BLOCK EVERYONE. Just to be on the safe side.

Dominic Berry is (according to his profile) a historian and philosopher of science.

Yeesh. He cares so much that he goes to the trouble of figuring out how many of his followers also follow Nigel, and he then tries to use that knowledge as a cudgel to convince them to stop following Nigel. I in that situation would of course stop following the dictatorial intrusive cudgel-waver instead. I would first tell him off for being so intrusive and dictatorial.

And this goon is a philosopher.

I encourage you all to follow this guy Dominic Berry @HPSglonk better to understand the intolerant, censorious, and shrill voices that are echoing around U.K.

First,

Next,

I’m proud to have several colleagues @OU_Philosophy with skin in different gender debates. As we support all of them & to ensure fair debate, we don’t take sides from our departmental account. I removed yesterday’s tweet in support & out of respect of all my esteemed colleagues.

— Manuel Dries (@manueldries) January 1, 2021

A couple of weeks ago,

.@SophieGraceCha1 has spent 3 years writing a book on epiphanies ('wow' or 'euraka' moments) for @OUPAcademic as part of a @LeverhulmeTrust Major Research Fellowship.

Watch her give a talk on it here to Barnes Philosophy Club: https://t.co/uJZjWRPtyS pic.twitter.com/Q9kZFT6Yr5

— Open Uni Philosophy (@OU_Philosophy) December 15, 2020

https://twitter.com/OU_Philosophy/status/1338878340254625793

So it’s “taking sides” to congratulate Kathleen Stock on an honour, … Read the rest

Allison Bailey is deeply unimpressed by Judith Butler.

1/ Judith Butler once again demonstrating that a minority of women are capable of being woman-hating, penis pandering, vicious zealots. All the while imagining that they’re being deliciously transgressive.

Woman-hatred is not new. It’s not radical. It’s just disgraceful. https://t.co/NQ8ksIFJpL

— Allison Bailey (@BluskyeAllison) January 1, 2021

3/ Butler accuses JKR & therefore all survivors of having “fostered hatred & misunderstanding & perhaps capitalised on a history of sexual trauma”.

It‘s a special kind of woman that would say such a thing, of another named woman, who has been bombarded with threats & abuse.

— Allison Bailey (@BluskyeAllison) January 1, 2021

4/ Pay attention. Butler & her ilk are driving this attack

Feminist “icon” Judith Butler is shitting on women from a great height. Very iconic.

Wow. Judith Butler describes JK Rowling as having "capitalised on a history of sexual trauma in order to afflict and persecute others" and accuses her of having a "revenge fantasy". Suzanne Moore also smeared. This and #NotAllMen MRA arguments throughout https://t.co/PcKkBe46kA

— Nicole Jones (@satiricole) January 1, 2021

Notice that, after this casual defamation, Butler is offended over Jones' suggestion that she's a "cis" woman (like the penis-fearers). It's a typically antifeminist position to distance yourself from other women. This is all about common loathing for the female class.

— Nicole Jones (@satiricole) January 1, 2021

In other words, feminists are "man haters"

(Taryn works as

Party? What party?

Guests who paid four-figures for tickets to President Donald Trump’s annual New Year’s Eve party were left to party with his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, his two adult sons and various figures from the conservative media — none of whom wore masks — after the President made a last-minute decision to ditch the event and return to Washington.

No refunds, folks. In fact, kindly donate another four figures, or why not make it five, to my campaign to remain president for all eternity and to buy more ice cream for me.

No official explanation for the President’s early departure from Mar-a-Lago was given, though he remains consumed with efforts to overturn the election results and tensions are

Also –

Piecing the news together this morning and anyone bragging about getting an OBE looks like a right mug to a lot of people who think the empire was bad actually

— Zara Bain (@zaranosaur) December 31, 2020

“Everybody loves a bit of eugenics/moral panic” but to the tune of “maybe it’s because I’m a Londoner”

— Zara Bain (@zaranosaur) December 31, 2020

But on the other hand –

trying to work out if I can set this and the whole class of Dolezaling white women up as an intro example or it’ll just have to be some paper in it’s own right?!

— Zara Bain (@zaranosaur) December 31, 2020

So a white woman saying she’s black is still … Read the rest

Also –

I can’t decide whether this is an old or new equation:

Services to higher education
=
Promotion of transphobia

— feministkilljoy (@SaraNAhmed) December 31, 2020

The effort to mainstream transphobia in universities in the UK needs to be met with every resistance we can think of and enact. I am speaking as a cis lesbian feminist of colour who chooses her trans siblings every second of every day over others.

— feministkilljoy (@SaraNAhmed) December 31, 2020

That last sentence in particular – I wonder about it. It’s typical enough, and I wonder about it. She “chooses her trans siblings every second of every day over others.” Why? It’s typical in the prioritization, and I wonder why it is. … Read the rest

The bit where they said it and the bit where they took it back.

@OU_Philosophy can you please explain why you have deleted this tweet?
An apology to @Docstockk is warranted. pic.twitter.com/j1IaDKECLn

— Tricia #AdultHumanFemale (@TriciaFrasman) January 1, 2021

The answer seems to be:

I’m proud to have several colleagues @OU_Philosophy with skin in different gender debates. As we support all of them & to ensure fair debate, we don’t take sides from our departmental account. I removed yesterday’s tweet in support & out of respect of all my esteemed colleagues.

— Manuel Dries (@manueldries) January 1, 2021

Except that’s not how that works, is it.

This is really sad. Congratulating someone on getting an honour is not taking sides

This William Clare Roberts fella wrote a long blog post in May 2019 responding to that Medium piece by a bunch of pesky feminist women.

This is a response to the essay published on Medium yesterday by Sophie Allen, Jane Clare Jones, Holly Lawford-Smith, Mary Leng, Rebecca Reilly-Cooper, and Kathleen Stock.

He doesn’t link to the essay itself, which is bad form.

I am not a woman. I am not trans. I am a feminist – my earliest conversion experience was reading Andrea Dworkin and Catharine MacKinnon. I love very dearly a little trans girl who I hope grows up in a world where she is safe and free, or at least has a

Some academics are not happy about Kathleen Stock’s OBE.

Sending love to my UK trans followers today – you know why – I really don’t know what to say x

— Alison Phipps (@alisonphipps) December 31, 2020

I can usually work out why someone has received an award, even if I don’t like them or don’t think they should get it. This? I’ve got nothing, except for the obvious. It’s honestly sickening.

— Dr. Bodie A. Ashton (@manwithoutatan) December 31, 2020

You cannot “serve higher education” if you actively make HE a hostile environment for colleagues and students, especially those in a disproportionately vulnerable segment of society.

— Dr. Bodie A. Ashton (@manwithoutatan) December 31, 2020

Says, as usual, a … Read the rest