Giant brain on that Willz.
https://twitter.com/IndiaWilloughby/status/1603495827237998592Is that right? So no films about the January 6 mob? No films about the Proud Boys? No films about incels? No films about abusers in police departments? No films about any set of people unless there are at least 4 billion of them?
Who made that rule? Why have there been no films about it?… Read the rest
Not that Willoughby has a stereotyped idea of what women are and do and like, no no no not at all, he understands women better than women do.
https://twitter.com/Phoebe2403/status/1603365032426971138Spend some time with her doing the things girlz do teeheeheeheeheehee… Read the rest
Some deep breaths taken; back to Futrelle.
Rowling came up with the idea for Beira’s Place, she told anti-trans feminist Suzanne Moore, in what can only be described as a fit of pique caused by remarks from Mridul Wadhwa, the trans woman in charge of Edinburgh’s Rape Crisis centre.
Wadhwa had said that transphobic clients of the centre would have their bigotry challenged.
Futrelle simply assumes that the clients in question are “transphobic” and that their awareness that men are men is “bigotry” and thus he implies that Wadhwa was right and virtuous in promising to bully women who need rape crisis services for knowing that men are men.
… Read the restWadhwa also said it was possible to “reframe” one’s relationship
I keep hearing distant reports of how thoroughly David Futrelle has gone pro-trans-dogma and anti-feminist-disbelief, so I decided to take a look at the current iteration. It’s thoroughly gone.
Author and anti-trans activist JK Rowling has announced she is launching a crisis center for female victims of rape and sexual abuse. The catch? Beira’s Place, as the center is called, won’t allow trans women to use its services.
That’s not “the catch.” What a ridiculous claim. He said it himself – she’s launching a crisis center for female people. Of course that means it won’t “allow” men to use its services: its services are not for men. It says so right on the tin; Futrelle said so himself when … Read the rest
Roger Pielke’s claim to fame is as a Climate SkepticTM.
For those wondering why Roger Pielke Jr is the go-to witness for the Republicans at nearly ever congressional hearing on climate change.
A denialist w/ a veneer of academic credibility–invaluable to the forces of climate inaction… https://t.co/C3NTqwTnq0
— Prof Michael E. Mann (@MichaelEMann) December 5, 2021
But now he’s deploying his skepticism on a different subject – the crazy wacky delusional idea that men are not women.
… Read the restThe phrase MALE ADVANTAGE is a dog whistle (maybe even a human whistle) that says
These folks are MALES
And this a denial of the reality of transgender people
It is hard bigotry, often dressed up in a thin veneer of
… Read the restIran was ousted from a United Nations women’s group on Wednesday for policies contrary to the rights of women and girls, a move proposed by the United States after Tehran’s crackdown on protests over the death of a young woman in custody.
The 54-member U.N. Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) adopted a U.S.-drafted resolution to “remove with immediate effect the Islamic Republic of Iran from the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) for the remainder of its 2022-2026 term.”
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“This is a victory for Iranian revolutionaries who have been facing guns & bullets as they fight this gender apartheid state,” U.S.-based Iranian journalist and women’s rights activist Masih Alinejad posted on Twitter.
Iran’s clerical
The confusion is everywhere.
That's a broad hint that the people you're scolding are genocidal. The normal phrasing would be "If you don’t think trans women should BE in the same space as women" – changing "be" to "exist" is slyly manipulative. So typical of the rhetoric of this "activism."
— Ophelia Benson (@OpheliaBenson) December 14, 2022
https://twitter.com/Writerer/status/1603156297712603139
All of that is wrong. Not a little, not half, not most of it, but all.
Of course trans people’s access to private spaces is restricted; so is mine, so is everyone’s. That’s what “private” means.
Access to some public spaces is also restricted. Many public spaces are for specific sets of people…like public toilets for instance. Most areas in … Read the rest
And they’ve won.
For now.
Note the shouts of laughter as Mister Man says “azza trans woman“…
So they’ve won. Robyn Woof, a self identified trans woman and Trans Liberation Officer has stopped women from watching Adult Human Female. Scotland 2022. Thanks @NicolaSturgeon pic.twitter.com/mFEOnxB2uv
— Susan Dalgety (@DalgetySusan) December 14, 2022
Only for now though.
This film will be shown says the amazing Shereen Benjamin – not tonight but soon #WomenWontWeesht pic.twitter.com/iXK4J613sH
— Susan Dalgety (@DalgetySusan) December 14, 2022
#WomenWontWheesht pic.twitter.com/MiCNnQw82O
— Susan Dalgety (@DalgetySusan) December 14, 2022
So, of course, some students full of holy zeal went along to close the film down.
The police are here now. pic.twitter.com/UXcxljiTBO
— Lisa Mackenzie (@lnmackenzie1) December 14, 2022
We moved venues in an effort to see Adult Human Female and guess what. A group of students are stopping us from going into the theatre. So much for free speech in the home of enlightenment # pic.twitter.com/advJGOUKC0
— Susan Dalgety (@DalgetySusan) December 14, 2022
It depends on how you define “definition”…
The Cambridge Dictionary has updated its definition of “woman” to include anyone who “identifies as female” regardless of their sex at birth.
If you mean some people use the word to mean anyone who identifies as, then that’s what the CD has done. If you mean the actual, generally understood, longstanding, literal definition of the word, then the update is absurd and an insult to almost everyone.
Funny thing: the more “inclusive” you make your definitions, the less useful they are. The more you broaden them to take in the huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the less they mean anything. If you “update” the definition of women to include men then … Read the rest
Oh oh oh, what an outrage, a horror film called Adult Human Female has not been banned from the University of Edinburgh.
