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Explicitly and exclusively “by women for women”

Nov 17th, 2023 11:25 am | By

Can women have something? Just a small something? If we’re very good? No?

No, of course not.

British Cycling is allowing biological males to participate in its female-only Breeze community rides and has ejected one concerned woman from its Facebook group for ride leaders for using the term “male”, on the grounds that this constitutes discriminatory language.

That’s so interesting. Women are not allowed to say “male” now. So we can’t report rape now, we can’t say we were passed over for jobs that went to men now, we can’t take precautions to avoid male violence now unless we do it in complete silence.

The Breeze programme was set up explicitly and exclusively “by women for women”, but those

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Actual truth

Nov 17th, 2023 10:57 am | By

The BBC reports:

White House criticises Elon Musk over ‘hideous’ antisemitic lie

On Wednesday, Mr Musk replied [to] a post sharing an antisemitic conspiracy theory, calling it “actual truth”. Mr Musk has denied that the post was antisemitic. But a White House spokesman said his endorsement of the post, which drew anger online, was “unacceptable”.

“We condemn this abhorrent promotion of antisemitic and racist hate in the strongest terms,” said White House spokesperson Andrew Bates. He noted that the post Mr Musk was responding to referred to a conspiracy theory that motivated the man who killed 11 people at a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018.

On Wednesday, Mr Musk responded with his “truth” comment to a post that accused

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People wear sports bras

Nov 17th, 2023 7:01 am | By

God this is infuriating.

I listened to the first few minutes and sure enough – the male presenter talks about “people” buying sports bras and wearing sports bras. There’s some conversation with women, and we can tell they’re women because of their voices, but there must not be any mention of women.

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But they’re not

Nov 17th, 2023 6:12 am | By

Oh shut up.

Lisa Nandy recites the “trans people are THE most persecuted blah blah blah” creed so we can roll our eyes for the fifty billionth time.

The Times story is such a mess I can’t quote from most of it, because it keeps relying on pronouns (female ones, ironically) where it needs to use names, so the reader can’t tell who said what. The gist is that JKR said women can’t trust Labour because it’s in the tank for trans bullshit.

Asked at an event with members of Westminster’s press gallery whether women could trust Labour, the MP [Nandy] said: “Yeah, look, they can. It breaks my heart actually, we’re re-reading Harry Potter at the moment in my

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Ben Bully Bradshaw

Nov 17th, 2023 4:15 am | By

Wait who is the bully in this scenario???

BBC presenter Emma Barnett has faced an online pile-on from trans allies after she questioned why the new transgender CEO of an endometriosis charity was not using the word ‘woman’.

The host was lauded by prominent feminists including Julie Bindel and Kathleen Stock for robustly questioning charity boss Steph Richards after her appointment as CEO of Endometriosis South Coast. Listeners had widely praised the presenter and thanked her for ‘defending biological reality’. But she was accused of ‘bullying’ and conducting a ‘disgraceful’  interview on Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour by critics including Labour MP Ben Bradshaw. 

Men like it when women get shoved aside that way – men like Ben Bradshaw at … Read the rest



Verwhat?

Nov 16th, 2023 5:28 pm | By

Nonononononono

https://twitter.com/SCynic1/status/1725280084896940183

I haven’t been able to find the image on their Facebook page or via Google.… Read the rest



The intersection of science and fantasy

Nov 16th, 2023 5:17 pm | By

Oh good god.

There is no “intersection of science and identity.” They don’t intersect. “Identity” isn’t science, it’s a buzzword, it’s rhetoric, it’s a loose label for how we think of ourselves. Sometimes it’s just a basic fact recorded on a birth certificate and/or passport and/or driver’s license and so on, but most of the time these days it’s a tedious Magical Spiritual Essence that nearly everyone is sick to death of hearing about. That version is more or less the antithesis of … Read the rest



Together on a path

Nov 16th, 2023 4:14 pm | By

The Children’s Hospital of Manitoba appears to be a nightmare.

I’m reading it, and it’s horrifying.

Mary [a pseudonym], a vibrant 10-year-old with bright eyes that always seem to be smiling, is a beacon of creativity, kindness, and artistry. She’s a dancer and musician, expressing herself through the beauty of movement and sound. 

No he’s not a musician ffs. He’s ten. He likes … Read the rest



Musk and the great replacement theory

Nov 16th, 2023 3:28 pm | By

Media Matters:

Elon Musk lights his tiki torch

The latest edition of the Elon Musk Twitter experience features the unfathomably wealthy right-wing owner of the site arguing that Jews are wrong about antisemitism. In his telling, Jewish communities are overly concerned with white nationalists like those he has welcomed to his social media platform, when they should worry instead about the brown “hordes” that they themselves have welcomed to the United States.

