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Facebook, the platform that prevented people from putting the Women's Place website address in posts due to concerns over 'users' safety', is currently running an advert for clothing that promotes the killing of people who do not believe men are women https://t.co/n7EsJocFZ0 pic.twitter.com/isyY6G8Vop
— ripx4nutmeg (@ripx4nutmeg) March 22, 2021
It’s true, the page exists.… Read the rest
How interesting, another example of “No reasonable person would believe this/don’t take what we say seriously” from people committing public crimes against the public.
… Read the restA senior Saudi official issued what was perceived to be a death threat against the independent United Nations investigator, Agnès Callamard, after her investigation into the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
In an interview with the Guardian, the outgoing special rapporteur for extrajudicial killings said that a UN colleague alerted her in January 2020 that a senior Saudi official had twice threatened in a meeting with other senior UN officials in Geneva that month to have Callamard “taken care of” if she was not reined in by the UN.
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The Guardian independently
Ah so that’s how they’re going to play it – the “nobody could be stupid enough to believe the lies we told” defense. Bold move.
A key member of the legal team that sought to steal the 2020 election for Donald Trump is defending herself against a billion-dollar defamation lawsuit by arguing that “no reasonable person” could have mistaken her wild claims about election fraud last November as statements of fact.
What were they statements of then? Not fact but…? Fill in the blank [______].
… Read the restIn a motion to dismiss a complaint by the large US-based voting machine company Dominion, lawyers for Sidney Powell argued that elaborate conspiracies she laid out on television and radio last November while simultaneously
Interesting.
I suspect part of the reason trans issues have taken up such space in the Discourse is that LBGTQ orgs pivoted to trans issues after the legalization of gay marriage in 2015, and the media/culture followed suit. Definitely seems to be the case with HRC. https://t.co/6vKHa43oK6 pic.twitter.com/W60765iv1k
— Katie Herzog (@kittypurrzog) March 21, 2021
Charts by Oxford sociologist Michael Biggs
— Katie Herzog (@kittypurrzog) March 21, 2021
The lesbian share is tiny now in both charts.
2015 is the year I gave up trying to be quiet.… Read the rest
Seth Abramson says enough with the low-rank insurrectionists, what about the people with real power?
… Read the restThus far, over 320 Trumpists have been arrested for their actions on January 6, 2021, and the DOJ says that more than 100 additional arrests are coming. But what many of us are most anxiously awaiting is not more arrests of lower-middle-class and middle-class Donald Trump supporters—though the massive video archive published by ProPublica confirms that many of these richly deserve indictment and incarceration—but rather the as-yet unaccountable elites who orchestrated the events of January 6.
For instance, we’ve yet to see what sort of accountability, legal or professional, awaits politicians like Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL), Rep.
It’s always always always about…not-you-but-me. Always about yes yes you have needs too, of course I get that, but
me me me me me me me me
https://twitter.com/KatyMontgomerie/status/1372940871944011778Man tells woman “Yeah sad about your miscarriage but you still have to let me join you in the toilets.”
https://twitter.com/NehandaMusic/status/1373027618652569609… Read the restGLAAD has a list of the damned, which it laughably calls its “Accountability Project.”
… Read the restThe GLAAD Accountability Project catalogs anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and discriminatory actions of politicians, commentators, organization heads, religious leaders, and legal figures who have used their platforms, influence and power to spread misinformation and harm LGBTQ people.
The Project reveals these individuals’ own words and actions, to help all Americans evaluate whether to vote for them, or quote them, or support their point of view. As journalists, newsrooms and platforms write stories or book guests for interviews and segments, they can check the record, add context to stories, or help decide whether a person with this history should continue to be given unchallenged air time or ink.
On a less inflammatory subject – drone flies all but into an erupting volcano.
Seems like my video went full throttle! More on my YouTube channel pic.twitter.com/RzrRniXxPu
— Bjorn Steinbekk (@BSteinbekk) March 22, 2021
The ACLU yet again.
But at least some of that legislation, and perhaps all, is not “anti-trans” or criminalization, it’s just codification of the formerly well understood principle that boys can’t play on girls’ athletic teams.
The problem is built in: the special favors being demanded by trans “activists” are so damaging to female people that it wouldn’t work to state them clearly, so the ACLU has to screen them with layer upon layer of inaccurate description. It’s a pretty disgusting practice for what used to be a respected civil rights organization.
The link takes us to an appeal from last month full of the usual obfuscation:
… Read the restTransgender athletes want to participate in school sports for the same reason as
Next weekend, a free screening of
wait for it
The Transvagina Diaries.
Yay! Nothing I want more than to watch a movie about homemade vaginas.
Isn’t that sweet, it’s “presented for National Women’s History Month – the story of men with fake vaginas. What’s that got to do with Women’s History Month? Well, not a god damn thing, but that’s the bliss of it. There is nothing more affirming than taking something meant for women and handing it over to men instead.… Read the rest
But it’s the holy holiday of Spring Break. You can’t expect people to obey rules about not spreading a lethal disease during Spring Break. That would be outright fascism, and also infallible proof of a Personality Disorder.
A state of emergency has been declared in the US city of Miami Beach over concerns large crowds gathering for spring break pose a coronavirus risk.
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Miami Beach Mayor Dan Gelber said thousands of tourists had brought “chaos and disorder” to the city.
