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If you've been hanging out in the ADF subforum for a while or have been paying attention to the TERF thread in Community Watch, you have probably heard Cathy Brennan's name brought up a few times. Several people were saying that she's a big lolcow onto herself and I wanted to know why. In fact, I thought there was already a thread on this woman before but to my surprise, I did a search a few times and couldn't find anything and yesterday night, someone PMed me a lot of information I could use to really flesh out a thread about her because holy shit, I tried to sit through one of the videos that she was in and she was absolutely fucking insane and I couldn't stomach looking at her either.
I get the same weird feeling I get whenever I've looked at any pictures of Sarah Butts. I couldn't even tell at first that this is a womyn here, but let's get down to business because this is gonna be a lengthy intro cause there's just so much information out there on her and the kinds of bullshit she's engaged in before.
To start off with, this was the video that I tried to sit through the whole thing. It was very fucking painful and not only that, I saw a ton of comments from Diana Boston / Mancheeze, another crazy TERF that I've been keeping an eye out on and will also make a thread just for her later because she's a loon unto herself for many reasons. She has been described to me as trying to follow in Cathy's footsteps with all the shit that she writes all the time on YouTube and her website.
I only made it through about halfway because she was just acting like such an insensitive, arrogant douche that I just had to stop watching from there, but even the comment section is something to be seen to be believed.
@Treblinkachu gave a great introduction to who exactly this woman is and posted some other really fucked up photos of her too in the TERF thread, so I'll start off with taking parts of what he wrote and then going from there and adding what I was told from the source that I got this information from because there's more to the rabbit hole than I thought. I'm aiming to make this a very big megathread of autism and insanity but I gotta get the basics out of the way so I can go through some of the other crazy shit that this woman has spewed on the Internet.
"And it's here, with the mention of "most rabid" that we get to the very TERFiest of TERFs, Cathy Brennan. She's a Maryland lawyer and radical feminist activist blogger who has been documented to done these, among numerous other, things:
--Wrote multiple articles outing/attacking a transgender teenager whom she knew was on suicide watch
--Dropped dox on numerous other underage transgender teenagers through social media
--Dox'd multiple transgender women in order to call up their doctors and say they should be taken off hormones and committed because transgenders are dangerous sex criminals
--Harassed the employers of transgender activists who disagree with her by claiming they're employing dangerous sex criminals/alleging false criminal records
--Reported transgender activists to police claiming they're dangerous sexual criminals/child molesters
--Threatened to call the FBI on people who disagree with her, lol
--Shitloads of other dumbass stuff
Now, all of that is well and good, and I think it shows that Cathy Brennan is indeed a fine potential source of lolmilk: she's a hysterical, self-righteous, angry, overreactive, and loves to control media. But that's not what matters to me.
What matters to me is that Cathy Brennan, more than any TERF activist, wants to be a man--thus proving that there is, in fact, at least one TERF motivated by penis envy. It's not even up for debate: just look at the way she presents herself. This woman is clearly trying to look like a man. I'm going to show you guys a series of pictures of Cathy Brennan, and I would like you to tell me whether this looks anything like a woman at all."
In the same thread, there is also a lot of other really weird looking pictures of this idiot, like this one:
The first thing that came to my mind when looking at this picture was how I thought I was looking at Charlie Sheen before realizing that this is actually a grown woman.
Here's another one of my favorite pictures of her.
She's trying to pull a Brianna Wu on us in this pic.
This one also kinda looks unsettling too.
Probably thinking about all the transactivists that she wants to shit on so badly.
Let's get into the specific shit that I was sent about this nutcase.
Cathy Brennan actually believes that gender doesn't even exist at all! I'm not making this up. Go read this nicely done review of her work here where I got this from.
After they introduce Brennan, they talk about her history involving her activism with LGBT rights. She includes trans* people in this because at the time the “trans* community was very small” (this was early 2000s) and they were not pushing much for rights. She goes on about how she was active in even passing legislation for trans* non-discrimination policies. This was because she believes that gender and gender stereotypes are damaging and inherently oppressive. Brennan wants for the abolition of gender in its entirety since it is a system of oppression, specifically aimed at women (mainly cis women). Brennan mentions how damaging stereotypes are, yet is a person who holds trans women to gender and sexual stereotypes. Brennan believes that trans women uphold gender stereotypes by simply existing since according to her, all trans women embody female stereotypes and are hyper feminine beings.
