I have been a tenuous sessional academic moonlighting as a builder's laborer for decades, so I did not even achieve anything like a secure or well-paying job before I was permanently outsided as a sex-realist. In fact, I have not even achieved being fired. So, I hope you understand me, but I found this conversation really funny (gallows humour), and very heart warming. Thanks so much Alexa and Roisin for talking about being fired TERFs. On the other hand, this is just so shitty! My heart goes out to you both. And yes, the Left has disappeared. Now, I was always on the nose of my Marxist friends at uni because I am a Christian, but you may not be aware of this, there is a long history of Christian Socialism and radical Christian activism against slavery, poverty, antisemitism, and porn/sexual exploitation, so I don't think you have to be an atheist to be of the Left. But, there is just no Left I can join anymore. So thanks for this frank and - all things considered - positive and gutsy statement of moral determination, it gives me a lot of hope. Go TERFs; getting fired is not going to stop you!
The thought experiment comparing those who blindly go along with gender ideology to those who blindly went along with COVID-era policies was enlightening. I think, though, that Alexa was ultimately correct in saying that in the case of COVID most of us deferred to authority because we just didn't know enough about viruses and therefore adopted a 'better safe than sorry' attitude. But not to recognize the difference between a man and a woman requires, not deference to authority, but a self-lobotomy for the ages. It's not just ignorance; it's willful, harmful stupidity. Anybody with a conscience quakes before what the spread of gender ideology says about the seemingly ordinary people who accept it: that you can pretty much propagandize them into doing any evil and get them to defend that evil as good.
Great conversation, Roisin and Alexa. So interesting to hear stories from Europe.
Alexa, please if there is a chance of any sort of legal challenge, don’t be afraid to ask Terf-world for crowdfunding help. You aren’t alone! Also, in my opinion, if your former boss was a good woman as you said, she wouldn’t have fired you three days after three activists complained for your privately held opinions.
How is John Money-esque gender medicine involved in Alexa's ordeal? Communist female mayor fires a woman on the urgings of a gay man. Laptop class leftism did this, not pervy mid-century sexology.
I have been a tenuous sessional academic moonlighting as a builder's laborer for decades, so I did not even achieve anything like a secure or well-paying job before I was permanently outsided as a sex-realist. In fact, I have not even achieved being fired. So, I hope you understand me, but I found this conversation really funny (gallows humour), and very heart warming. Thanks so much Alexa and Roisin for talking about being fired TERFs. On the other hand, this is just so shitty! My heart goes out to you both. And yes, the Left has disappeared. Now, I was always on the nose of my Marxist friends at uni because I am a Christian, but you may not be aware of this, there is a long history of Christian Socialism and radical Christian activism against slavery, poverty, antisemitism, and porn/sexual exploitation, so I don't think you have to be an atheist to be of the Left. But, there is just no Left I can join anymore. So thanks for this frank and - all things considered - positive and gutsy statement of moral determination, it gives me a lot of hope. Go TERFs; getting fired is not going to stop you!
The thought experiment comparing those who blindly go along with gender ideology to those who blindly went along with COVID-era policies was enlightening. I think, though, that Alexa was ultimately correct in saying that in the case of COVID most of us deferred to authority because we just didn't know enough about viruses and therefore adopted a 'better safe than sorry' attitude. But not to recognize the difference between a man and a woman requires, not deference to authority, but a self-lobotomy for the ages. It's not just ignorance; it's willful, harmful stupidity. Anybody with a conscience quakes before what the spread of gender ideology says about the seemingly ordinary people who accept it: that you can pretty much propagandize them into doing any evil and get them to defend that evil as good.
Great conversation, Roisin and Alexa. So interesting to hear stories from Europe.
Alexa, please if there is a chance of any sort of legal challenge, don’t be afraid to ask Terf-world for crowdfunding help. You aren’t alone! Also, in my opinion, if your former boss was a good woman as you said, she wouldn’t have fired you three days after three activists complained for your privately held opinions.
Brilliant, relatable, grounding, thought provoking and informative.
How is John Money-esque gender medicine involved in Alexa's ordeal? Communist female mayor fires a woman on the urgings of a gay man. Laptop class leftism did this, not pervy mid-century sexology.
I hope in a future podcast we will get to hear your story Róisín!
Róisín, can you please set up a LWS-style TERF movement in Europe? 🙏