Researcher: Wanting Female-Only Spaces is “Racist”

Do you know what I come to realize more and more with each passing day? A good majority of people are idiots…

Seriously… growing up, I was under the false assumption that adults had thier sh*t together (more or less). Now that I reflect on it, I guess that was more of an example that my parents set for me and my siblings. Still… I figured the only way to really make strides in the world was to know the difference between your a$$ and your elbow.

It seems I was sadly mistaken…

From The College Fix:

“Racism” is subtly present in the opposition to biological males showering in the same locker room as females, according to a gender studies researcher.

Oxford Brookes University researcher Helen Clarke made the argument in a recent paper for the Journal of Gender Studies.

“Gender-critical feminists” have made bathrooms, “changing rooms” and “other spaces” “contested grounds,” Clarke (pictured) wrote. These feminists “argue that some predatory men masquerade as women merely to access these spaces, requiring the exclusion of trans women to protect (cis) women’s safety.”

The British researcher particularly focused on a group called the LGB Alliance, which seeks to preserve female-only spaces.

“LGB Alliance can be read as (re)producing harmful discourses related to heteronormativity, racism and classism, [and] ultimately, hinder progress towards LGBTQ+ equality,” Clarke wrote.

The group’s “argumentation can be read as operating through a prism of white feminism, in which whiteness is recentred and the so-called ‘feminist’ values are upheld through a lens of white subjectivity,” she wrote.

The LGB Alliance’s view on sex reflects “racial/colonial science” — a model “through which only white bourgeois women could properly claim the category of womanhood, and black women’s bodies were denied socio-cultural worth,” she wrote.

“By constructing ‘womanhood’ through visual codes influenced by white cultural norms and standards, and positioning ‘sex’ as the root cause of (cis) women’s oppression, LGB Alliance can be understood as recentring white women’s experiences, and marginalizing the lived realities of women of colour,” she said.

Clarke also said “for women of colour, white skin is an equal reminder of violence and oppression.”

Stupidity’s ability to radiate through computer screens is getting a little scary, isn’t it?

Last I checked, white women weren’t the only ones concerned with having a dude-free bathroom/locker room experience.

You would think if researching was your job, then you would be able to sound a little bit more like a human being that has… you know… the occasional coherent thought. Is that asking too much?

I guess if there’s a consolation here, Helen serves as a perfect illustration of how there are glaring differences between good and bad research. There’s definitely a difference…