Originally a comment by Mosnae on Trans list.

The “appeal to nature” fallacy is well-known: the idea is, if something’s natural it must be good. Of course, this is ridiculous. What I think needs more attention is the converse fallacy eg. the idea that if something is good, it must be natural. You’d expect the silliness of this to be obvious, yet accross the political spectrum, there are constantly people who are trying to prove stuff is “natural” or “unnatural” just because they think it matches their political views.

Consider how homophobic rhetoric is ripe with claims that homosexuality is unnatural: that doesn’t automatically make it immoral, does it? Likewise, ancient civilisations usually being male-dominated isn’t convincing evidence for … Read the rest

I wonder why “Brigitte” Baptiste decided he wanted to pretend to be a woman.

Just can’t quite figure it out.… Read the rest

Stupid confusing meaningless headline: check.

Trans scientist makes BBC’s 100 Women list

Meaning the “scientist” identifies as a scientist but has no actual qualifications to be a scientist and knows nothing about science?

No. Of course, as always, they mean a man who pretends to be a woman makes BBC’s 100 Women list. As always, they should say that in the headline, instead of burbling about trans scientists.

Broadcaster says Brigitte Baptiste uses a queer lens to analyse landscapes and species in a bid to expand the notion of ‘nature’

What’s a queer lens?

Nothing. Pretentious guff.

The BBC has included a transgender Colombian scientist in its annual list of 100 inspiring women, just days after sparking controversy over

Next it will be cartoon characters, pirates, caddies, celebrity chefs.

Trump makes his vapid daughter’s only slightly criminal daddy-in-law Ambassador to France.

President-elect Donald J. Trump announced on Saturday that he would name Charles Kushner, the wealthy real estate executive and father of his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, to serve as ambassador to France, handing one of his earliest and most high-profile ambassador appointments to a close family associate.

A close family associate with no known qualifications for being an ambassador to Staten Island, let alone France.

The announcement was the latest step in a long-running exchange of political support between the two men. Mr. Kushner received a pardon from Mr. Trump in the final days of his first term

Another day another list.

The BBC has included a transgender Colombian scientist in its annual list of 100 inspiring women, just days after sparking controversy over its choice for women’s footballer of the year.

Let’s ask ourselves: why does the BBC have a list (annual, even) of 100 inspiring women? It doesn’t have an annual list of 100 inspiring men, so why does it have one of women? It has to be because women get overlooked, so let’s try to correct that overlooking with lists. It’s an attempt at affirmation of the overlooked half of humanity, aka affirmative action. That being so…what the hell do they think they’re doing, adding a man who insults women by pretending to … Read the rest

Meet “Rainbow Laces” –

Football has the power to bring us together. 

Clubs and communities are stronger when everyone feels welcome, and it’s down to all of us to make that happen.

That’s why we, the Premier League, proudly stand alongside Stonewall in promoting equality and diversity.

A key focus of the partnership with Stonewall encourages LGBT+ acceptance among children and young people involved in community and education initiatives such as Premier League Primary Stars and Premier League Kicks, and within Academies.

Coaches, teachers and leaders are equipped with bespoke resources and programmes developed by the League and Stonewall which promote positive attitudes towards the LGBT+ community.

Blah blah blah, on and on, short paragraph after short paragraph, until you can’t see the horizon any … Read the rest

Tom Nichols on why Biden’s pardoning his worthless son is such a bad move.

President Joe Biden’s pardon of his son Hunter is a done deal. The president has not only obviated the existing cases against Hunter; the sweep of the pardon effectively immunizes his son against prosecution for all federal crimes he may have committed over the course of more than a decade. This pardon is a terrible idea—“both dishonorable and unwise,” in the words of the Bulwark editor Jonathan Last—and, as my colleague Jonathan Chait wrote yesterday, it reflected Biden’s choice “to prioritize his own feelings over the defense of his country.”

