Boyle referred to himself as a “fellow TERF” (a transgender-exclusionary radical feminist), and said women who support trans rights are “complicit in their own erasure” and “ready to pin down a handmaiden as her husband rapes her” (a reference to woman-assisted sexual assault in the dystopian TV series The Handmaid’s Tale).

[–] 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.

[–] garbagebagel@lemmy.world 22 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I know they have a duty as journalists to include that author's side of the story, but holy fuck is that guy insufferable. Like, even if he wasn't being a transphobic POS, he sounds like a condescending absolute dickbag. I had a hard time getting through those sentences.

“My olive branch was rejected, however, and a petition begun to have me exiled to Elba [the island that French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte was famously exiled to], which supposedly garnered 821 signatures,” Boyne wrote. “For a time, I called it the Loch Ness Monster of petitions – everyone had heard of it, but no one had actually seen it – but then, at last, I managed to procure a copy and realized why it had never, in fact, seen the light of day. To be polite, it lacked a certain name recognition factor.”

Just shut the fuck up, dude.

[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 16 points 3 months ago

"i'm being censored" screams the person getting an interview in the biggest newspaper in the country

[–] flamingmongoose@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 3 months ago

You're not being censored you just don't have any fucking friends

[–] Zizzy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 months ago

I just watched a video on the boy in the striped pyjamas that shit guy wrote the other day tearing it apart. Fuck this guy