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Jul 29th, 2025 9:40 am |
By Ophelia Benson
Reduxx tells us:
A widely circulated video showcasing a gay couple’s “surrogacy journey” has revealed that a baby boy is currently in the custody of a registered child sex offender. The couple, Logan Riley and Brandon Mitchell, gained viral attention after posting a video introducing their newborn son. It has since emerged that Mitchell is a convicted pedophile.
Guess what. Surrogacy=anyone can get possession of a baby, no questions asked.
I hadn’t really understood that before. It’s not like adoption. There is no screening process.
The video, which was initially shared by the couple on their own social media platforms, was meant to offer a heartwarming glimpse into the first year of their newborn’s life. However, it quickly drew
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Jul 29th, 2025 9:15 am |
By Ophelia Benson
The cops raped the rape victims.
Five women who were exploited by grooming gangs in Rotherham as children say they were also abused [by] police officers in the town at the time.
One says she was raped from the age of 12 by a serving South Yorkshire Police (SYP) officer in a marked police car. He would threaten to hand her back to the gang if she did not comply, she says.
If only she had thought to idennify as a man.
We have seen written accounts from these women, plus testimony from 25 other victims of grooming gangs, with some of them saying that corrupt police officers worked alongside the gangs or failed to act on child sexual
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Jul 28th, 2025 8:15 am |
By Ophelia Benson
Trump is really really pissed off at wind. Yes, wind. He thinks wind is a great big loser. He thinks wind orders the filet mignon and then won’t pick up the tab.
Trump spent part of his weekend in Scotland reviving his old grievances against wind power, even claiming at one point that it was “killing” Americans.
During a meeting with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Trump abruptly detoured from immigration to wind turbines. “And the other thing I say to Europe: We will not allow a windmill to be built in the United States,” Trump said. “They’re killing us.”
Also, besides, in addition, we refuse to drink Dubonnet.
He complained that wind turbines “rust
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Jul 28th, 2025 7:02 am |
By Ophelia Benson
In the theocracy section of the job ads:
A job advert for a role in a sharia court posted on a government website has caused major controversy, with critics saying it promotes a separate Islamic legal system in the UK.
Well yes, separate and Islamic, but more to the point, women-hating and theocratic. It wouldn’t be nearly so alarming and disgusting if, say, a job advert for a role in a Quaker organization were posted on a government website.
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Jul 27th, 2025 4:10 pm |
By Ophelia Benson
The left hates women and the right hates women. Sucks to be us.
Darts drama as three protestors dragged away during World Matchplay match involving transgender player
Yebbut what kind of “transgender player”? Even GB News won’t say it’s a man cheating women. Instead it sneers at the women who objected.
Three individuals from the “Save Women’s Sport” campaign protested at the Winter Gardens during Noa-Lynn van Leuven’s quarter-final darts match at the Women’s World Matchplay on Sunday. The demonstrators, dressed in shirts bearing messages opposing the 28-year-old’s involvement, made their feelings clear as the Dutch competitor prepared to face Lorraine Winstanley.
The protest occurred as van Leuven appeared at the Blackpool venue for the third time.
Security staff
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Jul 27th, 2025 10:17 am |
By Ophelia Benson
The union idennifies as a union but it doesn’t protect the workers the way unions are supposed to do.
https://twitter.com/VioletWhiteG/status/1949399497236226092
It doesn’t come right out and
say our support is for team trans only, but the mawkish wording is all too typical of that particular brand of “support.” The right-thinking people these days see trans people as needing endless declarations of love and support and sympathy and more love, while they see women who know men are not women as The Evil Other needing nothing but rebuke and punishment. I wouldn’t be in a hurry to “share my thoughts” with them.…
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Jul 27th, 2025 8:23 am |
By Ophelia Benson
NPR has further details on the updated Statue of Liberty.
Artist Amy Sherald is canceling an upcoming show of her work at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery. Sherald’s boldly colored portraits documenting the African American experience have graced magazine covers.
She is best known for her painting of Michelle Obama commissioned by the museum.
Amy Sherald: American Sublime was scheduled to be on view at the National Portrait Gallery for five months beginning Sept. 19. Described as “the largest, most comprehensive exhibition of the artist’s work to date,” the exhibition was organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, or SFMOMA, and is currently at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.
Sherald is canceling the show
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Jul 27th, 2025 7:59 am |
By Ophelia Benson
Originally a comment by What a Maroon at Miscellany Room.
Sometimes it’s hard to know whose metaphorical bed to jump into. On the one hand, Amy Sherald, the celebrated painter best known for her official portrait of Michelle Obama, has canceled an upcoming exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, citing concerns that the museum might remove an artwork that could further provoke the Trump administration as it seeks to exert control over the Smithsonian Institution.
