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By Ophelia Benson, March 11, 2026

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

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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.

How are we defining “fully inclusive”? You’d think inclusive of women would be all … Read the rest

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.

There’s … Read the rest

Subtle Subtle 

Quick question.

What. The fuck. Is this?

Where am I seeing it? On a NY Times article.… Read the rest

Guest post: Or move BEYOND gender identity 

Originally a comment by Artymorty on Internal cannot be external.

When the term “gender identity” was first used, it described an individual’s knowledge of their sex as male or female.

Hmm that doesn’t seem entirely accurate to me. My understanding of the history of the term “gender identity” is that it comes from a few social-sciences branches of academia, primarily psychology (and especially its subdomain of sexology) and anthropology. And that it described a concept that was closely related to sex, but that was mostly understood to be separate from sex, though the boundaries were often hazy.

Psychologically, “gender identity” is not much different from any other cultural facet of identity: religious identity or national identity or ethnic identity, … Read the rest

“The great majority of pregnant people are women” “The great majority of pregnant people are women” 

I copied and posted this yesterday but now I can’t find it – perhaps she deleted it. Anyway. Solnit of all people.

Golly, what’s the matter with us, getting all riled up about people pretending that some men are women. We must be those tiresome bitches who always spoil the fun.… Read the rest

Internal cannot be external 

Karleen Gribble at Quillette:

When the term “gender identity” was first used, it described an individual’s knowledge of their sex as male or female. However, the meaning soon changed so that gender identity delineated an internal sense of oneself as living in the social role of a man or a woman.

That’s what it now means?

No wonder we’re in such a mess. That’s incoherent. How can you have an internal sense of yourself as living in a social role? They’re antithetical. Social is external by definition; that’s the whole point of it. Growing up is learning to separate your personal wants and whims and tantrums from the world external to you which frankly doesn’t give a shit about … Read the rest

One in a billion 

What, they tripped and fell on the wrong clip? The dog ate their homework? They had the right clip all ready to go so someone must have stolen it while they were brushing their teeth?

Fox News apologizes for showing old video of a hatless Donald Trump at a dignified transfer ceremony

We’re sorry, we were just really coked up that day.

Fox News apologized for airing old video of a hatless President Donald Trump during coverage Sunday of his attendance at the dignified transfer ceremony for U.S. soldiers killed in the Middle East war, insisting it was an honest mistake.

And yet it was an honest mistake that made Trump look less like a greedy monster selling merch at … Read the rest

Prettierna goldy baseball cap Prettierna goldy baseball cap 

Pliny is wicked.

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The great majority of people getting pregnant The great majority of people getting pregnant 

Rebecca Solnit ffs.

Aren’t we just silly to get all riled up about the new encyclopedia of insults to women based on trans ideology? We should smile sweetly and nod in agreement and then go bake some pies.… Read the rest

Always hovering 

This is just extraordinary.

I recommend watching it. It’s nauseating – Tom Harlow whispering into her ear for what seems like half an hour, like some kind of transphilic Svengali.

View from the other side:

Under His Eye indeed.… Read the rest

A touch of glam 

If there’s a way to get it wrong, he will find that way. If there’s a way to get it horribly wrong he’ll find that too.

Trump made a bold accessory choice while attending the dignified transfer of six U.S. service members killed in his war with Iran.

Trump, 79, stood as six coffins covered in American flags were solemnly carried from an aircraft to a waiting vehicle at Delaware’s Dover Air Force Base on Saturday afternoon. On Trump’s head sat a gold-embroidered white hat with the letters “USA” on the front, “45-47″ on one side, and the American flag on the other.

The $55 cap is available to purchase on the president’s merch website.

Well so he saw an … Read the rest

TBAS meets TGD 

A new syndrome is born.

Trans broken arm syndrome: A mixed-methods exploration of gender-related medical misattribution and invasive questioning

Gender-related medical misattribution and invasive questioning (GRMMIQ), colloquially known as “trans broken arm syndrome,” is a form of medical discrimination faced by transgender and gender diverse (TGD) patients wherein a provider incorrectly assumes that a medical condition results from a patient’s gender identity or medical transition. This phenomenon may take one of two forms: (1) the incorrect and explicit misattribution of gender identity or medical transition as being the cause of an acute complaint, or (2) invasive and unnecessary questions regarding a patient’s gender identity or gender transition status.

What I wonder is how these researchers know that the provider is … Read the rest

Guest post: Like a gift to peasants 

Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on Matching the instruments.

“Make Iran Great Again.”

Greatness is something that only Trump can bestow, like a gift to peasants too stupid to do things for themselves. With His Royal Touch (and the dropping of a few tons of high explosives), all will be made Good and Right, and the Iranian people will thank him and demand that he be given the Nobel Peace Prize once he finishes bombing them into gratitude.

Except in Trump’s view, no other country can be (or is ever allowed to be) as “Great” as the United States. This is the whole point behind his attempts at zero-sum trade deals; the United States (read Trump) … Read the rest

Thinly veiled misogyny 

The Green Party v Reality:

The Green Party was once, however briefly, a genuine refuge for people who believed that politics ought to be grounded in material reality: in the physical world, in measurable consequences, in science. It believed in ecosystems and feedback loops; in the hard logic of cause and effect. It understood that you cannot simply wish away inconvenient truths, whether those truths concern carbon emissions or the biological distinction between male and female human beings. That, at least, is what many of its founding members believed they had joined.

What they discovered instead is something altogether more alarming: a party leadership so in thrall to a well-funded ideological orthodoxy that it is prepared to break its

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Narcissist shares his story on Women’s Day 

Yes kids it’s International Women’s Day soooooooooo it’s time to talk about men!

He does. He actually does.

For International Women’s Day 2026, the Gazette has been speaking to women across the city. Here is Councillor Amy Kirkby Taylor’s contribution, in her own words.

I really wasn’t sure what I wanted to focus on here, my first thought was to focus on the barriers that women face in life, and how it feels to have them appearing in my life as I begin my transition. But this year’s Women’s Day theme is Give to Gain, and I want to return

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