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c/lgbtq_plus · by Sunshine@piefed.ca · 1y

TERF author complains after fellow queer authors protest his nomination in LGBTQ+ book awards

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/08/terf-author-complains-after-fellow-queer-authors-his-nomination-in-lgbtq-book-awards/

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reddig33@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 1y

Such a bizarre nomination.

garbagebagel@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 1y

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.

dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 23 pts · 1y (3 replies)

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).

zea_64@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 1y (1 reply)

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.

dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 1y

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.

transientpunk@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 1y

Thank you

cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone · 16 pts · 1y

"i'm being censored" screams the person getting an interview in the biggest newspaper in the country

flamingmongoose@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 16 pts · 1y

You're not being censored you just don't have any fucking friends

saltesc@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y (3 replies)

I still don't know what the root cause of a TERF is. It's not sticking up for people, so they can't be feminist. Something else... Probably personal gain of some sort...

Zorque@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

It's the idea of limited returns. If we acknowledge the equality of other disenfranchised groups, there's less equality for them.

garbagebagel@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Thinking that if they kiss enough ass, the oppressor won't come after them being they're "one of the good ones"

saltesc@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

Is the oppressor the patriarchy? 🤣

I couldn't help myself, but that'd be a rich seam full of irony if it turns out that's at the root of their ideology.

Zizzy@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 1y

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