Tell someone who cares

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Ophelia Benson

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Sorry, kid, no dice.

Nope.

That ship has sailed and disappeared over the horizon.

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4 responses to “Tell someone who cares”

  1. Mike B Avatar
    Mike B

    Crust-a-muddy, Rowling’s post is well worth the read.

    . . . [a movement] which bullies gay people who admit openly they don’t want opposite sex partners. . . .

    I’ve heard about this but thankfully have never encountered it personally (and little danger of ever doing so, being over 60).

  2. Your Name's not Bruce? Avatar
    Your Name’s not Bruce?

    Crust-a-muddy, Rowling’s post is well worth the read.

    It certainly is. Wow. Here’s a bit more:

    Some argue that signatories of these sorts of letters are motivated by fear: fear for their careers, of course, but also fear of their co-religionists, who include angry, narcissistic men who threaten and sometimes enact violence on non-believers; back-stabbing colleagues ever ready to report wrongthink; the online shamers and doxxers and rape threateners, and, of course, the influential zealots in the upper echelons of liberal professions (though we can quibble whether they’re actually liberal at all, given the draconian authoritarianism that seems to have engulfed so many). Gender ideology could give medieval Catholicism a run for its money when it comes to punishing heretics, so isn’t it common sense to keep your head down and recite your Hail Mulvaneys?

    But before we start feeling too sorry for any cowed and fearful TWAWites who’re TERFy on the sly, let’s not forget what a high proportion of them have willingly snatched up pitchforks and torches to join the inquisitional purges. Call me lacking in proper womanly sympathy, but I find the harm they’ve enabled and in some cases directly championed or funded – the hounding and shaming of vulnerable women, the forced loss of livelihoods, the unregulated medical experiment on minors – tends to dry up my tears at source.

  3. Acolyte of Sagan Avatar
    Acolyte of Sagan

    Mike, it’s something that my daughter and her wife have been encountering for several years. They have a closed relationship anyway but are still classed as raging bigots for refusing to accept that some lesbians have penises and that they need to get over their obsession with genitals.

  4. Mike B Avatar
    Mike B

    Yikes.

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