It's the dick owners, stupid
I turned fifty this year, and so I am old enough to remember Bill Clinton's two terms in office. In fact, I was first old enough to vote the first time he ran for president. I was in Army training that year and we had limited access to the news, first on purpose and then as an artifact of how busy we were and what limited access we had to TV and radio. But eventually I heard about one of his campaign slogans: "It's the economy, stupid."
It wasn't enough to get me to vote for him. One look at him on a motel TV giving a campaign speech and I decided I was going to vote for Perot because Bush the Elder was a weasel and Clinton seemed to be an even bigger one.
But you could still say it's effective, sometimes, to reduce a situation down to a memorable slogan.
I have spent a lot of time, both here at Substack and on social media (is Substack also social media?), explaining all the details of why gender identity is bad politics and violates the rights of women and children. I get into the technical side of things. I throw big words around. I debate the definition of "woman" most of all. I mean, I'm a woman. I have kind of a vested interest in that argument. I've discussed all this before and I will discuss it again. Lots. It's an interest of mine. I do that.
But at the end of the day I wonder if we wouldn't get farther if we just argued this:
"It's the dick owners, stupid."
Current and former. The dick owners are the problem.
I refer to certain facilities as privacy facilities: public restrooms, and locker rooms, and dressing or changing rooms, and so on. The purpose of these facilities is to give women and girls privacy in what would otherwise be public places for times in which we are partly or wholly nude or otherwise specially vulnerable to male misbehavior and therefore need that privacy. It's fair to say men and boys need that privacy too for the sake of simple dignity (actually, I like them having those facilities because they then have zero excuse to wave the willy around in public), but for women and girls the stakes are much higher.
A certain group of men and boys want so badly to invade our privacy in those spaces that they got around the problem of the spaces being labeled "women" or "girls" by declaring themselves to be women and girls. It's like the world's worst game of Calvinball. Complete with ever-changing rules and random hijinks that aren't at all funny.
Normal people understand that when a sign says "women" or "girls" it means that penises are not welcome in that space. The genderdorks understand this too, but it doesn't say "no dicks allowed" on the door, so they're pretending not to understand. If they can muddy the waters on what women and girls are, all doors will be open to them whether they deserve to walk through or not.
Did you ever notice that sex offender laws don't include women's and girls' restrooms in the list of places where a registered sex offender is not allowed? Even given that a relatively few women wind up with sex offense convictions, the law could account for that, and it doesn't. Sex offenders are not allowed near playgrounds or schools where little girls are fully clothed but a public restroom where girls are sometimes half naked? C'mon in, pervs. The water's fine. If someone questions you, just say the magic words I’m a woman. Plant a camera while you're here. (They do. There's an entire porn genre based on it.)
But I don't think any elected official would be dumb enough to rewrite our laws to rename the penises of trans-identified men as "vulvas" or "vaginas." I think they know what would happen.
So I think I have hit upon an approach we should think about taking.
Instead of saying "no men allowed here," forbid dick-owners or those who have ever been dick-owners from going into spaces where women and girls are vulnerable. Because men who've had genital mutilation for gender identity haven't become safer. They've just gotten more creative. But just say "no penises allowed here" or "no penis-owners" or something like that. Make a cutesy sign with an eggplant emoji if you have to, though I have reservations about that because the assholes will just get literal. But don't label who the person is. Focus on the problematic body part.
If we do this we are going to get pushback. Next thing you know the genderdorks will whine and rage that we are "discriminating on the basis of genital shape," as if we are just arguing Cocka-Cola versus Poontang Pepsi instead of establishing a legal barrier against the organ responsible for the greatest amount of misery for women and girls since we first started tracking crime records and medical data. The penis has literally injured, maimed, sickened, and killed women and girls throughout history -- if not directly, then by being a disease vector or pregnancy facilitator, pregnancy also being a major cause of death in female people.
I mean, I'm a straight gal. I like dick. But it has to be well-behaved dick.
Most of these guys (we're talking 80 percent or more) do still have dicks, but they do not possess well-behaved dick. First off, just being in female-only facilities literally gives them boners. Go look at the trans discussions on Reddit and see for yourself; it's a favorite topic of conversation. Sure, I want that bullshit going on in the stall next to me. Thanks. Secondly, they feel entitled to invade our privacy facilities regardless of how we feel about it. What a low bar, respecting a simple sign, and they hit it anyway. Can't respect one simple boundary? You're dangerous. Even if you've never actually committed a violent crime. Men who rape women and girls, who murder women and girls, give off warning signals for fucking years or decades before they finally act. We have this warning sign handed to us on a silver platter for some guys who will offend, if in fact they are not doing so already -- and some of them are. Will we ignore this safeguarding opportunity or will we act like we've got fucking brains and empathy for once?
I'm on an optimism-free diet lately. I won't presume to guess. But if you ever asked yourself what you would have done if you'd been there when Kabul fell in 1997, you are answering that question right now. Make the right choice.
The beauty of it is these assholes can't even label dick-free zones as sex discrimination because they claim female people can have dicks. If having a dick is not a sex trait, then it is not a protected class.
Good luck weaseling out of this one, fellas.