MJ Murphy
@hothingsgirlsay • 23,277 subscribers
XX FEMALE; I love to make others laugh, but I care more about women’s rights. NYC Standup Comic & Designer of Sellout Experiences and Events.
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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 Murphy90,180 views • 14 days ago
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 Murphy81,188 views • 1 month ago
