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We hate hatred except our own hatredGood grief.
The Undergraduate Program Director at @YorkUniversity Faculty of Education @YorkUeducation denounces "Hateful Million Child March," and predicts that its apocalyptic psychic effects could make students "feel unsafe trying to complete program requirements" pic.twitter.com/D7LdwDnuRs
— Jonathan Kay (@jonkay) September 22, 2023
Yet again they honoo and stannd wif the “2SLGBTQIA+” memmers of our communinnee…while of course they don’t “stand with” those boring evil hags known as “women.” If only women could be done away with altogether! And they “stand against hate in all its forms” – except of course they don’t. This very statement reeks of hatred. They hate women who talk back, they hate women who are just women instead of trans women. They hate women who … Read the rest
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By Ophelia Benson, September 23, 2023
Good grief.
The Undergraduate Program Director at @YorkUniversity Faculty of Education @YorkUeducation denounces "Hateful Million Child March," and predicts that its apocalyptic psychic effects could make students "feel unsafe trying to complete program requirements" pic.twitter.com/D7LdwDnuRs
— Jonathan Kay (@jonkay) September 22, 2023
Yet again they honoo and stannd wif the “2SLGBTQIA+” memmers of our communinnee…while of course they don’t “stand with” those boring evil hags known as “women.” If only women could be done away with altogether! And they “stand against hate in all its forms” – except of course they don’t. This very statement reeks of hatred. They hate women who talk back, they hate women who are just women instead of trans women. They hate women who … Read the rest
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We hate hatred except our own hatred Good grief.
The Undergraduate Program Director at @YorkUniversity Faculty of Education @YorkUeducation denounces "Hateful Million Child March," and predicts that its apocalyptic psychic effects could make students "feel unsafe trying to complete program requirements" pic.twitter.com/D7LdwDnuRs
— Jonathan Kay (@jonkay) September 22, 2023
Yet again they honoo and stannd wif the “2SLGBTQIA+” memmers of our communinnee…while of course they don’t “stand with” those boring evil hags known as “women.” If only women could be done away with altogether! And they “stand against hate in all its forms” – except of course they don’t. This very statement reeks of hatred. They hate women who talk back, they hate women who are just women instead of trans women. They hate women who … Read the rest
There’s no difference between anything and anything
Wait what? Who is demonizing whom?
Well done everyone involved in demonising trans people – and I include the media in that. You should be ashamed of yourselves. And if you think this is any different to seeing an increase in racism or homophobia following a hate campaign – it isn't. https://t.co/GrRHiN7ILQ
— Mhairi Hunter đşđŚ đ´ó §ó ˘ó łó Łó ´ó ż (@MhairiHunter) September 21, 2023
It’s not “demonizing” anyone to say that men can’t be women, or to say that pretending men can be women is very bad for women’s rights.
Meanwhile…
I know, who would not love these extremists calling for women to be skinned. I mean, they sound lovely pic.twitter.com/3LgEMLXtGU
— Lily / Mujer Guerrera #NoThankYou (@MujerGuerrera78) September 22, 2023
Luxury training
The Telegraph has a long piece on what it calls Whitehallâs woke training regime.
Some of it is about what I would call anti-racism training and the rest is about gender bullshit.
… Read the restStaff in Government departments are being taught about gender ideology, which affirms the idea that people can choose their gender, while those with legally protected gender critical beliefs, who believe that you cannot change your biological sex, say they are bullied into silence.
Instead of clearing backlogs from the pandemic, staff are spending work time on attending lectures on LGBT+ issues or watching videos telling them biological men can use women-only facilities if they self-identify as female.
In one department, staff shared a â30 days of Prideâ
Man continues practice of lecturing women
Aw, Billy Bragg is sad that women are so stubborn about thinking their own thoughts instead of thinking his.
Your impressive performance at Left Field is the reason why Iâm so dismayed to see you join the list of formerly progressive women who can now only find a platform in the Mail, Telegraph and Spectator.
— Billy Bragg (@billybragg) September 23, 2023
We haven’t stopped being progressive Billy. You on the other hand…… Read the rest
People who act like large language models
Geoff Mulgan on AI and bullshitters:
… Read the restSince the arrival of ChatGPT there has been much debate about how AI can replace humans or work with them. Here I discuss a slightly different phenomenon which I increasingly notice, and probably wouldnât have without the presence of generative AI: people who act rather like large language models. The phenomenon isnât new. Itâs just that we now have a new way of understanding it. As I show it’s quite malign, particularly in academia.
