Bradford news

Dec 27th, 2024 6:12 am | By

Oh yay, the BBC has another story about drag. BBC News should rename itself BBC Drag News.

An Australian drag queen may not be the obvious choice to be one of the stars of a Christmas panto in Bradford.

But for Shane Jenek, who is currently playing Blue Faerie in the Alhambra’s Pinocchio, it makes perfect sense.

The 42-year-old burst into living rooms down under in 2003 when his alter ego Courtney Act successfully auditioned for Australian Idol (the day after Jenek was rejected) and landed a record deal. Courtney went on to be a runner-up on RuPaul’s Drag Race US in 2014 and won Celebrity Big Brother UK in 2018.

And so on, for 24 more enthralling paragraphs.

Your license fees, paying for daily mockery of women.



Pseudo all the way down

Dec 26th, 2024 5:44 pm | By

Oh dear, I found him – the “transphilogyny” guy. It’s a sort of TED talk but not really. His name is Pella Felton.

Here’s all 16 minutes 46 seconds.

Here’s his pseudo-intellectual drivel in writing, with a couple of paragraph breaks added:

Transphilogyny refers to the affirmation and normalization of transfemininity as womanhood. Coined as an analogue to trans scholar Julie Serrano’s transmisogyny, I devised transphilogyny as a counter to the rise in structural, political and physical violence towards trans women . Rather than looking at such violence as inevitable, I envision transphilogyny as a collection of utopian practices through which we can imagine and enact a different reality through which human women become legible and valued beyond the gendered and often racialialized norms.

In this talk, I envision transphilogyny as epistemology, performance, and phenomenon, inviting the audience to imagine what it would feel like to experience transfeminity as womanhood and how that practice could change their reality. Drawing on the research of queer feminist scholars such as mecha Cardenas, Jill Dolan, and Sarah Ahmed, this presentation asks the audience to discover the political potential of trans womanhood as a means of disrupting the cultural algorithms which force us into increasingly narrowing and divisive experiences of our lives, cultures, and bodies.

Pella is an actor, poet, filmmaker, podcaster, and activist Charleston WV. Her research centers on archival sound performances as cultural phenomena and the world-building potential of digital audio in creating “utopian vibrations” or extensions of performance which reshape our cultural experiences of identity, space and time. Pella has presented her research at the Pacific Ancient Modern Language Association and Great Lake Sound Studies Association. In addition to research Pella also has over 20 years of performance experience as an actor, comedian, poet, and sometimes theologian. Pella is pursuing her PhD In the Department of Theatre and Film at BGSU. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community.

In short it’s not actually a TED talk, it just identifies as a TED talk.



Can you say “appropriation”?

Dec 26th, 2024 5:11 pm | By

Dude screams that he gets to define what hatred of women is, “patriarchy be damned.”

He also says “philogyny” when he means “misogyny.” Twice. The second time he calls it “philogyny nwar” – meaning, misogynoir, a portmanteau word for, of course, hatred of black women.

Dude is white and male as well as large and loud. He’s not the progressive he thinks he is.



If they hold a certificate

Dec 26th, 2024 4:42 pm | By

Sometimes it just looks like sheer unadulterated sadism. For the sake of it.

Male officers identifying as female are allowed to intimately search women if they hold a gender recognition certificate

Women’s rights campaigners are suing the British Transport Police (BTP) over guidance that allows [male] transgender officers to strip-search women.

Why would they do that? Why would the higher ups lean back in their chairs and blow cigar smoke at the ceiling and decide yes indeed, we will allow men who pretend to be women to strip-search women? Other than sadism?

The policy, revealed by The Telegraph, allows male staff identifying as female to intimately search women so long as they have a gender recognition certificate (GRC).

A certificate doesn’t matter. A certificate doesn’t make a man a woman. Male staff could have a billion certificates per officer and it wouldn’t change anything. What sex you are isn’t a matter of what piece of paper you have, it’s a matter of what kind of body you have. Certificates are just plain beside the point.

The most a certificate can do is certify that this fella here really strongly feels that he feels like a woman. That’s nowhere near enough to make it ok for him to stick his hand up a woman.

Campaigners wrote to Chief Constable Lucy D’Orsi last month calling for the advice to be removed on the basis that it breaches human rights.