She also runs her own page on Tumblr where you can see for herself how much she's obsessed with dicks and trannies.
http://gidwatch.tumblr.com/
You can find more of her bullshit here on this Facebook page as well where I was told that she has a fixation with reporting a specific post on there every couple of days. She's that salty and butthurt about one little post that she'd go through the fucking trouble to do that.
https://www.facebook.com/Gender-Identity-Watch-312194428964700/?fref=ts
This is the specific post that she tries to report every couple of days. I don't know if it's still up or not but that's what I was told in the PM:
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid489415821242559&id=312194428964700
This Facebook page is another one of her favorite targets for trying to get it shut down.
https://www.facebook.com/Stop-Trans-Chauvinism-20-1529979340573502
https://archive.md/PZy9i
Website: http://genderidentitywatch.com/
Blog: http://bugbrennan.com/
YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/user/badsingersings
She was on Twitter at one point but that account has been suspended. I was told in the PM about another idiot that Cathy Brennan is associated with and it's been described to me in this way:
Her personal cum buckets and proof that some people should just drink bleach can be found here: (Warning, you WILL lose brain cells listening to them). The "Mark" in the relationship is a woman who claims she was told by a lesbian that she was a man, so she went and transitioned to be a man but now she realizes that that woman was wrong so she's transitioning back. She's homophobic, transphobic, and generally just a WTF? of retardedness. The other half of the pair is a transwoman last I checked and both of them like to go on about how women just want penises and periods are a blessing and other stuff that make Jenny and the other lolcows look sane. That and oh man are their responses to criticism delicious.
https://www.youtube.com/user/markangeloc
Had enough of the crazy yet? Well I'm not quite done yet because there's even a shitload of bizarre lingo associated with this moron that I think would be quite helpful in being able to try to read any of this shit and be able to understand what the fuck is going on here.
This website has a lot of terminology of all the shit that people like Brennan often use to describe others and it's some pretty insane stuff. Some of these are obvious, like mansplaining but there's some other terms that I wasn't even familiar with at all:
https://twanzphobic.wordpress.com/fab-speak/
RationalWiki also has a decent article on Cathy if you want to learn more about her.
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Cathy_Brennan
I'll end this post for the other images I was sent, just so people can be prepared to get totally mindfucked.
I get the same weird feeling I get whenever I've looked at any pictures of Sarah Butts. I couldn't even tell at first that this is a womyn here, but let's get down to business because this is gonna be a lengthy intro cause there's just so much information out there on her and the kinds of bullshit she's engaged in before.
To start off with, this was the video that I tried to sit through the whole thing. It was very fucking painful and not only that, I saw a ton of comments from Diana Boston / Mancheeze, another crazy TERF that I've been keeping an eye out on and will also make a thread just for her later because she's a loon unto herself for many reasons. She has been described to me as trying to follow in Cathy's footsteps with all the shit that she writes all the time on YouTube and her website.
I only made it through about halfway because she was just acting like such an insensitive, arrogant douche that I just had to stop watching from there, but even the comment section is something to be seen to be believed.
@Treblinkachu gave a great introduction to who exactly this woman is and posted some other really fucked up photos of her too in the TERF thread, so I'll start off with taking parts of what he wrote and then going from there and adding what I was told from the source that I got this information from because there's more to the rabbit hole than I thought. I'm aiming to make this a very big megathread of autism and insanity but I gotta get the basics out of the way so I can go through some of the other crazy shit that this woman has spewed on the Internet.
"And it's here, with the mention of "most rabid" that we get to the very TERFiest of TERFs, Cathy Brennan. She's a Maryland lawyer and radical feminist activist blogger who has been documented to done these, among numerous other, things:
--Wrote multiple articles outing/attacking a transgender teenager whom she knew was on suicide watch
--Dropped dox on numerous other underage transgender teenagers through social media
--Dox'd multiple transgender women in order to call up their doctors and say they should be taken off hormones and committed because transgenders are dangerous sex criminals
--Harassed the employers of transgender activists who disagree with her by claiming they're employing dangerous sex criminals/alleging false criminal records
--Reported transgender activists to police claiming they're dangerous sexual criminals/child molesters
--Threatened to call the FBI on people who disagree with her, lol
--Shitloads of other dumbass stuff
Now, all of that is well and good, and I think it shows that Cathy Brennan is indeed a fine potential source of lolmilk: she's a hysterical, self-righteous, angry, overreactive, and loves to control media. But that's not what matters to me.