The strength and weakness of ChatGPT is that it can quickly assemble a plausible answer to a question, drawing on materials out in the world. It sucks them in, synthesises and mimics, sometimes quite convincingly, someone knowledgeable talking about
Its contemptuous dismissal of women’s concerns
There’s a lot of that about – a very very very large amount of it.
What is so troubling about about the attitude that Bragg displays here is its contemputous dismissal of concerns being voiced by women in favor of the mindless narrative that it's all just a matter of "having a go" at those who identify as trans. This is misogyny. https://t.co/yrodB3WOpp
— Prof. Gary Francione (@garylfrancione) September 23, 2023
It’s what makes the trans ideology and “activism” so extremely repellent.… Read the rest
Pretending to be Inuit
But it’s their idenniny! You can’t say it’s not their idenniny! If they say they are Inuit they are Inuit!
… Read the restThree women in Canada have been criminally charged after allegedly pretending to be Inuit to receive benefits from indigenous organisations.
According to police, two 25-year-old sisters committed fraud by posing as adopted Inuit children. Both sisters and their 59-year-old mother are facing two counts of fraud each. One Inuit group called the alleged deception “flabbergasting”. The defendants are due in court in the city of Iqaluit on 30 October.
In a statement, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) said that the sisters – Amira and Nadya Gill – and their mother, Karima Manji, defrauded two local organisations of “funds that
Even in the Civil Service?
The Cabinet Secretary has been warned by senior civil servants of a âwoke takeover of Whitehallâ that risks âimproperlyâ influencing Government policy. Simon Case was told in a letter signed by 42 staff from 16 departments that ideology on gender promoted by trans activists has become embedded in the Civil Service in a âsignificant breach of impartialityâ.
They should call it a trans ideology takeover or similar. “Woke” is too generic and too vague.
… Read the restIt says the concept that âeveryone has a gender identity which is more important than their sexâ is âtreated as undisputed factâ.
Staff who dare to air gender-critical views â meaning they believe there are two biological sexes that cannot be changed
Bun in the oven
How dare Italy refuse to treat women like machines for the gestation of other people’s babies???
Italian authorities are bringing in new measures targeting LGBT families and making it harder for them to have children. Many same-sex parents feel that a new law, which would make it illegal to have surrogacy abroad, is a personal attack against them.
“We have two options: to stay in Italy and face prison, or to run away.”
Husbands Claudio and Davide (not their real names) have a baby on the way through surrogacy – a woman in another country is carrying their son for them.
They don’t “have” a baby on the way. What they have is an arrangement by which they pay a … Read the rest
Filed under “Not your call, dude”
Billy Bragg tells a woman how to feminism.
What?? Louise Distras hates trans people so much that sheâs willing to dress in a style acceptable to Daily Mail readers in order to have a go at them. What does this have to do with feminism Louise? Or punk rock? pic.twitter.com/RO5kPuigQ3
— Billy Bragg (@billybragg) September 22, 2023
Guest post: Girlsâ skirts exist for boys to look under or flip up
Originally a comment by maddog1129 on TRANSlation.
I canât dress in the âapproved for womenâ way, either. With me, it starts with the shoes. I simply canât wear the foot-binding torture devices that are assigned to women. I havenât always had bilateral plantar fasciitis, but Iâve had the condition for several decades. In my 20âs, I could wear soft-soled oxfords; now I need all-black cushioned athletic shoes. Starting from that foundation, pants suit or pants and blazer are as close as I can get to appropriate business wear. Luckily, I didnât have to actually go to court very often.
… Read the restIf I were somehow forced to put on the woman-appropriate glad rags it would feel profoundly uncomfortableâŚwhich is quite irrational.
They ate all the popcorn, too
A trans-identified male led a gang of activists to ransack the concession [stand] of a culturally significant cinematheque in Mexico last week in protest of his removal from the womenâs washroom.
Sounds like fun. I think I’ll identify as Queen Elizabeth I and flip over all the library wastebaskets when they fail to believe me.
… Read the restOn September 12, a man calling himself âLaura Gloverâ took to social media to complain that he had been physically removed from the womenâs washroom at the National Cinematheque in Mexico City, the nationâs most culturally significant film archive and theatre.
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Glover was then recorded by his friend confronting security outside of the cinema, screaming at a male guard for
Guest post: An ideologue and a true believer
Originally a comment by Screechy Monkey on Thomas the fundraising draw.
Like you, I donât think thereâs any quid pro quo going on here. Thomas is an ideologue and a true believer.
