues of their desired sex. That has not been the case. I have seen enough on social media to see a pattern of behavior in large number of those who identify as male transitioning to female. What I have seen involves threats of violence if you don't subscribe to their way of thinking that biological males can be made female or biological females can be made male. I have witnessed liberal feminists immediately shutting down any immoderate opinions. As soon as someone makes a slightly critical comment or question, they are called a TERF, bigot, told to fuck off, die, be raped, and then immediately blocked, inhibiting any conversation at all. Another dismissive tactic is to minimize the issue as “just toilets”, particularly with the disingenuous refrain “let them pee”. This ignores that the push to substitute sex with gender identity affects everything from changing rooms, to women’s sports, midwifery, lesbian spaces, media reporting on male violence, parenting practices, government policy, reporting, data collection, and women’s rights to protest. Trans women seem very detached from the true reality of women’s lives, which is shocking in the sense they want to be female so bad. A lot of trans women seem to have an obsession with being “validated” by getting catcalled on the street by other dudes (even if they themselves aren’t sexually attracted to other males) or being called derogatory terms associated with women. If trans rights were about being treated equally, I would reconsider showing my support, but these days trans rights is simply about women pretending trans women and women are the same. In the past few years trans women have campaigned to close women's domestic violence shelters for not accepting them, for trans girls to be able to harass girls in their own changing rooms, to allow trans women with male anatomies to go into women's changing rooms and make us uncomfortable, to co-opt every single women's cause for their own. Trans women are attempting to steal women's identities and be "better women than women" and then tell us that we're bigots for saying ENOUGH. This is no different than a white “trans racial” person who believes they are black telling black people who are born black to stop talking about their experiences because it's racist. That is exactly the same thing. Trans women seek to move women out of the way, to dilute what it means to be a woman; they are the neo-wave misogyny. Trans people make up an incredibly minute percentage of the population, so why must women erase their identities to satisfy trans women? Why can't trans women claim their own identity instead of appropriating the issues of women? Stop trying to erase the female experience. There is no way to change BIOLOGICAL sex, GENDER is a societal construct that assigns characteristics and behavior in response to BIOLOGICAL sex. Sex reassignment surgery (SRS) is real and it involves sterilization and mutilation. For males, the full reassignment is a horror story of a wound that constantly needs tending for the rest of their lives. Many men who have gone through this are now feeling devastated but many are also in denial which is why they are so angry. Sorry the truth hurts and life ain’t fair. I do actually feel for some of these men and women but at the end of the day gender is not biological sex. They feel they were "born" the wrong gender when in fact our society has such rigid performance roles for males and females (gender = the performance of sex roles) that they will go to extreme lengths to become what they believe is the opposite gender. What they don't realize is that these gender roles are not real they are social constructs and you can change your gender any time you like without mutilating yourself. It will not make you biologically the opposite sex however. No one perfectly performs masculinity or femininity. People who feel that they cannot act/dress the way they want to because of their sex are not shrugging off the standard gender roles – they are buying into it. They are accepting the argument that a man cannot be feminine. So they change their bodies in some cases in order to ‘be women’ and therefore be allowed to be feminine. In other cases, they do not change their bodies but demand to be called women, deny their male biology, etc. In both situations the person has changed their identity or body in order to conform to the expectation that women are feminine and men are masculine. Becoming ‘a woman’ in order to be feminine in a socially-acceptable way is doing nothing to challenge gender stereotypes for males or females. It is literally buying into them. Shrugging off the standard gender roles would be to say, I am a man. I am male. I will dress femininely, so suck it up and vice-versa. There’s my armchair analysis of what I’ve observed in these men and women. This is why I am a Radical Feminist." Thomas : “You may not like the Democrats you may not even like politics, but Joe Biden is an across the board, take charge leader.. True Story!” Thomas : “JOE BIDEN SAYS HE'S GIVING UP $1,400.00 Period!” https://www.facebook.com/groups/232417175017343/?ref=share Trumpys are zombie cancer metastasized throughout American culture. The Republican Party is a political cancer on American Democracy - Doc Rabbit Republicans are so critically and desperately reliant on cheating to win , they are cheating at high noon in broad daylight in “Times Square. “ I’m voluntarily remaining under all strictures I’ve been under for myself , others and the Governor . It’s critical to understand that the white officers are demonstrating their SUPERIORITY , slavemaster life and death authority, over their Black victims. SUPREMACISM is the essence of RACISM . Owen : “...Btw, we're now as far from the '60's as the 60's were from the 1910's Nolan : “Happy Confederate Surrender Day! Thinking of all the losers flying loser flags. 