What matters to me is that Cathy Brennan, more than any TERF activist, wants to be a man--thus proving that there is, in fact, at least one TERF motivated by penis envy. It's not even up for debate: just look at the way she presents herself. This woman is clearly trying to look like a man. I'm going to show you guys a series of pictures of Cathy Brennan, and I would like you to tell me whether this looks anything like a woman at all."
In the same thread, there is also a lot of other really weird looking pictures of this idiot, like this one:
The first thing that came to my mind when looking at this picture was how I thought I was looking at Charlie Sheen before realizing that this is actually a grown woman.
Here's another one of my favorite pictures of her.
She's trying to pull a Brianna Wu on us in this pic.
This one also kinda looks unsettling too.
Probably thinking about all the transactivists that she wants to shit on so badly.
Let's get into the specific shit that I was sent about this nutcase.
Cathy Brennan actually believes that gender doesn't even exist at all! I'm not making this up. Go read this nicely done review of her work here where I got this from.
After they introduce Brennan, they talk about her history involving her activism with LGBT rights. She includes trans* people in this because at the time the “trans* community was very small” (this was early 2000s) and they were not pushing much for rights. She goes on about how she was active in even passing legislation for trans* non-discrimination policies. This was because she believes that gender and gender stereotypes are damaging and inherently oppressive. Brennan wants for the abolition of gender in its entirety since it is a system of oppression, specifically aimed at women (mainly cis women). Brennan mentions how damaging stereotypes are, yet is a person who holds trans women to gender and sexual stereotypes. Brennan believes that trans women uphold gender stereotypes by simply existing since according to her, all trans women embody female stereotypes and are hyper feminine beings.
She also runs her own page on Tumblr where you can see for herself how much she's obsessed with dicks and trannies.
http://gidwatch.tumblr.com/
You can find more of her bullshit here on this Facebook page as well where I was told that she has a fixation with reporting a specific post on there every couple of days. She's that salty and butthurt about one little post that she'd go through the fucking trouble to do that.
https://www.facebook.com/Gender-Identity-Watch-312194428964700/?fref=ts
This is the specific post that she tries to report every couple of days. I don't know if it's still up or not but that's what I was told in the PM:
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid489415821242559&id=312194428964700
This Facebook page is another one of her favorite targets for trying to get it shut down.
https://www.facebook.com/Stop-Trans-Chauvinism-20-1529979340573502
https://archive.md/PZy9i
Website: http://genderidentitywatch.com/
Blog: http://bugbrennan.com/
YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/user/badsingersings
She was on Twitter at one point but that account has been suspended. I was told in the PM about another idiot that Cathy Brennan is associated with and it's been described to me in this way:
Her personal cum buckets and proof that some people should just drink bleach can be found here: (Warning, you WILL lose brain cells listening to them). The "Mark" in the relationship is a woman who claims she was told by a lesbian that she was a man, so she went and transitioned to be a man but now she realizes that that woman was wrong so she's transitioning back. She's homophobic, transphobic, and generally just a WTF? of retardedness. The other half of the pair is a transwoman last I checked and both of them like to go on about how women just want penises and periods are a blessing and other stuff that make Jenny and the other lolcows look sane. That and oh man are their responses to criticism delicious.
https://www.youtube.com/user/markangeloc
Had enough of the crazy yet? Well I'm not quite done yet because there's even a shitload of bizarre lingo associated with this moron that I think would be quite helpful in being able to try to read any of this shit and be able to understand what the fuck is going on here.
This website has a lot of terminology of all the shit that people like Brennan often use to describe others and it's some pretty insane stuff. Some of these are obvious, like mansplaining but there's some other terms that I wasn't even familiar with at all:
https://twanzphobic.wordpress.com/fab-speak/
FAAB / FAB: Female Assigned At Birth, a replacement term to the old inaccurate “born-woman” and the longish “biological woman”.
MAAB: Counterpart to the above. Nuff said.
Twanzphobia: Taking the piss out of “transphobic”, a label frequently thrown at radfems for politically disagreeing with trans ideology. Remember folks, it ain’t the radfems out there beating up trans peeps, that would be teh menz, who hardly ever get called “transphobic” with such fervor and frequency.
M2T / F2T: Replaces MTF and FTM respectively. Stands for Male to Trans, and Female to Trans. See the Primer for more. Trans themselves ‘admit’ (sometimes) that they know they are not changing biological sex, but gender presentation. It also appeases some of my radfem mates who hate using MTW (male to woman) as the alternative.
