Fanboy for trans ideology calls someone a “leading feminist” and I ask him what makes someone a “leading feminist.” His reply is that someone else calls her that. Not an answer to the question I asked, bro. I didn’t ask whether other people call her that, I asked what makes someone it. Those are different questions. The difference is significant. It’s a difference that matters. Labels matter; words matter; reasons for saying things matter.

It’s the kind of hackish mushmouth empty verbiage that riddles so much lazy journalism. If you mean famous, say that. If you don’t mean famous, say what you do mean. Aim for specificity. It helps.

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Susie Green says she will go right on destroying children’s lives.

An organisation led by the former chief executive of the transgender support charity Mermaids has vowed to keep on helping children get access to puberty blockers, despite a permanent UK ban.

Anne Trans Healthcare, co-founded by the former Mermaids leader Susie Green, hit out at [criticized] Labour after it was announced that the government would keep a ban on the drugs for under-18s.

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Green, 56, was dismissed as Mermaids’ chief executive in 2022 over a loss of trust in her leadership, a Charity Commission report into the organisation revealed.

The following year she set up Anne Trans Healthcare, which offers access to puberty blockers for under-18s

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Surprise surprise, it’s not just France.

Telegram ‘rape chat groups’ with up to 70,000 members uncovered

Ain’t technology great?

Thousands of men are participating in chat groups in which they share suggestions on how to rape and sexually assault women, a German investigation has revealed.

The groups, on the instant messaging service Telegram, have as many as 70,000 members who mostly communicate with one another in English and appear to come from a variety of countries.

Users claimed to have assaulted women in their household, including wives, partners, sisters and mothers, and also shared instructions with others on how to do the same.

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The BBC reports:

A 15-year-old boy has been charged after a mobile phone was discovered hidden in a girls’ toilet at a secondary school in Dundee.

The incident is understood to have come to light when a female pupil at the school discovered the device on Tuesday afternoon.

Police Scotland said the boy has been charged in connection, following a report of voyeurism.

A new Dominique Pelicot in the making.

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Masha Gessen in the NYRB November 10, 2016 on the rules of survival in an autocracy:

[Obama] added, “The point, though, is that we all go forward with a presumption of good faith in our fellow citizens, because that presumption of good faith is essential to a vibrant and functioning democracy.” As if Donald Trump had not conned his way into hours of free press coverage, as though he had released (and paid) his taxes, or not brazenly denigrated our system of government, from the courts and Congress, to the election process itself—as if, in other words, he had not won the election precisely by acting in bad faith.

Similar refrains were heard from various members of the liberal

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Good to see that the bros are learning from the Pelicot trial.

The lawyer of one of Gisele Pelicot’s rapists gets emotional outside the court, calling the female protesters “hysterical”, “foul-mouthed” and “shit”. https://t.co/FSOBK6EFOa

— Róisín Michaux (@RoisinMichaux) December 19, 2024

“I have a message on behalf of my clients, to all these hysterics, bad-mouthers: the message is: SHIT. [pause] But with a smile.” [pause] “Go, knitters!”

That last sentence is a translation of “Allez les tricoteuses!” That’s a vintage sexist insult dating back to The Revolution: it labeled women on the left who supposedly sat around knitting while heads rolled. It was not well received.

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Why women are paying attention:

As France digests the implications of its largest rape trial, which is due to end this week, it’s clear that many French women – and not just those at the courthouse in Avignon – are pondering two fundamental questions.

The first question is visceral. What might it say about French men – some would say all men – that 50 of them, in one small, rural neighbourhood, were apparently willing to accept a casual invitation to have sex with an unknown woman as she lay, unconscious, in a stranger’s bedroom?

The second question emerges from the first: how far will this trial go in helping to tackle an epidemic of sexual violence and of

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Dominique Pelicot jailed for 20 years

A French court found Dominique Pelicot guilty of repeatedly drugging and raping his then wife Gisèle for almost a decade, and inviting dozens of strangers to rape her unconscious body in a case that horrified the world.

The 72-year-old, who was married to Gisèle for 50 years, was handed the maximum 20-year prison term. He had pleaded guilty to the charges. Gisele Pelicot, who waived her right to anonymity, thanked her supporters after the verdicts and said she respected the court’s decision.

“This trial was a very difficult ordeal,” she said in her first comments at the end of the sentencing.

Yes I should think it was.

Reminder of how the rapists viewed Gisele

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Well ok then.

Stonewall ‘has got stuck in a terrible quagmire,' Stephen Fry tells Triggernometry.

‘I have no interest or support of this current wave of nonsensical… It’s shameful and sad.’

Great to hear my question asked in the subscribers-only section of @Triggerpod (clipped here). Fry’s… pic.twitter.com/qBBNgZYwAe

— Levi Pay (@soppystern) December 18, 2024

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Agghhhhh no.

A King County Metro bus driver was fatally stabbed in Seattle’s University District early Wednesday, marking the first killing of a Metro driver on the job in 26 years and the latest example of violence that at times is shaking public confidence in the regional transit system.

No no no no no. I can’t stand it. Metro drivers are heroes (both sexes). It’s a very tough job, because there’s the driving but there are also the people. I’ve witnessed countless drivers being helpful, friendly, polite, all that good dealing-with-people stuff. They have to put up with a great many passengers who don’t reciprocate, who indeed start with aggression and go on from there. They of course have … Read the rest

It’s like living under some unpleasantly powerful and vindictive medieval royalty.

Republicans seem to be very serious about sending Liz Cheney to jail.

