More on the Manchester Pride bullying via JL at the Glinner Update:

Alexander Braham was at Manchester Pride, wearing a hat and t-shirt bearing the LGB Alliance logo. While he was attending a march to protest cuts to LGB+ charities, his hat was stolen and he was abused and attacked to such an extent that police had to remove him for his own safety.

All over Twitter, people were congratulating themselves that a gay man was subjected to this violent and abusive behaviour and forced to leave a Pride event.

It seems that April Preston was one of the ringleaders. She is the Liberal Democrat candidate for Withington in the forthcoming local council elections and a member of the

Oops.

A conservative radio host from Florida who criticised coronavirus vaccination efforts – and called himself “Mr Anti-Vax” – before contracting Covid-19 himself has died, his station said on Saturday.

Another crappy first sentence. Allow me. “There’s this radio host in Florida who criticized Covid vaccination efforts, calling himself ‘Mr Anti-Vax.’ Then he contracted the virus himself, and he died yesterday.”

Anyway. However you word it, don’t be that guy. Don’t campaign against vaccinations during a pandemic, and if you won’t refrain for moral reasons, refrain so that you won’t look like a pathetic jackass if you get Covid and die.… Read the rest

And from @guardian its writers, its editors, the great people there and the not so great people there will be only silence.

Where is your integrity? Where are your spines? Is mob justice where it's at? Who are you protecting but yourselves? What does your journalism stand for?

— suzanne moore (@suzanne_moore) August 29, 2021

https://twitter.com/salltweets/status/1431939606241439746

A mob moronically chanting while they harass a gay bloke on his own for the crime of having an opinion is in fact an extremely powerful visual metaphor for what this "queer" movement has metastasised into. A rainbow splash of two bit thugs afraid of free speech. Shame on pride.

— Dennis Noel Kavanagh (@Jebadoo2) August 29, 2021

Abolish carceral feminism! defund the police!

So now there’s a video, and my Twitter is all over it.

Jesus. Gay man has to be rescued from Pride March by police. His sole ‘crime’? Wearing an LGB Alliance t-shirt. Woke homophobia is going to get someone seriously injured soon. https://t.co/Ifc9ROsXup

— Helen Joyce (@HJoyceGender) August 29, 2021

I’m not sure if he was rescued or expelled. Either way, he was mobbed and screamed at because he was wearing a shirt that mentions a lesbian gay alliance. So now lesbians and gays are evil? At Pride?

No, they would say. No, of course not, it’s the missing inclusion of our trans siblings that makes the screaming necessary.

But why? Trans isn’t the same thing, so why can’t some … Read the rest

More bragging about bullying a gay man out of Manchester Pride March:

Five mins in got a terf removed – happy with that ✨#mcrpride

— April (@AprilPreston_) August 28, 2021

https://twitter.com/GothicNumpty/status/1431777362849509377

Is this not discrimination against a protected characteristic of belief? (Section 9 equality act 2010) – do you believe this to be lawful?

— Dennis Noel Kavanagh (@Jebadoo2) August 28, 2021

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Now LP is complaining that some people are not impressed by her “reminder” that she has special luxury pronouns.

(Calling it a “reminder” is itself conceited and self-important, because it assumes the entire world was informed of her pronouns. [I see I’ve already “misgendered” her three times, only now it’s four – it wasn’t on purpose, it’s just automatic, which is one major reason I don’t do luxury pronouns: it’s way too much effort.] Not everyone was informed, not everyone is on the Laurie Penny News list.)

This is just a mild sample of what now happens in the British media when you politely remind people about your pronouns, like I did today. pic.twitter.com/FYaU86VAOh

— Laurie Penny (@PennyRed) August 28,

Charming.

Bullying the guy in the LGB Alliance shirt who came to the protest march is my favourite part of pride so far xx

— Billy W (@BillyWinchester) August 28, 2021

Bit stupid of you to admit to a hate crime, bullying someone because they are gay.

Screenshot taken in case he wants to take legal action against you.

— Goody Soup Dragon/Dr Heinz Kiosk (@Jessie_XL) August 28, 2021

When people adopt quasi-religious beliefs such as Gender Identity politics it can often lead to casting out non-believers as heretics whilst feeling pious and righteous about it.

— Richard CoIIumbeII (@RCollumbell) August 28, 2021

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Hahahahahahahahahahaha WHAT PART OF A WOMAN IN LOVE WITH A MAN DON’T YOU GET AS BEING TWO LESBIANS IN LOVE????????????

Lesbian = non-man in love with another non-man. Perfect. https://t.co/XTYZkGQbQP

— alex byrne (@byrne_a) August 28, 2021

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This is just some commercial promotion, but worth pointing at anyway.

That’s so sweet, but…

What “gender options”??? What gender options are there on commercial airlines? There aren’t any. They don’t bring you 10 miniature pretzels in a tiny bag that is either pink or blue, they don’t bring you anything that is either pink or blue, so what “gender options” are they talking about?

This shit gets stupider by the day.… Read the rest

Success! This is exactly the goal.

I don't know that I knew this. I will endeavour to commit this to memory.

