The rest of that story. (I got too exasperated to do it all in one bite.)

Anti-bias training began in earnest in the fall. Ms. Blair and other cafeteria and grounds workers found themselves being asked by consultants hired by Smith about their childhood and family assumptions about race, which many viewed as psychologically intrusive. Ms. Blair recalled growing silent and wanting to crawl inside herself.

The faculty are not required to undergo such training.

Ah so it’s only the peons who have to be brainwashed reeducated trained.

The janitor who called campus security quietly returned to work after three months of paid leave and declined to be interviewed. The other janitor, Mr. Patenaude, who was not working at

Another battlefront in the Woke Wars:

In midsummer of 2018, Oumou Kanoute, a Black student at Smith College, recounted a distressing American tale: She was eating lunch in a dorm lounge when a janitor and a campus police officer walked over and asked her what she was doing there.

Kanoute was upset and angry, and posted about it on Facebook.

The college’s president, Kathleen McCartney, offered profuse apologies and put the janitor on paid leave. “This painful incident reminds us of the ongoing legacy of racism and bias,” the president wrote, “in which people of color are targeted while simply going about the business of their ordinary lives.”

The Times, the Post, and CNN picked up the story, and … Read the rest

This guy is very hostile to women.

I'm sorry if Allison Bailey doesn't like being told that the logical consequence both of the policies she advocates by signing the Women's Declaration of Sex-Based Rights and the fascism that her culture war views enable is that a lot of people die.

But these are serious times.

— Roz Kaveney (@RozKaveney) February 24, 2021

It is of course in no way “a logical consequence” of Allison Bailey’s view that humans can’t change sex that “a lot of people die.” All people die, and Allison Bailey’s entirely familiar and everyday view that men are not women isn’t going to hasten that (also familiar and everyday and biological reality-based) fact.

Allison may not like

Now some people find this hurts their ears, but it makes me laugh too hard to notice. The girl is only fair but the dog is BRILLIANT.… Read the rest

First it’s the pretend-police, now it’s the NHS.

Today, we’re focusing on misgendering, which is one of the most common unintentional blunders made by cisgender people. Why not try adding your pronouns to your email signature, which provides clarity and encourages others to do the same #LGBTHM21 pic.twitter.com/nsTP871iQB

— NHS England Workforce, Training and Education (@NHSE_WTE) February 23, 2021

Why not try fucking right off.

To elaborate a little, because there is no such thing as “cisgender people” and because all this noise about “misgendering” and “your pronouns” is just a way to force us to pay more and more and more attention to a tiny set of people who want all the attention in the universe and beyond. That’s … Read the rest

If there’s anything movie stars should not be doing, it’s giving medical advice on Covid. Naturally that’s exactly what Gwyneth Paltrow is doing.

Paltrow recently wrote on her blog that contracting Covid-19 had left her with “some long-tail fatigue and brain fog”.

She said a “functional medicine practitioner” had recommended an “intuitive fasting” healing regime.

But NHS England’s Prof Stephen Powis said some of her methods were “really not the solutions we’d recommend”.

As part of her recovery, the Hollywood-star-turned-lifestyle-guru said she was on a mainly “keto[genic] and plant-based” diet, with no sugar or alcohol. She fasts until 11:00 every day and takes infrared saunas.

A “lifestyle guru” shouldn’t be guruing on medical subjects, especially this one.

Prof Powis,

Wtf? The BBC reports:

Amnesty International has stripped the Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny of his “prisoner of conscience” status after it says it was “bombarded” with complaints highlighting xenophobic comments that he has made in the past and not renounced.

A spokesman for the human rights organisation in Moscow told the BBC that he believed the wave of requests to “de-list” Navalny was part of an “orchestrated campaign” to discredit Vladimir Putin’s most vocal critic and “impede” Amnesty’s calls for his release from custody.

But on review, Amnesty International concluded that comments made by Navalny some 15 years ago, including a video which appears to compare immigrants to cockroaches, amounted to “hate speech” which was incompatible with the

Oh boy, a game. The NY Times has a what dialect are you game, not paywalled. I got New York, which is dead-on in a way, since I grew up in Princeton, but I thought some of my answers were probably because my parents were from Iowa and Missouri, and some might have been because I’ve lived in Seattle since Charles I became king…but nope.

To be more precise, I got New York, Yonkers, and Baltimore. Yonkers??? I’ve never even been there apart from passing through, and the same goes for Baltimore. Plus Yonkers has a dialect different from New York? A bit puzzling but no matter, it’s interesting.… Read the rest

Now the UK police are not just shouting at us about the “rights” of trans women, they’re also threatening us if we talk back.

The police are doing this.

The police are telling women we have to let men who say they are women into our sports, and they are reporting us if we say that’s an injustice.

The police are taunting women over the loss of their rights and then punishing us when we talk back.

The police are doing this.… Read the rest

But…it’s the Ministerial and other Maternity Allowances Bill. It’s a bill about maternity. What can it possibly have to do with men who call themselves women? Men can call themselves women until they run out of breath but it will never make them able to get pregnant. Why is a man talking about a maternity bill in terms of “defamation” of trans women? … Read the rest

Naomi Wolf has been reckless with other people’s lives before. Back in 2014 she was peddling conspiracy theories about the ISIS beheadings of journalists and others.