“You have said the actual truth” was Musk’s Wednesday night response to a paid X Premium user who, in explaining why “Hitler was right,” accused Jewish communities in the U.S. of “dialectical hatred against whites” and blamed them for “flooding their country” with “hordes of minorities.” Musk 

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Musk’s tiki torch

Nov 16th, 2023 3:15 pm | By

It’s da jooz.

The Guardian:

Elon Musk tweeted his fervent agreement with an antisemitic statement on Wednesday night.

A tweet posted by @breakingbaht on Wednesday night read: “Jewish communties [sic] have been pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them.”

The billionaire owner and CTO of X, formerly Twitter, responded the same evening: “You have said the actual truth.” In another reply, he wrote: “I am deeply offended by ADL’s messaging and any other groups who push de facto anti-white racism or anti-Asian racism or racism of any kind.” Musk has feuded with

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Sliding into the abyss

Nov 16th, 2023 11:01 am | By

John Cassidy at the New Yorker on Trump’s verminspeak:

If the phrase “live like vermin within the confines of our country” sounds vaguely familiar, it should. In February, 1933, days after Adolf Hitler was appointed as Chancellor of Germany, Wilhelm Kube, a Nazi politician, wrote in a propaganda publication, as reported at the time by the Jewish Daily Bulletin: “The Jews, like vermin, form a line from Potsdamerplatz until Anhalter Banhof. . . . The only way to smoke out the vermin is to expel them.” In 1936, when Oswald Mosley’s British Fascists were harassing Jews in London’s East End, they referred to them as “rats and vermin from the gutters of Whitechapel.” Hitler himself used similar language

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Civil discourse

Nov 16th, 2023 10:12 am | By
Civil discourse

Speaking of people speaking of “vermin”…

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The V word

Nov 16th, 2023 9:30 am | By

Trump is calling us vermin now.

Vermin.

At a campaign event Saturday in New Hampshire, Mr. Trump vowed to “root out the communists, Marxists, fascists and the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country.” He then said his political opposition was the most pressing and pernicious threat facing America.

Vermin.

His daddy was a slumlord, so he knows damn well what vermin are.

He’s telling us “Yeah I’m a Nazi and you can’t stop me.”

Of course one of his spokies denied it.

“Those who try to make that ridiculous assertion are clearly snowflakes grasping for anything because they are suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome,” a campaign spokesman, Steven Cheung, said,

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Assertion to the rescue

Nov 16th, 2023 9:11 am | By

Is that right?

What are they then? Stallions? Bulls? Bucks? Roosters? Rams?

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But that will not make it so

Nov 16th, 2023 5:59 am | By

Oh golly Jolyon slipped up. Psssst dude you’re not supposed to admit that people can’t change what they are just by saying so, except in the case of purely social or cultural or legal types of “what they are.” As in, profession or political leaning or music preferences, yes; species or age or sex, no. You’re not supposed to admit that a law can’t make you literally the sex you are not.

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Psychological torture by cop

Nov 15th, 2023 4:35 pm | By

Police harassment continues:

The officer who unlawfully questioned our client for saying ‘transwomen are men’ turned up at her house overnight to post a handwritten envelope. The enclosed letter contained no apology, no acknowledgment of the alarm & distress, but simply stated that there would be no further action PENDING FURTHER INFORMATION. The level of inappropriateness is breathtaking. This is stalking. @CCJardineNP @NPNland

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The fix was in

Nov 15th, 2023 11:19 am | By

And speaking of that man and the woman who appointed him…

He scratches her back, she scratches his.

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Huge respect for lies and appropriation

Nov 15th, 2023 11:16 am | By

Labour MP. Formerly a BBC reporter.

Charming. Women who question putting a man in charge of an endometriosis charity are bullying, while the man put in charge of an endometriosis charity and the woman who put him there are their victims. Welcome to Backwards World.… Read the rest



Muh muh muh pronouns

Nov 15th, 2023 10:11 am | By

The Vermont Daily Chronicle:

Following the resignation of a member of a Burlington Neighborhood Planning Assembly (NPA) over another member’s unwillingness to use preferred gender-related personal pronouns, the Burlington City Council Monday night approved a resolution to redraft NPA bylaws preventing ‘gender discrimination.’

You mean discrimination against women?

Hahaha of course not, don’t be so silly.

Lee Morrigan is a biological female who identifies as non-binary. Jeff Comstock refuses to use assigned pronouns at the NPA meetings because he considers them an effort to impose an agenda on individuals and society at large.

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Surprisingly stupid

Nov 15th, 2023 8:00 am | By

Kenny Farq is miffed that his staggeringly banal and clueless “let’s you compromise” column is attracting contempt and derision.

Who could have predicted that anyone would write such an absurdly clueless column for a serious newspaper?

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