This guy is so infuriating.

He’s the one who booted Joan Smith from her unpaid role as co-chair of his commission on violence against women and girls, without a word of explanation, and without ever replying to her questions or anyone else’s. It’s disgusting and he’s disgusting. Ungrateful, unfair, cowardly, sneaky, contemptible…and he’s a misogynist.

He turned off replies, but he can’t turn off quote-tweets, which are very angry. He ignores women and slobbers over trans people, and tries to shut us up when we object. He needs a very serious talking-to.… Read the rest

What does that mean though?

In my view it’s irrelevant whether a man can become a woman or vice versa. What’s relevant is whether individuals tormented by the desire to be the opposite sex are happier when they present that way, and whether or how much the majority of society is willing to accommodate this.

— Ray Blanchard (@BlanchardPhD) November 13, 2023

What does “present that way” mean though?

It can’t mean dress up as the other sex in private, because obviously anybody can do that any time. So what it means is dress up as the other sex in public, i.e. involve other people, including total strangers, in one’s “desire.”

People don’t get to do that. I don’t care … Read the rest

It’s never not Trans Awareness something – month, day, year, week, century, decade, whatever – they’re all Trans of them.

Enough already. pic.twitter.com/7bwrMmPdoJ

— Fred Sargeant (@FredSargeant) November 13, 2023

No no Fred, it’s never enough, never never NEVER.

GLAAD confirms.

Each year between November 13 – 19, people and organizations around the country participate in Transgender Awareness Week to help increase understanding about transgender people and the issues members of the community face.

Trans Awareness Week takes place the week before Transgender Day of Remembrance on November 20. Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR), is an annual observance on November 20 that honors the memory of the transgender people whose lives were lost in acts of anti-transgender violence

Conservative lawyer says why Trump is disqualified.

[Michael] Luttig, however, has a plan to stop him. In August he joined with the liberal constitutional scholar Laurence Tribe to publish an article in the Atlantic magazine under the headline “The Constitution Prohibits Trump From Ever Being President Again”.

The pair argued that section 3 of the 14th amendment automatically excludes from future office anyone who swears an oath to uphold the constitution and then rebels against it. Irrespective of criminal proceedings or congressional sanctions, they contended, Trump’s efforts to overturn the election are sufficient to bar him for life.

It makes sense. If you, as president, swear an oath to uphold the constitution, and then rebel against it, you’ve pretty … Read the rest

People can be so tiresome.

Residents of India’s capital, Delhi, woke up to smoky skies as air quality dropped after the festival of Diwali. People in the city burst crackers late into Sunday night despite a ban on fireworks due to high pollution levels.

Delhi has been battling toxic air for weeks, with the government announcing an early winter break for schools in an effort to protect children. The city has high pollution through the year due to factors including vehicular emissions and dust.

So let’s definitely make it worse by making loud bangs to celebrate a religious festival. That’s an excellent reason to make more people have worse lung damage.

The same thing happens in Seattle with the … Read the rest

Fair Cop is on the job:

We have sent the following to @CCJardineNP and @northumbriapol.

“From your cosseted HQ, you will know nothing of the terror inflicted upon Ms A, a lesbian woman, by your force. Your personal commitment to promoting the LGBTQ agenda cannot be divorced from the grossly offensive… pic.twitter.com/RkwrwJM3MK

— WeAreFairCop (@WeAreFairCop) November 13, 2023

Just the police terrorizing women for knowing that men are not women.… Read the rest

The Daily Mail [sorry] on putting a man in charge of an endometriosis charity:

Endometriosis South Coast (ESC) announced on X, formerly known as Twitter, that Labour activist Steph Richards would be leading the organisation.

Ms Richards has previously claimed trans people can change their biological sex ‘a little bit’ and boasted about running a ‘safe space’ where men could dress up as women in secret, including as ‘schoolgirls’. 

He can combine the two! He can run his safe space for men who dress up as schoolgirls out of his office as CEO!

The charity explained that

‘Steph is a huge advocate for what people on the endo community go through.’

The what? It’s a community? Is every disease … Read the rest

But it’s women who know that men are not women who are the source of all evil.

Utterly lunatic pic.twitter.com/V3OKG8gtLi

— Barry Wall (@HeadWarriorTWM) November 12, 2023

It’s funny though that women who are feminist and gender critical don’t say things like that. Even about a man who gloats about being made CEO of an endometriosis charity.… Read the rest

Oh yay, a new way to insult women. People are so resourceful.

Steph Richards, that is. He’s a man. Endometriosis South Coast is excited to insult women by appointing a man CEO of an endometriosis charity. I wonder how many female CEOs of testicular cancer charities there are.… Read the rest

Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on No escape for women ever.

Why are you so obsessed with hating trans people?

Who here is hating trans people? Having seen far too many linguistic word games and novel, unilateral, ideosyncratic redefinitions of basic terminolgy, you’ll have to forgive me if I don’t immediately trust your definition of “hate.” There is much questioning and criticism of gender ideology and trans activism here. This is not hatred. The actual results of acceding to the demands of trans activism have harmed women. Trans identified males remain males** for life, whatever they wear, whatever surgeries and treatments they’ve had, whatever they claim to be. It is not hateful or bigoted to say … Read the rest

Originally a comment by Bruce Gorton on The trees will speak.

Me

“falsely claiming Israel is a totally innocent, ”

Nobody has claimed that. At all. If anything this is you projecting your view of Palestine onto us.

Israel is an ethnostate, that in and of itself creates problems. Palestine would equally well be an ethnostate, just a much worse run one.

