Argh, i wish the MWMF would just go away already. I'm so sick of hearing about it. I'm sick of arguing about it.
As far as the festival is concerned, it's really quite low on my list of concerns. Yes, their policy is obnoxious and annoying - i mean, if you only know one single thing about someone and think you therefore know everything you need to know about them in order to exclude them from your presence, this is the very essence of prejudice and discrimination. But it's a private festival run on private land, they can keep out whomever they want.
And, honestly, i think transpeople have essentially won the cultural dialogue on this. Virtually all of the young people i know in the queer community are united in thinking that trans-exclusion is mean-spirited and wrong. Most of the trans-inclusion activism i see nowadays is done by non-transgender women. The only people keeping this argument alive are 35 years old or older. I try to discourage young people from picking it up, because they're getting it right and don't need to get caught up in this particular divisive vortex.
It never ceases to amaze me how much non-transgender people think they know about what it is like to be us, what we *should* be able to live with or what *would* (in their minds) just magically fix our dilemma; and to what extent we should be excoriated for refusing to martyr ourselves for the sake of their ideology. Their refusal to just listen to what we have to say about our own lives, their willingness to write their own words on us.
I considered screening your comment, because if your ex does read my posts i don't want her to feel uncomfortable reading or posting here. At the same time, i want *you* to feel comfortable to read and post too. So i'm not really sure what the right thing to do is.
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As far as the festival is concerned, it's really quite low on my list of concerns. Yes, their policy is obnoxious and annoying - i mean, if you only know one single thing about someone and think you therefore know everything you need to know about them in order to exclude them from your presence, this is the very essence of prejudice and discrimination. But it's a private festival run on private land, they can keep out whomever they want.
And, honestly, i think transpeople have essentially won the cultural dialogue on this. Virtually all of the young people i know in the queer community are united in thinking that trans-exclusion is mean-spirited and wrong. Most of the trans-inclusion activism i see nowadays is done by non-transgender women. The only people keeping this argument alive are 35 years old or older. I try to discourage young people from picking it up, because they're getting it right and don't need to get caught up in this particular divisive vortex.
It never ceases to amaze me how much non-transgender people think they know about what it is like to be us, what we *should* be able to live with or what *would* (in their minds) just magically fix our dilemma; and to what extent we should be excoriated for refusing to martyr ourselves for the sake of their ideology. Their refusal to just listen to what we have to say about our own lives, their willingness to write their own words on us.
I considered screening your comment, because if your ex does read my posts i don't want her to feel uncomfortable reading or posting here. At the same time, i want *you* to feel comfortable to read and post too. So i'm not really sure what the right thing to do is.