Obviously. Hunter Biden isn’t some random guy caught up in a mess, much less … Read the rest

CNN slobbers over Chase Strangio:

Strangio, an attorney for the ACLU, is set to make history Wednesday as the first known transgender person to argue before the US Supreme Court. And he’ll do it as part of the most high-profile dispute on the docket this session.

The case, US v. Skrmetti, challenges a Tennessee law that bans treatments, including hormone therapy and puberty blockers, for transgender minors and imposes civil penalties on doctors who violate the prohibitions. Some two dozen similar laws have been enacted in recent years in Republican-led states.

Wait a second though. The putative treatments aren’t actually treatments. They’re more like medical malpractice.

The justices will decide whether Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for

Jonathan Chait is not amused at Biden’s outrageous abuse of power.

When President Joe Biden was running for a second term as president, he repeatedly ruled out granting a pardon to his son Hunter, who has pleaded guilty to tax fraud and lying on a form to purchase a gun.

But now he’s not running for anything so what the hell, might as well abuse the office.

Biden professed a willingness to abide by the results of the justice system as a matter of principle. But in breaking his promise, and issuing a sweeping pardon of his son for any crimes he may have committed over an 11-year period, Biden has revealed his pledge to have been merely instrumental.

Oh ffs.

Biden has issued a sweeping pardon of his godawful corrupt sleazy son.

President Joe Biden announced Sunday that he has pardoned his son Hunter Biden, who faced sentencing this month for federal tax and gun convictions, marking a reversal as he prepares to leave office.

“Today, I signed a pardon for my son Hunter,” the president said in a statement. It is a “full and unconditional pardon,” according to a copy of the executive grant of clemency.

This official grant of clemency cannot be rescinded by President-elect Donald Trump.

By pardoning his son, Joe Biden has reneged on a public promise that he made repeatedly before and after dropping out of the 2024 presidential race. The president and

JKR has a fine blistering mini-essay about the mass bullying of gender atheists.

The rewriting of history begins.

Opponents of gender ideology haven't merely 'endured unsparing criticism'. I haven't simply been told I 'betrayed real feminism' or received a few book-burning videos.

I've been sent thousands of threats of murder, rape and violence. A trans… pic.twitter.com/aiGv2yHDCO

— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) December 2, 2024

The full essay:

The rewriting of history begins.

Opponents of gender ideology haven’t merely ‘endured unsparing criticism’. I haven’t simply been told I ‘betrayed real feminism’ or received a few book-burning videos.

I’ve been sent thousands of threats of murder, rape and violence. A trans woman posted my family’s home address with a bomb-making guide. My eldest … Read the rest

How sad, it turns out that calling women too posh and too old doesn’t make people think you’re a good bloke despite the sexual harassment.

Outrage over Gregg Wallace’s alleged conduct has intensified after he dismissed his accusers as “middle-class women of a certain age”, following revelations that the BBC received multiple complaints about him over a period of 12 years.

The corporation and other broadcasters are facing growing questions about how the MasterChef presenter was allowed to remain on screen despite a series of allegations of inappropriate behaviour dating back to at least 2012.

It’s a real puzzler. Could it be because there are lots of people – well, lots of men anyway – who love brash … Read the rest

It’s real; I checked.

Future generations will wonder why we allowed men with the name 'Faux nee Phish' to read to children. pic.twitter.com/UBJpl9IqmG

— Gay Not Queer (@Gaynotqueer1) December 1, 2024

The screenshot is of a Facebook post, which is alive and kicking and hiding all comments that don’t say “How fabulous!!!!!!” The page is the “Official Facebook page for the public libraries in Canberra and the ACT Heritage Library.” Isn’t that nice? Public libraries in Canberra think it’s hilarious to teach children that women are fish. Public libraries in Canberra think it’s hilarious to teach children that “jokes” about women smelling like fish are totally awesome and riotously funny. Public libraries in Canberra think it’s hilarious to invite … Read the rest

Apparently, according to the headlines, with all due caution, the most popular movie on Netflix at this time is titled “Hot Frosty” and the plot summary (one of them anyway) is…

Widow Kathy magically brings a snowman to life. His innocence helps her heal and find love again. They bond before the holidays, but he’s doomed to melt.

