Pause the men
Yesterday it emerged the Labour Party had suspended the membership of Gil House pending investigation for allegedly engaging in prejudicial conduct that was “grossly detrimental to the party”. Gil’s crime? Insisting that “only women experience the menopause”.
Perhaps the Labour Party was confused by the name? Perhaps they think it’s only men who experience the menopause because look it says it right there, men o pause. It’s a pause that men do. Could that be what the Labour Party was thinking? Because that would be less stupid than…
So the Labour Party has decided to be the Stupid Party. It’s impossible to dignify this insulting nonsense with anything less crude than STUPID. Punishing someone for saying only women experience menopause is as stupid as saying no one knows why some people are men and some people are women and anybody who says they do know is a liar.
This utterly bonkers row is causing huge internal upset. One embarrassed Labour source blasted the party’s position on Trans issues stating:
“UK Labour rules, unlike the actual law, are based on gender and not sex – therefore they go behind the law, or as they would like the law, just like Stonewall does.”
Gil House, a loyal Labour Party member who was planning to stand as a councillor, has now resigned from the party.
You couldn’t make it up.
Do you remember when, about a decade ago, there was some stupid Republican state politician in the US south, who was running for the US House of Representatives (maybe even the Senate?), who said: “It’s so horrible, these abortion doctors are getting really aggressive now. They’re giving abortions even to women that aren’t pregnant! They’re even giving abortions to men!”
And we all laughed at that guy, and indeed he lost the election.
I was recalling this story about a year ago, telling it to the wife of a friend of mine, and she said, with total seriousness: “Men can have abortions too.”
I said: “I’m not having that conversation with you.”
She said: “It doesn’t have to be a conversation. Just a statement.”
I cut the conversation short at that point. And I thought: “Wow, I used to make fun of Republicans for being stupid about abortion, but now I see that Democrats are equally stupid. If you think that men can have abortions, then you are exactly as stupid as that guy, who evidently believed the same.”
In my Planned Parenthood volunteering days, GW, I had a similar conversation. I complained about an article in a health magazine that referred to pregnant people, and one of my co-volunteers generously reminded me that not only women get pregnant. I asked him who else gets pregnant.
Transmen, of course.
Happy International Men’s Day, be sure to keep it for all men. Even the pregnant ones.
Happy International Men’s Day, indeed!
That includes transwomen, right? Because they once had a “male experience” in their past, that means that they get to have this day too, right?
As opposed to International Women’s Day, which of course isn’t for transmen. Hell, it isn’t even really for ciswomen. It should only center REAL women, the ones that had to work hard to earn womanhood! Right?
@3 Where’s that list again, we could identify as “Day Dayers”, I’ll be a colonizer next week for Thanksgiving, either that or an Indian maiden, I haven’t decided. :D