Peak stupid

Julia Gillard explaining how men are women if they really really think so.

This answer couldn’t make me hate her more.

She’s the one responsible for the violation of girls and women across Australia.

She’s an adult human female, in case she forgot that she doesn't have a dick … or the balls to answer this question honestly. https://t.co/SleOw1d9zu
— the travelling sushi 🍣 (@travelingsushi1) May 15, 2026

She’s asked if she can say what a woman is. Instead of saying yes of course I can she taaalllkks verrrry slowwwwly about how terrible it is that people keep asking this question. She calls it a gotcha moment – how original. She says, verrry slowwwly indeed, that we have to come at this from first principles. She burbles about rich diversity. She says it’s powerful. Finally at 1:39 [that’s a long time to say nothing relevant!] she gets to the myth.

There are a number of people who genuinely believe they are trapped in the wrong body, and they want to be recognized as the gender that their mind, their mind and soul have always told them that they are.

Ok. First of all, how do you know they genuinely believe that? It’s not knowable. Other people’s minds are a black box. This appalling ideology is based on an assumption that is negated by everything we know about people, minds, knowledge, rhetoric, politics and all the rest of it.

Second, and all too obviously, so the fuck what? People can “genuinely” believe all kinds of bullshit – just look at how many people think Donald Trump is a great guy.

Guess what: we could all claim we genuinely believe we are Julia Gillard. Would she make duplicate keys to her house for all of us?

It’s just staggering that this childish horseshit is allowed to cancel women’s rights.

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Holms

May 15, 2026 9:51 AM

Such extensive squirming! Politicians have been pivoting any time the question is inconvenient for a long time, but now they also like to call the question a ‘gotcha’. No idea how they think that works, but it is a clear signal that they know the answer they want to give is risible in some way.

Gillard has the welcome distinction of being Australia’s first female prime minister, yet the punted on women’s protections. Less known is that she is also our first atheist (or at least, non-religious) PM; she also punted on the question of religious entanglement with government.

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