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.
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.
Thank you