But the force refused and now faces a lengthy legal battle with activists who say the guidance means women risk being subjected to “undignified and humiliating treatment”.

Apparently that’s what the higher-ups want.

Sex Matters penned a letter before claim, also known as a letter before action, as opposition mounted over the BTP policy.

But the force doubled down, rejecting the claim that the guidance “exposes women to a particular risk of behaviour”.

The force wrote: “As has been outlined previously, Parliament has imposed stringent safeguards in respect of the ability of an individual to obtain a GRC. It is not enough simply that a man identifies themselves as a female to obtain one.”

Ugh god. I am so sick of this shit. A certificate does not change a penis into a rose or a kitten or a fluffy sweater. There are no “safeguards” that make it okie doke for a man to force a woman to let him shove a hand up her for non-medical purposes.



Guest post: A brief experiment

Dec 26th, 2024 11:29 am | By

Originally a comment by Rev David Brindley on Check the label.

“Liberal democracy” was a short lived experiment, between circa 1946 and 1986. It grew to be too much of a threat to the autocratic kleptocracy it briefly rose above, and has been slowly wound back ever since.

The Middle Class in which many of us grew up or aspired to join was a pleasant result of that short experiment, but the autocratic kleptocrats could not accept that so many people were suddenly joining in the common wealth and began a relentless campaign to turn worker against worker, to teach those outside the middle class to scorn them, and thus began the class war that would only ever result in one victor, the kleptocrats.

Workers were told they now had the best of all possible worlds, that Unions were only there to take their money, and as people dropped out of Unions, Unions became weaker and either folded or merged. That set off a massive ‘land grab” by employers as wages and conditions were wound back, as people were sacked from full time jobs and replaced with part time, casual, or contract workers. Another few years and we will see all work return to the “pick up” system that once ruled the wharves where men seeking work would gather outside stevedore’s offices and wait to be called and given a back breaking job at bank breaking wages. The only Australian workers whose wages have kept pace with or exceeded inflation in the past decade are those in the few industries with strong and fearless union leadership.

What is happening in Germany is no different to elsewhere in Europe with Turkey and Hungary setting the tone while Italy, France, the UK et al fall into line.

things as banal as retweeting a meme that takes the piss out of a government minister is likely to have that minister personally file a complaint with the police under the law of “impeding a public officer in his duties”, which will get your house searched by the cops and see you with a hefty fine backed with the threat of jail time.

Same here in Oz. Right now we have imprisoned a man who exposed how Australia’s ASIS (external security agency) bugged the East Timor cabinet rooms in aid of a corporation, Woodside getting a greater share of East Timor’s Oil, another for exposing malfeasance in the Australian Taxation Office, and a former military lawyer who blew the whistle on war crimes in Afghanistan. All of these men are heroes and should have been feted as such.

And only moments after the government took the kudos for finally repatriating Julian Assange and saving him from America’s wrath for telling the truth, they have rolled over for a tummy tickle from Uncle Sam and are handing over a man whose only crime is to teach flying to the Chinese. Our entire economy is underpinned by China’s purchase of coal and iron ore and every year our Universities earn billions of dollars educating Chinese students, but apparently engineering, medicine, architecture, law, economics, and arts are all AOK, but not flying.

Liberal democracy? Don’t make me laugh.



There’s a step missing

Dec 26th, 2024 11:17 am | By

How does anyone manage to believe this? The Washington Post:

NEW CASTLE, Pennsylvania — Lori Mosura goes to the grocery store on a bicycle because she can’t afford to fix her Ford F-150 truck.

The single mother and her 17-year-old son live in an apartment that is so small she sleeps in the dining room. They receive $1,200 each month in food stamps and Social Security benefits but still come up short. Mosura said she often must decide whether to buy milk or toilet paper.

It was all that penny-pinching that drove the part-time tax consultant to abandon the Democratic Party this fall and vote for Donald Trump.

“He is more attuned to the needs of everyone instead of just the rich,” Mosura, 55, said on a recent afternoon. “I think he knows it’s the poor people that got him elected, so I think Trump is going to do more to help us.”

???????

What on earth could possibly lead anyone to think that?

He’s not attuned to anyone’s needs, and he’s sure as hell not attuned to the needs of poor people.

I can’t figure out what chain of reasoning could get anyone there.

