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Aug 13th, 2023 5:15 pm |
By Ophelia Benson
An item from last month:
Now more than ever, cis female athletes must show solidarity with trans athletes
Must? Why?
Is there ever going to be a time when we’re told trans athletes must show solidarity with women?
Of course not. Stupid question. Women are privileged bitches, Karens, hags.
Johanna Mellis goes on:
Kathryn Bromwich argued that the main threat to us cisgender women comes from cisgender men, and not trans women. It is the same in sport: historically and currently, the common perpetrators of sexual assault, abuse and harassment in sport are cisgender men.
Trans women are men. Skip the “cis” label, which doesn’t mean anything. Trans women are men who pretend to be women, which doesn’t make them … Read the rest
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Aug 13th, 2023 4:27 pm |
By Ophelia Benson
Well, that’s up front.
Let trans women win, the protest sign says, meaning: let men cheat by competing against women. Let men win by pretending to be women so that they can easily win all the prizes. So they’re cheating, so what, let them win!!
You wouldn’t think they’d want to go with that.… Read the rest
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Aug 13th, 2023 11:29 am |
By Ophelia Benson
Colin Montgomerie telling women what we can and can’t say about men pretending to menstruate by wearing white jeans with a huge red blob in the crotch.
https://twitter.com/KatyMontgomerie/status/1690431049828868096
It’s good playful fun! Really!
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Aug 13th, 2023 10:26 am |
By Ophelia Benson
Nightclub sells the opportunity to spy on women:
A Scottish nightclub has installed a two-way mirror allowing male revellers to secretly spy on women when they visit the venue’s toilets.
Only clubbers who hire out either of the two £800-a-time private rooms at The Shimmy Club in Glasgow can view the spyglass which overlooks the sinks in the women’s toilets.
Similar to the those used in police interrogation rooms, the mirror allows revellers in the private function rooms to spy on those in the women’s toilets without their knowledge.
“Revellers” nothing. Evil men degrading women.
A picture taken inside one of the rooms and leaked on the internet shows two female clubbers applying make-up in the toilets completely unaware
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Aug 13th, 2023 9:57 am |
By Ophelia Benson
A lesbian* couple decided to try to “co-parent” a kid with another couple.
For us, the ideal parenting setup would consist of three or four of us sharing responsibility for a child (the others involved would also be responsible for providing the sperm).
The others? Not one of the others, but both of them? Really?
The way we see it, why not use the implicit obstacles we face as a same-sex couple to become parents in a way that works for us and redefines the family unit completely?
Ah. There’s actually an answer to that question. Or several answers, but one in particular is very basic. It’s because biological parents have a stake in the child that non-biological parents … Read the rest
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Aug 13th, 2023 9:27 am |
By Ophelia Benson
Brendan O’Neill on the idiocy of the atheist bros:
We are living through a great showdown between hysteria and reason. On one side stand the adherents to the cult of transgenderism, hawking their hocus pocus about gendered souls and self-authentication through castration. On the other side stand those of us who know that biology is real…
Not just castration of course. Genital mutilation on both sides, bilateral mastectomies, hysterectomies, cross-sex hormones, puberty blockers.
You’ll never guess which side some New Atheists are taking in this clash between delusion and truth. The crazy side. The side that says a bloke with a beard and balls can literally be a lesbian. Which is infinitely more cranky than the idea that a
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Aug 12th, 2023 4:37 pm |
By Ophelia Benson
The Daily Mail tells us:
A lesbian speed-dating event is at the centre of a transphobia row after the organiser insisted that only ‘adult human females’ can attend. It follows outrage from attendees at the popular weekly £15-a-head event, held in Bloomsbury in London, after trans women tried to join.
Lesbian means lesbian; it doesn’t mean man playing pretend-lesbian.
Last week, Jenny Watson, a town planner who runs the nights, posted on her website: ‘If you are male, please refrain from coming to the events, you are not a lesbian.’
