Such a bizarre nomination.
Boyle referred to himself as a “fellow TERF” (a transgender-exclusionary radical feminist), and said women who support trans rights are “complicit in their own erasure” and “ready to pin down a handmaiden as her husband rapes her” (a reference to woman-assisted sexual assault in the dystopian TV series The Handmaid’s Tale).
Supporting trans people is literally the Handmaid’s Tale. What a joke, this is just an advanced playground insult where he thinks of the worst thing he can call someone with zero bearing on reality.
I am struggling to understand the relation myself … in his mind, trans women are predatory rapist men, right? So … maybe the idea is that pro-trans women are enabling rape? Even so, the Handmaid’s Tale is about a conservative Christian dystopia where the rape is institutional, while even TERFs think trans women are opportunist rapists… the conservative Christians are the political bedfellows of TERFs, so it’s a weird example to use - almost feels like an unconscious expression of cognitive dissonance, a kind of projection maybe.
I know they have a duty as journalists to include that author’s side of the story, but holy fuck is that guy insufferable. Like, even if he wasn’t being a transphobic POS, he sounds like a condescending absolute dickbag. I had a hard time getting through those sentences.
“My olive branch was rejected, however, and a petition begun to have me exiled to Elba [the island that French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte was famously exiled to], which supposedly garnered 821 signatures,” Boyne wrote. “For a time, I called it the Loch Ness Monster of petitions – everyone had heard of it, but no one had actually seen it – but then, at last, I managed to procure a copy and realized why it had never, in fact, seen the light of day. To be polite, it lacked a certain name recognition factor.”
Just shut the fuck up, dude.
“i’m being censored” screams the person getting an interview in the biggest newspaper in the country
You’re not being censored you just don’t have any fucking friends
I just watched a video on the boy in the striped pyjamas that shit guy wrote the other day tearing it apart. Fuck this guy
