MJ Murphy
@hothingsgirlsay • 26,763 subscribers
XX FEMALE; I love to make others laugh, but I care more about women’s rights. NYC Standup Comic. Download My Field Guide: Breaking the Spell
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Children don’t come into the world believing they’re born in the wrong body. Adults teach them that. When a preschooler is being socially transitioned, changing names, pronouns, clothing, and being told they are the opposite sex, those decisions aren’t coming from a 4-year-old’s understanding of biology. They’re coming from the adults around that child. Parents make the appointments. Parents change the paperwork. Parents speak to teachers. Parents guide every step. Young children trust the adults in their lives completely. That’s why adults have an enormous responsibility to be careful about the ideas they introduce. A child can believe in Santa Claus, monsters under the bed, or imaginary friends because children naturally rely on trusted adults to explain the world. That dependence is exactly why we should be cautious about making life-altering decisions during the earliest years of development. Children deserve time to grow, explore, and mature without being placed on a path they may not fully understand. Protect childhood. Let kids be kids.
MJ Murphy32,274 görüntüleme • 2 gün önce
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They do it every single time. The debate starts with a policy: Sports. Prisons. Changing rooms. Data collection. Safeguarding. Sex-based rights. And then suddenly we’re no longer talking about the policy. We’re told we’re debating someone’s existence. No. We’re debating a policy. We’re debating rules. We’re debating competing rights and competing interests. Changing the subject from policy to existence is one of the most effective rhetorical tricks in this entire debate because it instantly turns disagreement into cruelty. The moment someone says: “Why are you debating my existence?” Stop them. Bring it right back. “No. We’re debating a policy.” Again. And again. And again. Because if they can convince people that policy disagreement equals denying someone’s existence, they’ve already won the argument without having to defend the policy. Who’s willing to start calling this out? Not next year. Not when it’s convenient. Now. Every time it happens. “No. That’s not what we’re debating.” Watch how often the conversation changes the moment you refuse to let them switch the subject.
MJ Murphy90,483 görüntüleme • 1 ay önce
Most people think pronouns are just about politeness. I think they’re also about framing. The Pronoun Trap happens when language asks you to accept a disputed conclusion before you’ve had the chance to examine the underlying claim. Once a particular way of speaking becomes the starting point, the conversation often shifts away from “What is true?” and toward “Are you a good person?”
MJ Murphy18,129 görüntüleme • 13 gün önce
People have been asking me to break this conversation down, and this is the first clip I’m doing. Watch how the language gets used to hypnotize people in real time. Women’s sex-based spaces get downgraded to spaces “typically reserved” for women. Serious concerns about privacy, boundaries, trauma, and safeguarding get reduced to mere “discomfort.” Male inclusion gets framed as compassion, while female objection gets framed as prejudice. This is how rights are eroded: not all at once, but word by word. In this clip I break down the persuasion tactics, the reframing, the minimization, the false equivalencies, and the emotional language designed to make women doubt their own boundaries. Because women did not fight for shelters, prisons, locker rooms, rape crisis centers, and sports categories just for men to redefine them with polished talking points. And remember this line: if women’s discomfort is not a reason to exclude men, then men’s discomfort is not a reason to be included. Once you learn to spot the language tricks, the spell breaks. #WomenMatter #SexBasedRights #ProtectWomen #NLP #Persuasion #DebateBreakdown #RealityMatters #WomensSports #FreeSpeech #CriticalThinking
MJ Murphy81,888 görüntüleme • 2 ay önce