“It feels like a rock concert, wall-to-wall people over blocks and blocks,” Mr Gelber told CNN. “If you’re coming here to go crazy, go somewhere else.”
No because this is the beach. It’s a human right to … Read the rest
This kind of thing is why the trans ideology is convincing to so many.
As a fashion-obsessed teenager, I dreamed of working for Vogue. What girl didn’t?
The girl who doesn’t give a shit about fashion and has other things to dream of, that’s what girl didn’t. My guess is there are more than two or three of them. Fashion really isn’t so enthralling that half the population dreams of spending her working life thinking about it.
… Read the restThis was in the 2000s, and smartphones weren’t everywhere yet, so we’d leaf through the latest copy hungrily at the back of the class. I loved the pictures, the clothes, even the adverts. But most of all I loved the masthead and
Catherine Bennett isn’t in the mood to be told to calm down.
… Read the restLess than a day separated the arrest of a serving Metropolitan police officer on suspicion of Sarah Everard’s murder from the first suggestions that women calm down and put it in perspective…
A professor of criminology, Marian FitzGerald, thought it important to tell other women – twice – on the BBC, not to get “hysterical”. She was being interviewed by a senior man in an organisation which has evidently shared her reservations about women’s fallibility – were they worthy, even, of being paid the same as men? – and it duly went unchallenged.
The message, that women’s difficulties with the status quo can be just as troublesome
Sweet.
A man confidently compares JK Rowling, and women who disagree with gender ideology about the nature of our own reality, to piles of discarded dirt.
This movement allows for the celebration of blatant misogyny. pic.twitter.com/YPyfylGV5j
— Genevieve Gluck (@WomenReadWomen) March 21, 2021
Updating to add James Dreyfus’s parody.
— James Dreyfus (@DreyfusJames) March 21, 2021
Fair Play for Women explains to the bosses what Stonewall really is:
Dear leaders of public sector organisations,
You think you are doing the right thing, appointing so-called LGBT representatives and inviting Stonewall, Gendered Intelligence and the like to write policy for you. It’s time to open your eyes. Your own people are doing the work of transactivists and you’ll be the one left carrying the can.
Because the problem is L and G and B are nowhere and it’s all about the T.
… Read the restStonewall is considered wrongly an expert rather than a lobby group with its own priorities and objectives
It’s an easy mistake to make. You need a transgender policy so you task your transgender equality manager to
No, see, this is one reason I won’t just close my eyes and “be kind.”
https://twitter.com/KatyMontgomerie/status/1373324737049468938No. “Birth sex” and “actual sex” are not opposite, they’re the same thing, which can most easily be named with simply “sex.” Your sex is your sex is your sex. You can’t change it, any more than you can change your species. Some things you can change, some you can’t. Deal with it.
It’s not “ideology” to refuse to pretend that sex is optional and switchable. What’s ideology is to make up a whole new pretend-science in which sex is as optional and switchable as what shirt you put on.
It’s pretty rich for the bossy bratty ideologues of the trans religion to accuse … Read the rest
Some people lie for Jesus, other people lie for boys can be girls.
On a human level. We are talking about punishing kids for being who they are. Taking away the outlets and joys available to their peers. On this @chrislhayes segment, you can see a father plead with lawmakers to let his kid live. https://t.co/L1IeRc0j0u
— Chase Strangio (@chasestrangio) March 19, 2021
No, that’s not what we’re talking about. It’s not “punishing” boys to say they can’t play on the girls’ teams, any more than it’s “punishing” boys to say they can’t punch girls in the face. They still have the outlets and joys available to their peers – including playing mixed-sex sports when that’s available.
The father on … Read the rest
A long thread by Steve Moses on joining the Green Party in 2009, and feeling confident that the Greens were on the right side of issues involving women and “the gay community” and that he could focus on issues he knew more about…until…
Climate change, nuclear power and weapons, air pollution, fracking, etc.
But then I became aware of the debate that labelled feminist as Terfs, branded life long women’s rights activist as bigoted, and language that reflected reality as hate speech.— Steve Moses (@laplandlongspur) March 19, 2021
… Read the restIt was coming from within the GP, from some of those I had trusted to protect the rights of women. What was going on? I had to find out for myself.
Rebecca Solnit on the habit of blaming women for “tempting” men:
The alleged murderer of eight people, six of whom were Asian American women, reportedly said that he was trying to “eliminate temptation”. It’s as if he thought others were responsible for his inner life, as though the horrific act of taking others’ lives rather than learning some form of self-control was appropriate. This aspect of a crime that was also horrifically racist reflects a culture in which men and the society at large blame women for men’s behavior and the things men do to women.
See, it’s superficial to think men are responsible for the things they do to women. You have to dig below the surface to discover … Read the rest
… Read the restFour men described as leaders of the far-right Proud Boys group have been charged in the US Capitol riot, as an indictment ordered unsealed on Friday presents fresh evidence of how federal officials believe members planned and carried out a coordinated attack to stop Congress certifying Joe Biden’s electoral victory.
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The latest indictment suggests the Proud Boys deployed a much larger contingent in Washington, with more than 60 users “participating in” an encrypted messaging channel for group members created a day before.
The Proud Boys abandoned an earlier channel and created the new Boots on the Ground channel after police arrested the group’s leader, Enrique Tarrio, in Washington. Tarrio was arrested on 4 January and charged
