Please: Stop calling Trans-Women "Men"

They're males. They're biological males. Yes, absolutely. No argument.

But they're no longer men, and no, I don't just mean the ones who have done harm to their privates. I mean all of them, even the ones that don't even bother to shave.

I go in Twitter Spaces that talk about this topic only occasionally, and they're usually filled with those brave minority of women who are speaking out against the invasion of female spaces, female sports, and (worst of all) the usurpation of female identity.

They're right on ALL of the things they advance... apart from one, and wow, does it grate when I listen to them.

I was in one particular Twitter Space with the unique name "Can Men Breastfeed?" and there was about a 99:1 ration of those who agreed they could not, and one particularly unflappable advocate of the insane proposition.

I came on as a speaker, gave a short (5 min) talk wherein I tried to draw attention to the fact that our cultural drift was so noticeable precisely because we were having the discussion.

I made reference to the post I put up a few weeks ago, where I made the comparison between teenage me looking forward to 2023 (Moonbases! There will be moonbases!) and present me (How many people will I have to argue with to prove pedophilia is bad today?).

I surrendered the mic for a while, but the hosts kept, over and over and over again referring to their debate opponent and other trans-women as "men".

So I put my hand up.

When I got a chance to speak again, this time it was just to make this point: the terms "man" and "male" are certainly (most of the time) going to be applied to the same individuals, but they don't mean the same thing.

To be "male" is a biological description.

To be a "man" is (yes, for men AND women both) a description of place in a society.

Place and status.

Becoming a man--before the modern, enlightened, deracinated world--was a process of initiation. Boys had to pass through a series of trials the exact details of which varied by culture, but the successful completion of these would result in the community regarding him no longer as a boy but a man.

This is important as humans aren't the consumer/producer bots that our corporate overlords would like, and the whole push for the abolition of the male and the female as unique, immutable characteristics are, I believe, a part of their plan to make us into units... not people.

Trans-women have voluntarily abandoned--surrendered, if you will--their manhood. But that does not mean that they, by default, become women. This is for two reasons:

a) They're biological males. This is an immutable characteristic which cannot change. A "sex-change" is just painful, disfiguring, costly make-up. It does nothing to change that which is unchangeable.

b) The very term "woman" is, like a man, a designator of place and status. A biological male can never be female, and a biological male most CERTAINLY can never be a woman.

I could spend hours trying to delineate what a "woman" is, and I know that no matter what I wrote, it wouldn't satisfy even half of the women out there. So allow me to be very base and just say that a woman is a biological female who has passed through unique cultural initiations and is recognized by her fellow women as not a girl, but a fully-fledged woman.

The most important characteristic, of course, is the creation of life.

THIS IS A SHARD OF THE DIVINE.

IT IS NOT TO BE MOCKED.

When biological males pretend to get their period, and take up space at the gynocologists' office because they want to pretend to have a pap smear, or when they take a cocktail of hormones and feed the resultant non-milk toxic fluids via their nipples to an innocent, newborn baby, you are mocking God Himself.

Do that at your fucking peril.

Anyhow, I'm off topic.

Please, ladies, don't group men in with biological males who are acting abysmally. They have abrogated/been stripped of the title.

If you don't believe me, think about it this way.

How many times have you heard people say, or said yourself, the following:

"What kind of man is that?"

Are you questioning whether or not that guy is a male? No, you're not. You're questioning his right to deem himself a man.

"A real man would..."

Again, you're not pondering the realness of his penis. It's probably there. You're questioning the validity of his status as a man.

"You're a bad man."

Are there good or bad biological males? No. Just biological males, because sex is morally-neutral. He's male, even if he's Jack the Ripper.

Now, I know this is going to be hard to adapt to, but please try. The hosts of that space I was in totally ignored my last comment and immediately went back to calling trans-women "men" and calling the pro-trans advocate himself a "man".

They aren't men. They're male.