Women's History Month!
In defense of the women we love
In honor of Women and Their History Month, I have a few items for you. Here is the first:
Women have come a long way, baby, but they’re still under attack,
Surgical attack.
Fortunately, this ain’t our first rodeo. Western culture has had a robust infrastructure of feminism for decades now, and it has become very mainstream and quite well funded. I am sure it will spring into action to help.
Indeed, less than a decade ago, a vicious right-wing conspiracy held that transgender surgeries and hormone therapies were being performed on minors. 😱
Progressive activists roundly denounced this transphobic lie, and thanks to their tireless efforts, PROGRESS occurred:
A “gender-affirming” complex of something called “care” became critical to provide to children, lest they emerge from puberty without it, and professional surgeons all over the country leapt into action to perform these critical, life-saving, transgender surgeries and hormone therapies on minors. 😇
And on the wrong side of all this, once again, the same vicious right-wing conspiracies spouted more hateful nonsense and sowed confusion with slogans such as “What is a woman?”
Well, Adolph, if you can’t tell who’s a woman, then you ain’t no friend of feminism.
We now have woman doctors, woman astronauts, and almost a woman for U.S. President! The enemies of women are becoming shrill and desperate, and their final frenzied affront is to foment epistemic confffusion.
For, if you don’t know who the women are, you can’t be pro-woman. You certainly can’t tell Their History.