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The rise of the Body Snatchers
Has anyone noticed how gender crits have lately joined with islamophobes and racists in focussing on fears of women “being supplanted”? It’s an old myth, as old as transphobia and Janice Raymond’s Transsexual Empire, and about as sensible. So rather than engage with it, here’s a rant.
Read it fast and out loud!
So I was watching a film the other night: the Body Snatchers, I think it was. At any rate it was either 50s film noir about the communist threat, dressed up in some hokey plot about giant pods appearing in the middle of a suburban community and replacing the real people. Or gender critical documentary about the threat from trans women busy infiltrating society while the decent people slept.
Replacing the real women.
Supplanting them.
Nightmare vision or fantastic fiction? Fact or paranoid prediction? Who knows?
But then in October 2020, in this, the arse end of an arse-end year, it is increasingly hard to distinguish dysphoric terror from dystopian error.
Dystopia? Dysphoria? What difference does it make anyway, given that most people I know with dysphoria would rather be living in almost any other advanced western democracy right now.
