By Megan Fox
Excerpts: As a woman, I’m offended when a man puts on a dress and
pretends to know what my struggles have been as a biological woman. The hell
you do. A woman is biology. It is experience. It is not a costume. And any man
attempting to put on that experience without having lived it is appropriating
my sex. We are told that cultural appropriation is wrong and racist.
Appropriating the appearance of a woman and then gaslighting other women to
accept you as one of them is sexist. Get out of here with that. Stop trying to
take over women-only spaces. We need protection and safety from men. We need
places to go where no men are allowed. Our girls need their sporting events to
be segregated for their safety and fairness. Enough of this madness already!
Grammar also matters. The English
language is hard enough; mixing up plural pronouns with singular people who
want to be called “they” and “them” is a bridge we will not concede. I’ve taken
some heat over my And Just Like That (Sex
and the City reboot) reviews because I will not call their non-binary
character Che Diaz “they.” But this is the hill I’m willing to die on. I did
not study my ass off in school to learn the proper usage of pronouns to have
twenty-year-old attention whores destroy the AP style manual and make it ten
times harder for ESL students to learn to assimilate. Absolutely not. Call
yourself whatever you want, but we will not be forced to call you by your
preferred pronoun because this is a free country and you cannot compel my
speech.
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After all that, Ms. Fox gets it wrong. MEN don't put on dresses and women don't need to be protected from MEN. Males may do those things but MEN never do.
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