A 🧵 about language. 1. How many times does someone says “including others doesn’t hurt you”? We hear it all day long. They are wrong. They know it. They don’t want you to know it.
2. Let’s start here. When women are a subset of women they cannot lay claim to anything that was separately a woman’s. In one linguistic sleight of hand, women have lost their individuality that determines who has control of something. Be it sports or prison or their name.
3. Now the woman is just a grumpy member of the group trying to keep something away from other WOMEN. EVERY reason why we have separate spaces women is instantly wiped out with this trick. We are stunned. We try to explain. We are sure it’s a misunderstanding.
4. We try to justify why we have separate spaces. We explain desperately about things we all knew five minutes ago. We are sure they just don’t get it. As we explain power differentials we’re called shrill and mean and we are “weaponizing our trauma.”
5. Or worse we get endless accusations of NAMALT (not all men are like that). And why are we explaining this? To justify our right to get our OWN stuff. We beg for our own stuff back. We try to explain why we should have our own stuff.
6. And all because with one linguistic move, women have ceased to be an entity entitled to their OWN things. It’s the ultimate takeover. Like changing the name on a title. That’s what TWAW does. It changes the name on the title.
7. Since the phrase is TW are women and women are c++ women, the TW now gains the prominent and controlling place on the title. The women are just c++ women. A subset. A minor player. With no rights at all. Full control has been turned over.
8 But the game is not complete. For women are powerful and can speak up. Who would let them take their stuff without complaint? So now we get to the second genius move. The way to shut women up. We are told we are hateful if we object to having our own stuff taken.
9. We are now just a member of the group taking OTHER’S stuff. Now it is fully theirs. They are entitled to it. We are excluding them from THEIR stuff. It is akin to racism. It is ingroup superiority and it cannot be allowed. Do you see what they have done?
10. You are now a terrible person if you object to the thief inserting his name on the title of your own home against your will. The home you worked for. Paid for. You are now begging to be allowed a piece of it. Maybe we can compromise you, plead. You want to be nice.
11. And when you beg for someone to recognize you as a full being, you are told the mantra again. It is now solidified. You are no longer you. It has been declared. And If you DARE even name this as men taking over women’s stuff, you are called a bigot.
12. These are the replies you will get as you try to explain all of this. You will be brushed aside. Disregarded. You are now physically removed. Unseen. Muted.
13. Forced inclusivity does harm you. This isn’t about civil rights this is about property rights. Ownership. Control. That’s the linguistic game here. The only way to win is not to play. The initial ask for “pronouns” is the harm. You are just responding to it.