Westin (he/they) and Easton (she/her), are joined by special guest Nikki (she/her/they) to discuss a buckwild TERF essay that Easton wishes had gone viral. Jean Hatchet, radical feminist and JK Rowling reply guy, wrote in defense of her hero's boobs, and hilarity ensued.

In part 1, we lay out the background, briefly defining TERFs, radical feminism, and the history of the (white) feminist sex wars. We look at how The Critic Magazine describes itself vs the content they put out. And, we profile Jean Hatchet, her gatekeeping pseudonym, her activist network’s contradictions, and her fangirling love for JK Rowling.

We also see a return of spooky vibes and mind reading, ideology over material reality, crying censorship to claim victimhood when one’s reactionary politics get less popular, the impulse to protect every unbaked thought from critical analysis, and disingenuous free speech activism as a gateway for bigoted violence.

Other threads include: brunch selfie feminist activism, body shaming, wRoNgThInK, and attempts to twist statistics when they prove your point wrong, over and over again. We also rant about bad schooling practices, needing dubs to watch anime while playing video games, privileged white organizers making messes for BIPOC and queer folks to clean up, and “respecting” disabled people’s COVID precautions.

Content warning for transmisogyny and misogyny - specifically mentions of disproportionate domestic violence and murder, TERFs making light of those, references to misgendering, and scrutinizing bodies and appearances.

The original article: https://thecritic.co.uk/why-are-tras-body-shaming-j-k-rowling/

The Critic Magazine’s self-description: https://thecritic.co.uk/about-the-critic-2/

The Critic Magazine’s Launch Editorial: https://thecritic.co.uk/issues/november-2019/introducing-the-critic/

Counting Dead Women (CW - The content gets graphic and very transphobic): https://kareningalasmith.com/counting-dead-women/

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Our theme song is "Angry Dance" by Simon Panrucker, which is licensed under a Creative Common Attribution-ShareAlike License. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode )

Listen to him here: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Simon_Panrucker/Hello_My_Name_Is_Simon_Panrucker/10_Angry_Dance/

We made small changes like taking snippets for our intro and transitions, and play the song in full at the end with our own ad-libs.

This podcast is not endorsed by Simon Panrucker, and only reflects the opinions of the hosts, Westin and Easton.

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