There comes a time in the inclusionary business when exclusion is necessary in order to preserve the inclusion. This paradox/non--coherence has come about for the TERFs, a group of feminists who exclude transsexuals from the legitimacy of "being female", and thus the appellation, Trans-Excusionary Radical Feminists (TERFs).
Now over at PZs place, TERFs get bashed because they aren't as inclusive as are PZs guys, who are excluding TERFs from legitimacy due to their exclusion. Or something like that. It doesn't have to make sense, other than that "we are the most inclusive EVAH, and we exclude you because you aren't as inclusive as we deem it moral to be".
So the exclusionary TERFs are excluded by the inclusionary but exclusives at PZs place. Which, BTW, is commenting on how assholes are ruining both Atheism and gaming, and figuring out how to exclude the assholes who aren't inclusive enough...
Can't make this up.
Link tip: Stefani; thanks!
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PZ Meyers is, and will continue to be until the day he dies, a never-ending fount of amusement.
I don't take him seriously. No one I know does. He doesn't even rise to the level of gadfly, since most of the things he says are self-contradictory attempts to deny what anyone can confirm by *just looking around*.
The Atheists eat their own, in the end. They have nothing else. They (and the Left) are bent on their own destruction and will take as many of the rest of us with them as possible. Our job is to see that the inhabitants of Arkham pass their lives peacefully and expire without harming others.
But there IS no confusion as to who the inmates are. TERF and Meyers are just symptoms of their self-delusion.
And then there are the SWERFs -- the Sex-Worker Exclusionary RadFems. Feminism has always had a tortured relationship with the prostitution industry. There are those who consider it the poster child of patriarchal misogyny and shun hookers as willing participants in their own victimhood. Other feminists, however, embrace prostitutes as symbols of female empowerment. So are hookers uber-feministas, or perpetuators of male exploitation?
Feminists experience the same cognitive dissonance over the porn industry -- male-dominated, male-controlled, exploitative of women. And yet at the same time one of the few industries where women regularly earn far more than men, while male performers get treated as interchangeable stud stand-ins. What's a RadFem to do?
The top-free movement is similarly self-contradictory: women must be allowed, in the name of equality, to bare their breasts in public. But woe be to the man who gets caught looking.
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