You’re welcome.… Read the rest

Guy accused of sexist behavior blames those stupid old middle-class bitches.

Gregg Wallace hits out at insults ‘handful’ of accusers

Gregg Wallace has hit back at rejected allegations of historic misconduct, saying they have come from a “handful of middle-class women of a certain age”.

For the umpteenth time: adult journalists need to stop translating rude words into “hitting out at” or “hitting back” or any other form of hitting. Saying is not hitting, and news organizations should be careful not to use metaphors recklessly. Poetic license is all very well but BBC News is not a poet.

That said – the guy is obviously a shit. Oh no, women dare to be middle-class and over 30 – the nerve … Read the rest

The other day I fumed about Amnesty’s siding with the Scottish Ministers instead of For Women Scotland; so did JKR.

A truly despicable move from a once-respected human rights organisation, which now openly champions the elitist, first world notion of 'gender identity' over biological sex, the basis on which females across the globe are oppressed. https://t.co/rsXOYeVGo9

— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) November 25, 2024

Seriously.

Eventually, there will be many studies surrounding how human rights organizations forgot that women are also humans with specific human rights.

— Sall Grover (@salltweets) November 26, 2024

.@amnesty has made it abundantly clear that they hate women. pic.twitter.com/XKdOTphVMY

— Genevieve Gluck (@WomenReadWomen) November 26, 2024

… Read the rest

ABC News (the one in Australia) reports:

For many National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) participants, a federal government decision means they can no longer access sexual services funding under the system, or they could risk financial pressure.

Sydneysider Oliver Morton-Evans says this decision has been “deeply disappointing” for many who live with a disability, including himself. “Now, only those who are financially well-off in the disability community can afford this service by paying out of pocket,” he said.

Whereas instead the government should be paying for this “service”? Because access to women’s bodies or at least hands is a human right?

Throughout times in his life, Mr Morton-Evans has sought the services of sex workers. He described it as

Woman who writes a column for the Washington Post tells women to shut up and take it.

Competition is never equal, and it is only sort of, approximately, occasionally fair. The best we can ask is that it be meaningful, that it teach us something about ourselves. This is the context in which transgender athletes enter into sport, and the people who would reduce this self-seeking to an unfair “them” against “us” are missing the point entirely: Sport doesn’t tell us who we are biologically, but spiritually, and psychologically, and the first thing it tells us is not to be victims. So it’s a step backward for so many women athletes to cry frailty in the debate over trans

Newsweek says Biden should have arrested Trump on January 21, 2021.

[B]y failing to arrest Trump immediately, Biden allowed the seriousness of Trump’s treasonous acts to diminish in the public’s collective memory, granting Trump’s supporters and others who might be swayed to his side the chance to believe that it was an open question as to whether or not he’d engaged in insurrection (when it definitely was not). It allowed the media, too, to make it seem like less than a fact, engaging in the usual horserace political coverage once it was election season, even though one of the candidates was a would-be usurper.

It’s true. Trump paid no real price for that mind-bogglingly serious crime, and now four years … Read the rest

The Sun reviews Smoggie Queens, hijinks ensue.

CALL me a wide-eyed optimist, if you like, but when a second female impersonator joined EastEnders this month, I thought: “Surely to God, we’ve reached peak drag queen and the BBC can find another obsession now.”

These men are across ­absolutely everything, after all, starting with four different versions of Ru Paul’s global abomination, which the Beeb has got on a loop.

Yes but the Beeb is every bit as obsessed with minstrel shows oh wait no it’s not. Mocking and insulting people of color is unacceptable but mocking and insulting women is wholesome every day entertainment. Right?

Smoggie Queens is up there with the worst ­sitcoms I’ve ever watched, which shouldn’t