All perfectly normal yeah?

A former soldier turned keyboard warrior has been hit with a restraining order after a terrifying hate campaign directed at a number of successful women including a leading barrister.

David Mottershead, 42, who claimed to be standing up for ‘men’s rights’ sent death threats to various successful women including Dr Charlotte Proudman, leaving her fearing for her life.

The ex-soldier posted a chilling picture of himself holding a gun, with his face smeared in camouflage paint and his finger on the trigger aiming at Dr Proudman, telling her: ‘You’ll panic as I inhale your last breath’ in a tweet addressed to her.

Free speech innit.

Mottershead, who was later found to have armed himself with a

Reem Alsalem is quoted as saying things about the violence against women on November 20. The format is rather odd, though I guess it’s normal for press releases from orgs – it’s a long string of “she said” without saying where when how she said. It’s a press release awkwardly put into the third person. What for? Why not just put her name on it as author?

Anyway, for the record, she does mention Israeli women.

Once.

GENEVA (20 November 2023) – Women and children have disproportionately borne the brunt of the conflict in Israel and Gaza, a UN expert said today.

“While these atrocities affect both women and men, their impact is gendered and disproportionately affects women,” said Reem

This in an ongoing theme, or pair of themes or set of nested themes – the selectivity of concerns about violence, slaughter, rape, genocide, torture, kidnapping, massacres.

One place you really don’t want to see that kind of selectivity is the UN.

Wow.

I'm blocked by Reem Alsalem, the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women, for a tweet saying it was shameful that she hadn't yet said a word about the violence against women committed by Hamas on October 7. pic.twitter.com/2pdQru3kNA

— ystrïya (we/us) 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 (@yatakalam) December 2, 2023

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George Santos too much even for some Republicans.

The difference between the first two unsuccessful expulsion attempts and this one was the release of a damning ethics committee report that provided extensive details of alleged misconduct by Mr Santos.

“Damning” may be an understatement, in fact. The 56-page report detailed “substantial evidence” of corruption, fraud and misuse of campaign funds that included personal expenditures on clothing, Botox treatments and OnlyFans, a platform where users pay for content, including pornography.

Hahahahahaha botox and porn. What a twerp.

When combined with Mr Santos’s well-established lying about his personal history during his 2022 congressional campaign and his multi-count federal indictment for money laundering, fraud, identity theft and falsifying documents, a near

This is how they talk about the woman they pay to gestate a baby for them:

The egg donor. Them. That person. Someone.

And then the consumerist box ticking – must be both gorgeous and brilliant. Nothing but the best for team Manufacture a Baby!… Read the rest

Oh my god.

First I saw this:

So I dug around (had to dig since U of T had closed everything) and found this:

National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women

which has the subtitle

Care, Healing, and Justice: Addressing Transmisogyny and Ending Gender-Based Violence for All

Even on this one day, even when they’re pretending to talk about violence against women, even then they make it about men who call themselves women. Even then.

U of T smugly goes on:

On December 6, U of T joins communities across Canada in remembering the 14 women killed in a devastating act of misogyny at the engineering school at Montreal’s École Polytechnique in 1989. 

This event is co-hosted

Originally a comment by Sastra on Define “suitable”.

… there’s an exercise at the end. It’s a Gender Comparison Activity. Children are asked to write down things which make them feel like the gender they are – like the way they dress, their favourite colours, the way they act, the games and toys they like to play with. Then they’re asked to make a separate list of things which are associated with the opposite gender – like if they are a boy but they like to play with dolls (that is the actual example given).

Then the children are asked to think whether those lists make them feel any differently about their gender.

If they weren’t thinking about themselves

Really? They’re going with that? “No safeguarding for children in schools!!!” They think that’s a good move?

The right wing in the House of Lords has organised a debate for the 7th of December on safeguarding in schools! We must push back against these people. https://t.co/aTH7J9jXc3

— Michael Cashman 🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇮🇪🇪🇺🇬🇧 (@mcashmanCBE) December 1, 2023

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What we say not what we do.

King Charles III challenged a gathering of world leaders to take “genuine transformational action” to slow the spiral of greenhouse gas emissions, declaring that “the hope of the world rests on the decisions you must take.”

Speaking at the opening ceremony of the United Nations climate summit in Dubai, Charles listed a cascade of climate-related natural disasters that had afflicted the world in the last year: wildfires in Canada; floods in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh; cyclones in the Pacific; and a drought in East Africa.

He’s not wrong, of course, but…

For Charles, who was asked by the British government not to attend the 2022 COP meeting in Egypt, this was a

Of course. Of course some horses are tigers. Of course some cars are hammers. Of course some trees are daffodils. Of course some people are witches. Of course we can just announce that words now mean something new and absurd and order everyone to agree with us on pain of banishment.

Willoughby being his usual nasty self about a woman. This time it’s @martina of course. pic.twitter.com/hg4bZI80xV

— 🦖Leonora Christina 🦕 (@JammersMinde) December 1, 2023

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This is a book for FIVE year olds??

 When I saw that Jessica Kingsley were publishing a new book for children on gender, I was immediately interested. Jessica Kingsley are a respected publisher who often produce specialist psychology books. They have a solid reputation and I have many colleagues who have published books with them. I was predisposed to liking the book.

