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An unusually crass opinion

And so they fall into the trap.

A Donald Trump-appointed federal appellate judge invoked the term “swinging dicks” three times in an unusually crass opinion involving a nude, female-only Korean spa, drawing sharp rebukes from 29 of his colleagues.

“This is a case about swinging dicks,” began a Thursday dissenting opinion from Judge Lawrence VanDyke of the US Court of Appeals. He said he would have ruled in favor of Washington state’s Olympus Spa, which had sought to bar transgender women from its spa facilities on free speech grounds.

“You may think that swinging dicks shouldn’t appear in a judicial opinion. You’re not wrong,” he wrote. “But as much as you might understandably be shocked and displeased to merely

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An unusually crass opinion
By Ophelia Benson, March 13, 2026

And so they fall into the trap.

A Donald Trump-appointed federal appellate judge invoked the term “swinging dicks” three times in an unusually crass opinion involving a nude, female-only Korean spa, drawing sharp rebukes from 29 of his colleagues.

“This is a case about swinging dicks,” began a Thursday dissenting opinion from Judge Lawrence VanDyke of the US Court of Appeals. He said he would have ruled in favor of Washington state’s Olympus Spa, which had sought to bar transgender women from its spa facilities on free speech grounds.

“You may think that swinging dicks shouldn’t appear in a judicial opinion. You’re not wrong,” he wrote. “But as much as you might understandably be shocked and displeased to merely

… Read the rest

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An unusually crass opinion 

And so they fall into the trap.

A Donald Trump-appointed federal appellate judge invoked the term “swinging dicks” three times in an unusually crass opinion involving a nude, female-only Korean spa, drawing sharp rebukes from 29 of his colleagues.

“This is a case about swinging dicks,” began a Thursday dissenting opinion from Judge Lawrence VanDyke of the US Court of Appeals. He said he would have ruled in favor of Washington state’s Olympus Spa, which had sought to bar transgender women from its spa facilities on free speech grounds.

“You may think that swinging dicks shouldn’t appear in a judicial opinion. You’re not wrong,” he wrote. “But as much as you might understandably be shocked and displeased to merely

… Read the rest
Up 

Just don’t do it again, ok?

A serial upskirter whose phone contained more than 100 videos of young women secretly filmed in public toilets has heard of his lecherous behaviour’s “profound impact” on one of his victims.

Bao Phuc Cao, 23, a Vietnamese biomedicine student at The University of Melbourne, appeared for sentencing in Melbourne Magistrates’ Court after he was caught filming a woman in a public toilet at a Docklands shopping centre in February 2025.

Cao pleaded guilty on Thursday, March 5, but his hearing was adjourned as the court awaited a victim impact statement…The statement was not read before the court, but magistrate Michelle Mykytowycz said Cao’s victim had been deeply affected by the incident.

“This has had

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Be less pleased 

This is astounding.

And who’s that up near the top of the table on the left? None other than Mridul Wadhwa, the man who ran the Edinburgh rape crisis centre for way too long. Why did Olivia Bailey MP go out of her way to insult women and why does she look so happy about it?

Reactions are intensely hostile.

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boop boop boop 

New low achieved.

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If only there had been signs 

Well, be sure to respeck the idenninee.

A transgender woman and former volunteer Metropolitan Police officer from Chesham, who was found guilty of raping a child, is due to be sentenced.

James Bubb, who now identifies as a woman named Gwyn Samuels, groomed one of his two victims online before sexually assaulting her when she was just 12 years old. The 27-year-old defendant was also found guilty of raping a woman he met online while posing as a 16-year-old girl.

After his initial sentencing was postponed last year, a new date has been confirmed for Friday, March 13, at 10.30 am at Aylesbury Crown Court.

I bet he was a really great cop.

James Bubb, who now identifies as

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Efficiency 

It’s so creepy. He looks about 12, and as self-confident and smug as Musk himself. This punk was in charge of demolishing great swathes of research on the basis that they were “DEI” and thus evil garbage.

“Do you think maybe there was a reason the government doesn’t use Signal?”… Read the rest

Bureau of punks 

Now there’s a title.

DOGE Staffers Used ChatGPT to Cut Holocaust History Grants During Counter-DEI Purges: Lawsuit

The US Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) relied on the ChatGPT large language model program when deciding to cut grants for Jewish-related history programs, including one focused on violence against women during the Holocaust, according to a new class-action lawsuit.

Yes how dare anyone waste government money on Holocaust research.

DOGE staffer Justin Fox is named as one of the defendants in the suit filed in US federal court on Friday by the Authors Guild, which alleges that he was the one who developed the method of using ChatGPT prompts to determine which grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) —

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in the in the in the earth 

From The Terf Island Playbook by Helen Joyce:

This new belief system means abandoning the healthy individualism of classical liberalism, which involves respect for differences of opinion and emphasis on “freedom rights”. Within it, notions of a shared human nature and the common good are no longer regarded as normative or aspirational but instead as coercive. It prioritises freedom to do as thou wilt. It’s freedom for the strong, not the weak; freedom to impose, not freedom from being imposed upon. It’s all about the swinging fist, with no concern for where the nose begins.

