A whole lot of stupid crap happened last week, and despite our best efforts to cover all of it, a few things were able to slip through the cracks. Like this story, for example:
Lesbian dating app HER tells all transphobic users to delete their accountshttps://t.co/1Arbe6cxOC
— PinkNews (@PinkNews) April 28, 2023
Apparently HER received a lot of pushback on Twitter on Lesbian Visibility Day for welcoming trans women and nonbinary lesbians to use their app, which ostensibly caters to just regular, lesbian women. So HER decided to fight back against all the haters.
The pile-on came after the app released a blog post in celebration of Lesbian Visibility Day, describing how it is “reclaiming ‘lesbian’” from “the clutches of TERFs and bigots who’ve tried to hijack it to fuel their transphobia and hatred”.
After returning to social media, the app sent a push-notification to all its users telling transphobia to delete the app, adding: “Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.”
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“HER has always been a platform that is for trans women, for non-binary people and anyone who identifies as a woman,” [HER CEO Robyn Exton] said.
“So it’s kind of absurd that we’re now getting this like vitriol coming back, saying that we’re a lesbian app that is now ‘promoting’ inclusion of trans women. It has always been since day one.”
The CEO said the team at HER are “so sick” at the levels of “aggression and violence” so-called gender critical activists aim at the app and its users, when “all trans women want to do on our app is meet someone to fall in love with”.
And what about what the lesbian women want to do on the app? Exton and HER are making it abundantly clear that the lesbian women for whom the app exists need to welcome biological men with open arms, or else get the hell out.
And that’s more than just a little messed up; it’s also misogynistic and dangerous. Twitchy frequent flyer Amy Curtis explained how in a disturbing but vital thread:
“You can’t help who you are sexually attracted to.”
“Shut up and like ‘girl penis’ or you’re a bigot.” https://t.co/SR7ijbeSoz
— Amy Curtis (@RantyAmyCurtis) April 28, 2023
Lesbians are not sexually attracted to penises. They’re *lesbians* for a reason. Yet there’s a subset of trans “women” (read/ men) who believe they are entitled to having sexual access to lesbians.
This is so incredibly dangerous for not just lesbians but all women.
— Amy Curtis (@RantyAmyCurtis) April 28, 2023
This takes the notion of consent, and bodily autonomy, and completely turns it on its head. We’ve heard so much about “rape, culture“ and “affirmative consent“, and yet now we have a not insignificant portion of the left telling women their consent/autonomy doesn’t matter.
— Amy Curtis (@RantyAmyCurtis) April 28, 2023
They are browbeating lesbians into accepting biological men as partners, calling them “transphobes” and booting them from dating apps for not agreeing to date and sleep with biological men.
— Amy Curtis (@RantyAmyCurtis) April 28, 2023
How can the left continue to talk about “me too“, consent, and women’s issues when a vast majority of them see stories like this, and just shrug, or actively agree that lesbians are transphobes?
— Amy Curtis (@RantyAmyCurtis) April 28, 2023
This is coercion, at best, and borderline rape at worst. It cannot be tolerated.
— Amy Curtis (@RantyAmyCurtis) April 28, 2023
Women and girls – biological women and girls – deserve their own spaces, their own dating apps, sports, their ability to reject anyone they aren’t interested in dating. They should not be sacrificed on the altar of woke, simply because some men feel like they are women.
— Amy Curtis (@RantyAmyCurtis) April 28, 2023
The left far against the “patriarchy” for years, and instead of encouraging good, healthy masculinity all they did was set the stage for very, actually toxic men, and I use that term loosely, to instill actual patriarchy by letting biological men invade those spaces.
— Amy Curtis (@RantyAmyCurtis) April 28, 2023
We never, ever, hear about gay men being forced to like trans men, or “boy vagina.”
Trans men aren’t invading men’s sports or locker rooms or dating apps. It’s all going one way.— Amy Curtis (@RantyAmyCurtis) April 28, 2023
It’s all going one way, and if society doesn’t slam the brakes on this train and reverse it soon, women really will be crushed by the patriarchy.
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