Judith's Butler: Protesting the Hellmouth

Spontaneous TERFing at the Judith Butler event tonight 6/13/24 in SF.

Last night, I went to a protest of Judith Butler’s talk in San Francisco, along with the incredible Lierre Keith and several other activist women I’ve had the pleasure of collaborating with on previous events. We

Like many gender identitarians, Judith wants to immediately refocus a conversation about men raping women to a conversation about men raping other men, to suggest that women ought to be comfortable acting as human shields and sharing the rape burden with these men by increasing their own rape burden, which I’m sure we will get to discussing later, after the trans women are safe. Rape, of course, is not gender neutral. Most rapists are male rapists of women and most rape victims are female victims of men. Rape is not equally harmful to either sex. Women who are raped may experience injuries men are not physically capable of experiencing, such as impregnation.

Male sexual violence against females is uniquely terrible because it has the capacity to harm not only the woman who is raped, but the child who is created, gestated and born into a prison, to a mother whose body is physiologically stressed by the emotional trauma of having been violently raped by a male rapist cell mate placed into the cage with you in the name of preventing male rape of men, and then separated from his or her mother, inducing abandonment trauma in the infant. A traumatized infant, separated from his mother, will never in a million years be the result of a man raping another man.

Women are not human shields for men. Allowing males into female-only spaces will never protect males from other males. It will only remove protections from females and their children.

Judith refuses to trivialize herself with the concerns of the sex class in prison, though. She's obscuring that issue by trying to redirect to some grand unified theory of the vulnerability of prisoners to sexual violation. When both are used as verbs, the word “queer” as in “queering the discourse,” is a synonym for the verb “to obscure.” Queer theorists want to obscure the fact that most rapists are men and most rape victims are women. That's the point of this exercise. That's what "gender equality" means in practice for the genderists: obscure the sex-based oppression of women and girls by denying that we are coherent political class with biological boundaries that cannot be penetrated. And the way this is accomplished is by reconstructing women as in a perpetual state of rapeability, such that the insemination opportunities - the regulation of which, as I’ve argued in the past in the inseminary series, is the priority in any patriarchy - are more evenly distributed amongst the male sex class.

Judith's insistence that we all pause to reflect on how basically everyone might rape anyone, is driving home the psychological penetrability of the marked class called female, to specifically enable the physical penetrability of women's prisons and by extension, female prisoners. To accomplish this, she's propagandizing young people that women in prisons get raped constantly anyway so who cares if a few trans women get some rapes in, really. I am so proud I never took her class. I was at Berkeley studying gender, women, and language, on a scholarship, and her class was right there. But, exhibit A her books, and now this.

Outside the event, we were treated to hairjabi nonbinitarians with their religious accoutrements that mark them as so very different and unique. These individuals were telling us that the solution to men in women’s prisons being rapists is to just abolish the prisons. What do we do if we abolish the prisons and then someone starts falsely imprisoning someone against the law? Literally what then. Call the police? Oh wait, you defunded them. Send in the therapists instead, like the Licensed Professional Clownselor Jon K. Uhler, to call the false incarcerators “gentlemen” until they see the error of their ways. Maybe boycott the hostage-taker’s businesses until the economic sanctions work. Imprisoning someone for false imprisonment just perpetuates the cycle of imprisonment. Another social problem solved by the radical left.

Another suggestion floated but Frerr Butler themself was that, if women do not want see the penises of any man who wants to deniably flash us, we ought to just stay home. So, Judith believes women ought to have a urinary leash that keeps us near the hearth. Despite all them/their screeching about the evils of capitalism, they are very comfortable defaulting to an assumption that everyone has a house. If you are not among the landed gentry, a penis-free life is a luxury forever beyond your ken. Perhaps trans identifying people could get a male or female bathroom symbol sign off Amazon and put it over their toilet at home. Oh, but they’re human beings, not like the sex class. Suggesting they stay home if they don’t want the Liar Thomas special is genocide. Trans rights are the only rights.