I think thereâs three things going on here:
1) Conservatives want to keep justices like Thomas âin the fold.â There has long been a belief in the conservative legal and political world that Republican appointees like Stevens, OâConnor, Souter, and even Kennedy have gone âsoftâ and turned into moderates because they were co-opted into the Washington cocktail party circuit, or trying to curry favor with the liberal intelligentsia or whatever. (This used to be called the âGreenhouse Effect,â named for then-NYT legal reporter Linda Greenhouse â the … Read the rest
TRANSlation
Oh so that’s how they get there – simple – just claim that “transvestite”=”transgender” and breeze right past all the differences.
New Research Reveals How the Nazis Targeted Transgender People
The author is Laurie Marhoefer, a historian at the University of Washington.
… Read the restIn the fall of 2022, a German court heard an unusual case.
It was a civil lawsuit that grew out of a feud on Twitter about whether transgender people were victims of the Holocaust. Though there is no longer much debate about whether gay men and lesbians were persecuted by the Nazis, thereâs been very little scholarship on trans people during this period.
The court took expert statements from historians, including myself, before finding that the
Guest post: Nazis under the wardrobe
Originally a comment by Mostly Cloudy at Miscellany Room.
The Nazis came for trans people, burned the first trans clinic, and murdered the first trans woman who ever got bottom surgery.
To deny this is to engage in holocaust denial.
I keep hearing this claim put about by many trans activists. The obvious purpose of this claim is to smear anyone who disagrees with puberty blockers, men in womenâs prisons, men competing in womenâs sports, etc. as being a similar type of murderous bigot that the Nazis were.
Has anyone researched this? I know Malcolm Clark has … Read the rest
Thomas the fundraising draw
Pro Publica has more on the ever-expanding “Clarence Thomas has multiple conflicts of interest” scandal.
On Jan. 25, 2018, dozens of private jets descended on Palm Springs International Airport. Some of the richest people in the country were arriving for the annual winter donor summit of the Koch network, the political organization founded by libertarian billionaires Charles and David Koch.
Libertarian meaning extremely conservative and pro-rich people & anti-poor people.
One passenger on one private jet was Clarence Thomas.
… Read the restDuring the summit, the justice went to a private dinner for the networkâs donors. Thomas has attended Koch donor events at least twice over the years, according to interviews with three former network employees and one major donor. The justice
Long hair
Start at 50 minutes on this to see and hear Neil deGrasse Tyson being sillier than you or I would have thought possible.
He tells his hosts he can tell women and men apart by looking at them, and that women are more expressive with their jewelry, and that women don’t have short hair, and a whole list of things of that kind. (Every single one of them, by the way, failed to be true of me, and I’m very far from the most strikingly butch woman on the planet, so…) He tells them that with much passion and emphasis, as if he’s saying something novel or surprising or clever. The point seems to be (I got too … Read the rest
The great and powerful Oz has spoken
What naĂŻve credulous babble.
Gender identity is real
We all have a gender identity. Mine is male
Womens' gender identity is female
Trans women have a gender identity that is not the same as their chromosomal sex
Their trans identity is different but equally as valid as the female identity of other women pic.twitter.com/xGBsRgevZB
— Peter Tatchell (@PeterTatchell) September 21, 2023
Oh it’s real is it? How do you know? Why am I not aware of having one? How do you know you have one?
Also what is it? What does that mean? Please explain without tautology – without using the word or its cognates.
And what is a “valid” identity? How do you know trans ones are … Read the rest
A sinister message
A few more turns of the screw in Scotland:
Police Scotland is setting up a dedicated hate crime unit ahead of Humza Yousaf‘s hugely controversial new laws coming into force early next year, it can be revealed.
The unit is expected to go live in November and training of the force’s 16,400 officers gets underway in December in preparation for the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act being implemented in early 2024. The legislation consolidates existing law and extends protection for vulnerable groups with a new offence of “stirring up hatred”.
So we can expect even more of the kind of opinion-sniffing and women-punishing that prompted Women Won’t Wheesht. What a brilliant plan!
… Read the restUnder the Act, offences
Desperate people
The contortions they indulge in, in order to avoid saying the word “women.” Columnist Monica Hesse in the Washington Post:
âAbortion tourismâ: A tidy phrase for punching down at desperate people
Subhead:
Republicans made it harder to get abortions in red states. Now they have a punchline for trivializing the journeys people undertake to get the procedure.
But it’s not “people” who undertake the journeys. If it were, Republicans wouldn’t oppose abortion rights. It’s not “people”; it’s those harlots known as “women.” It’s those weak, stupid, yet eternally plotting and rebelling people with no penis and too much freedom. Women must be forced to carry and push out babies they don’t want to carry and push out, because they are … Read the rest