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Transgender Ideology Isn't About Dignity. It's Warmed Over Misogyny | Opinion
Newsweek ^ | 5/10/23 | Jenny Holland

Posted on 05/10/2023 1:15:15 PM PDT by DallasBiff

Opinion Transgender Ideology Isn't About Dignity. It's Warmed Over Misogyny | Opinion

Jenny Holland , author of the Saving Culture Substack newsletter On 5/10/23 at 3:45 PM EDT Current Time 0:10

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Twenty years ago, my father, Irish author Jack Holland, wrote a book called Misogyny: the World's Oldest Prejudice. It's a sweeping look at how hatred and fear of women has been a part of nearly every society in human history. The need to control women's sexuality, women's voices and women's power have been a feature of societies from Victorian England to Afghanistan under the Taliban to ancient Greece and Rome. "What history teaches us about misogyny can be summed up in four words: pervasive, persistent, pernicious and protean," my father wrote in 2006, in his last work before he died.

I have to admit that when he wrote it, I didn't understand the urgency of the subject. Back then, I was certain that we were past the worst of the crimes against women, at least in the West. The author's father, Jack Holland The author's father, Jack Holland, author of "Misogyny: The World's Oldest Prejudice."

Yet lately, my father's words about the shapeshifting nature of misogyny have been ringing in my ears. Some aspects of the transgender ideology taking over the liberal establishment are all too reminiscent of the kinds of misogyny my father so aptly pointed out. Recently developed tech platforms and the medical-industrial complex seem to me to have collided with the world's oldest prejudice, the primal drive

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Society
KEYWORDS: misogyny; transgender
Woh!!, WTF? The leftists are turning against transgender orthodoxy.
1 posted on 05/10/2023 1:15:15 PM PDT by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff
my father, Irish author Jack Holland, wrote a book called Misogyny: the World's Oldest Prejudice

Your father, Irish author Jack Holland, is an idiot.

2 posted on 05/10/2023 1:19:41 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: DallasBiff

They misspelled the word “Mysandry”.


3 posted on 05/10/2023 1:20:46 PM PDT by Eastern Shore Virginian (I am 100% certain.........but I may be wrong.)
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To: DallasBiff

When a guy decides he wants to be a woman, he has forfeited al pretense to dignity.


4 posted on 05/10/2023 1:23:18 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: DallasBiff

Newsweek isn’t the “establishment left” publication that it used to be. The WaPo sold it in 2010, and it’s changed hands several times since then. It publishes conservative viewpoints occasionally.

Ultimately, the author here is mostly right. The male-to-female tranny is typically a parody of women and female sexuality. I compare it black face in the old minstrel shows (i.e., an over-the-top send-up of the most extreme stereotypes). The male-to-female tranny will big hair, big makeup, big nails and a big chest essentially satirizes the likes of Dolly Parton. There’s absolutely a misogynistic component to this.


5 posted on 05/10/2023 1:34:35 PM PDT by irishjuggler
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To: DallasBiff

this was a good read.


6 posted on 05/10/2023 1:38:23 PM PDT by ronniesgal (friends don't let friends be Kardashians)
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To: DallasBiff
I have said, for years, that male homosexuals hate real women.

Now, with the "trans" delusional ideaology, it's on steroids.

They want to erase biological women and make them irrelevant.

I believe that actual women are a constant reminder to the trans / homos that their entire existence is a fraud.

7 posted on 05/10/2023 1:55:10 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: DallasBiff
I wonder if it is driven from having single, overbearing mothers, or overbearing mothers with simpering fathers who can't say ""No!"

Linda like serial killers who hate their moms and kill women who look like them.

8 posted on 05/10/2023 2:31:51 PM PDT by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: IYAS9YAS
Linda like serial killers

Kinda like, not Linda like. Ugh.

9 posted on 05/10/2023 2:33:19 PM PDT by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: Eagles6

Back in the day, any psychiatrist worthy of the name would tell you that homosexuality is based on the hatred of women.

(My stepdad [deceased] went to med school in the 1940’s; he kept his textbooks and his psychiatry textbook stated that plainly and also pointed out that homosexuals has a shorter lifespan than heterosexuals.)


10 posted on 05/10/2023 3:08:22 PM PDT by Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi ( Gen. 12:3: a warning to all antisemites)
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To: Eagles6

It’s really weird because they would not be if a real women didn’t give birth to them.


11 posted on 05/10/2023 3:16:30 PM PDT by Leep (Hillary will NEVER be president! 😁)
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To: Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi; Leep
Yep, it's obvious.

Any sane person can see it.

But, their whole ideology is built on a foundation of delusions and lies, so...

12 posted on 05/10/2023 3:33:19 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: DallasBiff

Newsweek is really publishing some good, and varied, pieces. This is one of them.


13 posted on 05/10/2023 7:40:15 PM PDT by jocon307 (Democrats delenda est.)
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