Posted on 04/14/2018 4:10:34 AM PDT by C19fan
A radical feminist has been warned by a judge to refer to the transgender defendant as a “she” during an assault case. Maria Maclachlan, 61, was giving evidence against Tara Wolf, 26, whom she claims tried to attack her at a rally, knocking her to the floor. She told Hendon Magistrates' Court: "A hooded figure suddenly ran at me, ran past me from left to right, knocking the camera from my hand.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Ms MacLachlan replied: "I'm used to thinking of this person who is a male as male."
Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit popcorn.
I can see, because of their radical ideology, feminists in theory supporting the rights of 'transgenders'. It's all part of inter-sectionalism oppression; 'oppression against fake women is oppression against real women'.
But it must be driving hardcore feminists mad.
Men, disguised as fake women, are now competing with biological women and biological women are now losing to men pretending to be women.
Feminist must be suffering cognitive dissonance.
Now fake women are real women.
From the people who complain about fake news being called fake news.
Well if fake is the real thing, what are y’all b*tchin’ about?
Radical feminazis promote mental illness, chaos, and a breakdown of order.
Numerous certified nutjobs spearheaded that movement. Kate Millet, Jane Arden...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Arden_(director)
Arden’s work became increasingly radical following her growing interest and involvement in feminism and the anti-psychiatry movement of the 1960s...
...In 1970, Arden formed the radical feminist theatre group Holocaust and then wrote the play A New Communion for Freaks, Prophets and Witches. The play would later be adapted for the screen as The Other Side of the Underneath (1972). Arden directed the film and appeared in it uncredited; screenings at film festivals, including the 1972 London Film Festival, caused a considerable stir. The film depicts a woman’s mental breakdown and rebirth in scenes at times violent and highly shocking; the writer and critic George Melly described it as “a most illuminating season in Hell”,[4] while the BBC Radio journalist David Will declared the film to be “a major breakthrough for the British cinema”
...Arden took her own life at Hindlethwaite Hall in Coverdale, Yorkshire on 20 December 1982.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3200158/posts
Marxist Feminism’s Ruined Lives
Frontpagemag.com ^ | 9-2-2014 | Mallory Millett
It was 1969. Kate invited me to join her for a gathering at the home of her friend, Lila Karp. They called the assemblage a “consciousness-raising-group,” a typical communist exercise, something practiced in Maoist China. We gathered at a large table as the chairperson opened the meeting with a back-and-forth recitation, like a Litany, a type of prayer done in Catholic Church. But now it was Marxism, the Church of the Left, mimicking religious practice:
“Why are we here today?” she asked.
“To make revolution,” they answered.
“What kind of revolution?” she replied.
“The Cultural Revolution,” they chanted.
“And how do we make Cultural Revolution?” she demanded.
“By destroying the American family!” they answered.
“How do we destroy the family?” she came back.
“By destroying the American Patriarch,” they cried exuberantly.
“And how do we destroy the American Patriarch?” she replied.
“By taking away his power!”
“How do we do that?”
“By destroying monogamy!” they shouted.
“How can we destroy monogamy?”
Their answer left me dumbstruck, breathless, disbelieving my ears. Was I on planet earth? Who were these people?
“By promoting promiscuity, eroticism, prostitution and homosexuality!” they resounded.
They proceeded with a long discussion on how to advance these goals by establishing The National Organization of Women. It was clear they desired nothing less than the utter deconstruction of Western society. The upshot was that the only way to do this was “to invade every American institution. Every one must be permeated with ‘The Revolution’”: The media, the educational system, universities, high schools, K-12, school boards, etc.; then, the judiciary, the legislatures, the executive branches and even the library system.
It fell on my ears as a ludicrous scheme, as if they were a band of highly imaginative children planning a Brinks robbery; a lark trumped up on a snowy night amongst a group of spoiled brats over booze and hashish.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Millett
Mental illness affected Millett’s personal and professional life from 1973,[22][36] when she lived with her husband in California and was an activist and teacher at the University of California, Berkeley. Yoshimura and Sally, Kate’s eldest sister, became concerned about Kate’s extreme emotions.[18] Her family claimed that she went for as many as five consecutive nights without sleep and could talk nonsensically for hours. During a screening of one of her films at University of California, Berkeley, Millett “began talking incoherently”. According to her sister, Mallory Millett-Danaher, “There were pained looks of confusion in the audience, then people whispered and slowly got up to leave.”[36] Sally, who was a law student in Nebraska, signed papers to have her younger sister committed. Millett was forcefully taken and held in psychiatric facilities for ten days. She signed herself out using a release form intended for voluntary admissions. During a visit to St. Paul, Minnesota, a couple of weeks later, her mother asked Kate to visit a psychiatrist and, based upon the psychiatrist’s suggestion, signed commitment papers for Kate. She was released within three days,[18] having won a sanity trial,[49] due to the efforts of her friends and a pro bono attorney.[18]
Following the two involuntary confinements, Millett became depressed, particularly so about having been confined without due process. While in the mental hospitals, she was given “mind-altering” drugs or restrained, depending upon whether she complied or not. She was stigmatized for having been committed and diagnosed with manic depression (now commonly called bipolar disorder). The diagnosis affected how she was perceived by others and her ability to attain employment.[18][22][36] In California doctors had recommended that she take lithium to manage wide manic and depression swings. Her depression became more severe when her housing in the Bowery was condemned and Yoshimura threatened divorce. To manage the depression, Millett again began taking lithium.[18][50]
In 1980, with support of two friends and photojournalist Sophie Keir, Millett stopped taking lithium to improve her mental clarity, relieve diarrhea and hand tremors, and better uphold her philosophies about mental health and treatment. She began to feel alienated and was “snappish” as Keir watched for behavioral changes.[18] Her behavior was that of psychiatric drug withdrawal, including “mile-a-minute” speech, which turned her peaceful art colony to “a quarrelsome dystopia.”[45] Mallory Millett, having talked to Keir, tried to get her committed but was unsuccessful due to New York’s laws concerning involuntary commitments.[18]
Millett visited Ireland in the fall of 1980 as an activist. Upon her intended return to the United States, there was a delay at the airport and she extended her stay in Ireland. She was involuntarily committed in Ireland after airport security “determined from someone in New York” that she had a “mental illness” and had stopped taking lithium.[18] While confined, she was heavily drugged. To combat the aggressive pharmaceutical program of “the worst bin of all”, she counteracted the effects of Thorazine and lithium by eating a lot of oranges or hid the pills in her mouth for later disposal. She said of the times when she was committed, “To remain sane in a bin is to defy its definition,” she said.[45]
[Millett] describes with loathing the days of television-induced boredom, nights of drug-induced terror, people deprived of a sense of time, of personal dignity, even of hope. What crime justifies being locked up like this, Millett asks. How can one not be crazy in such a place?