GOP Representative Barry Loudermilk, the chairman of the House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight, released his own findings on the House January 6 select committee. The report accused former Cheney, who sat on the committee, of witness tampering, alleging that she “colluded with ‘star witness’ Cassidy Hutchinson.” Hutchinson is the former Trump White House aide turned MAGA villain after she testified before the January 6 committee on the chaos surrounding the attack on the Capitol.

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What’s the problem with this argument?

Representative Nancy Mace is proudly embracing her George Wallace moment. It’s time for dissent.

When Vivian Malone and James Hood enrolled at the University of Alabama in 1963, Governor Wallace traveled to Tuscaloosa to stand defiantly in the doorway of the Foster Auditorium. In tailored suit and tie, the white southern governor, whom Dr Martin Luther King once called “perhaps the most dangerous racist in America today”, prevented the two Black students from attending class.

Wallace’s Stand in the Schoolhouse Door upheld the impassioned promise he made while delivering his inaugural address: “Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever”. Mace has clearly studied this history and chosen to side with its least savory character.

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Queen’s University Belfast Trans Equality FAQ:

As part of its wider Equality and Diversity Policy, Queen’s University (“the University”) is committed to providing an inclusive and welcoming community where staff and students are enabled to meet their full potential and are treated as individuals.

This includes providing advice, support and understanding to those individuals who have transitioned, are transitioning, or are planning to transition, are non-binary, intersex or gender non-conforming.

That’s nice. Does it also include those individuals who are women?

It doesn’t seem to. On the Diversity and Inclusion page (which links to the Trans Equality page which links to the Trans Equality FAQ page) we get a link to Menopause, but we do not get a link … Read the rest

Buffoon of the ages talks to TIME magazine, with the usual result.

TRUMP: Well, I think we ran a flawless campaign. It was, it was really quite something. I called it 72 Days of Fury. There were no days off. There were no timeouts. If you made a mistake, it would be magnified at levels that nobody’s ever seen before. So you couldn’t make a mistake. And I think we just really ran well. It was a drive to go through it. It started 72 days out. For some reason, it just seemed to be it. And I worked very hard. I’ve been, I’ve been given credit by, actually, the reporters that followed me, because it was, you know,

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Originally a comment by Nullius in Verba on Nobody asked for this tragedy.

I’ve introduced several people to basic trap shooting. One thing that often happens is they’ll shoot once and then find that the shotgun won’t fire the second shot, no matter how hard they squeeze the trigger. Some of them even try to turn to me, and I have to physically hold the muzzle downrange. There’s nothing wrong with the gun or the ammunition—they simply were so overwhelmed by the pressure that they couldn’t release the trigger enough to allow it to reset for the second squeeze. This has even happened when it’s just me and one other person in a field out in the middle of … Read the rest

Stop right there, bro.

He says all his parts are female, so why can't he be in the lesbian group…..

He's dangerously deluded… pic.twitter.com/EqZi7omQZk

— Jonny Bell (@Jonnywsbell) December 16, 2024

The guy wanted to join a lesbian group on Facebook. The group had requirements; he had to answer a bunch of questions, which he seems to think is an outrage in itself.

So, the requirement was that you hadda check all the right boxes or they weren’t gonna let you in. So the requirement was that you had to say that you were ccccccccis gender born. So in other words, a transgender lesbian was not gunna be accepted into this group. [dramatic pause] Why not?? I’m just as much

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Originally a comment by Der Durchwanderer on Reward.

Indeed, there is an awful lot of armchair generaling and Monday morning quarterbacking going on, not just in this thread but all over, almost all of it from people who have never been placed in mortal peril by another human being and who have no training in self-defense. I freely admit that I have relatively little experience with such peril, and have thus far only had the merest physical training, though I have read fairly extensively on the philosophy of self-defense and had discussions with people who’ve trained much more thoroughly than I have.

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Five weeks ago:

A man was taken into custody after five people were stabbed in Seattle’s Chinatown-International District Friday afternoon.

The stabbings happened near the intersection of 12th Avenue South and South Jackson Street around 2 p.m. Friday.

That intersection is a bus stop. I was at that stop a week or two ago, on an outing to I forget where, and it was off the charts horrible. It’s always horrible, and has been for years, but that day it was extra horrible, with too many ruined people performing their ruin in full public view. Have I mentioned that Seattle’s a mess? I have. It’s incredibly beautiful, and it’s a mess.

The Seattle Police Department confirmed four victims were

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The Guardian and Nicola Sturgeon get together to scowl at the stubborn women some more.

“Scotland is a country where, within our lifetimes, gay male relationships were still criminalised. So the significance of that journey is impossible to overstate.”

Although the legislation has had a profound impact – “there’s no doubt we are a much more equal and tolerant society than we were 10 years ago” – Sturgeon said the past few years had been a reminder of the need for vigilance. “When rights are under threat, whether it’s abortion rights in America or LGBT rights in other parts of the world, that’s when it really matters to stand up and be counted.”

Objection your honor.

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Another bum-kissing paean to Judith Butler, this one from EL PAÍS.

Butler — a pioneering voice in feminism, gender studies, critical theory, and contemporary philosophy — registered as non-binary in California years ago. While their pronouns changed to they/them, they chose to keep their name, a decision, they say, [that] surprised the courthouse clerk at the time.

Really??? How fascinating. Can you tell us more? What was she wearing? What was the clerk wearing? What was the weather like? Were there refreshments?

To be fair, most of the interview is unsurprising and not terrible. Even Judith Butler can talk sense some of the time. But then we hit a bump.

Q. Do you understand the concerns of

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