Skip the reality, go straight to the fantasy
Or, better, instead of “gender identity.” Who cares what people’s fanciful “gender identity” is? Besides marketers of Gender Accessories, who are many and greedy.
Oh my god the police in Scotland think they don’t need to know that a suspect is a man or a victim is a woman!
That needs fifty or so exclamation points but…you know…sometimes one just doesn’t have the strength to hold the key down.
And we second that suggestion.
Fucking lunatics.
They don’t want to know people’s gender, They want to know how people IDENTIFY their gender.
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The name of the song is called “HADDOCKS’ EYES.”’
‘Oh, that’s the name of the song, is it?’ Alice said, trying to feel interested.
‘No, you don’t understand,’ the Knight said, looking a little vexed. ‘That’s what the name is CALLED. The name really IS “THE AGED AGED MAN.”’
‘Then I ought to have said “That’s what the SONG is called”?’ Alice corrected herself.
‘No, you oughtn’t: that’s quite another thing! The SONG is called “WAYS AND MEANS”: but that’s only what it’s CALLED, you know!’
‘Well, what IS the song, then?’ said Alice, who was by this time completely bewildered.
‘I was coming to that,’ the Knight said. ‘The song really IS “A-SITTING ON A GATE”: and the tune’s my own invention.’
Daaaamn I need to read Through the Looking-glass again, I don’t remember that at all.
Yes you do! Do you own The Annotated Alice?
The Martin Gardner “Annotated Alice” is the bee’s knees! Worth having for Jabberwocky in three languages alone! Wonderful book.
In one of my books, I had a character who was trying to hold on to her sanity in a bad situation recite the Jabberwocky…then she recited it backwards. I wish I could do that. (I know the entire thing forwards, but backwards?)
I had this oddball English teacher one semester in high school. Sometime during the first few days of class she observed that every year one student had Jabberwocky memorized. I said I had it memorized, and she had me recite it. “Jabberwocky” then became my nickname for at least the rest of the semester.
They make a point to say they include people who are not LGBTI but expect them to accept being categorised according to gender instead of sex. So no, they are not including people who don’t believe in gender. And then they pretend to be all fair and reasonable with the bit about not delivering services differently for people with different “physical sex characteristics” but we know what that means, don’t we? If you’re a woman reporting a rape, don’t expect to be able to talk to a female police officer.