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TERF author complains after fellow queer authors protest his nomination in LGBTQ+ book awards (www.lgbtqnation.com)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Sunshine@piefed.ca to c/lgbtq_plus@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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[–] zea_64@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Supporting trans people is literally the Handmaid's Tale. What a joke, this is just an advanced playground insult where he thinks of the worst thing he can call someone with zero bearing on reality.

[–] dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I am struggling to understand the relation myself ... in his mind, trans women are predatory rapist men, right? So ... maybe the idea is that pro-trans women are enabling rape? Even so, the Handmaid’s Tale is about a conservative Christian dystopia where the rape is institutional, while even TERFs think trans women are opportunist rapists... the conservative Christians are the political bedfellows of TERFs, so it's a weird example to use - almost feels like an unconscious expression of cognitive dissonance, a kind of projection maybe.