Is this ok?
https://twitter.com/AlessandraAster/status/1311003013369208835
https://twitter.com/HJoyceGender/status/1311013827790725121
This is just plain wrong. A young trans identified male who wants to rape & assault women is placed in a women’s prison in Ireland. The needs of a male rape fantasist are given priority over women’s safety. The evidence is clear: Sex self ID is incompatible with women’s rights. https://t.co/LLpcf5rXnK
— Allison Bailey (@BluskyeAllison) September 29, 2020
What a horrifying caricature of femaleness.
Intentionally horrifying, I would guess. He WANTS to be that guy from the horror movie.
Has anybody asked Ben Cohen what he thinks of the new TRA representative?
Has anybody suggested to Ben Cohen that he should ask “Barbie Kardashian” to be his “surrogate”?
This is madness, absolute madness. In a sane world, the other jail inmates and their families would sue the jurisdiction into bankruptcy for reckless endangerment (well, in a sane world this wouldn’t happen in the first place).
Learning nothing from Karen Armstrong. How many women have to be endangered? All of us? Before people recognize trans for what it is…a dangerous, evidence-free, obsessive cult.
The demand for Self-ID Uber Alles is what broke me from the Trans Activism Movement. While I understand the difficulty some trans folks’ have had with gatekeepers, it is clear that some gatekeeping is essential. Transition is not well-done when it is done instantaneously–it should be a process, and the declaration that “This person is now finished transitioning” should only come at the end of that process.
Now, in the meantime, if you want more shelters for mid-transition individuals, or more medical funding for diagnosed individuals in need of transition services, or prison accommodations for trans persons needing protection (let’s face it–the individual above would be targeted for hideous abuse in any male prison), then fine–we can work out third options for protective custody. But simply giving trans women access to the hard-fought, hard-won spaces and protections that women have gained over the last handful of decades is outrageous in the extreme.
Even this person’s name is just, blecchh!
iknklast @ 6 – I think you mean Karen White? Karen Armstrong is the irritating pseudo-theologian.
Yes, you are right. I did mean Karen White. My apologies to Karen Armstrong. She may be irritating, but as far as I know, she is not violent.
Lol, that’s exactly my take on Karen Armstrong. All that gauzy “all religions are beautiful and have many truths to teach us” hogwash…
Not to make light of the situation, but you should probably be preemptively kept away from all other humans if you name yourself Barbie Kardashian.
Yeahhh, Karen Armstrong gets on my every nerve. The Guardian used to have a kind of junior Armstrong in Madeleine Bunting, but I haven’t heard anything from/about her in ages.
My dad bought me a Karen Armstrong book for my birthday one year. (The Case for God? I can’t be arsed to check.) I read it with a pen during the next family reunion.
The pen was the only way I made it through.
Karen Armstrong’s mother was our next-door neighbour in Birmingham 40 years ago. We got on well with her. I met Karen once: she was a bit too full of herself for my taste, but harmless enough.
As a person she doubtless is harmless enough. As a writer and thinker not so much.
Well, this was in about 1979, before she had written any of her books, not even Through the Narrow Gate, so there was no way to predict how famous she would become.