He was never a landlord attuned to the needs of poor people, nor an employer attuned to the needs of poor people, nor a private citizen attuned to the needs of poor people, nor a tv star attuned to the needs of poor people.

Now, low-income Americans who voted for Trump say they are counting on him to keep their benefits intact even while his Cabinet picks and Republican lawmakers call on him to reduce federal spending.

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy — whom Trump has chosen to lead a new nongovernmental advisory panel, the “Department of Government Efficiency” — have said they want to trim $2 trillion from the government’s annual budget, a cut that some experts say could be accomplished only by slashing entitlement programs. Trump’s pick for White House budget director was a key architect of Project 2025, a plan drawn up by conservatives to guide his second term that calls for steep cuts to programs such as food stamps. And GOP leaders in Congress and Trump advisers are considering significant changes to Medicaid, food stamps and other federal aid.

That’s because they’re so attuned to the needs of poor people.



Let nothing go unspoiled

Dec 26th, 2024 3:23 am | By

The Associated Press had a contest to name Female Athlete of the Year. You know what comes next.

A group of 74 sports journalists from The Associated Press and its members voted on the award.

Clark received 35 votes, Olympic gymnast Simone Biles was second with 25.

But Olympic gold medalist boxer Imane Khelif was third, getting four votes.

Naturally. If you have an item for women – an event, a list, a contest – it’s important to add men, because women must not be allowed to have anything all to themselves.



Boldly to go

Dec 26th, 2024 3:08 am | By

The BBC’s obsession with drag queens continues.

Strictly to feature first drag queen competitor

Notice the weird chummy insiderism of the title. Wtf does it even mean? It looks like an uncompleted thought rather than a title. It’s a cozy reference to a tv program that everyone who matters knows all about so no need to spell out the program’s actual title; it’s so much cuter to use just the first word of the title, and let everyone who isn’t in on the joke puzzle over the meaning.

Does the Beeb always do that, or only when the subject is drag queens? Does it refer to “Call” instead of “Call the Midwife”?

No. The BBC doesn’t do that.

Strictly’s Christmas Special will see the show mark another first in its 20th year – its first drag queen competitor.

Ooooooh really? Let’s all piss ourselves with excitement. A drag queen!!! Eeeek!!!

And next week, a blackface minstrel will read the 9 o’clock news, right? And the BBC will squee about a minstrel reading the 9? Yes?

Tayce said she was proud to be the first drag artist to take part on the series and was taking a stand against those who might criticise the move.

Oh good. What a noble cause. Let’s have more and more and more men mocking women on the BBC so that we can have more and more cozy insidery BBC stories about them.

Tayce said: “It’s such an honour and a privilege to be pushing the boundaries as the first drag queen on the show because it’s been on for so many years.

Yeah push those boundaries that indicate let’s not mock the underlings. MOCK ALL THE UNDERLINGS. Well not all. Not absolutely all. Not immigrants or people of color or “queer” people, but women, hell yes, women exist to be mocked.



Guest post: The world’s first “defensive democracy”

Dec 25th, 2024 5:26 pm | By

Originally a comment by Der Durchwanderer on Check the label.

Liberal democracy does not depend on silly lies about who can do what in the way of magic personal changes.

Aye, but there’s the rub. Germany is slowly (actually not-so-slowly) ceasing to recognise itself as a liberal democracy as you might understand that term; it sees itself, rather, as the world’s first “defensive democracy”. Its politicians regularly tar any opinions, statements, or policies which disagree with the ruling coalition as “anti-democratic”, regardless of how soundly those opinions, statements, and policies are founded in the principals of liberalism nor how widely they are to be found amongst the demos itself.

Anything that does not fit onto the tip of the spear of progressive thought as interpreted by the youth wings of the Greens and the SPD is classified as “right-wing extremism”, and things as banal as retweeting a meme that takes the piss out of a government minister are likely to have that minister personally file a complaint with the police under the law of “impeding a public officer in his duties”, which will get your house searched by the cops and see you with a hefty fine backed with the threat of jail time.

