hi everyone I hope you're all well so international women's day has come and gone
thank goodness and in true womanly fashion the lead up was splashed with some good old-fashioned
felon feminist drama among the hallowed halls of the feminist blue check twitter
the key players were feminist writer and noted sjw lori penny beloved author jk rowling who was
worshipped by the wokies until she had the audacity a couple of years ago to suggest
that biological sex is a real thing so now the workings just send her death threats and second
wave feminist powerhouse julie bindle however the main difference between these three feminists is
that laurie penny is a so-called trans-inclusive feminist meaning that she believes men should
be able to self-identify as women and thus gain access to female-only spaces whereas jk rowling
and julie bindle are biological sex realists and the reason i want to talk about the situation is
because laurie penny is the perfect example of how modern feminists especially millennial feminists
completely fall apart whenever the glaring flaws in their ideology are pointed out especially when
those flaws are pointed out by shakhora other feminists now for anyone who doesn't know who
laurie penny is she is a british feminist who identifies as genderqueer she's a screenwriter and
she's written a number of books most recently a volume called sexual revolution modern fascism and
the feminist fight back released just last month which was the subject of this pre-international
women's day feminist online brawl now to be clear i'm not making this video to discuss or review
with the book i have not read the book this is a video about laurie's behavior and what it says
about modern victim feminism so lori released her new feminist manifesto last month and the reviews
which came out in late january and early february were in a word dire but before i tell you just
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on to the reviews written by fellow feminists sarah diet and rachel cook and of course
julie bindle they were some of the worst reviews i have ever read for anything movies books hotels
anything i've put them in the video description if you'd like to have a read but in the interim
here are a couple of passages from rachel cook and sarah dytham that i think sums them
all up having spent half of my life hoping for feminism's revival for it to be if not
fashionable then proudly worn and meaningfully directed it is lowering beyond words to see
a serious publisher describe this ill-edited ill-considered drivel as a manifesto for the cause
this isn't feminism this is a swizz this is a story about the choice between feminism and
fascism laurie penny announces in the first line of sexual revolution that's not true actually it
is a story about laurie penny a 35 year old manic pixie dream person pronouns they them
who blundered into public attention as an angry young woman blogging about feminism
went on to chronicle the occupy movement and has spent the following years maintaining a
white knuckle grip on whatever the latest trend for the online left happens to be
and while julie bindle's review was actually more polite than those two she made her real
feelings known in a later twitter thread mine was the first review to be published i had a ruined
holiday reading it and re-reading it because i was desperate to be fair and informed i tried the book
is vacuous [ __ ] i think you uh get the picture considering the very active nature of laurie
penny's activism she of course had a big emotion dump about the reviews the other night on twitter
even though curiously enough the reviews were actually published
a month ago hey i wanted to say to everyone who reads my work whether or not you're a supporter
on sub stack thank you for your patience lately while i've been getting my head back together
i'm sorry to say that the misogynistic transphobic media monstering over my book took its toll
you can see where this is going can't you i'm all right now and well on the way to being back
on track after losing a week to a minor mental health kernel panic when i was already pulling 15
hour days and could least afford to collapse it's silly but i didn't expect such a strong reaction
it took me by surprise if you missed it the too long didn't read is that last month a
book i poured my heart and brain into came out some transphobes and angry faux liberals in the
british past went on the attack in a coordinated vicious way that took everyone by surprise and
basically destroyed the release wildly hateful reviews and straight-up personal
attacks were placed prominently in a number of major broadsheets the focus was almost
wholly on my sexuality my gender identity and sexual history everyone my agent my publishers me
was taken by surprise at the viciousness i tried to stay positive i told everyone it wasn't a big
deal that i was fine being mocked and slut-shamed and misgendered and lied about and defamed in the
press by people whose work i grew up reading and who apparently personally despised me to a degree
i did not anticipate defamed that's a strong word there are a lot of legal requirements to classify
negative comments as defamation and i'm pretty certain the language used in the reviews while
obviously they were very critical does not amount to defamation in the legal sense also while laurie
claims to have been slut-shamed in the in the reviews and there be a focus on her sexual history
she wrote about her sexual history in the book which is likely why the reviews mentioned it
so i'm not sure where she gets the slut-shaming allegation from but anyway from that we can all
see what's happening here by throwing around words like defamed transphobes personal vicious angry
faux liberals etc lori is trying to destigmatize the reviews as a deliberate personal attack
rather than legitimate critique of her work on its merits and the diatribe continues anyway i did my
best stiff upper lip for a few days buried my safe as myself in work like i always do
but then my body inconveniently decided to keep the score apparently after 12 years of relentless
trolling this was the moment my body decided to present a receipt suddenly i was having rolling
panic attacks bone tired confused and constantly cold in a way i've only experienced before in
the immediacy of deep grief thought i had covered nope just complex post-traumatic stress disorder
i'm truly honestly much better now but it was honestly scary for a few days i know it's not
the done thing to talk about mental health and the toll it can take being a target of bigotry