Sex Pozzies / Pozzies: The crowd who claim they are “feminists too!” yet only really harp on about how wunderful and empowerful porn, stripping, and doing head is. Always noticably light on actual feminist issues like reproduction rights. This term has now been superceded by “mozzies” or “mozzers”
Mozzies/Mozzers: See above. Due to the contradiction in terms of “sex-positive”, the prefential term is now “mozzer” which also refers to the hex-like effect they have on truly free sexuality.
Pomo: Postmodernism. An academic bunch of shite whereby anything can mean anything, and is ‘rilly hard’ to define anything. Infinite shades of grey shite.
3rd wave: Current embarrassment in the feminist movement. Brought up on a diet of pomo, pozziness, empowerfulness, and of course, choosey-choiceness. This group has fear of anyone over 35, and gawd help them when they eventually get there, it might be a real eye-opener when they grow-the-fuck-up.
CSA: Child sexual abuse. Female children are subject to it at twice the rate of male children.
MVAW: Male Violence Against Women. Stock tool in trade for keeping FAABs under control. The threat of it works well too, as we already know they have no problem actually doing it. More popular than a lot of hobbies actually.
Pro-FAAB: Well, now, I am just phoning it in. See Noanodyne’s fuller explanation of why Pro-FAAB is a better term than anti-Tranz.
Transmisogyny: Radfems liberated and reappropriated this term from Trans. M2Ts tried to claim that they had a Special Snowflake status in the area of misogyny, one that was supposedly far worse from our every day reality of misogyny. Nice try at winning the Oppression Olympics, but it does not fly. If you dress like, and pass as a woman, you get treated like the rest of us. If you try to dress like a woman, but get perceived as some dude in a dress, then you get homophobia. Simples. The radfem appropriation of transmisogyny now means the misogyny directed at FAABs by M2Ts, because we get it all the fucking time from you transactivists, so much so, you don’t even know you are doing it. In exercising your transmisogyny, you prove that you actually are NOT “one of the girls” after all.
Lesbian: The only real sensible and sane sexuality choice for an FAAB. M2Ts do not count, you are a heterosexual male who dresses in the attire or body of a female.
Always-Lesbian: An FAAB who has never had sex with an MAAB. The term is superior to the old “never-het” because it avoids framing the term in relation to menz/heterosexuality. Gold Star Lesbian (GSL) is banned on this blog, as it is hierarchical in nature, and it does not make you any kind of superior woman for being one.
Later-Lesbian: A FAAB who becomes lesbian in later life, formerly heterosexual or bisexual. The superior replacement for “ex-het lesbian”. Don’t feel badly that it took you so long to realise, there is an intense 24/7 grooming process to make you think you were heterosexual.
Spinster: Any FAAB who lives a single, usually separatist life. Can be formerly partnered with a dude, therefore respinsterised, but that’s ok. Dudes rewrite history all the time, and I support your choice to rewrite former Nigel(s) out of your life. Spinster is probably a better term to use if you are abstinent, and probably a good replacement for the old “political lesbian”. Spinster says you are doing it solo without reference to anyone else (hence political lesbian is bad from this pov also).
TW: Formerly meant transwoman, but I have now changed it to mean the more sinister trojan-woman.
Mansplaining: When a man explains (anything), but specifically if they are trying to explain to a female about things females know more about (like childbirth, periods, female reality)
Transplaining: Basically the same as above, from an M2T explaining to a FAB, particularly about “what it is like to be a woman”. Yeah dude, you have been one for all of five minutes.
Pervsplaining: Whenever a mozzer tries to justify any kind of “kink”. Exhibit A is the “Vanilla Privilege Check List“. Pervsplaining makes the final part of the Trinity of ‘splaining.
Jendah: Revised mocking of ‘gender’ and ‘gender roles’. Because I have such contempt for the whole thing.
Testerically: Replacement for “hysterical”, when a male does it.
Mangina: The artificial vagina and labia surgically created on a male (M2T) to approximate the natural vagina and labia found in females.
Manginaplasty: Process of the above. Replacement of the original term of vaginoplasty, when constructing an artificial vagina (“mangina”) on an M2T male.
Will add more stuff as I use it, or make it up. Add suggestions below if you wish.
MAAB: Counterpart to the above. Nuff said.
Twanzphobia: Taking the piss out of “transphobic”, a label frequently thrown at radfems for politically disagreeing with trans ideology. Remember folks, it ain’t the radfems out there beating up trans peeps, that would be teh menz, who hardly ever get called “transphobic” with such fervor and frequency.
M2T / F2T: Replaces MTF and FTM respectively. Stands for Male to Trans, and Female to Trans. See the Primer for more. Trans themselves ‘admit’ (sometimes) that they know they are not changing biological sex, but gender presentation. It also appeases some of my radfem mates who hate using MTW (male to woman) as the alternative.
