Mick Hartley

It's astonishing to me that there are people who will write ad nauseam about how feminism and academic texts that hardly anyone has read, ie, Judith Butler, are responsible for men claiming to be women and forcing themselves into spaces where women and children are naked – while…

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It's astonishing to me that there are people who will write ad nauseam about how feminism and academic texts that hardly anyone has read, ie, Judith Butler, are responsible for men claiming to be women and forcing themselves into spaces where women and children are naked – while ignoring the influence of the most widely consumed form of media in the world – pornography.

The concept of a "girl cock" or "gock" as these men call it, didn't come from Simone de Beauvoir. These men didn't read the massive tome titled "The Second Sex" (not gender, ahem), and it didn't come from Butler's obtuse word salad, either.

What lies behind the transgender/transsexual movement has always been the determination of the male sexual drive, and beyond the profits to be made and the observable homophobia, first and foremost at its bare bones is the ugly hatred of women by men with sexual pathologies.

These men dress up as women and mimic us because they have for a long time watched pornography depicting women being degraded. In their actions, they imagine themselves as the humiliated women they see in porn, and they are telling us out loud what they want to do to us. To humiliate, dehumanize, and degrade us.

They get support from the highest institutions of society, including the WHO and the APA.

I wake up every day angry about this, but also, that this isn't obvious to everyone.

Well yes, but surely an important part of the success that the trans movement has enjoyed is down to its almost universal acceptance in academic circles, and the endless books and articles in support of gender ideology that pour out of the ivory towers. The work of these people is based on the success of Queer Theory, and, yes, the works of Judith Butler among many others. This barrage of nonsense makes its influence felt across the "higher" cultural circles and filters down through media outlets to become established as the correct "progressive" approach. So yes, that push by men obsessed by porn and a hatred of women provides the power of the movement from the bottom up, but its cultural success requires the prestige of those big fat books that hardly anyone has read.