Thinking for ourselves

Gender critical feminist lesbians are worried about being erased (yes that's you Kathleen Stock). They see some in their ranks opt to become trans men and perhaps feel that they side with the misogyny they experienced growing up. So as response they align themselves with the anti-trans bandwagon and become uneasy bedfellows with right wing lunatics who normally think women belong in the kitchen.

It is a strange world but that does not surprise because if you are incensed enough about a topic, the enemy of your enemy becomes your friend even if normally you would despise each other. Much of the world operates on fear and lack of understanding of the experience of the other and once you have gone down a rabbit hole it can be very difficult to exit most especially if you are afraid of losing face by later needing to eat some proverbial crow.

I see misinformation everywhere but in this age of absolute certainty we have lost all nuance and reflection. We become entrenched in dogma and fail to question whether we might be wrong about something. Even the so called "trans community" (a term I tend to disfavor because we certainly do not all think the same) has blind spots in its orthodoxy which are in need of examining. But groupthink is sometimes more tempting when there is safety in numbers. So we circle the wagons.

Thinking for ourselves is not always easy as we can often encounter resistance from within our own ranks but if we are to be honest with ourselves it is always the best way to go.