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This is an absolutely outrageous lie. There's no evidence that Andrea owes any of the important parts of Woman Hating or her “standing” to a trans friend, nor any evidence of “long conversations” with such a person.
She quotes an unnamed ‘transsexual friend’ on Page 185
1/ https://twitter.com/RadFemme74/status/1336871569021423616
She quotes an unnamed ‘transsexual friend’ on Page 185
1/ https://twitter.com/RadFemme74/status/1336871569021423616
of Woman Hating, to which her later passage noting the “primary emergency” facing transsexuals she had encountered refers back.
At most, you might credit this person with the sympathetic words (quoted below) she offers in relation to the position of the transsexual
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At most, you might credit this person with the sympathetic words (quoted below) she offers in relation to the position of the transsexual
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in early 1970s Europe. Note, once again, that she sharply distinguished transsexuals from transvestites, who she also quotes: “The first time I put on the black silk panties I got a hardon right away” (Julian Beck)
I suspect you, or some blog you’ve read, have confused, or
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I suspect you, or some blog you’ve read, have confused, or
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are deliberately confusing, this ‘transsexual friend’ with Ricki Abrams, who could indeed lay claim to influencing Andrea’s emerging feminism which became her first book.
Andrea met her when she was fleeing battery at the hands of her first husband. It was Ricki who helped
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Andrea met her when she was fleeing battery at the hands of her first husband. It was Ricki who helped
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Andrea to see that what had happened to her – this violent abuse, and her sexual abuse and rape as a child and teenager – happened because she was female. To quote some of Andrea's reflections on this harrowing time:
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These passages seems to me to have depressing parallels with the arguments we now have with liberal feminist dogmas – and trans activists like yourself who use them for your own gain – that push us right back to what Andrea faced back in the ‘70s: the failure grasp the moral
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and political significance of seeing women as an oppressed class, and the stifling and dangerous effect of thinking opposing pornography is somehow ‘uncool’ or ‘prudish’. How many women and girls are shamed into silent discomfort, or worse, by social pressure still I wonder?:
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We can't blame Ricki for fearing the social ostracism – we’ve all surely faced such moments - but Andrea faced it head on and then some, and kept her vow to use everything she knew to help women her whole life.
And it cost her.
You must not rob her of that legacy with lies.
And it cost her.
You must not rob her of that legacy with lies.
