Dr. Jane Clare Jones

 

18 September 2021

 

Dr. Jane Clare Jones

14 posts today

Stop appropriating suffering that isn't yours. Stop using that suffering to try and manipulate women into giving you what you want. Go and get together with your siblings and start campaigning for what you need that doesn't fuck women over. And stop ...

September 18th @ 12:03 pm |

Dr. Jane Clare Jones

14 posts today

If the trans rights movement henceforth commit to a) letting women use the word 'woman' for female people b) letting women have a political movement for female people c) letting women have spaces for female people, we will happily get on with our ...

September 18th @ 12:01 pm |

Dr. Jane Clare Jones

14 posts today

As a feminist academic I am painfully aware that people have conflated a) metaphysical essentialism i.e. thinking things exist by virtue of essences (which they don't, b/c we made up essences to explain how we conceptualise) and b) essentialism ...

September 18th @ 11:33 am |

Dr. Jane Clare Jones

14 posts today

Yes Sally, penises are not inherently symbols of power, well done. The thing is, for the last 5-10 millennia, men have been doing a bang up job of acting like they are a symbol of power, and using them like a weapon, so, just come out and say you are ...

September 18th @ 6:20 am |

Dr. Jane Clare Jones

14 posts today

Female people exist. Thinking female people exist is no more 'essentialist' that thinking carrots exist. Except no one is disputing that carrots exist and should have a word to name that. That's only happening to women. Because people want to ...

September 18th @ 6:08 am |

Dr. Jane Clare Jones

14 posts today

There are three axes of oppression - sex, race, and class. You've missed two of them out. And of course, you've repeated the discrimination that includes upper/middle class white males (trans/queer) *twice.* Excellent work standing with *all* who ...

September 18th @ 4:17 am |