Originally a comment by Seanna Watson on Nope.

“Ectopic” technically just means “out of place” – in the case of a pregnancy that means it’s not in the uterus. The most common misplaced location is in the Fallopian tube, since that’s where eggs tend to be. (If untreated, tubal pregnancies are usually fatal to the mother.) But there is also the remote possibility of the egg being fertilized while floating free in the abdomen, and implanting in some random location. Bodies are indeed weird, and the development of the parasitic organism (aka embryo) apparently does not actually require the uterus – it can make its own placenta attached anywhere as long as it can find sufficient connection to do … Read the rest

What looms ahead:

In the interview [with Tucker Carlson], Trump said that his administration was hampered by bad staffing choices — picking a kind of Republican he derisively referred to as “Bushies” for top jobs, citing former Attorney General Bill Barr as an example. This time around, Trump said, that won’t happen: “We’ll have even better people if we do this because now I know Washington.”

There’s every reason to believe he’s serious about this. Reporting by the New York Times’s Jonathan Swan and others has revealed extensive preparations to ensure that, this time around, everyone in power is loyal to him — including brazen power grabs like the mass firing of career civil servants and asserting direct presidential

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Now remember, kids, always be polite even when in a temper. Don’t ever call a trans woman a wanker, call her a cunt. Be polite I tell you.

The Telegraph elucidates:

Calling a trans woman a ‘w—-r’ is discriminatory because the insult is commonly used in reference to men, an employment tribunal has suggested.

“We suggest you call her a ‘cunt’ instead,” the panel suggested.

The swear word is not a gender-neutral term and so using it against someone who has transitioned would constitute a breach of equality laws, a panel concluded.

To insult a trans woman without being discriminatory, female-specific slurs should be used instead, the tribunal suggested.

What a glorious future awaits us, as all the … Read the rest

Originally a comment by Rev David Brindley on Suddenly policing feminism.

If your feminism is inclusive of all, then it ain’t feminism.

Caro also retweeted yesterday about a woman she described as courageous, and that was the correct descriptor.

However, she never sees as courageous those women who stand against men’s intrusion in women’s spaces.

Caro has enormous clout and contact in Australia but never uses that to support oppressed women like those in Tasmania and Victoria who are fighting for Lesbian meetings to exclude males, like Sall Grover, who is fighting for her reputation and her business, like Angie Jones who is harassed by politicians for being a Nazi because nazis happened to march past Let Women … Read the rest

Yo Molly what’s up?

Molly Cameron. Still competing in women’s cycling events. Yes, really. #SaveWomensSports pic.twitter.com/CExegLYLcV

— Jill Foster (@JournalistJill) August 23, 2023

Love the necklace and bracelet.

Not so sure about that…erm…garment below the navel.

But he just wants to do sports!!!!

He’s a man. He can race them. Let’s see how far he gets

—1) (@NoShirleyNo) August 23, 2023

Trumps just want to be president and steal all the money. Men just want to compete against women and win all the prizes and money. Won’t someone think of the poor sad men and their dreams?

1. (🟥Hackney Dr. of Terfery [↩]

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Trump’s habit of stiffing the help may come back to bite him.

The multiplying charges brought against allies of former President Trump and their mounting legal fees are creating consternation in Trump world — while presenting a real risk to the former president.

Trump has burned through millions of dollars in donor money to pay for legal fees as he defends himself against charges in New York City, Florida, Georgia and Washington, D.C.

But the former president, who has built a reputation for stiffing workers, has shown no interest in providing financial aid to former aides charged over their efforts to keep him in power. 

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As Trump’s aid to allies trickles, some warn failing to take on their

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No. Get out, Peter. You’re not the boss of women. Get out.

Some people are women based on biological sex

Others are women based on gender identity

They are not the same. They're different but equally valid

Both types of women are victims of sexism, rape & violence

Unite! Fight the misogyny that harms all women, including trans pic.twitter.com/hYsDqzps52

— Peter Tatchell (@PeterTatchell) August 23, 2023

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Sigh.

I loathe how an inclusive movement like feminism has been hijacked by some who want to use it to demonise a small & vulnerable group of people. This thread is heartbreaking. My feminism is inclusive. https://t.co/l1MY4r9vXE

— Jane Caro (@JaneCaro) August 22, 2023

What is that even supposed to mean? Feminism isn’t “inclusive” – it’s not about men, and it disagrees with women who oppose feminism. No substantive political category can be “inclusive” in some over-arching way because it’s for X and against Y, so bang goes your inclusion.

Being “inclusive” in that broad sense just isn’t the goal, and never has been, and can’t be. I doubt that Caro herself is “inclusive” in that broad sense – we … Read the rest

Pink News of course is ecstatic.

Queer community celebrates Emily Bridges’ ‘sensational’ inclusion on influential British Vogue list

By “inclusion” of course they mean “inclusion” in the category “women.”

The “queer community” celebrates, they tell us – I wonder if the gay community does. Do gay men really want to have sex with trans men? Do they want to be bullied and called names and shunned if they decline to have sex with trans men? Is there a limit to their celebration of inclooosion?

Trans cyclist Emily Bridges has been included in a list of influential women by British Vogue magazine.

Which is stupid and insulting, because he’s a man. It also deprives one woman of a place on that … Read the rest

Victoria Smith explains why we have to resist this crap.