Now it appears that the German agency charged with “protecting the constitution” may well consider any public utterances in support of the “gender binary” to be statements against the German constitutional order, perhaps classifying them in the recently-invented category of “delegitimation of the state relevant to constitutional protection”, wherein the constitutional protectors give themselves the right to spy on German citizens who make suspect-but-not-illegal statements against the government until they find something they can prosecute for. (This extralegal category was invented in April 2021, largely in response to mass protests against anti-COVID measures, many of which were themselves unconstitutional and of dubious efficacy…but though the pandemic is over, the tools forged during it remain, and will take much longer to dismantle.)



There’s more than one way to bully

Dec 25th, 2024 3:01 pm | By

So kids in school can be compelled, by the school, to use wrong, counter-intuitive, fantasy-based “pronouns” in conversation.

A federal appeals court decided on Friday to revisit its recent decision to uphold a central Ohio school district’s right to enforce policies against the bullying of transgender students, which had been challenged by a conservative parents group.

That’s very misleading. Of course schools should have and enforce policies against bullying, but failing or even refusing to join someone else’s fantasy isn’t bullying. Arguably the demand to be called anything non-intuitive is itself a bullying move. If you’re ordered to call people by the counter-intuitive pronouns, you’re going to have to work hard to remember to do it and avoid being tripped up by the deeply entrenched habit of knowing who is a she and who is a he. You have to override your own instincts instead of having an ordinary relaxed conversation.

There’s also the small matter of endorsing a lie, which schools really shouldn’t be forcing students to do.

I get that the whole thing can be a setup for deliberate bullying, but that’s part of the problem with the whole stupid fad for luxury pronouns. Kids in school shouldn’t be making luxury demands of that kind, it just gums up the works.

Olentangy, located near Columbus, sought to prohibit the “misgendering” of transgender students, including by failing to address them by their preferred pronouns.

See, that’s not fair. It’s not reasonable. It’s not what school is for. What if there are no “transgender students”? What if they’re just students who have fallen for a dopy fad? What if there are not even any students who genuinely feel “trapped in the wrong body” or similar? What if all this heavy breathing about misgendering is a silly nothingburger that needs to go away so that we can pay attention to important things?

The case is one of many around the country addressing the rights of transgender students.

For the millionth time: there’s no such thing as a right to force other people to call you what you’re not. That’s not a right. It bears little resemblance to a right.



Vast empty land mass

Dec 25th, 2024 2:18 pm | By

Denmark has a nice dry wit.

https://twitter.com/joncoopertweets/status/1871992982767038872


Check the label

Dec 25th, 2024 11:29 am | By

From Reduxx:

The German federal government was responsible for funding a research project labeling “organized transphobia” a threat to democracy. The project, which was made in collaboration with a trans-identified male known for threatening violence against women he disagrees with, classifies those opposed to Germany’s radical gender self-identification laws as “enemies” of society.

Hm. Man who threatens violence against women labels disobedient women “a threat to democracy.” So democracy=men forcing women to lie about who is a woman? Weird definition.

Days ago, the Institute for Democracy and Civil Society (IDZ Jenapublished a brochure reporting the outcome of a research project it had undertaken on “Organized Transphobia: Concepts, Actors, Narratives, and Counter-Strategies.” In the 92-page release, it concluded that transphobia poses a danger to democratic co-existence and outlines strategies to tackle radical feminists who define biological sex as binary.

Reminds me of The Church. “Non-adherence to our belief system=danger to the communniny & scary radical badness.”

And while we’re on the subject, let’s pause for a second to ponder the danger to democratic co-existence that is trans ideology. Bullying, lying, manipulating, extorting, punishing – none of that is a boon to democratic co-existence.

The research project, published in collaboration with the Federal Association for Transgender People (BVT), was funded by the German government through the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth, which provided it a total of 228,833 Euros.

The project portrays feminists critical of gender ideology as enemies of the state who, together with right-wing extremists, pursue a political agenda to maintain an “endo-cis-binary gender system” – something that is deemed incompatible with the “principles of liberal democracy.”

I don’t know what the “endo” means there, it may be a mistranslation of the German, but other than that the meaning is clear enough: knowing there are two sexes that can’t swap is incompatible with the principles of liberal democracy.

I beg to differ. Liberal democracy does not depend on silly lies about who can do what in the way of magic personal changes. People can’t think themselves into being leopards or houses or Brazil or Mars, and that fact does no harm to liberal democracy.



Trademark violation

Dec 25th, 2024 10:12 am | By

So dignified.

