TerryGrampl

Yes I enjoyed the author's plain speaking and his use of irreverant humour to make serious points.

The man in that video spent 30 years in prison for kidnap, torture, rape and attempted murder, and is threatening violence to women now he's been released.

He's says he's a woman. Would you find it acceptable for him to use a women's refuge, be incarcerated in a women's prison, undress himself in a women's changing room, and so on, based on his self-declaration of womanhood? If yes, then you'd be indulging in a luxury belief.

What about the trauma of vulnerable women who have to suffer the effects of this particular luxury belief?

My empathy is with women who are being forced to give up their female-only spaces, where they are the most vulnerable, to include men who demand to be there too. It's unacceptable regardless of if these men had difficult childhoods or not. I wouldn't do it, most other men wouldn't either, so neither should they.

I would tell them that. I had a rough childhood too, and mental health issues as an adult, but that doesn't mean I should be allowed to just wander into women's changing rooms whenever I feel like it, and then guilt trip or threaten any women who object to my presence.

This reminds me of an interesting piece I read last month, which looks at one particular luxury belief that is especially divisive right now, and criticizes it with regards to class: https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/09/25/trans-the-new-ideol...

Like those described in the article above, this is very much a middle-class movement whose proponents have seized the opportunity to sneer at working-class people as bigoted, stupid and reactionary.