Sex Pozzies / Pozzies: The crowd who claim they are “feminists too!” yet only really harp on about how wunderful and empowerful porn, stripping, and doing head is. Always noticably light on actual feminist issues like reproduction rights. This term has now been superceded by “mozzies” or “mozzers”
Mozzies/Mozzers: See above. Due to the contradiction in terms of “sex-positive”, the prefential term is now “mozzer” which also refers to the hex-like effect they have on truly free sexuality.
Pomo: Postmodernism. An academic bunch of shite whereby anything can mean anything, and is ‘rilly hard’ to define anything. Infinite shades of grey shite.
3rd wave: Current embarrassment in the feminist movement. Brought up on a diet of pomo, pozziness, empowerfulness, and of course, choosey-choiceness. This group has fear of anyone over 35, and gawd help them when they eventually get there, it might be a real eye-opener when they grow-the-fuck-up.
CSA: Child sexual abuse. Female children are subject to it at twice the rate of male children.
MVAW: Male Violence Against Women. Stock tool in trade for keeping FAABs under control. The threat of it works well too, as we already know they have no problem actually doing it. More popular than a lot of hobbies actually.
Pro-FAAB: Well, now, I am just phoning it in. See Noanodyne’s fuller explanation of why Pro-FAAB is a better term than anti-Tranz.
Transmisogyny: Radfems liberated and reappropriated this term from Trans. M2Ts tried to claim that they had a Special Snowflake status in the area of misogyny, one that was supposedly far worse from our every day reality of misogyny. Nice try at winning the Oppression Olympics, but it does not fly. If you dress like, and pass as a woman, you get treated like the rest of us. If you try to dress like a woman, but get perceived as some dude in a dress, then you get homophobia. Simples. The radfem appropriation of transmisogyny now means the misogyny directed at FAABs by M2Ts, because we get it all the fucking time from you transactivists, so much so, you don’t even know you are doing it. In exercising your transmisogyny, you prove that you actually are NOT “one of the girls” after all.
Lesbian: The only real sensible and sane sexuality choice for an FAAB. M2Ts do not count, you are a heterosexual male who dresses in the attire or body of a female.
Always-Lesbian: An FAAB who has never had sex with an MAAB. The term is superior to the old “never-het” because it avoids framing the term in relation to menz/heterosexuality. Gold Star Lesbian (GSL) is banned on this blog, as it is hierarchical in nature, and it does not make you any kind of superior woman for being one.
Later-Lesbian: A FAAB who becomes lesbian in later life, formerly heterosexual or bisexual. The superior replacement for “ex-het lesbian”. Don’t feel badly that it took you so long to realise, there is an intense 24/7 grooming process to make you think you were heterosexual.
Spinster: Any FAAB who lives a single, usually separatist life. Can be formerly partnered with a dude, therefore respinsterised, but that’s ok. Dudes rewrite history all the time, and I support your choice to rewrite former Nigel(s) out of your life. Spinster is probably a better term to use if you are abstinent, and probably a good replacement for the old “political lesbian”. Spinster says you are doing it solo without reference to anyone else (hence political lesbian is bad from this pov also).
TW: Formerly meant transwoman, but I have now changed it to mean the more sinister trojan-woman.
Mansplaining: When a man explains (anything), but specifically if they are trying to explain to a female about things females know more about (like childbirth, periods, female reality)
Transplaining: Basically the same as above, from an M2T explaining to a FAB, particularly about “what it is like to be a woman”. Yeah dude, you have been one for all of five minutes.
Pervsplaining: Whenever a mozzer tries to justify any kind of “kink”. Exhibit A is the “Vanilla Privilege Check List“. Pervsplaining makes the final part of the Trinity of ‘splaining.
Jendah: Revised mocking of ‘gender’ and ‘gender roles’. Because I have such contempt for the whole thing.
Testerically: Replacement for “hysterical”, when a male does it.
Mangina: The artificial vagina and labia surgically created on a male (M2T) to approximate the natural vagina and labia found in females.
Manginaplasty: Process of the above. Replacement of the original term of vaginoplasty, when constructing an artificial vagina (“mangina”) on an M2T male.
Will add more stuff as I use it, or make it up. Add suggestions below if you wish.
RationalWiki also has a decent article on Cathy if you want to learn more about her.
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Cathy_Brennan
I'll end this post for the other images I was sent, just so people can be prepared to get totally mindfucked.
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