and harassment i know that the done thing is to pretend that the bullies don't get to you
because that's what civility requires but frankly [ __ ] the done thing whoa whoa whoa whoa
is she serious what the hell does she mean it's not the done thing to talk about mental
health and the taller can allegedly take being a target of harassment and bigotry
all a significant chunk of the population seems to do nowadays is talk about their mental health and
how terrible it is allegedly being a victim of bigotry all the time is she high what universe
does she live in anyway to continue like a lot of people i've never been tough in the way that
traditionally white straight cis neurotypical posh male dominated industries require of people who
aren't all slash any of those things and that's okay there are more of us than you'd think and
we're not going away and nor am i i'm not going anywhere i'm just done trying to make bullies
behave better they're the ones who are weak feeble and frankly staggeringly unprofessional
vulnerability is not weakness anyway that's all for now i'll post this thread shortly huge love by
the way i'm not going to post or link to them but if you're curious check out the reviews of my book
sexual revolution in the observer the times and the critic for a start as
you can imagine the unofficial harassment was uglier some of it from the same people
okay so there's an awful lot of left-wing angst stomach in one sitting well i have no
doubt whatsoever for the record that laurie penny does struggle with her mental health and that yes
getting a slew of terrible reviews for a book you've poured all of yourself into and to which
you obviously have a strong emotional attachment it's definitely something that could send you into
a spiral but it is positive it is possible as always for two things to be true at once
it is possible for it to be true that the bad reviews negatively affected laurie's mental health
causing them to spiral it is also possible for it to be true that maybe and this is just my opinion
i am just speculating here laurie timed the star tribe quite conveniently first it coincides with
the book tour she is currently on in europe to promote the very book that was so poorly reviewed
this means that when people she's promoting the book to potentially google the book and
find the bad reviews lori has ensured they are discredited as bigoted personal attacks rather
than a legitimate critique second the diatribe was released less than two days before international
women's day late in the evening on march 6th uk time in fact this timing would allow the thread
to gain traction on the 7th from both fans and detractors thus gaining maximum exposure on the
8th which is the big day thus keeping it trending because it's right in line with the online
feminism angle of international women's day while generating the potential for sympathizers to say
to think people are trolling laurie for writing a feminist book on international women's day
how awful i must read laurie's book i bet those transphobic reviewers are totally wrong but like
i said i'm just speculating anyway the fun began when julie bindle got wind of laurie's comments
about how the bad news triggered her ptsd i am on a train and have just diagnosed myself with
complex ptsd because a fella has just opened a packet of cheesy watsons i should be cured by
the time i reach darlington unless some homophobe reviews this tweet and says it's crap in which
case i will be on a section by york to which jk rowling replied thoughts and prayers julie to
which believe it or not laurie replied hi joanne i've loved so much of your writing over the years
i'm the person whose mental health history is being mocked in this tweet
along with everyone else who has experienced cptsd including a lot of your readers i hope you don't
think it's okay to shame people like this i know you wrote about your own experience of
violence and abuse and nobody should ever ashame or attack you for that i'm sure it's hard to feel
constantly accountable to so many readers and fans but i wanted to point out how
this might come across the condescension there is just sick making everything from
i wanted to point out how this might come across as if jk rowling is in kindergarten to calling her
joanne which she does not go by professionally so it's no wonder jk rowling who magnificently
appears to have cast off the shackles of feeling like she constantly has to appease the work mob
hit straight back with laurie you've been flinging terms like fascist and transfer against women who
disagree with you for a very long time i don't recall you showing the slightest empathy for other
women's trauma while you dismissed their in my view reasonable and rational concerns i have the
self-awareness to know that however upsetting the death and rape threats your fellow activists throw
at me are there are literally billions of people suffering more than i am you claim to be suffering
ptsd because of bad book reviews bad reviews are part and parcel of being a writer if they
cause you equivalent trauma to being bombed out of your house or witnessing the murder of loved ones
maybe find a job where dishing it out but not being able to take it is a key requirement
stunning it's also worth pointing out that regardless of the fact that laurie had just
written an entire thread about how hard it is being harassed online she still chose to
reply to jk rowling's tweet thus knowingly inviting more online harassment that's the
same energy as megan and harry trying to escape the paparazzi by moving to los angeles
however the comment that really capped off the whole affair was this dynamite from julie
bindle perhaps laurie penny should take her own advice about bad reviews and simply look away
if it is something she does not wish to see and might she consider whether little girls who have
been sexually assaulted might suffer cptsd if they saw a penis in a women's changing room
hello somebody call the burns unit we've got an emergency ultimately the conclusion we can draw
is that there is a real generational split within feminism second wave feminist women's libbers
like julie bindle and jk rowling must look at the newer batch of gender fluid perpetually distressed
under researched undercooked wokies and think holy crap how did our movement produce this
certainly that undertone was evident in all the reviews of laura's new book but which
generation's ideas will ultimately transcend time let me know what you think in the comments below
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