Meryl Streep made an important point in this 2012 interview on Fresh Air:

GROSS: You gave a terrific commencement address at Barnard in 2010. And one of things you talked about was that the hardest thing in the world is to persuade a straight, male audience to identify with a woman character. It’s easier for women because we were brought up identifying with male characters in literature. It’s hard for straight boys to identify with Juliet or Wendy in “Peter Pan,” whereas girls identify with Romeo and with Peter Pan. What led you to that conclusion?

STREEP: What let me to that was I have never – I mean, I watch movies. And I don’t care who is the

The smug piece on CeCé Telfer was written by Dawn Ennis, who is

1. the editor-in-chief of Outsports
2. a trans woman

But of course.

So it’s an Outsports award, and Dawn (formerly Don) Ennis is the editor in chief of Outsports, and Dawn Ennis is trans, so a trans woman gives a woman’s award to a trans woman. Bros before hos am I right?

For those who have trouble understanding the backlash extreme trans activism has caused: Former ABC executive Dawn Ennis is the managing editor of @Outsports. Ennis jeers at the "cis tears" of women who are fighting to save women's sport. Background on Ennis: See next tweet. https://t.co/fsXYGkGLdX

— 4thWaveNow (@4th_WaveNow) November 12, 2019

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The Outsports Female Athlete of the Year is

you know this one already

not a female.

The LGBTQ sports world was blessed in 2019 with an abundance of choices for Female Athlete of the Year. Readers nominated several women, among them:

– USWNT icon Megan Rapinoe, who made an indelible mark during the Women’s World Cup.

But who cares about her, she’s just a boring commonplace woman. They’re a dime a dozen, yawn. Outsports can do better than that.

But in terms of making an indelible mark on sports history, CeCé Telfer of Franklin Pierce University sprinted to the top of the list with her groundbreaking victory at the May 2019 NCAA Division II National Championships

There’s a study, you see. A study. Be impressed.

Transgender children may start to identify with toys and clothes typical of their gender identity from a very young age, a recent study suggests.

Children identify with their clothes? I think not.

They mean, of course, something like “identify with the role that is purported to belong to this sex as opposed to that,” but hey, that would make everyone stop reading.

And their confidence in their gender identity is generally as strong as that of cisgender children, whose identity matches their sex assigned at birth, researchers found.

Except that doesn’t mean anything. What shirt you wear is not organically connected to what sex you are in the way that … Read the rest

One of these is not like the other, one of these doesn’t belong.

I'm not shouting.

And while your peers among the preverbal infancy are viewing the world they are viewing a gendered social system and learning it. Everything from 'mum breastfeeds me' to 'dad goes to work' is related to the gender roles we have in a heteropatriarchal society

— Alex Harker (@LtHarker) December 26, 2019

Can YOU see it?… Read the rest

The BBC is reporting on it.

The RSPCA is looking into claims made by a prominent lawyer that he killed a fox with a baseball bat.

Jolyon Maugham posted on Twitter on Thursday morning: “Already this morning I have killed a fox with a baseball bat. How’s your Boxing Day going?”

The animal welfare charity tweeted that the claim was “distressing”.

Which is so sad because he meant it to be funny. Jokes are such a personal thing.

Government guidelines state you can use cage traps and snares to catch foxes and you must “humanely kill any fox you catch while it’s in the trap or snare”.

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Jolyon Maugham QC’s fox-smashing exploit has garnered him considerable attention, and not the good kind. Maybe being a preening sadist isn’t such a great marketing ploy after all?

Had a difficult Christmas? Feeling a bit low today? At least you didn’t jump out of bed and bludgeon a fox to death with a baseball bat.

— Jack Appleby #IStandWithMaya (@jackappleby) December 26, 2019

"I'm sorry I tweeted about killing the fox. I'm not sorry I killed the fox, but I'm worried my tweeting about it has damaged my reputation. Rest assured I would never want to do anything to sabotage my own social standing. Hope this makes everyone feel better."

— Dan Fisher (@Fisher_Download) December 26, 2019

This is likely

Odd thing to brag about.

Already this morning I have killed a fox with a baseball bat. How's your Boxing Day going?

— Jo Maugham QC (@JolyonMaugham) December 26, 2019

It's almost as if you knew the fox was going to harm the chickens, because of biology, and that's why you tried to segregate them? How did you know the fox didn't identify as a chicken and just wanted to be its authentic self?

— ripx4nutmeg (@ripx4nutmeg) December 26, 2019

I didn't especially enjoy killing it but I imagine that's what the RSPCA would have done, if they had anyone on call in Central London on Boxing Day.

— Jo Maugham QC (@JolyonMaugham) December 26, 2019

A great many people … Read the rest

In further news of holiday cheer, Walmart doesn’t pay overtime for those very same holidays.

Walmart is one of several big-box retailers who are open on Thanksgiving Day and will start its Black Friday sale at 6pm.

Walmart is also one of the few big companies that does not offer employees increased hourly wages for working shifts on a holiday. At Target and Amazon, workers are paid time and a half for each hour worked.

“Walmart doesn’t offer holiday pay. They have a discount you have to work certain days to receive and one discount only lasts two days,” said a Walmart worker in Idaho who requested to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation. They are re scheduled

God almighty. These people.

Republican of Arizona.

Remember the reason for the season! #MerryChristmas pic.twitter.com/WpHWWHJGK5

— Rep. Paul Gosar, DDS (@RepGosar) December 24, 2019

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It matters.

2) but were like “alright, let’s find a way, how often does this come around?” A few years later, she was Level 10 and winning big state and regional championships. Tried out for the USA Olympic camp, didn’t make it. Spent the 7 years dominating Illinois gymnastics. She graduated

— Sam (@h1x_sam) December 23, 2019

4) UCLA, Stanford, Oregon, Northwestern, etc. she went on to become a 3 year All-American and academic All-American. After coaching for USA Gymnastics, retired and went to med school.

— Sam (@h1x_sam) December 23, 2019

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Rudy Giuliani talked to a reporter for New York magazine the other day.

As we sped uptown, he spoke in monologue about the scandal he co-created, weaving one made-up talking point into another and another. He said former ambassador Marie Yovanovitch, whom he calls Santa Maria Yovanovitch, is “controlled” by George Soros. “He put all four ambassadors there. And he’s employing the FBI agents.” I told him he sounded crazy, but he insisted he wasn’t.

The sarcasm is interesting. She did her job, and she answered questions before Congress, therefore Giuliani mocks her. She’s not a criminal or a traitor, so let’s sneer at her as a saint.

“Don’t tell me I’m anti-Semitic if I oppose him,” he said. “Soros

Of course he did.

Stephen Miller pushed to embed agents from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at a refugee agency in a bid to target the parents of unaccompanied migrant children for deportation, a new report has revealed.

Pro tip: that’s not what refugee agencies are for.

The Washington Post reported that according to six current and former Trump administration officials, the White House sought to plant ICE agents at the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), which cares for migrant children who cross the border without a parent as part of the Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) Program.

Stephen Miller is another Mengele, minus the medical skills.

According to the Post, Miller has long claimed that the