—?Journalist Mary O’Connell[51]
After several days, she was found by her friend Margaretta D’Arcy. With the assistance of an Irish parliament member and a therapist-psychiatrist from Dublin, Millett was declared competent and released[18] within several weeks.[51] She returned to the United States, became severely depressed, and began taking lithium again. In 1986, Millett stopped taking lithium without adverse reactions. After one lithium-free year, Millett announced the news to stunned family and friends.[18]
Millett’s involvement with psychiatry caused her to attempt suicide several times due to both damaging physical and emotional effects but also because of the slanderous nature of psychiatric labeling that effected her reputation and threatened her very existence in the world.[52] She believed that her depression was due to grief and feeling broken. She said, “When you have been told that your mind is unsound, there is a kind of despair that takes over...”[18] In The Loony Bin Trip, Millett wrote that she dreaded her depressed periods:
At one point, listening to others talk about her “freaking out,” Millett muses, “How little weight my own perceptions seem to have,” and goes on: “Depression is the victim’s dread, not mania. For we could enjoy mania if we were permitted by the others around us ... A manic person permitted to think ten thousand miles a minute is happy and harmless and could, if encouraged and given time, perhaps be productive as well. Ah, but depression – that is what we all hate. We the afflicted. Whereas the relatives and shrinks ... they rather welcome it: You are quiet and you suffer.[51]
Views on mental illness
Millett disputed diagnoses and labels like manic depression (bipolar disorder) and schizophrenia, which she claimed are placed upon people who exhibit socially unacceptable behavior. “Many healthy people, she said, are ‘driven to mental illness’ by society’s disapproval and by the ‘authoritarian institution of psychiatry.’[36] She attributed her own depression to her diagnosis, and not the other way around, writing, “When you have been told that your mind is unsound, there is a kind of despair that takes over”.[18] Millett documented her experiences in the book The Loony Bin Trip (1990).[22]
Feminist author and historian Marilyn Yalom wrote that “Millett refuses the labels that would declare her insane”, continuing “she conveys the paranoid terror of being judged cruelly by others for what seems to the afflicted person to be a reasonable act.”[45]
Feminism gets bit in the ass.
At least since the 1960s Feminism has not been about improving lives and options for women. It has been a radical assault on Western civilization, tear down the social order, smash the State, smash the patriarchy, kill off civilization.
Margaret Sanger gets a lot of recognition for her eugenics advocacy, but after WWII she told Western Europe to go kill themselves and emphatically stated “NO MORE BABIES” for a period of at least 10 years. She “shrugged” when asked about the women who WANTED to have babies and would be infertile after the moratorium “you DO ask the difficult questions”. Abortion never has been about CHOICE.
radical feminist has been warned by a judge to refer to the transgender defendant as a “she”
Nope. That’s it. That’s the line for me. The state claiming the power to own my brain. THAT judge would be making a life altering decision.
No. Abortion has always been about conditioning young woman in a brutal manner to believe themselves worthless. Having children is an expression of one's conviction that one's legacy is worth preserving. Abortion is the expression of the concept that one is so devoid of intrinsic worth that any lasting impact one might have on the future must be ruthlessly destroyed. The whole purpose of abortion is to devalue women.
That is a fascinating account of the profound mental illness of that Kate Millet. Co-founder of NOW? Wow.
It is a shame, on so many levels, that it is no longer possible to confine the mentally ill. I wonder how much social harm could be avoided if we could still do that.
Stop with the entertaining of mental illness
I want to see radical feminazis put in prison for using the “wrong” pronouns. That would be the beautiful end result of all this insanity.
Hmmm.....Do UK courts still require witnesses to swear something like “the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth”?
I’d have said “yer Honor, I’m doing my best to comply with the court’s requirement as given in the required oath” or something.
Hardcore radical feminists DO stand up to this. Check out Germaine Greer and others. It is “mainstream” feminism a la Gloria Steinem that is silent.
That’s the first time I’ve heard that explanation before. Succinctly sums it up. Thanks.
Response to the judge: Did he change his chromosomes?
Several are. They're called "TERFs" or "Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminists" and they've been banned from a lot of liberal forums and social networks because they refuse to accept trans-women as women.
Attorney Cathy Brennan is one of the more outspoken ones.
It is my opinion, formed by years of studying biology and observing people.
Thank you.
It is imprudent and illegal to show disrespect to a judge in the courtroom. It is illegal and unethical to lie under oath. I would simply avoid all pronouns when referring to this mentally-ill man. No matter how awkward or repetitive, refer to him by name or as “the accused”.
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