A screening of the film Adult Human Female is scheduled to occur in a lecture hall on the university’s George Square campus on Wednesday, hosted by the University of Edinburgh Academics for Academic Freedom group.
However the Edinburgh branch of the University and College Union (UCU) wrote to the university’s principal, Peter Mathieson, and called for the screening to be cancelled over concerns it contained content that was “a clear attack on trans people’s identities.”
What is an attack on a set of people’s identities? What does that mean? People have gotten so settled into the jargon … Read the rest
Genevieve Gluck at Reduxx on another comrade:
… Read the restA woman in Norway is facing criminal charges and a possible prison sentence of up to three years for stating that men can not be lesbians. Tonje Gjevjon, a lesbian artist, was notified on November 17 that she was under police investigation for hate speech over a statement she posted to Facebook.
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“It’s just as impossible for men to become lesbian as it is for men to become pregnant,” Gjevjon wrote, “Men are men regardless of their sexual fetishes.”
Gjevjon particularly singled-out the actions of prominent Norwegian trans activist, Christine Jentoft – a man who claims to be a lesbian mother, and who currently serves as a representative for the
Originally a comment by latsot at Miscellany Room.
I forgot to mention that the book Transpositions, compiled by Sarah Phillimore and Al Peters (moley) is available on Amazon.
It’s a collection of people’s peaking stories. I have the Kindle version, but I’d recommend the paperback, it’s one of those books that’s good to flick through. Some of the stories are heartbreaking.
I went to the book launch event, which was some high quality TERFing. As you might have heard, Sarah advertised it on EventBrite who pulled the event for “Hateful, Dangerous, or Violent Content.” Then the venue contacted her to ask her not to mention the venue online because they were afraid of violence. In the end, there … Read the rest
Joan Smith on that ridiculous (and insulting) ruling:
“Sex is not limited to biological or birth sex,” according to one of [Scotland’s] most senior judges.
Yes, you did read that right. We are plunging ever deeper into la-la land, where sex is no longer determined by boring old things like biology or physical characteristics. It can be changed by a piece of paper, known as a gender recognition certificate (GRC), with unpredictable consequences for women-only services such as the new sexual violence service set up by JK Rowling in Edinburgh.
Usually the law has no truck with la-la land. It can’t afford to. We can’t afford it to.
… Read the restThe decision explodes the argument by Nicola Sturgeon’s government that its
A court rules that men can be women.
A court has thrown out a challenge against the Scottish government’s definition of a woman in law.
Even governments can’t make lies true. Even courts can’t make a lie the truth. They can pass laws, they can issue rulings, but they can’t just waves their hands and make nonsense The Truth.
The For Women Scotland group complained about the way a bill aimed at gender balance on boards had included trans people under the definition of women.
Imagine if it were about British boards and a bill aimed at national balance, but England insisted that English people who identify as Scots are Scots despite having zero evidence of any Scottish ancestry. … Read the rest
And in come the sneery “wtf is her problem” think-pieces on JK Rowling’s astounding baffling incomprehensible move to open a women’s space in Edinburgh. Why would she do such a thing??? A smug young guy called Ryan Coogan wonders for the Independent:
… Read the rest…up until about a year ago, I held out hope that Rowling was somehow misunderstood or that I just “read her out of context”, as her defenders keep insisting. But I’ve given her the benefit of the doubt, and I’ve seen the context, and if anything it just makes things worse as time goes on. It’s a shame, because she gave me a lot of great memories as a kid, but for me at least, a
TransLucent has me blocked of course but I’m sampling its tweets anyway. Have a nice sample of the intellectual quality:
Cisgender.
The definition is in the dictionary. @murdo_fraser https://t.co/ybl7MFdfgC pic.twitter.com/enb7YEaxRw— www.TransLucent.Org.UK (@TransLucent_Org) December 12, 2022
A peach, isn’t it? Murdo Fraser notes that many women find the neologism “cisgender” offensive and demeaning, and genius answers that it’s in the dictionary. Guess what!! Lots of offensive and demeaning words are in the dictionary! The fact that they’re in the dictionary doesn’t make them not offensive and demeaning. The dictionary isn’t a private exclusive club that rejects words that don’t wear the right clothes; that’s not the purpose or job of the dictionary. Also there is no “the dictionary”; there are … Read the rest
There’s something called TransLucent, which used to be called Steph’s Place, which was a website that did (crude) public relations for trans people, mostly (of course) the male ones. The Steph’s Place About Us page is…well let’s just say it’s hard to tell it’s not a parody. Anyway now it has a more spiritchuwal name, and an apology tweet.
Apology. pic.twitter.com/8KNwbWKalb
— www.TransLucent.Org.UK (@TransLucent_Org) December 13, 2022
The writing is even worse than the writing at good old Steph’s Place. We get some of the drift, I think – they claimed to have an article about being trans as a biological condition, and now say they’re not publishing this important article because um er um. What’s not clear is whether … Read the rest
Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on He was made to feel uncomfortable.
Anyway, we don’t know what was actually said at that party, and it’s entirely possible that something transphobic or otherwise shitty was said. But I am not inclined to take that assertion at face value, especially given the lack of specifics.
I wonder what this “transphobia” consisted of. They never say.
Failure to affirm the lie demanded of those around him? Disagreement on what constitutes a “transphobic issue?” More likely a case of perceived lèse-majesté than anything actually “phobic.” Refusal to bow down and kiss the ring. Their feelings of discomfort are always entirely justified and sacrosanct. But what of the feelings of everyone … Read the rest
