Billy Bragg announces his pleasure at seeing mass violence against a woman.
I believe in freedom of expression and was pleased to see over 2000 Kiwis exercising their right to free expression by vocally opposing KJK in Auckland today.
— Billy Bragg (@billybragg) March 25, 2023
Oh good, a man telling lesbians how to lesbian.
The amazing @theDykeProject have taken over the street outside the transphobic Lesbian Project conference. We won’t let out queer community be divided #onecommunity #LwiththeT
— Morten Thaysen (@viabank) March 25, 2023
Who’s “we” Kemosabe?
And yet here you are dividing lesbians into the "good" ones and the "bad" ones. You pathetic prick.
— Clive Simpson (@QueensSpeechUK) March 25, 2023
This is a disgrace.
This homophobic activism challenging lesbians exercising the right to political assembly.
Thank you Stonewall. This is the world you have created for lesbians.
You ought to know them and gay men like me have had enough of this. https://t.co/tXYXHpMDoc
— Dennis Noel Kavanagh (@Jebadoo2) March 25, 2023
What … Read the rest
Well there’s one thing about the Auckland disgrace – Kellie-Jay’s goal is to show what trans activism is all about, and by god the “activists” helped her with that.
https://twitter.com/Nyathera2/status/1639571492781576192… Read the restOriginally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on In ugly scenes.
So KJK and JKR both dare to hold and express terrible views.
Funny how absolutely no-one ever spells out exactly what the views are which they find repugnant, nor can they even point to a tweet, or a video, in which either woman expresses any views which incite violence towards anyone.
If their views were so evil and so clearly expressed, trans activists would be able to quote them directly. They’d be retweeting videos of these genocidal statements 24/7. If they had this evidence, they wouldn’t fail to use it. But they don’t. They only have homeopathically diluted innuendo and alleged “dog whistles” , but mostly just … Read the rest
This clip is particularly horrible. The heaving churning sea of people trying to get at KJK, as if she were a mass murderer or something. It’s gruesome.
https://twitter.com/radionz/status/1639420703232643072Who these people are:
Who they are not:
… Read the restJo Bartosch has new (to me at least) information about the presence of Nazis at last Saturday’s Let Women Speak.
… Read the restPoliticians from across the spectrum have rushed to tar Keen, a women’s rights activist, as a ‘Nazi’. This is because a group of extreme right-wing thugs from the National Socialist Network were spotted near one of Keen’s rallies in Melbourne, Victoria last weekend. The black-clad men, who had no identifying insignia, were led by police to the steps of Melbourne’s Parliament House, where they proceeded to give a Nazi salute. These fascists had nothing to do with Keen’s rally. As Victoria Police have since made clear, the neo-Nazis were one of six groups to be holding protests at the same
Steven Shaviro, a professor of English at Wayne State University, has a modest proposal.
… Read the restSo here is what I think about free speech on campus. Although I do not advocate violating federal and state criminal codes, I think it is far more admirable to kill a racist, homophobic, or transphobic speaker than it is to shout them down.
When right-wing groups invite such speakers to campus, it is precisely because they want to provoke an incident that discredits the left, and gives more publicity and validation to these reprehensible views than they could otherwise attain. The protesters get blamed instead of the bigoted speaker; the university administration finds a perfect excuse to side publicly with the racists or phobes;
Meanwhile, at the Arts Council…
The Arts Council England created a “toxic” culture of “fear” for staff who dared to question transgender views, a senior grant officer has said as she accuses the charity of harassment and victimisation.
Denise Fahmy claims Britain’s biggest arts quango risked “closing down free speech” after a grant was withdrawn from a charity that campaigns exclusively for lesbian, gay and bisexual rights.
Ms Fahmy, 54, who has worked for 15 years as an Arts Council England (ACE) grant officer, says she was targeted after she questioned why £9,000 of funding was withdrawn from LGB Alliance.
That’s not just transgender views, it’s actions. Homophobic actions at that.
She’s quit but she’s taking them … Read the rest
Originally a comment by latsot on Not letting women speak.
I know some women who were there, I was seriously worried. They are safe, though! My friend spotted there was going to be violence and managed to take her group away from the crowd before it happened.
One of her friends was beaten, though. I found myself typing “thankfully it was not serious” and while I’m indeed thankful it’s not serious, it appals me that that’s the sort of thing I have to be thankful for.
She reports:
A 70 year old woman being punched in the face.
A child being pushed over so that a trans rights activist could scream more closely in another woman’s face
Two women … Read the rest
The Guardian reportage is predictably disgusting.
The anti-trans activist known as Posie Parker has cancelled further events and reportedly left New Zealand after chaotic and at times violent protests ended her planned appearance in Auckland.
The label “anti-trans” is of course intended to make readers think she’s a big meanie to trans people. She’s not “anti-trans”; she’s opposed to the ideology that says men are women if they say they are, and she’s in favor of women’s rights. She defends women’s rights against the hostility and usurpation of trans ideology.