Ms Watson told The Mail on Sunday: ‘Last year, a person turned up sporting a purple latex outfit… and an erection. Another time, a trans woman came into
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Aug 12th, 2023 2:36 pm |
By Ophelia Benson
Women must not be allowed to have anything. Not. one. thing.
https://twitter.com/ScotLesbians/status/1690409954027376640
I’d share more beautiful thoughts from Sandy Ally She/Her but she has me blocked (I’ve never heard of her) so I can’t.… Read the rest
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Aug 12th, 2023 2:17 pm |
By Ophelia Benson
Originally a comment by Cluecat on No further action.
Here is a fantastic example of the issue that a lot of Normies – including the police – are much more comfortable with the “Self-Diagnosed” “I’m so very quirky and speshul!” version of autism and other conditions, the kind of thing that is something to put into a social media bio, that gives the individual the right to interrupt and condesplain about “As a Neurodiverse person…”
You know, the kind of thing that doesn’t actually make day-to-day life particularly difficult. The kind of thing that can provide quite a nice living as a “Diversity Consultant” if you’re from the right background, once you age-out of being obnoxious on the internet … Read the rest
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Aug 12th, 2023 10:27 am |
By Ophelia Benson
Judge tells Trump to be cautious about the mouthing off.
A federal judge has warned former US President Donald Trump against making “inflammatory” statements which could taint the jury pool ahead of his trial for conspiring to overturn the result of the 2020 election.
But Judge Tanya Chutkan ruled that Mr Trump can publicly share some of the non-sensitive evidence which prosecutors disclose to his legal team.
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At a 90-minute hearing in Washington DC, the judge said the historic case was proceeding as normal. “He is a criminal defendant. He is going to have restrictions like every single other defendant,” she said. “The fact that the defendant is engaged in a political campaign is not going to allow
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Aug 12th, 2023 8:25 am |
By Ophelia Benson
NPR reported on July 25:
A jury has ordered anti-government extremist Ammon Bundy and associates to pay more than $50 million in damages to Idaho’s largest hospital in connection with armed protests last year that led to a security lockdown.
Remember him? The violent lunatic who invaded a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon, and violently stayed there for a couple of weeks, and got one of his followers killed, all because he thinks he should be allowed to graze his cattle on federal land for free?
The decision handed down late Monday follows a ten day civil trial in which Bundy was a no show and where attorneys with St. Luke’s Hospital outlined what they called an extensive campaign
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Aug 11th, 2023 2:28 pm |
By Ophelia Benson
The BBC “reports”:
A teenage girl arrested on suspicion of a homophobic public order offence will face no further action, police said.
A video uploaded to TikTok by her mother showed the autistic 16-year-old being detained outside her home in Leeds in the early hours of Monday.
The hell it does. The police detained her inside her home, as we’ve all seen from the video. Bare feet on carpeted stairs; the police tromping all over the carpeted floor of the hall; the 16-year-old cowering at the end of a short corridor; inside.
It’s possible that she said the shock-horror thing about the cop looking like a lesbian like her aunty outside the door; we don’t know, because that … Read the rest
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Aug 11th, 2023 10:35 am |
By Ophelia Benson
The NZ Herald on the puncher:
A young LGBTQ rights activist who was filmed punching a 71-year-old woman in the head during the heated Posie Parker counter-protest in Auckland this year has pleaded guilty to assault.
A young male activist. They just can’t stop themselves trying to defend the aggressors and accuse the victims when it comes to trans ideology, can they. It’s a young man who punched an elderly woman in the head, and that fact belongs in the lede.
The victim, who did not attend today’s hearing, told the Herald she was pleased to hear about the guilty plea.
“I am feeling very good today,” said the grandmother of six, who suffered a concussion and facial bruising
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Aug 11th, 2023 9:46 am |
By Ophelia Benson
Paragraph one sets the scene…with a sudden plot twist at the end.
When she woke up on July 14, Chelsea Wolfe’s life was—in her own words—perfect. Her tickets were booked for Scotland, her registration for Freestyle BMX as part of Team USA was confirmed, her bags were partially packed, her training was going according to plan. She sat down to a bowl of cereal before heading to the bike park for a training session, and opened up Instagram. That’s where she learned that the UCI had just instituted a ban on trans athletes, starting in three days.
It’s not subtle. Eight iterations of “she” or “her” before getting to the trans part. Chelsea Wolfe is a man.
“My world
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