Gibson, the maker of famous electric guitars, has issued a cease and desist order to the company behind a range of “Trump Guitars” endorsed by the US president-elect.

Gibson told Guitar World, which first reported the story, it took action because the design of the instruments being sold as Trump Guitars “infringes upon Gibson’s exclusive trademarks, particularly the iconic Les Paul body shape”.

Named for the American musician the Guardian once said “basically invented the electric guitar”, Gibson Les Pauls have been sold since 1952 and played by countless rock legends, among them the Edge of U2, Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin and Slash of Guns N’ Roses.

Trump Guitars were announced last week, as the latest in a line of merchandise including Biblessneakerswatches and even digital trading cards.

Well of course; all incoming heads of state do that.

Or do they? Am I wrong?

Last week Trump posted to his social media platform a picture of him holding a guitar emblazoned with a US flag and a bald eagle, with the message: “Coming Soon! The Limited Edition ‘45’ Guitar. Only 1,300 of each Acoustic and Electric Guitars MADE – Some personally signed!”

Sure. Remember when Obama promoted basketballs with his name on them? No? Ok what about dog collars with his name on them? No? Erm…coffee mugs? Picnic baskets? Cameras? Cars? There must have been something.

On Wednesday, a website for Trump Guitars featured a picture of the president-elect signing an instrument. Two models were marked sold out: American Eagle electric guitars (priced $1,500) and autographed American Eagle electric guitars ($11,500).

Unsigned ($1,250) and signed ($10,250) acoustic guitars were also offered, each featuring Trump’s slogan, “Make America Great Again”, on its fretboard. The website also offered a Presidential Series guitar, in the Les Paul shape and with Trump’s name on the fretboard, and God Bless the USA acoustic guitars displaying that message, the title of a song by the country singer Lee Greenwood that is also affixed to Trump’s endorsed Bible.

You getcher Trump endorsed bible and your Trump-endorsed gun and you are set for life.



The real issues

Dec 25th, 2024 9:56 am | By

UK Women’s March has a statement about itself.

*Our Statement*

With Donald Trump set to return as US president in January 2025 and Nigel Farage picking up the anti-abortion mantle here in the UK, it’s time to make our voices heard.

We are marching because violence against women and girls in the UK has increased by 37% since 2018 and has now been declared a national emergency.

We are marching because abortion in England and Wales, if not carried out according to the strict requirements of the Abortion Act 1967, is technically still a criminal offence carrying a maximum penalty of life imprisonment.

We are marching because reproductive rights are being removed state by state in the US making it increasingly more difficult to access safe abortions, and where vital healthcare is needed to save a woman’s life.

Big yes to transatlantic solidarity.

But then

We are marching because discrimination and violence against trans women and girls has increased around the world. Anti-trans rhetoric prevents women from addressing the real issues they encounter by reinforcing the gender stereotypes that have oppressed women for centuries.

No. It’s not a “gender stereotype” that men are not women. It’s not “anti-trans rhetoric” to point out that men are not women. Men helping themselves to everything that belongs to us, including even feminism, is what prevents women from addressing the real issues we encounter.

We are marching because women in Afghanistan under Taliban rule have been effectively silenced by being banned from speaking in public. They are no longer allowed to access education or work and are prevented from freedom of expression.

Indeed, and you know what? Those women are the real thing. The Taliban doesn’t bully and stifle and kill men who call themselves women, the Taliban bullies and stifles and kills women, real women, the kind that can get pregnant.

*Our feminism is intersectional*

Inclusivity is at the core of UK Women’s March. We acknowledge how race, gender, class, sexuality, and disability intersect. Women are exposed to racism, ageism, ableism, homophobia, and transphobia, not just sexism and misogyny. This means we must acknowledge how these differences interlock for feminism to work. 

Wrong. If you include men in feminism then it doesn’t work.



Peak democracy and civil society

Dec 25th, 2024 5:23 am | By

So now we’re a threat to democracy. Reduxx has the details:

The German federal government was responsible for funding a research project labeling “organized transphobia” a threat to democracy. The project, which was made in collaboration with a trans-identified male known for threatening violence against women he disagrees with, classifies those opposed to Germany’s radical gender self-identification laws as “enemies” of society.

Interesting. So a guy who threatens women with violence is fine, but women who say men are not women are threats to democracy.

