[img ID: tweet by Laurie Penny saying ‘a critic who reviewed my new book made a huge fuss about refusing to use my preferred pronouns in the review. My publishers made the mistake of politely informing the magazine. I would have warned them against it, knowing how vicious transphobes can be to LGBTQ authors.
Max Dashu has replied to this tweet saying ‘child of privilege: i’m oppressed, I’m oppressed.” Married woman: “by a lesbian, by a lesbian.” Anyway, last I looked you said they/them she/her? Tempest in a teapot, misdirection…
Second img is a screenshot of Max Dashu sharing a link to the review written by noted antisemitic conspiracy theorist andtransphobe, Julie Bindel, along with the comment: ‘sweeping half a century of feminist activism from the boards doesn’t do women’s’ liberation any favours. Neither does stanning for men’s rights to consumer sex at the expense of women.
Third image is a retweet by Max Dashu of a tweet by someone else about the GRA and the Scottish government’s impact assessment for it. Dashu has commented with two quotes (unsourced): the first is: “I am having treatment for breast cancer and I am boiling with rage. It’s incomprehensible how they can equate a woman who has had a mastectomy with a male bodied person.” The second quote is: “do not dare equate my lived experience as a woman with someone whose lived experience is as a man.” /End ID]
Anyway, if there was any doubt that Max Dashu, creator of the Suppressed Histories Archive is a terf, doubt no more.
Here’s Max taking a petty shot at author Laurie Penny for daring to have changed their pronouns from she/her and they/them in 2019, to they/them today.
Context: noted antisemitic conspiracy theorist and terf, Julie Bindel, reviewed Laurie Penny’s new book. She insisted on misgendering Penny throughout the review. Penny’s publisher reached out to The Critic (which published the review written by noted antisemitic conspiracy theorist and terf, Bindel) to correct them. Now the TERFs are mad about it.
(Hope it’s okay to stick this here, it would have taken multiple replies, but I can delete if not, just lmk). It was personal experience. She posted on her suppressed history archive page a Photo of a very famous ancient vase depiction of Achilles mourning the death of Patroclus, claiming it was the most moving depiction of woman‘s grief in antiquity, and identifying it as (iirc) Briseis. When someone asked for a reference for the vase she replied she didn’t have one, and often came across Material this way - without any attribution. Literally one reverse image search would have revealed what it was. But it’s also highly troubling that she managed to miss literally all the actual academia literature on depictions of grief in antiquity, or depictions of scenes from the Iliad, etc. That would have allowed her to identify this piece.
Plus, her feminist research into the Iliad (the topic of the post) was based on decades old books all by men, and when I asked her if she’d read any of the modern books on the Iliad written by women classicists - because there is actually quite a lot of work being done by women classicists about exactly the topics she was looking into - she stopped replying to that thread too.
Seeing how sketchy her research was when it was a topic I knew about, and seeing her ignore people pointing out modern material by women who are actually experts in the field on women in antiquity… was like, oh, okay. I cannot trust you as a source on the topics I don’t know as much about bc your research methods themselves are A Problem Here.
I‘m p sure I still have screenshots of at least parts of it if you want.
