Professor Mary Leng talks about ‘Silencing’
Presentation overview: How could it be credible to claim that gender critical discourse is being silenced? After all, many of those who hold gender critical views, such as Suzanne Moore, J. K. Rowling, and Kathleen Stock, publicly continue to speak their mind, and the mainstream media, in at least some corners, provide ample platforms for them to do so. Of course, neither Moore, Rowling, or Stock have actually claimed to have been silenced: insofar as they have spoken of silencing it’s to state defiantly that they won’t be silenced, or to highlight the silencing of others, who have privately reached out thanking them for voicing concerns that they themselves feel unable, in the present climate, to express. Nevertheless, Professor Leng will argue that the application of the ideas of Rae Langton and Jennifer Hornsby concerning the nature of silencing can be used to argue that, despite their protestations to the contrary, there is an important sense in which the gender critical views of even those with large platforms are genuinely silenced by the persistent and vocal framing of their views as 'dogwhistles'.
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