And that’s why it’s women who suffer when you say that “man” and “woman” are opt-in categories. It’s just fact – unwelcome fact, but fact

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Celebrity pundits 

I’ve always found Malcolm Gladwell glib and annoying, but it turns out he’s all that and worse.

Gladwell does actually say that, with energetic conviction. “If you’re someone who thinks that trans women should not participate in the female category, you have to go out of your way to be an advocate for all other aspects of the trans agenda.”

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Do you believe in magic? Do you believe in magic? 

Zack Polanski hasn’t always been a rising-star woman-hating political hopeful. Not all that long ago he was a hypnotherapist, who…

I’ll let the Beeb tell you.

Zack Polanski’s claim to have immediately apologised for saying that hypnosis could increase a woman’s breast size has been thrown into doubt by a newly unearthed interview.

Before entering politics the Green Party leader worked as a hypnotherapist and offered a session in 2013 to enlarge a newspaper reporter’s bust. Polanski has since said he was misrepresented and never believed it was possible, claiming he spoke to the BBC the day after the article to apologise.

BBC News cannot find evidence of such an interview, but six days later he spoke to Radio

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The glorious cause 

It’s been some time, so let’s refresh our memories of that clip of Euan Weddell calling JKR “you heinous creepy old BITCH.” It’s just 17 seconds in so no need for masochistically watching the whole thing.… Read the rest

Something something DEI something 

Look. at. this. guy.

One of Musk’s ignorant punks who set fire to great swathes of the government last year so that Trump would have plenty of extra $$$ to drop bombs on Tehran. He can’t say what “DEI” is but by god he can snuff out an organization labeled as it. It’s a very good idea to give huge destructive power to guys like this.

It’s in the EO. I don’t know what the EO said, but it’s in there. I acted on the EO. That’s … Read the rest

Wimmin n enbies 

Battle 497 in the campaign to make women shut up already.

A leading trade union is being sued by two of its members over claims they were threatened with disciplinary action for criticising its “unlawful” gender policy.

The Community trade union, which counts several UK cabinet politicians as members, is facing a judicial review brought by two women, Norma Austin Hart and Alison Ann-Dowling, who are seeking to have its gender equality strategy quashed.

They claim the policy, adopted by Community’s national executive council in February last year, is unlawful as it treats women and those who claim to identify as non-binary as a single category, contrary to a Supreme Court ruling that determined sex is defined by biology.

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Joke on repeat 

Hur hur. And Trump is the future parking cop of Toronto.

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This erasure 

Katha Pollitt said a thing.

Women, do you describe yourself as a birthing parent? A chestfeeder? A person with a vagina or uterus? A menstruator? This erasure of woman language has gone pretty far in the worlds of medicine, science, research, and academic feminism. It’s weird and insulting and dehumanizing, reducing women to body parts and functions. Why are feminists promoting this? PS Is the male partner of the birthing parent called the inseminator? No.

There are plenty of sane comments but also plenty of the other kind. The stupid continues, year upon year…… Read the rest

Easy for him 

I still can’t get used to seeing grown-ass adult political people happily throwing away women’s rights on behalf of men who like to dress up as Priddee Laydeez. Like this piece of crap.

I watched 14 seconds of it. Way more than enough.… Read the rest

Teehee 

Aw isn’t that cute – man nominated for women’s prize.

Remember him? I didn’t. He’s the one who played a piano with his penis for the entertainment of tv watchers.

One more award for a woman goes to a man.… Read the rest

Fully fully fully inclusive 

The campaign to take away everything that belongs to women is flourishing.

A Cheshire Women’s Institute branch has announced it will close at the end of March after members voted overwhelmingly to suspend the group in protest at the national organisation’s exclusion of trans women.

Members of Social Lites WI gathered for a “Special Meeting” on 4 March attended by representatives of the Cheshire Federation of WIs, to formally officiate a vote on the group’s future. More than 75% of members who attended in person or voted by email backed suspension, paving the way for the branch’s closure after 13 years of fully inclusive operation.

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Top luxury real estate brokers 

Two three many epsteins.

Three brothers, including two of the nation’s most successful luxury real estate brokers, were convicted of sex trafficking Monday after a five-week trial over accusations that they drugged and raped scores of women they had dazzled with their wealth and opulent lifestyle.

The verdict came after 11 women testified in Manhattan federal court they were sexually assaulted by one or more of the brothers: twins Oren and Alon Alexander, 38, and Tal Alexander, 39. All three shook their heads as the jury foreperson said “guilty” 19 straight times, a powerful reckoning that could put them behind bars for the rest of their lives.

Are we sure they identify as male?

Victims testified that they met

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A giant in the field 

UC Riverside has exciting news.

In a new book, sociologist Brandon Andrew Robinson calls for abolishing sexual identities. 

Robinson, an associate professor of gender and sexuality studies at UC Riverside, knows it’s a provocative thesis. But they argue that discarding these labels is a critical step toward giving people the freedom to relate to one another on a deeper, more respectful, more meaningful, and more pleasurable level. Sexual identity, Robinson asserts, functions as a kind of prison, confining human desire and reinforcing a false notion of gender based on fixed, biological categories.

Someone should tell him that we already have the freedom to relate to one another on levels that have little or nothing to do with sex.

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