Essay by Sue Domyn

[Anonymous]

I've been an old married lady since the millennium, but this essay unnerved me. Is this really what it's like for lesbians out in the world now? Are there really no more bars, no more women's spaces?
https://suedonym.substack.com/p/played-the-fool?r=2yc91&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=

[Anonymous]

Well yes there are very few bars now. And some safe spaces appropriated by transwomen, but I have not experienced anything to the degree this writer talks about.
I’m 42 and newly out of hetero marriage. I’ve had some luck with socials run by older women who aren’t super keen on the focus on transgender.
I have noticed in the younger groups that much of the focus is about gender now.

[Anonymous]

Amazing essay. This is a real-life “Emperor has no clothes” situation in which everyone is held hostage and playing along with foolishness. I don’t play along and I’ve lost friends over it. That’s fine with me! A woman is not a statement or a belief in someone’s head. There are no magical words anyone can say to become a woman. You’re either born a woman or you’re not. I have gone through too much in my life to allow a surgically altered (and not even that much, sometimes) straight man looking a fool in a dress to bully me into participating in his delusion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Amazing essay. This is a real-life “Emperor has no clothes” situation in which everyone is held hostage and playing along with foolishness. I don’t play along and I’ve lost friends over it. That’s fine with me! A woman is not a statement or a belief in someone’s head. There are no magical words anyone can say to become a woman. You’re either born a woman or you’re not. I have gone through too much in my life to allow a surgically altered (and not even that much, sometimes) straight man looking a fool in a dress to bully me into participating in his delusion.

I was a lot more tolerant before things became so crazy. But the female erasure is radicalizing me. That essay just floors me. That's what it's really like? That's terrifying.

[Anonymous]

That you for sharing this, speaks to the complexity and hypocrisy that is embedded in part of this evolution.

I loved the second comment by the 17 y.o. bisexual teenager, here’s an excerpt:

I don't mind people being trans. You do you. But do not dare to come to us and say we're transphobic for saying we aren't interested. Complaining that someone's reason for saying no (which is strike one here itself, because you should never need a reason to say 'no') is weak is manipulative and pathetic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Amazing essay. This is a real-life “Emperor has no clothes” situation in which everyone is held hostage and playing along with foolishness. I don’t play along and I’ve lost friends over it. That’s fine with me! A woman is not a statement or a belief in someone’s head. There are no magical words anyone can say to become a woman. You’re either born a woman or you’re not. I have gone through too much in my life to allow a surgically altered (and not even that much, sometimes) straight man looking a fool in a dress to bully me into participating in his delusion.

I was a lot more tolerant before things became so crazy. But the female erasure is radicalizing me. That essay just floors me. That's what it's really like? That's terrifying.

NP. Yes, it’s what it’s really like. Adult male “lesbians” dressed like prostitutes and sitting in ways to ensure their penises bulge out or are even exposed. If you complain or avoid looking, you’re a bigot. They’re very confrontational.

It is terrifying what has become of lesbian spaces in such a short time. I stay home nowadays.

[Anonymous]

Can I get back the 15 minutes of my life it took to read that drivel?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can I get back the 15 minutes of my life it took to read that drivel?

Probably if you go to porn hub and run your usual searches. NO, please don't share with us what they are.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Amazing essay. This is a real-life “Emperor has no clothes” situation in which everyone is held hostage and playing along with foolishness. I don’t play along and I’ve lost friends over it. That’s fine with me! A woman is not a statement or a belief in someone’s head. There are no magical words anyone can say to become a woman. You’re either born a woman or you’re not. I have gone through too much in my life to allow a surgically altered (and not even that much, sometimes) straight man looking a fool in a dress to bully me into participating in his delusion.

I was a lot more tolerant before things became so crazy. But the female erasure is radicalizing me. That essay just floors me. That's what it's really like? That's terrifying.

NP. Yes, it’s what it’s really like. Adult male “lesbians” dressed like prostitutes and sitting in ways to ensure their penises bulge out or are even exposed. If you complain or avoid looking, you’re a bigot. They’re very confrontational.

It is terrifying what has become of lesbian spaces in such a short time. I stay home nowadays.

At best I am bi, but I mean, mostly I am a straight woman who has had sex with women enough to know that I prefer men.

I am still filled with rage over this. This is so wrong. In the 90's people like ME were a lesbian bar's biggest problem.

[Anonymous]

Oh please. I can't believe how much traction sensationalist stories about trans women are getting. It's like the 1990s freak out about trans women at the Womyn's music festival. Do you know what I get upset about? The number of trans women killed in the United States each year. Don't fall for this BS about trans women taking over lesbian spaces.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh please. I can't believe how much traction sensationalist stories about trans women are getting. It's like the 1990s freak out about trans women at the Womyn's music festival. Do you know what I get upset about? The number of trans women killed in the United States each year. Don't fall for this BS about trans women taking over lesbian spaces.

I, who actually know trans women who used to be sex workers, also freak out about this statistic. Also, I freak out about the number of women of all kinds who are sex workers and killed.

I think if you actually cared about WOMEN, you'd know that trans women aren't the ones being killed in swathes by their domestic partners. But you don't care about all women. Only the trans ones.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh please. I can't believe how much traction sensationalist stories about trans women are getting. It's like the 1990s freak out about trans women at the Womyn's music festival. Do you know what I get upset about? The number of trans women killed in the United States each year. Don't fall for this BS about trans women taking over lesbian spaces.

I, who actually know trans women who used to be sex workers, also freak out about this statistic. Also, I freak out about the number of women of all kinds who are sex workers and killed.

I think if you actually cared about WOMEN, you'd know that trans women aren't the ones being killed in swathes by their domestic partners. But you don't care about all women. Only the trans ones.

Thank you!! Black cis women and Native American women have sky-high murder and domestic violence rates, but all these trans activists care about is men self-identifying into women’s spaces getting. Tell me, trans activists, how does fighting for the right to fracture a woman’s skull in a boxing match under the guise of sports stop men from killing you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh please. I can't believe how much traction sensationalist stories about trans women are getting. It's like the 1990s freak out about trans women at the Womyn's music festival. Do you know what I get upset about? The number of trans women killed in the United States each year. Don't fall for this BS about trans women taking over lesbian spaces.

Men colonizing women’s spaces is a major problem. But, like the man you are, you think it’s your place to come mansplain us and switch the discussion to what YOU care about. Kick rocks to your psychiatrist.

[Anonymous]

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^^This is typical of what one sees in lesbian spaces nowadays. See how this “trans woman” just had to dress in a way to accentuate his penis bulge at a polite venue? Typical feminine behavior, right? But no one dared approach this mentally ill troll and ask him to stop flashing his dangling genitals.

[Anonymous]

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