TERF wars

A new/old World Order: 1, 2 , 3, 3a, 3b, 3c, 4, 5, 6 , 7, 8, 8a, 8aFR, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 & 15a

Andrew Zolnai
Andrew Zolnai
2 min readOct 2, 2023

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J. K. Rowling at the White House in 2010, Wikimedia

The previous post here hinted at the issue of transgender — which appears to have taken the media by storm over 1% UK population, more below — let’s develop that intro in the light of a Daily Mail article here, after this post to my Cambridge Quaker Coffee Group on WhatsApp:

TERF means ‘trans exclusionary radical feminists’: JK Rowling was famously accused of it, for simply upholding truths about feminine identity; this was to counter ‘woke’ journalism, to which the author of the article above fell victim.

Aside from ‘the tail wagging the dog’ — the article describes how 1% of the population’s rights are being appropriated by perverts and re-purposed as yet another tool of women’s oppression — Linehan’s story resonated many levels in this series:

  • society has lost its moral compass as media grasp at ‘woke’ straws, taking last century’s ‘political correctedness’ up one notch
  • values are turned on their heads as media personas rush to curry favor from misguided folk playing with youth’s sexual orientation
  • stalwarts like Linehan, Navratalova and Rowling are toppled by nobodies like Page, Watson and Chanellor (see Daiy Mail article)
  • all this only bolsters the necessity to reset our compasses and restore values around gender identity established over millennia

This whole series is about pointing out that equating men and women is not fit-for-purpose across a number of examples in this series… And here we see the diametrical opposite of confusing, if not reversing, sexual trends is even worse! Did you know that WOKE stands for “wusses only know each other”? … As in social media bubbles augmented, if not created, by Facebook, X (formerly known as twitter) and others curently losing their way in an ever-changing social media landscape…

Go here in my companion professional Medium channel and here in this channel to follow this, respectively, onto artificial intelligence and internet ethics — and here discussing both — this series as a whole continues here.

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