DAILY DISPATCH: Rank Misogyny From Within the 'TERF' Ranks!

Tish Hyman's Words of Wisdom

I was told, by a fan of Tish Hyman, to stop harassing her. I haven’t mentioned her for quite some time. That pre-emptive ‘leave our friend alone’ let me know that there must be some dastardly doin’s a transpirin’ in Hymanland. Then I saw this little missive in my Twitter feed this evening, thanks to Fruella.

Let’s work backwards: Alexis Black’s the guy who invaded the women’s locker room at Gold’s Gym, the incident that brought Hyman to prominence in American TERFery movement. After serving time in jail for fracturing his ex-wife’s jaw, he took her name. That’s right: he gave his wife a compound fracture of the face, trooned out, then started calling himself by his ex-wife’s name. Clearly, this is someone with a deep and nuanced understanding of women’s thoughts and motovations.

Why would Hyman think that women should place any stock in what some wife-beating AGP says about anything, let alone in his opinions about women? This man, allegedly violated her and all the other women in the Gold’s Gym locker-room, so why is she interested in anything he has to say, particularly, this self-justification for invading women’s spaces? He’s saying ‘she asked for it’, ‘she liked it, even if she said no.’ How typical of a serial abuser, to make that claim, and how handmaidenly of Hyman to accept it as fact.

Are there women who ‘like seeing dick in the women’s locker room’? My guess is outside of one or two very disturbed psychopaths, the answer is a resounding ‘NO!’ The women who say they don’t want men in women’s spaces are telling the truth. The ones who say they’re cool with men sharing their spaces are lying or naive. The naive would mature very quickly if forced to share a locker room with a naked man, or with a clothed man standing there oggling them as they change or use the toilet. The liars know they’re lying. I’d bet good money that they’ve never been in a women’s locker-room with an AGP, and see the whole thing as an entertaining thought experiment instead of as a sexual assault. It’s unfortunate that some people can only learn through experience.

I should also mention that straight women don’t crave dick so badly that we’ll take it however it presents itself, even when some creep of a man brings his junk into the women’s locker-room. This sounds like some AGP’s porn scenario. Hyman’s hetero-phobic, misogynist twaddle casts straight women as pathetic, grovelling cock hounds, who’ll allow themselves to be prey objects just to get some random ween, while lesbians with no interest in male attention, are far above such abject displays.

Do some women crave male attention? They sure do. Do women crave attention from flashes? No, we don’t. Do women crave attention from rapists? No, we don’t. Who thinks we do? Rapists and flashers. Why does Hyman take the word of Alexis Black, the wife-beating flasher, and expect us to do the same? Why is Hyman taking the word of her alleged abuser as gospel?

Make no mistake: women didn’t let the men into the women’s locker-rooms. Male legislators did that. It started with Obama forcing women’s homeless shelters to admit men in order to keep federal funds flowing, despite being told that admitting men would endanger the women. A man, Barack Obama, made trafficking vulnerable women to dysfunctional men a condition of running a federally funded women’s shelter. Most of the people allowing these policies to continue are men. They definitely have female minions, the men are still running the show.

Most of the people trying to get men out of women’s spaces are women. There are definitely women fighting against us, but they’re not the majority of women, straight or gay. We fight for the privacy, safety and dignity all women, even the ones who lie about us.