Sherald and a Smithsonian spokesperson Thursday confirmed that Sherald had withdrawn her exhibition, “American Sublime,” from the museum.
The artist said she had been told that the museum — whose director, Kim Sajet, resigned after President Donald Trump called for her ouster for
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Jul 27th, 2025 4:15 am |
By Ophelia Benson
It just keeps getting worse. This one takes the breath away. Daniel Sanderson in The Times:
One of Sandie Peggie’s bosses wanted her to be reported to police for confronting a transgender doctor in a hospital’s female changing rooms.
A male doctor, god damn it. The problem was not “transgender”; the problem was male. Peggie did not want to have to take her clothes off in front of a man.
So anyway – for the crime of not wanting to undress in front of a man, one of Peggie’s bosses thought the police should be called. Not to arrest the man spying on the woman, of course, but to arrest the woman telling the man to get … Read the rest
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Jul 27th, 2025 3:09 am |
By Ophelia Benson
Hunnnnnnnnnh
Do you accept that calling this man a man is likely to cause immense distress?
No, I fucking do not. I think it causes him irritation and vanity-bruising at worst, and more likely a nice little thrill of righteous indignation. Meanwhile, do you accept that bullying women into agreeing with a man who says he’s a woman is harmful to women in general? Because that’s a far less fanciful petulant self-involved claim than his claim of “immense distress”?
I mean come on. He’s an adult. He’s a doctor. Surely he’s expected to have enough resilience and … Read the rest
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Jul 26th, 2025 4:46 pm |
By Ophelia Benson
One minute I compare trans ideology and its coerced beliefs racket to the Catholic church and its coerced belief racket, and the next minute I drop in on twitX and find
WE ARE NOT COMPELLED TO BELIEVE IN THE GODS OF OTHERS.
Those days are over. Our ancestors were so compelled, but we are not. You are not the pope … Read the rest
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Jul 26th, 2025 4:31 pm |
By Ophelia Benson
Yes! Agreed! It’s a religion! And you can’t force us to join or endorse your religion! Those days are over! At least outside the Ummah they are. I don’t believe in your religion, I think it’s harmful and bad and stupid, now go away.
Also, of course, it’s an idiotic analogy. Mr Pope is one guy, the monarch of one religion. We’re free to ignore him and his religion. Even his neighbors in Rome are free to ignore him. That hasn’t always been true but it sure as hell is now. The Catholic church is a horrific institution and it still has its claws in … Read the rest
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Jul 26th, 2025 11:45 am |
By Ophelia Benson
The Daily Mirror:
OAP wife who repeatedly slashed husband with Samurai sword ‘had no choice’
Joanna Rowland-Stuart, 71, repeated slashed husband Andrew, 69, to death with the Samuari sword she’d bought in the 1980s at their 15th floor Brighton flat.
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Joanna Rowland-Stuart, 71, had been deemed “unfit to plead” to the murder of her husband Andrew, 69, in their 15th-floor flat in Brighton, on May 27 last year. She appeared in front of a jury at Lewes Crown Court for a trial of the act which decides if someone physically committed a crime, rather than their intent.
The BBC:
Transgender woman, 71, killed partner, jury finds
A jury has found that a transgender woman killed her partner.
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Jul 26th, 2025 10:29 am |
By Ophelia Benson
This is a very very very important point.
You have to have a degree in Bullshit Studies before you can say that Bullshit Studies is bullshit.
Nah. An ideology whose foundation is an absurd lie can be tossed in the Bullshit Bin without further ado.… Read the rest
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Jul 26th, 2025 9:20 am |
By Ophelia Benson
Helen Webberley is letting us know how much contempt she has for women.
https://twitter.com/HelenWebberley/status/1949008949908246567
I tell you what, I wouldn’t want to be alone in a room with her. That’s some scary ragey contempt right there.… Read the rest
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Jul 25th, 2025 4:13 pm |
By Ophelia Benson
The Scotsman:
A war of words over pronouns broke out at the ongoing employment tribunal between nurse Sandie Peggie and trans doctor Beth Upton.
That is, male doctor “Beth” Upton who identifies as female. The journalistic surrender makes it impossible for reporters to write clearly and truthfully about this subject.
Ms Peggie’s lawyer Naomi Cunningham was accused by NHS Fife’s legal team of being “offensive” by referring to Dr Upton as a man and told she must use “appropriate language”.
But the fact that he is a man playacting being a woman is at the core of the whole tribunal. It’s just ludicrous to try to force opposing counsel to prop up the very lie that the tribunal is … Read the rest
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