At risk of promoting another outburst, I’d suggest that Bridges doesn’t deserve to be on Vogue’s list, either. Much as I’m aware this will lead to charges of being “exclusionary” — indeed, trolling feminists was likely part of the point — I don’t think that we should let these things pass. If it matters that women have power, and that exceptional women are recognised, then it also matters to recognise how and why we need lists like this.

I’ve been thinking “trolling feminists was likely part of the point” myself. First I was thinking “Why do they keep doing this shit???” – “they” being all the news outlets and … Read the rest

Colin Montgomerie perpetuates the lie.

Vogue features Emily Bridges, the British trans cyclist who is fighting to end the ban on trans athletes https://t.co/fEKDX3M1Sz pic.twitter.com/r3ale21yzW

— Katy Montgomerie 🦗 (@KatyMontgomerie) August 22, 2023

There is no “ban on trans athletes.” Some sports have belatedly stopped letting men invade women’s sports.

And what the hell is a “trans cyclist”? Someone who drives a car in cycling races?… Read the rest

I’m so tired of the insults.

It is really is kind of amazing that the one athlete in Vogue's list of "25 Powerhouse Women" is – not a Lioness, not an Olympian, but… Emily Bridges https://t.co/2Lza3QCAto

— Hadley Freeman (@HadleyFreeman) August 23, 2023

Don’t include men who say they are women in lists of women. Stop doing that. Just stop.

Here’s the incorrect aka dishonest Vogue headline:

Cyclist Emily Bridges has been competitively racing since she was 10 years old, but now, due to new policies introduced by British Cycling, she’s been banned from competing in the women’s category. https://t.co/g8Q9IWAIo9

— British Vogue (@BritishVogue) August 22, 2023

He wasn’t “banned from competitive cycling,” and he wasn’t banned from women’s … Read the rest

Uh, no they can’t.

https://twitter.com/ianshutters/status/1694067379095966023… Read the rest

Ah good, they’re all safe.

Pakistan’s interior ministry says the remaining three people have been rescued from the cable car, meaning the operation has now concluded.

Life is precarious in mountainous regions with weak infrastructure. Homemade cable cars are abundant in north-western Pakistan.… Read the rest

The National (Scotland) publishes a sack of drivel by one Emma Grae about Graham Linehan the Heretic:

After I tweeted in defence of trans women following the jailing of convicted trans rapist Isla Byrson earlier this year, stating that painting all trans women with the same brush as her is equivalent comparing all cisgender women to Myra Hindley, he called me a “vichy feminist” and challenged me to name “a few more Myra Hindleys”.

What the hell is a trans rapist? Bryson is a real rapist. He’s a trans woman but he’s not a trans rapist. And that comparison is ridiculous. All women=half the people on the planet; all trans women=a tiny fraction of people on the planet.

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All the other Pythons went to the Imperial.… Read the rest

The sack of Rome – the Black Death – crossing the Atlantic – the Hindenburg – trans people were front and center on all occasions.

'A transwoman made the first hole in the Berlin Wall' is meant to be a piss-take. But Robin here – originally from Somerset, and around 24 at the time – really is claiming some of the credit for the collapse of the Eastern Bloc 👀 pic.twitter.com/yL3gGxWCpj

— Simon Edge (@simonjedge) August 22, 2023

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And at the same time everyone is pointing and laughing at the eleventy seventh idenniny crisis of Mx Knox.

His child and partner came out as transgender. Now @RowanJetteKnox writes on confronting trauma and the freedom of coming out as trans himself. His new memoir is out this September.

Until then, read his exclusive essay: https://t.co/U7zZXIX7wu

— Toronto Star (@TorontoStar) August 21, 2023

Oooooooooooh does he? Despite having done so before, and before that, and…? How exciting!

The Star hastily closed comments, but not before one speedy responder had time to say “No one cares.”… Read the rest

This is so pathetically stupid and destructive.

https://twitter.com/Amandycat/status/1693644818205872168

That’s the first tweet of…I don’t know, forty? Fifty? Way too many. The point of it all, of course, is that terfs are evil and it’s all their fault.

https://twitter.com/Amandycat/status/1693645655632138489

Only the third tweet of this enormous thread, and already we see the all too familiar problem: she thinks it’s “trans-hostile” to know that people can’t change sex and that trans ideology obliterates women’s rights. She confuses rejection of trans ideology with hatred of her “niece.”

Many tweets later –

https://twitter.com/Amandycat/status/1693652141796188626

That’s nice, that’s reasonable, that’s level-headed. People who know that boys are not girls are Nazis determined to destroy people.

https://twitter.com/Amandycat/status/1693653686256337185

Yep, she really is saying that we’re working up to … Read the rest

Trump uses racist tropes in his verbal attacks on prosecutors and similar.

Donald Trump’s aggressive response to his fourth criminal indictment in five months follows a strategy he has long used against legal and political opponents: relentless attacks, often infused with language that is either overtly racist or is coded in ways that appeal to racists.

The early Republican presidential front-runner has used terms such as “animal” and “rabid” to describe Black district attorneys. He has accused Black prosecutors of being “racist.” He has made unsupported claims about their personal lives. And on his social media platform, Truth Social, Trump has deployed terms that rhyme with racial slurs as some of his supporters post racist screeds about the same targets.

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