— Laoi Ó Murchú (@RightSaidDredd) August 28, 2021

Yesssssssss – because if you endeavour to commit someone’s Special Pronouns to memory, that means you’re devoting extra time and attention and effort to that someone. Achievement unlocked! Getting people to pay extra attention to Self is the goal here and it’s working!… Read the rest

Sarah Ditum on Cleese and comedy and censorship:

What has John Cleese ever done for free speech? Absolutely nothing, according to the reaction to this week’s announcement that the 81-year-old comedian and actor would be fronting a documentary for Channel 4 about cancel culture. The show, which will “explore why a new ‘woke’ generation is trying to rewrite the rules on what can and can’t be said”, was met with derision before it had even been broadcast.

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The sneering also came from fellow comics, the stand-up Robin Ince among them. Ince, 52, also seemed to think that Cleese’s age disqualified him from having an opinion: “Somewhere in middle age, the ‘young people nowadays’ gene is turned on,” he

Really?

I don’t believe it. “Women with penises” were not a topic, much less an entity, in the 80s. That insulting oxymoron is only a few years old. She can wink wink all she wants to but it’s still bullshit.… Read the rest

Trump the treasonous insurrectionist is claiming he’s immune from everything because “executive privilege” – which I don’t think that’s how it’s supposed to work, at all. I think its basic justification is so that a current president – a president actually in the job at this moment in time – can do the job without distractions or interference. There are problems with that too, as we saw for four years, but I think it is at least limited to that specific situation. It’s pragmatic, as opposed to the bestowal of a dukedom. I don’t think it makes Trump forever a Sacred Body.

Trump on Wednesday threatened to invoke executive privilege in an effort to block the House select committee investigating

Yes, sure, the Nazis, the actual Nazis, with the concentration camps, the persecution and slaughter of leftists, labor unions, the disabled, the old, the sick, the mentally ill, the Romani (“gypsies”), lesbians and gays, and of course nearly all the Jews in Europe.

At least reaction to ofcom leaving one of the stonewall schemes but remaining in all the others is provoking a sensible and reasonable reaction from SW supporters eh. pic.twitter.com/l6osMRpmsW

— Dennis Noel Kavanagh (@Jebadoo2) August 27, 2021

India Willoughby is not going to be sent to a concentration camp, much less an extermination camp. Nothing is going to happen to India Willoughby at all, except that fewer people will accept his claim to be a woman. That’s … Read the rest

As Anatole France remarked, the rich and the poor alike are free forbidden to sleep under bridges.

With two girls in elementary school and a mother who is a teacher, the Dringenburg household in a Milwaukee suburb had been joyous and excited about back-to-school season — until this year, when the Waukesha School District board decided to opt out of a federally funded program that would give free meals to all students regardless of family income.

Ah yes, let’s not have free meals in schools, because then poor children would have the energy to do well in school just as rich children do, and we can’t have that.

The board voted June 9 to go back to the pre-pandemic

Julie Bindel agrees that the UK and US are not Afghanistan, but disagrees that that means feminism has finished its work and can go away now.

For example, of the tiny minority of rapes that are actually reported to police, only 1.4 per cent are charged by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS). In 2018/2019, charges, prosecutions and convictions for rape in cases brought by the CPS fell to their lowest levels in more than a decade.

That’s a really astounding statistic. I keep seeing it and keep clutching my head and wondering how the fuck. Rape is in effect legal.

The past decade has seen a shift towards what I call “feminism for men” or “fun feminism”. Currently,

So easy for them to say.

No danger to women, across the board – well, he should know.

No doubt he’s “been on a journey” since then. A journey that ends up with him still thinking women are silly.

— Jack Appleby (@jackappleby) August 26, 2021

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Victoria Smith starts by thanking the men who tell women what we’re allowed to be afraid of for wading in to correct our perceptions of reality when they must be so busy.

To be fair, it is not our fault. We are not authoritative; we are not you. We are taught from an early age to doubt ourselves, to see our own versions of reality as suspect, requiring external confirmation from the experts, the men. When you are not considered a reliable witness to your own experiences, things become very confusing. This, I guess, is where you step in.

And, of course, this very stepping in is part of the process of teaching female people from an early age that … Read the rest

Yet another man telling feminist women how to feminism.

I have a protected characteristic. That PC affords me justifiable legal protections. Stonewall have systematically misrepresented my PC, and have been clear they would like justifiable legal protections removed.

What did you think would happen?

— Emma Hilton (@FondOfBeetles) August 26, 2021

It's misogyny more broadly that is the threat to women. Gender ideologies (incel, trans, taliban) are manifestations of that. A woman is murdered due to her sex every 3 days in the UK. Misogyny doesn't harm *you* Robin, but it harms us.

— Crone in a Million (@CroneInAMillion) August 26, 2021

This is unworthy of you, Robin. Vulnerable women need single-sex spaces in refuges, hospitals & prisons. Feminists have

Jawad Iqbal asks an important question.

Why is the BBC, which takes pride in lecturing everyone else on its commitment to impartiality, determined to keep working with Stonewall, the LGBT charity that’s pushing an agenda on trans issues that is anything but impartial? Other public sector bodies, including the Equality and Human Rights Commission and the Cabinet Office, have withdrawn from Stonewall’s diversity programme. But not the BBC, which thinks it knows better.

I have another question to go along with that one. Is there any feminist charity that has that kind of hold on the BBC and the police and other public bodies? In other words is there any feminist equivalent of Stonewall? Is there any anti-racist equivalent? … Read the rest