The law is magic

Written by

Ophelia Benson

in

A tedious conversation:

Hahahaha right the law is magic and changes men into women when they say the magic words.

This “movement” has been hell on people’s thinking skills.

Comments

7 responses to “The law is magic”

  1. Rob Avatar
    Rob

    Abe Lincoln:- How many legs does a calf have if a tail is called a leg? Four. Calling the tail a leg doesn’t make a tail a leg.

    source: https://timpanogos.blog/2007/05/23/lincoln-quote-sourced-calfs-tail-not-dogs-tail/

  2. Blood Knight in Sour Armor Avatar
    Blood Knight in Sour Armor

    So now they’re sovereign citizens? The “law is magic”? Woah…

  3. Acolyte of Sagan Avatar
    Acolyte of Sagan

    I’d take little-to-no notice of anything said by a person who thinks that ‘woman’ is the plural of ‘woman’.

  4. Screechy Monkey Avatar
    Screechy Monkey

    Would Andrew Bogg agree then that Trans Women Are Not Women in jurisdictions that have not passed laws based on gender-self-identification?

    Somehow I suspect not. It’s a very odd look for a movement that is just beginning to win legal recognition to insist that legal recognition is not just important, but actually determines reality.

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

    Andrew Wokebeard doesn’t have anything to worry about in the instance of this particular “magical” manifestation of the law. It’s not his rights and spaces that he’s giving away while basking in the warmth of of unearned righteousnes. Yet it was not so long ago that the law would have jailed him for homosexual behaviour: the law cuts both ways, so Mr Bogg might want to mind his fingers when wielding it against others.

  6. Bruce Coppola Avatar
    Bruce Coppola

    IANAL/IANAB, but are the UK laws on gender identity a legal fiction? If so, Andrew Biggs should look that term up.

  7. Jib Halyard Avatar
    Jib Halyard

    I’m old enough to remember when Eddie Izzard claimed to be a “lesbian trapped in a man’s body”. And it was a joke. Part of his routine. And now it is not joke, apparently.

    Can this happen to other comedians as well? Will Eddie Murphy start claiming he is actually a gay Mr T in real life?

More posts