… Read the restKeen-Minshull’s appearance in New Zealand had been highly controversial before her arrival. An earlier appearance in Australia had been attended and supported by white supremacist groups, who marched
The guy who dumped tomato sauce or soup or whatever it was on KJK brags about it:
https://twitter.com/ElianaRubashkyn/status/1639499718945574913This guy:
@ElianaRubashkyn the man that attacked kellie.. he should be charged pic.twitter.com/PI3rgsN1ll
— daz (@darrenkett2) March 25, 2023
Extra added dudely hatred of women:
https://twitter.com/ElianaRubashkyn/status/1639582734250299393… Read the restOf course he did.
“I never lose.” #PosieParker Bit of a reality check for Poundland Eva Braun. pic.twitter.com/u1tDLBFqhg
— India Willoughby (@IndiaWilloughby) March 25, 2023
How the New Zealand Herald reported it:
More than 2000 counter-protesters – including one armed with a bottle of tomato soup – have seen British anti-trans activist Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull aborting her central Auckland rally.
How it should have reported it:
More than 2000 counter-protesters made so much noise and were so violent that women’s rights activist Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull was forced to cancel her central Auckland rally.
It does a little better in para 3:
… Read the restIn ugly scenes Keen-Minshull – who was in the country as part of her Let Women Speak tour aimed to support women’s rights – was drowned out by protesters galvanised by the LGBTQIA+ community.
As she was standing on the rotunda stage at Albert Park
Well. It seems that in Auckland, there was such a huge loud screaming mob that KJK wasn’t able to say anything, and was at one point afraid she and the people around her were going to be crushed to death.
In Auckland – henceforth to be known as Misogynistic Pimple on the Arse of the World Where Women's Rights Go to Die – #LetWomenSpeak protestors punched, assaulted and nearly crushed to death, while police fails to keep insane misogynistic mob at bay. https://t.co/pFkdm5JoJq
— la scapigliata (@lascapigliata8) March 24, 2023
Originally a comment by Sastra on On the cusp of instantiating the gender cult (by Der Durchwanderer).
It’s interesting that a “right to personal honor” is explicitly spelled out here, because I’ve been reading arguments that the Honor Culture of the past shares this concern with the emerging Culture of Victimhood. When a focus on public reputation is combined with a sensitivity to slights and a conviction that these must be avenged, the Enlightenment’s belief that humans have inherent dignity and a reasonable person ignores insults as beneath them loses ground. We return to the past — though with one significant difference.
In Honor Cultures, it was up to the person insulted to take revenge, usually through violence. The Culture … Read the rest
Originally a comment by Der Durchwanderer on People who menstruate.
(Are we quite sure “menstruate” shouldn’t be “peoplestruate”? Have we researched it?)
You jest, but I recently saw a campaign poster for the city state of Bremen with the Social Democrats campaigning “für Bremen und Brewomen”. I’m sure it won’t be long before the party is reeducated to add more nonsense to the slogan. Perhaps in the next election they’ll be “für Bremenschen”, which would at least be a fully German pun (unless of course they fear being seen as right-wing extremists for using German wordplay in Germany).
In the meantime, you can rest assured that in Germany, we’re allowed to use the word “woman” — indeed we may … Read the rest
Trump is inciting violence again.
Over on Truth Social, Trump indicates there could be “potential death and destruction” if he is charged in the Manhattan district attorney’s probe into hush money payments. pic.twitter.com/rI3fVllvdM
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) March 24, 2023
… Read the restThe posting after midnight on Truth Social, Trump’s social media platform, was his latest — and most explicit — allusion to violence that could follow an indictment stemming from an investigation led by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D), whom Trump called a “degenerate psychopath.”
Trump wrote: “What kind of person can charge another person, in this case a former President of the United States, who got more votes than any sitting President in history, and
The author of the article, Jo Faragher, is careful to avoid saying “women,” but the people she he they quotes not so much.
… Read the restBroadcaster Channel 4 has launched a period policy with the support of its gender equality employee network, 4Womxn.
The company said the policy would help employees who experience difficulties with their periods, particularly those who experience health conditions such as endometriosis or polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) and may be struggling to manage their symptoms at work.
As part of the policy, employees will be able to access flexible working arrangements, a working environment assessment, free period products in the office, and a microwaveable wheat bag to ease painful symptoms. It will also offer a quiet room
Trump having a normal one.
Over on Truth Social, Trump indicates there could be “potential death and destruction” if he is charged in the Manhattan district attorney’s probe into hush money payments. pic.twitter.com/rI3fVllvdM
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) March 24, 2023
All this angst and hand-wringing and mollification over something that should never have been an issue in the first place.
World Athletics has voted to ban transgender women from elite female competitions if they have undergone male puberty, in a decision the governing body said had been taken to “protect the future of the female category”.
Speaking after the ruling, which comes into effect on 31 March, the World Athletics president, Seb Coe, accepted that the decision would be contentious but said his sport had been guided by the “overarching principle” of fairness, as well as the science around physical performance and male advantage.
As it should have been all along. “Males not allowed in female competitions” – that shouldn’t … Read the rest