Author and former Democratic political consultant Naomi Wolf published a series of Facebook posts on Saturday in which she questioned the veracity of the ISIS videos showing the murders and beheadings of two Americans and two Britons, strongly implying that the videos had been staged by the US government and that the victims and their parents were actors.

Wolf published a separate Facebook post, also on Saturday, suggesting that the US was sending troops to West Africa not to assist with Ebola treatment but to bring Ebola back to the US to justify a

Naomi Wolf is giving us the benefit of her multi-disciplinary expertise again.

How can you describe people as not yet "immunized" if they don't get the vaccine? They are "immunized". They have an "immune system." It's VERY tendentious, inaccurate language.

— Dr Naomi Wolf (@naomirwolf) February 23, 2021

No it isn’t. We know people have immune systems, but immune systems can’t knock out a novel virus all by themselves.

@apoorva_nyc speaking journalist to journalist, it is when you tell people on Twitter that the end goal is for "everyone" to be "vaccinated", that's where the millions in @Nytimes funding by @BillGates REALLY needs to be disclosed, ethically.

— Dr Naomi Wolf (@naomirwolf) February 23, 2021

Ah yes, the sinister … Read the rest

The landing.… Read the rest

TRANSPHOBIA DEFINITION

Transphobia describes discriminatory or prejudiced language or actions, relating to actual or perceived gender identity, including denying or refusing to accept gender identity.

So there you have it. It’s “transphobia” – which is obviously very wicked indeed – to refuse to accept the new, stupid, dishonest, fantasy-based concept of “gender identity.” We’re not allowed to go on understanding reality on this particular subject, on pain of being accused and convicted of “transphobia.”

We have to agree that men are women if they say they are – always, no matter what, with no exception, no questions allowed – on pain of shunning at best and firing at worst.

We have to accept the new ideology no matter … Read the rest

Oh it’s a syndrome now is it, not a murderous hatred of women but a nice literary syndrome with the prestige of Shakespeare behind it.

A man was experiencing “Othello syndrome”, the baseless belief that his wife was having an affair, when he stabbed her to death on the grounds of a hospital in Sydney’s east, a court has heard.

That’s not a syndrome, it’s misogyny crossed with jealousy and dominance.

Mourad Kerollos is on trial by judge alone in the NSW Supreme Court accused of murdering his wife Gihan Kerollos – known as Gigi – as she left work at Prince of Wales Hospital in Randwick about 8.30pm on May 18, 2019.

…

A forensic psychiatrist, Dr Kerri Eagle,

The Guardian is underlining what a loser that guy is.

He lost the presidential election, lost more than 60 legal challenges to the result, lost his bid to overturn the electoral college, lost control of the Senate and lost an impeachment trial 43-57, though he was spared conviction on a technicality. On Monday, Trump lost yet again – with potentially far-reaching consequences.

The supreme court rejected an attempt by his lawyers to block Cyrus Vance, the Manhattan district attorney (DA) in New York, from enforcing a subpoena to obtain eight years of his personal and corporate tax records.

And why does the Manhattan DA want those tax records?

The DA has said little about why he wants Trump’s records

Woman’s Place UK has an open letter protesting the violent threat against Carmen Calvo.

WPUK has joined with 13 other organisations to call on all the major political party leaders in the UK to condemn the violent threat made against the Spanish Deputy Prime Minister, Carmen Calvo.

An effigy of Calvo was found suspended from a tree in the Plaza 8 de Marzo in Santiago de Compostela. The location is significant because of its connection with International Women’s Day. It was reported in a newspaper article that she was targeted because of her criticism of  proposed new legislation known as ‘Trans Law’.

This latest incident marks an escalation in the targeting of high-profile Spanish feminists who dare to defend

Trump is very mad about the Supreme Court ruling. He’s so mad that he put out a “statement,” as if that’s going to change anything. Nobody has to do what he says any more, so his statements are just so much hot air.

Donald Trump’s yearslong quest to prevent the public, Congress, or law-enforcement officials from seeing his tax statements came to a resounding end with a unanimous Supreme Court ruling. He did not take the defeat in stride. Instead, the former president released a statement that, even by Trumpian standards, brims with anger.

Trump’s response bears every hallmark of an authentically Trump-authored text, as opposed to the knockoff versions produced by his aides. It is meandering, filled with

This is good!

"Please will the government defend women who speak up for the protection of women's rights based on sex…they are not transphobic…and yet they do not get support from people who know that what's happening to them is wrong."
Thank you @LordPhilofBrum.https://t.co/8wFg4h5vnM

— StephanieDavies-Arai BEM (@cwknews) February 22, 2021

If you don’t have 9 minutes to spare, start at 2 minutes.

At 4 minutes he cites the work of Jane Clare Jones.… Read the rest

I can’t stop. The hilarity is too.

Yes please please please tell me I’m valid.

Everywhere I see “oh you just wanna be oppressed” when aros talk about #AromanticSpectrumAwarenessWeek and like… I just want to point out the hypocrisy of that. Aros don’t want to be oppressed; like you, they just want to exist. Telling them they don’t IS oppressive language.

— patreon.com/scretladyspider (@scretladyspider) February 22, 2021

But just wanting to exist doesn’t need a week. Presumably we all want to exist, except the suicidal among us. Or if it does need a week, it should be I Want To Exist Week.… Read the rest