“Farrah” in Maidstone
Yes, and?
Trans women are, by definition, men who “identify as” women or call themselves women or whatever formula you like for a man who wants to roleplay womanitude. Of course they’re men. If they were women they wouldn’t be trans women, would they. It’s only women who are women. Men who pretend to be women are men who pretend to be women; they’re not women.
Yo, people, climate change is going to eat our lunch so how about devoting all this energy to sabotaging all the cruise ships or something instead of all this whining about men who wanna be women.
This may be why India Willoughby insists that he’s not a trans woman, but a cis woman: Sure, you TERFs will say that trans women are genetically and biologically male, by definition, but guess what, I’m not a trans women — I’m a cis woman now! Checkmate, TERFs!
…mbleramblerambleramblerambleramblerambleramblera…… No wonder they cut her off.
EUREKA! i’VE GOT IT!
It came to me in a flash of inspiration..!
We need three kinds of restrooms / dunnies / call them what you will.
1. Traditional male. 2. Traditional female. 3. Take your pick / Don’t know / In between / Trans whatever / Spin your bottle; throw your dice, bet your arse.
I think that about covers it. Otherwise, we’ve got enough bullshit in this to start a mushroom farm. (Maybe add ‘also mushroom farmers’ to 3.)
Hope this helps.
I can see it now: cue the screeching that “OPHELIA BENSON IS CALLING FOR PEOPLE TO SABOTAGE CRUISE SHIPS!!”
Cruise ships are the most marginalized community!
If you do want to organize an anti-cruise “action” I’ll throw the first brick. I took a 3 day cruise a few years ago, from Long Beach to Ensenada. Lots of Karaoke, bad comedy, gluttony, and crowded lido decks. Not sure how many times you can hear the same Bruno Mars song, but you would at least think that they would budget a few more LP’s for the DJ. The only fun I had was wandering through the streets of Ensenada for 3 hours, and also driving up to Venice Beach after we disembarked.
It was cheap because I was with a group, but I could have better spent that money just going to LA for a couple of days.
Wandering through the streets of Ensenada or anywhere else is my idea of the best fun – wandering the streets of cities (and towns) is how I tourist.
“… wandering the streets of cities (and towns) is how I tourist.”
Me too. Back when it was still the 1900s I spent a week in London and the whole trip was planned with a travel agency (remember them?). One of the things I bought was a Tube pass good for the week. I got to to the last day before I took a couple tube rides just to make use of it because my hotel (Strand) was in such a great place I could walk everywhere. Even the trip to Greenwich was a ferry on the Thames.
Unsought advice for next time: get an all day bus pass instead of Tube, because of getting to look out the window. But then my favorite parts of London are miles from the center (except the museums & Kensington Gardens & St James park & whatnot).
Yeah a bus pass would have been a better choice no doubt, since I somehow missed doing that too. To be fair the whole thing was conceived and executed in less than a month, and based around a job fair in an attempt to live abroad for a while. I had just been informed of a layoff with some decent benefits and I happened to find the job fair and figured it was a chance of a lifetime.
Well it sounds like excellent fun, bus pass or no bus pass.
The best visit I paid in London was to the Pantheon.
No, that was in Paris, or Venice, or Rome or one of those other foreign cities. It was all one helluva rush. Back then, pre-Brexit and all that. But Brexit has calmed it all down.
A few years ago I was wandering the streets of the old town Dubrovnik and two – two – cruise ships hoved into port. They dwarfed the place. Just dwarfed it. It was obscene.
Here, look: https://www.thedubrovniktimes.com/media/k2/items/cache/5362296cd420f51cb9d648fb3915ede6_XL.jpg
Two of those.
And then the city was infested with what I can most charitably call idiots. I had to go and hunker down for a few hours. I know the city depends on tourism but isn’t that a big part of the problem? Shouldn’t we be looking for ways to make cities like that not dependent on tourism?
I know, about the dwarfing. The photos of them in Venice [shudder]. They dwarf everything even here in Seattle, with its cruder dimensions – they dwarf not just the built environment but even the natural one. I can watch them chug past a peninsula due west of here, a peninsula that’s a whole big neighborhood and hundreds of feet above sea level, and they dwarf even that. It’s an extremely bizarre and disquieting sight.