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Jason Yungbluth's avatar

I also agree with him, in a *general* sense, insofar as I think that trans-activists have exceeded their brief. I also agree that the wholesale attempt to divorce gender from sex is incoherent and Orwellian.

Nevertheless, I hope you will reserve your outspoken sympathies for people like Kathleen Stock or even JK Rowling, and not forget that Walsh is in the camp of Gavin McInnes and Dennis Prager, and everything that comes with that.

(BTW, when are we going to see the return of that famous Taibbi levity? Did Thomas Friedman stop writing columns? :)

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Akash's avatar

Have you been reading Matt’s columns or are you just here to throw dirt? Even in the current column under discussion levity abounds. I especially enjoyed this line:

“a sarcastic “mockumentary” that gently tinkles in the face of transgender orthodoxies”

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DougFresh's avatar

nah, that's sucky and overblown, not good taibbi. sarcastic mockumentary? gently tinkles? redundant as a jewish rabbi

matt's humor has been limping since elon backstabbed him.

a good editor would be helpful

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Adam's avatar

Can you actually state specifically what your problem with Walsh is, rather than these vague generalities (such as the "camp" he belongs to)? It's fine to disgree with someone (there's certainly plenty I disagree with Walsh on), but if you're going to elevate someone to persona non grata status, then I think you have some obligation to justify it.

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The Woman In Purple's avatar

Kathleen Stock has acted as a TRA within a feminist movement, to preserve her reputation at other womens expense. She used AGPs as human shields from transphobia, and treated those affected the narcissistic abuse of AGPs as the bigots.

Please take note of her affiliation with Larry Summers. She’s also participated in undermining and maligning American feminists. Leave the British neo liberal establishment out of this.

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Jason Yungbluth's avatar

Kathleen Stock is a highly intelligent philosopher and a voice of sanity against academic neo-liberal quackery.

So, agree to disagree >:)

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The Woman In Purple's avatar

I've been dealing with the ramifications of her inconsistent, classist and self interested attempts at using Autogynephiles as human shields, to give the impression that she isn't transphobic, for her own professional preservation, and future income, since 2016. Despite knowing what the comorbidities of autogynephilia were, she promoted these fetishistic men to speak on our behalf. She and the other "Head Girls or "Professional Feminists" created a classist caste system in which their professional reputations were more important that representing the actual victims of Gender Theory. They, the professional feminists, became the victims for commenting on victims.

She's considered a TRA within feminist circles. An establishment mouthpiece that doesn't challenge the status quo, Which is why she's aligned herself with the Anita Dunn of The Right Wing, and financial interests in the industries we're fighting against. https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/bari-weiss-university-austin-larry-summers-david-mamet-kathleen-stock-b1953871.html

From MY perspective, she's a classist coward that inflicted her self interested narcissim on a movement she pretended to represent. An academic that sold gender theory until it bit her in the ass.

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Jason Yungbluth's avatar

Isn't a "TRA" a "trans rights activist"? I don't see how that would apply to Stock.

I'm not sure what all this "human shield" jive means. All I know about her is that she is skeptical about extending the rights of actual women to include men who only live as women. The only thing I see having "bit her in the ass" was her assumption that academia would stay above the fray instead of turning into an expensive PC boot camps for booshy white piss pots.

By the way, this bit of truth-massaging in the article you linked says it all about where you are coming from:

"The list of names Weiss says are associated with the (so far notional and unaccredited) venture include ...Kathleen Stock, who just resigned from her position at the University of Sussex because of peaceful protests against her views on trans people."

She simply "resigned"? After a "peaceful protest"? I guess to the guy who wrote this article, "peaceful" means anything short of having a brick thrown through your window. Kathleen Stock was subjected to a severe pressure campaign from a whinging academic mafia who apparently feel that in 2023 you should be cheered for dragging a feminist lesbian through the mud if she can't be successfully programmed to ignore a transvestite's Adam's Apple.

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The Woman In Purple's avatar

You don't seem to understand anything at all, about this issue, her history in it, or the context within the movement she claims to represent. Kathleen Stock is the Rachel Maddow of British Feminism. I KNOW, because I've been subjected to her neoliberal BS propaganda that directly undermines American Feminists.

Yes, she acted as a TRA within a womens rights movement in order to protect herself against the label of transphobia, and the expense of the women of other women. She is the most establishment you can get without being an actual TRA.

You don't understand a GD thing about her affiliations in the US, or what they mean. Kathleen Stock is the kind of academic that's going to get snapped up by The Clinton Foundation, lickety-split. She's part of the British cabal of professional feminists the believed in RussiaGate and supported Hillary Clinton. She's part of the "Head Girls" group that called American Leftists, "conspiracy theorists" for accurately describing our corporate oligarchy- from which they directly benefit.

No, hon, you don't know WTF you're talking about.

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