I posted the comment below to rabble.ca yesterday, in regards to their neutral position about whether or not interference from internet militias should dictate a female journalist’s right to analyze the conditions of female oppression, possibly in ways that upset the porn and prostitution lobbies.

These attempts are, I say plainly, deliberately disingenuous efforts to misrepresent and euphemize Murphy’s actual position. In short, a smear campaign, not unlike the ones visited upon sex critical feminists in the past, who recognize the libidinal economics of consuming women’s bodies:

“The common erotic project of destroying women makes it possible for men to unite into a brotherhood; this project is the only firm and trustworthy groundwork for cooperation among males and all male bonding is based on it.”

(Dworkin, Our Blood 16)

aoifeschatology stands in solidarity with Meghan Murphy: please sign this petition. Do not capitulate to the bald contradictions and dynamic bondage of the neoliberalist choice rhetoric. Its collaborators are they who commodify the existence of women for tokens of exchange. Moreover, Murphy’s materialist approach to feminist analysis is neither immanently transphobic nor an “existential threat” to transwomen. To wrongly allege this against Murphy — whilst heaps of male transphobes publish daily, unchecked, and with no petitions against them — foregrounds the misogyny behind the intent.

To say otherwise is a ruse and detour from proper engagement with Murphy’s arguments and the broader contexts she critically addresses.

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(question put to me by a #DropMM and men’s rights activist this morning:)

rabble.ca —

Are you seriously considering sacking a feminist author with a devoted readership (who love her and her work) because the allies of Playboy and A Voice for Men started a petition? Rabble, please, show some intellectual courage and drop the mealymouthed clucking. Your credibility is at stake. No censorship, no silencing of women.

I’m a post op transsexual who supports Meghan. Would you like to chat with me about why Meghan IS NOT transphobic? I’m here and I’ll stand up for her against any bullying internet mob.

Rabble, do the right thing. Journalism, not witch hunts.

Thus I offer rabble.ca an open invitation to discuss the ‘transphobia’ accusation and why it is patently false. I don’t presume to speak for women or feminism, but I am suited to debunk this particular accusation.

aoife

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