😂” The “middle” class needs to learn that it’s in the same class as the “lower “ class as far as the “upper “ class is concerned. The upper class, the Bourgeoisie, the 1%, know they are in a class war with the whole Proletariat, the Working Class , “middle” and “lower .” The 99% largely are unclassconscious , competing with each other , rat racing , dog eats dog , war of all against all The Bourgeoisie is doubly fractured: Trumpy Rightwing Bourgeoisie vs Leftwing Bourgeoisie; Trumpy right wing vs MCConnell right wing 2013: “Removing the powers of the officials elected by the Black majority is an attack on the Black majority Electorate itself.To quote Mayor Coleman A. Young, "Racism do exist". We are oppressed by white supremacy. In Michigan, we are a minority under the tyranny of the racist majority, still ; in a system of majority rule. It has fluctuations through time. We win victories and reduce the oppression to some degree. _In_Detroit , of course, historically, we became the electoral majority. Now they have gone so far as to tyrannically and illegally impose a State majority rule overriding the Black majority IN Detroit. All this , even going back to attacks on Coleman Young as Mayor elected and re-elected by the original Black urban majorities , are political and financial attacks on the Black majority (minority) in Detroit through the officials they elect. The struggle continues; victory is certain.” Hasta la victoria siempre. Howard : “So Biden has the nerve to include caring for the elderly as part of infrastructure? ❤❤❤ Build Back Better, Mr. President! ✊✊✊🏻✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽” Thomas : “You may not like the Democrats you may not even like politics, but Joe Biden is an across the board, take charge leader.. True Story!” Become an advocate for the Democratic Party ; help win Democratic majorities. Georgia: so desperate to maintain white power , it prohibits giving food or water to waiting voters in line : Wearing their kkk hoods while passing laws . https://www.mcclatchydc.com/opinion/article136803208.html?fbclid=IwAR29AxNyXUrmcpi4LfE4CBIqDsTb4OYT4mFcEjnt4G_cGVSFujOlcMwaSxE . I’ve lived 55 years in the South, and I grew up liking the Confederate flag. I haven’t flown one for many decades, but for a reason that might surprise you. I know the South well. We lived wherever the Marine Corps stationed my father: Georgia, Virginia, the Carolinas. As a child, my favorite uncle wasn’t in the military, but he did pack a .45 caliber Thompson submachine gun in his trunk. He was a leader in the Ku Klux Klan. Despite my role models, as a kid I was an inept racist. I got in trouble once in the first grade for calling a classmate the N-word. But he was Hispanic. As I grew up and acquired the strange sensation called empathy (strange for boys anyway), I learned that for black folks the flutter of that flag felt like a poke in the eye with a sharp stick. And for the most prideful flag waivers, clearly that response was the point. I mean, come on. It’s a battle flag. What the flag symbolizes for blacks is enough reason to take it down. But there’s another reason that white southerners shouldn’t fly it. Or sport it on our state-issued license plates as some do here in North Carolina. The Confederacy – and the slavery that spawned it – was also one big con job on the Southern, white, working class. A con job funded by some of the ante-bellum one-per-centers, that continues today in a similar form. You don’t have to be an economist to see that forcing blacks – a third of the South’s laborers – to work without pay drove down wages for everyone else. And not just in agriculture. A quarter of enslaved blacks worked in the construction, manufacturing and lumbering trades; cutting wages even for skilled white workers. Read more here: https://www.mcclatchydc.com/opinion/article136803208.html?fbclid=IwAR29AxNyXUrmcpi4LfE4CBIqDsTb4OYT4mFcEjnt4G_cGVSFujOlcMwaSxE#storylink=cpy With the DC Republican seditious insurrection and the Georgia kkk-fascist voter suppression, the US can never again chastise another nation for undemocracy. It’s critical to understand that the white officers are demonstrating their SUPERIORITY , slavemaster life and death authority, over their Black victims. SUPREMACISM is the essence of RACISM . Unity of opposite sexes is the most fundamental unity in difference /diversity we celebrate; this is the most fundamental unity in diversity, e pluribus unum : vive la différence French phrase vive la dif·​fé·​rence | \ vēv-lä-dē-fā-räⁿs , vē-və- \ Definition of vive la différence : long live the difference (as between the sexes) A big advantage for Democrats in ‘24 will be the big increase of the youth ( recent generations) voters as a fraction of the voting population who are being won over to Democrats because Republicans are stinkin the place up so bad .