Days ago, the Institute for Democracy and Civil Society (IDZ Jenapublished a brochure reporting the outcome of a research project it had undertaken on “Organized Transphobia: Concepts, Actors, Narratives, and Counter-Strategies.” In the 92-page release, it concluded that transphobia poses a danger to democratic co-existence and outlines strategies to tackle radical feminists who define biological sex as binary.

I have an idea: how about rounding up all those women and send them to camps where the authorities can keep an eye on them. Concentrate them all in these camps dotted around the country; what could go wrong?

The research project, published in collaboration with the Federal Association for Transgender People (BVT), was funded by the German government through the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth, which provided it a total of 228,833 Euros.

Wait what? This Federal Ministry includes women in its for-ness? But women are the enemy – that’s what this study found. Women are scary dangerous subversive people who need to be concentrated away from the decent German citizen.

The project portrays feminists critical of gender ideology as enemies of the state who, together with right-wing extremists, pursue a political agenda to maintain an “endo-cis-binary gender system” – something that is deemed incompatible with the “principles of liberal democracy.”

So true. Women are aliens. They don’t belong in Germany. They need their own homeland somewhere very cold and dry and empty, and meanwhile they need to be concentrated.

Meanwhile Germany has a new genner self-idennification bill.

The bill was first introduced in April of 2024, when the German Bundestag voted for the Self-Determination Act, which allows people to simply change their sex and first name at the registry office and threatens with a fine of €10,000 if someone reveals their previous first name and real sex. The Act came into effect on November 1.

Politicians who have expressed concerns about the bill and its impact on women and children have been faced criticism, even from within their own parties.

As previously reported by ReduxxGermany’s Free Democratic Party (FPD) is seeking to prohibit the re-election of two female members who voted against the law. Katja Adler and Linda Teuteberg are the only two women in the FDP who voted against the law, with both expressing concerns about the implications gender ideology has for women’s safety. As a result, the FDP is seeking to remove both of them from standing in the upcoming election, and replace them with members who supported the Self-Determination Act.

The new Utopia will have no women in it at all. Joy, freedom and safety at last.



Flattery

Dec 25th, 2024 5:01 am | By
Flattery

Oooh how thrilling.

https://twitter.com/lucyowenwales/status/1871823856492589075
Cool cool cool.

When’s the next minstrel show?



Collaboration

Dec 24th, 2024 3:02 pm | By

CNN on Trump’s noisy claims that Panama owes him a canal:

Panama President José Raúl Mulino posted a lengthy statement in Spanish and English on social media declaring ownership of the port “not negotiable.” Built at the turn of the 20th century, the canal was operated by the US until 1999, when it was fully turned over to Panama under a treaty signed by President Jimmy Carter two decades prior that guaranteed American use of the canal in perpetuity.

“I want to express precisely that every square meter of the Panama Canal and its adjacent area belong to Panama, and will continue to,” Mulino wrote.

The response did little to discourage Trump and his allies, though, who responded with memes and images on social media doubling down on his latest cause.

“Welcome to the United States Canal,” Trump posted on Truth Social, along with a picture of a US flag sailing on the waterway.

So if decorators redo the “salon” at Mar a Lago does that make the salon theirs?

If Trump hires a crew to build a house in Obama’s back garden does that make the house his? If Obama hires a crew to build a house at Mar a Lago does that make the house his?

Is Trump consistent in his claims about who owns what? Does he think all builders own what they build, while the owners of the land they build on are just tenants or trespassers?

Just curious.



Umbrage

Dec 24th, 2024 10:54 am | By

Yes come on, Nicola Sturgeon, explain what “shadowy forces” tricked us into believing that…er…men are not women.



Paradigm

Dec 24th, 2024 10:39 am | By

Behold, the women-hating piggy reveling in the revived fashion for hatred of women.

He does the “Karen” thing too. Piggy piggy piggy.



The surgeons have been working flat out

Dec 24th, 2024 9:55 am | By

Stephen Whittle, self-important, admits how risky and drastic all this “transitioning” is, apparently without noticing he’s doing so.

By “patient” and “patients” she means young girls.

Mangling female genitals is “complex and requires several procedures” and it’s risky, so don’t you dare say it shouldn’t be done.

RIP first do no harm.