Annoy some of you
Stupid person makes bid for glory, fails utterly.
Oooooh brave and daring, saying he’s all for trans rights, as if that’s The Unpopular View in his circles.
Vanity aside, what does he mean? Does he think feminists who don’t agree that men can be women are not “behind trans rights”? This is where the stupid comes in. We’re not opposed to trans rights, unless they are some special new arbitrary dogmatic set of rights that aren’t really rights at all…but of course that’s exactly what he means. He thinks there are “trans rights” that make it fine for men to compete against women in sports, and take jobs reserved for women, and win awards intended for women, and all the rest of it. None of that is a right.
And I don’t believe his claim that he’s “heard all the arguments,” because if he had his tweet wouldn’t be so stupid.
And nobody is arguing that equality “doesn’t apply” to trans people, whatever he thinks he means by that. Nobody thinks trans people shouldn’t have rights, nobody thinks they shouldn’t have equality; the issue is novel “rights” to shove women aside and take everything we have struggled for.
Of course he won’t be answering questions, he’s clearly not bright enough to.
Ha, from the replies:
https://twitter.com/joolsindisguise/status/1476299178926092289?s=21
OB:
Please reconsider. ;-)
I don’t get it.
@1 he looks literally exactly like the ‘bro’ on that fake book cover, uncanny.
Yeah, ha, it’s even funnier because he does look like the cover bro.
I can’t speak for Omar (or can I?) but I think he was joking that Jones may be capable of hearing all the arguments and yet still writing tweets that stupid.
Maybe it’s not just his tweet that’s stupid.
https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/dec/28/dave-salo-lia-thomas-swimming-situation-assault-wo/
He may well have heard many of the arguments. It’s not clear at all that he’s understood any of them.
If he’s trying to make the point that a careful consideration of the arguments and evidence lead to his conclusion, he rather undermines that with his childish NO QUESTIONS at the end.
You can say “Thus have I reasoned, do let me know if you have trouble following or disagree” or you can say “I lead with my heart and embrace sacred intuition — no debate!” But don’t try to mash them together.
@6 Over here in England the subject came up in the pub the other night–I was completely uninterested in getting into the whole gender conversation with the people I was hanging out with, but one thing I pointed out to them, that I don’t think they really understood, is how in the US sports can be an opportunity for kids with no other options to get into university–sport success could lead to a scholarship for someone who otherwise couldn’t afford a college education, so taking that success away from a girl could significantly affect her life chances. This did seem to shock them.
@8 Good point–someone who wanted to demonstrate his command of the evidence and understanding of the issues and arguments would, you’d think, be eager to show that by welcoming questions.
guest@9:
More shocking still: I have encountered multiple persons who understand this, and yet they simply don’t think that it’s a problem. So what if a college woman who has trained her entire life to be a world-class swimmer with hopes of Olympic success, is cheated out of her chance to be on her national team? It’s like they have a Douglas-Adams style “Not My Problem” Field erected over the notion.
@10 possibly dumb question but I can’t resist–did you notice whether this ‘not my problem’ field surrounds only girls’ and women’s problems?
So far, it’s been the one issue that people who support all things tran will hedge on when I talk to them. I don’t know why they can’t see how it applies in all areas that trans ID men still retain all the rights that men have.
Re #10 and #11
Just guessing here, but I expect it’s like some kid who lives in a poor neighborhood and has no access to facilities or coaches to become a great tennis player, versus someone who is wealthy and can relocate and can pay for great training. Yes, it’s too bad for the first kid, but there is no inherent reason we need to level that particular field; some people get the breaks. One needs to care about fair treatment of women in the first place. If one does not, Not My Problem. I have a friend on the conservative side who agrees with me about gender ideology being nonsense but who just doesn’t give a crap about fairness toward women, and doesn’t see why we bother with sex segregated sports in the first place; it’s frustrating.