Post AwV8WMTzSyfZHmgauG by FranGershwing@spinster.xyz
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 (DIR) Post #AwUZ1k02U5dgqjL8sa by PG@spinster.xyz
       2025-07-25T11:41:52.022649Z
       
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       I love this response (over on Substack) to detransitioner Maia Poet's assertion, "Young people who get wrapped up in thinking they’re trans are usually very deep thinkers. Deep thinkers get wrapped up in interesting but false beliefs all the time":
       
 (DIR) Post #AwV8WMTzSyfZHmgauG by FranGershwing@spinster.xyz
       2025-07-25T17:20:06.542120Z
       
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       @PG "Deep thinking" without radical feminism is pseudo deep thinking IMO. She cites Buddhist texts and a Roman emperor, which could be appropriate, but does she know any feminist thinker, like Mary Daly for example? Does she considers women and men equally oppressed in this world by "group thinking"?
       
 (DIR) Post #AwV8WO3TcWeKA8IRrE by PG@spinster.xyz
       2025-07-25T18:07:29.293639Z
       
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       @FranGershwing I think "etc." here invites us to think of our own. What I've screenshot here is a "note" on Substack by a Gender Critical midwife, not an article or an essay. Her most salient point, to me: "Deeply embracing the fact that all beings suffer and that no one is any more special than anyone else in that regard". It's by exploiting the special "suffering" of a certain group of "identities" that Genderism thrives & makes big money for surgeons & Big Pharma - so to "zoom-out", so to speak, by citing the universal suffering which can arise for ALL beings is useful to our understanding of how to view the exploitation of these young people. Nothing shallow or "pseudo", whatsoever, in what she's said. That she does not cite a Radical Feminist here does not bother me - I think Radical Feminism is a way of "deep thinking", but certainly not the only one.
       
 (DIR) Post #AwV8WOssXPlYjYLUye by FranGershwing@spinster.xyz
       2025-07-25T18:20:28.500883Z
       
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       @PG I almost agree with you PG, the perception of Universal suffering is certainly a way to understand our own, and to cite that as an important aspect to demystify group thinking is certainly valid IMO, but she clearly uses the easy tool of patriarchal famous texts to prove, or reinforce, her points which I tend to think is not good enough. I don't care about Buddhist texts or what Roman emperors have to say but, I think her central point criticizing group thinking and identifying it as central to the "trans" ideology and how sensible people should *not* fall to it, is perfectly valid, one hundred percent.
       
 (DIR) Post #AwV8WPl7Hl9RRlioW8 by PG@spinster.xyz
       2025-07-25T18:47:49.298489Z
       
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       @FranGershwing Of course you don't have to care about Marcus A. or Buddhist texts (yes, they're mostly men, writing in patriarchal cultures)! I'm well-practiced in recognizing or factoring out patriarchal elements when I read, so I find a great deal of value to many "Classics". Inviting the young people to think outside their narrow focus is the point, there are many ideas with substance & depth in this world to explore.