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Not so rosy…

…in the land of the gender critter

jane fae
5 min readMay 17, 2022
Adapted from The Nightmare by Johann Heinrich Füssli (1790–91); public domain

Today i have mostly been musing on the relationship between words and slurs. It is a subject close to the heart of many a gender crit!

Now read on.

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Putrid

A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. Unless, of course, it were a rose that had been left to stew in its own fetid water for a week or more, slowly turning into slime and mush. Actually, that smells sweet, too. But it is the sweetness of decay and death.

I digress. But not that much. For today’s topic is the naming of terfs. Or gender criticals. Or maybe GC’s. It’s hard to tell. But whatever they are called, they are not happy being called it. Because it is, of course, a slur. Not only. It is also a vile misogynist attack on women. Ergo, further proof that trans people are rabid and irrational.

Don’t take my word for it. Check out this:

Screencap from Gemma Stone, 17/5/2022

Or this:

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jane fae
jane fae

Written by jane fae

Feminist, writer, campaigner on political and sexual liberty who also knows a bit about IT, the law and policing. Not entirely serious…

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