More on Starmer’s exasperated contempt for women:
Starmer has a woman problem, or more specifically, he finds the women who argue for their sex-based rights to be respected, both in law and in practice, extremely irritating. He could barely contain his exasperation during the BBC’s Question Time on Thursday when a young woman asked him about his current views on biological sex, reminding him that he had previously criticised Labour MP Rosie Duffield for stating that “only women have a cervix”. He said at the time her statement of the obvious was something that shouldn’t have been said. “It’s not right.”
It seems he has changed his mind – or has he? Adopting his best human rights lawyer pose, and with only the slightest hint of condescension in his voice, he replied: “Well look, on the biology, I agree with what Tony Blair said the other day in relation to men having penises and women having vaginas.”
I have to stop at that point, again – this time not to snarl but to laugh. Tony Blair said what??? Who ever heard of such a thing? Who knew? This changes everything!!
I mean he didn’t need Tony Blair to say it, did he. It’s not what you’d call an arcane fact. When I quoted him a day or two ago I was so annoyed I didn’t even notice the absurdity. “Tony says men have wee-wees and women have foofies!” Dude everyone says men have penises and women have vaginas. Everyone. You don’t need an authority to say it for you: it’s common knowledge. You really really don’t need MY FRIEND THE FORMER PRIME MINISTER SAYS. You don’t need to name-drop or show off or offer an imprimatur.
It’s far more disgusting than funny, but still, it is also funny.
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Well, if he “agrees with Tony,” then he also necessarily agrees with Duffield that, “on the biology,” it’s also true that only women have cervixes. So WTF about it was “wrong,” and “shouldn’t be said”? Please explain the difference between “it’s true when Tony says it,” and “it’s toxic and divisive and wrong and shouldn’t be said,” when Duffield makes the exact same point.
Duffield was wrong and toxic because she lifted the veil. That’s it. She said the thing that everyone knows, but that the TRAs really don’t want acknowledged, alluded to, or even hinted at. When your entire argument relies on all of society pretending something, you can’t have reality impinge on the discussion in any degree.
Shorter: Tony’s a bro and Rosie’s a bitch.
If comedy movies from 1990 knew it, I think we can safely say that it is common knowledge. Or was, until the sudden madness.
I have known this since I first learned what vagina was, about 70 years ago. Why would anyone present it as if it were a new insight into a puzzling problem?