We can all rattle off issues with Israel past and present. We are well aware of the bullshit you’ve been spouting, those issues do not excuse the targeted mass rape, murder and abduction of civilians.

7 October fully justified a military response.

That means that yes, if Hamas use their civilian population as shields, a lot of … Read the rest

I saw this:

I can only applaud Primavada Gopal's extraordinary change of heart regarding free speech.

Only last year she signed an open letter to the board of Advance HE denouncing them for allowing me to speak for 15 minutes at a 1-day conference in Birmingham. https://t.co/rAbNcEkI3S https://t.co/FHkr02DzZs

— Professor Alice Sullivan (@ProfAliceS) November 9, 2023

So I decided to read the open letter to the Board of AdvanceHE. It’s what we’d expect – they always are, aren’t they.

Dear Board Members, 

As members of the higher education (HE) sector, who believe that equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) are crucial to the future of the sector, we recognise the importance of Advance HE’s work in this area. Advance HE

So Northumbria Police harassed a woman for saying men are not women, and because the police harassed her for stating an obvious banal truth, Newcastle United FC did its bit by punishing her further. Who else is going to step up? Will she be banned from the buses? Thrown out of Waitrose? Escorted out of the library?

A gender-critical Newcastle United fan says the club have suspended her membership because police investigated her for tweeting that “trans women are men”.

The cops investigate women for saying men are men, and then everyone else steps up to punish those wicked shameless whorey women who know that men are men. Welcome to the new Inquisition, so much more inclusive and diverse … Read the rest

Originally a comment by Bjarte Foshaug on No escape for women ever.

For being one of the most THE most powerless, oppressed, and persecuted group in the history of the multiverse, People of Gender sure seem to have it their way to an unusual degree.

Would Jews in Nazi Germany be be able to tell Aryans exactly what they were obligated to say unless they wanted “a formal complaint” and “a police visit?”, and would the German Police at the time be doing their bidding by showing up at the door of ordinary civilians for making non-threatening statements that some Jews might consider offensive?

Would the Taliban regime in Afghanistan – or anywhere else for that matter – have … Read the rest

What could possibly go wrong?

pic.twitter.com/KwvaVTTtWr

— Maya Forstater (@MForstater) November 11, 2023

Local governments should be asserting, unequivocally, that men are women.… Read the rest

I still have trouble believing this happened.

Here is the condensed version of the police interview. The woman – a lesbian, terrified by @NPNland – had the presence of mind to go No Comment. The police stated her tweets were contrary to the Malicious Communications Act and threatened her with arrest if she declined to attend…

— WeAreFairCop (@WeAreFairCop) November 11, 2023

So do you use the social media platform X? Why do you use social media? How often do you tweet?

You use ‘He/The’ in your bio. What did you mean by this?

This says ‘Just your daily reminder that trans women are men.’ What did you mean by this? Do you think this could be seen as offensive

The quandary of how much tolerance we can tolerate never ends.

In a free society we are meant to tolerate the intolerant. But there is a point when appeasing intolerance becomes a death wish.

The paradox, and the extremes, of our tolerance for the intolerant came to life in Bankstown’s Al Madina Dawah Centre last week when Muslim cleric Abu Ousayd delivered a sermon about killing Jews.

Ousayd is his new name. This man is better known as jihadi preacher Wissam Haddad, who previously has expressed support for terrorist groups Islamic State and al-Qa’ida.

Haddad cited Islamic scripture and parables about “the end of times” when Muslims would be fighting Jews and “the trees will speak”. “They will say ‘oh

Great god almighty. Unreal.

1. Yesterday, a lesbian woman was interviewed under caution by @northumbriapol for saying Trans Women are men. They interviewed her despite a warning from Fair Cop to leave her alone. This is the transcript. @SuellaBraverman @SpeechUnion

Read it all. It is terrifying. pic.twitter.com/xj1AnHuQNW

— WeAreFairCop (@WeAreFairCop) November 11, 2023

WeAreFairCop is livid, and rightly so.

6. The Chief Constable is @CCJardineNP. She is a leading advocate for the LGBT Police Network. This is her when she was radicalising West Yorkshire. pic.twitter.com/kfLPgF9GXT

— WeAreFairCop (@WeAreFairCop) November 11, 2023

… Read the rest

Sastra reminded us today of Freddie deBoer and I’m wondering why I haven’t been reading him all along. From August: Prologue to an Anti-Therapeutic, Anti-Affirmation Movement. I like it already – I’m beyond tired of the constant demands for “affirmation” of utter bullshit.

Dude has a way with words.

It frequently seems like canceling has run out of steam, as a disciplinary tactic; you watch people on social media trying to get somebody canceled, these days, and it sometimes feels like watching them trying and failing to get a pull-cord lawnmower started.

I need to watch the people he’s watching, because the ones I see have all too much success – but I love the punchline.

I’m not predicting

Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on About that capacity to persevere.

Perhaps Museum London is preparing her for the next round of this exhibition by giving Hutchison further opportunities to “persevere through all kinds of different challenges.” Being cancelled is just another “different challenge.”

And as for any trans participation in this event, surely there’s no greater challenge than standing up against what is possible in the realm of material reality. A man claiming he’s a woman demonstrates a Sisyphean resilience in the face of the permanently unattainable. Or to throw in another classical allusion of perpetual torment, being constantly misgendered is just like the punishment of Prometheus, having his ever-regrowing liver eaten anew each day … Read the rest