I order The Gender Book. It is advertised as suitable for five to twelve year olds, but the illustrations make it clear that it’s focused more on the younger kids. It’s brightly coloured and looks like lots of other picture books. The characters are ethnically diverse and wide-eyed. Two of them, Casey and Ellie, are our guides. They start off by telling us

The gag order tells Trump not to shout insults and threats at the judge and his staff, so what does our resourceful monstrosity do? He shouts insults at the judge’s wife. Of course he does.

Trump on Wednesday attacked Dawn Engoron, the wife of the judge, Arthur Engoron, and the judge’s clerk, on his social media platform Truth Social.

He called Dawn Engoron a “Trump hating wife” and said that she and Arthur Engoron’s law clerk had “taken over control of the New York State Witch Hunt Trial aimed at me, my family, and the Republican Party”.

On Thursday, the gag order against him, which had been paused two weeks ago, was reinstated, but it did not stop Trump

Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on No YOU are.

And I’m pretty sure no GC feminist has told anyone who is trans (or an ‘ally’) to die in a grease fire. I am willing to be corrected on that if anyone has evidence otherwise.

If transactivists had evidence for any of the horrible things that feminists have been accused of doing, they’d be broadcasting it 24/7. They would only need one example, and they’d be repeating it over and over. Forever. But they don’t. They can’t even honestly report the actual words of JKR, because they’re completely innocuous. But because she says “No” she is bigoted, subhuman scum. If she was a tenth as evil as … Read the rest

Wisconsin Public Radio reports:

The U.S. Department of Education is opening an investigation into whether the Sun Prairie Area School District failed to report sexual harassment following an incident this spring involving a transgender student in a girls’ locker room.   

Note the usual obfuscation – a transgender student who is male, they mean but carefully don’t say.

Dawn Matthias with the department’s Office for Civil Rights sent a letter to the conservative law firm, the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, on Wednesday, confirming the Title IX investigation.  

So the progressive law firms think girls should just shut the fuck up about boys in their locker rooms? What’s progressive about that?

WILL filed a complaint against the district

The gag order on Trump is back.

An appeals court on Thursday reinstated a narrow gag order on Donald J. Trump that bars him from attacking court staff in his civil fraud trial in New York. The former president has already violated the order twice, incurring a total of $15,000 in fines.

The order was first put in place by the trial judge, Arthur F. Engoron, in early October, after Mr. Trump attacked the judge’s law clerk on social media…

With their client barred from attacking Ms. Greenfield, Mr. Trump’s lawyers continued to take issue with her prominence…

Eventually, Justice Engoron placed a gag order on the lawyers as well, prohibiting them from commenting on his conferences and written

Will it be Jolyon???

Would pay to watch Owen Jones being represented by Jo Maugham as he sues people for calling him a psychopath or whatever

— Frances Weetman (@francesweetman) November 30, 2023

Owen Jones finds out online pile-ons aren't fun for the target. Women he's dragged through the mud for the benefit of his demented traaahns followers experience high levels of schadenfreude https://t.co/J3BsO9QqXQ

— Clive Simpson (@QueensSpeechUK) November 30, 2023

During MeToo, Owen Jones said we must always believe victims of sexual assault. Yet when he saw footage of a dead Israeli woman with her underwear removed he demanded more evidence that she was raped. What sickening double standards, says Brendan O’Neillhttps://t.co/50WDSg02DP

— spiked (@spikedonline) November 29, 2023

If you get mugged and beaten up in the street your birthday party will be cancelled.

No Hanukkah this year for Havering Council in London.

Havering Council, a municipality located in East London, announced today that the annual Hanukkah installation would not be taking place this year due to “conflict in the Middle East.”

In a statement, the council released: “The Council has taken the difficult decision to pause the planned installation of the Chanukah Menorah outside Havering Town Hall this year. We appreciate this is a hugely sensitive issue but in light of escalating tensions from the conflict in the Middle East, installing the candelabra now will not be without risk to the Council, our partners, staff and

Ok Jones has had enough now. He’s angry. You’ve been warned.

He’s taking advice. I wonder if it will be anything like “Dude you don’t have a case. The claims have to be false or else you don’t have a case.”… Read the rest

Yes, and?

Martina Navratilova Says Transgender Women Can’t Be Lesbians

Well of course they fucking can’t. Frying pans can’t be owls, cities can’t be paella, we could go on like this forever.

It’s The Advocate whining this whine. Not much of an advocate these days, is it.

Martina Navratilova, the renowned out tennis star, recently sparked controversy with her remarks on a tribute by Stonewall, a leading LGBTQ+ advocacy group in the U.K. Navratilova took to social media on Tuesday to voice her opposition to the inclusion of a transgender woman in Stonewall’s Lesbian Visibility tribute, bluntly writing, “a bloke cannot be a lesbian.”

Oooh how rude of her to be so blunt.

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Endless spiral of opposites until we get lost in the not not not nots.

Again and again and AGAIN: TERFs are not misandrists, they are misogynists, specifically transmisogynists. They do not hate trans women because they see them as men. They hate trans women because they see them as a lower class of woman they can more easily exploit.

— Lee Shevek (@butchanarchy) November 29, 2023

You can shout “AGAIN” all you want but it’s still the opposite of the reality. The women you’re calling “terfs” are not misogynists (nor are we misandrists, for that matter). We’re women who know that men are not women. That’s all it is. Hate is an emotion; facts are not emotions. It’s not hate … Read the rest