Originally a comment by Bruce Gorton on The trees will speak.

Me

“falsely claiming Israel is a totally innocent, ”

Nobody has claimed that. At all. If anything this is you projecting your view of Palestine onto us.

Israel is an ethnostate, that in and of itself creates problems. Palestine would equally well be an ethnostate, just a much worse run one.

We can all rattle off issues with Israel past and present. We are well aware of the bullshit you’ve been spouting, those issues do not excuse the targeted mass rape, murder and abduction of civilians.

7 October fully justified a military response.

That means that yes, if Hamas use their civilian population as shields, a lot of … Read the rest

I saw this:

I can only applaud Primavada Gopal's extraordinary change of heart regarding free speech.

Only last year she signed an open letter to the board of Advance HE denouncing them for allowing me to speak for 15 minutes at a 1-day conference in Birmingham. https://t.co/rAbNcEkI3S https://t.co/FHkr02DzZs

— Professor Alice Sullivan (@ProfAliceS) November 9, 2023

So I decided to read the open letter to the Board of AdvanceHE. It’s what we’d expect – they always are, aren’t they.

Dear Board Members, 

As members of the higher education (HE) sector, who believe that equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) are crucial to the future of the sector, we recognise the importance of Advance HE’s work in this area. Advance HE

So Northumbria Police harassed a woman for saying men are not women, and because the police harassed her for stating an obvious banal truth, Newcastle United FC did its bit by punishing her further. Who else is going to step up? Will she be banned from the buses? Thrown out of Waitrose? Escorted out of the library?

A gender-critical Newcastle United fan says the club have suspended her membership because police investigated her for tweeting that “trans women are men”.

The cops investigate women for saying men are men, and then everyone else steps up to punish those wicked shameless whorey women who know that men are men. Welcome to the new Inquisition, so much more inclusive and diverse … Read the rest

Originally a comment by Bjarte Foshaug on No escape for women ever.

For being one of the most THE most powerless, oppressed, and persecuted group in the history of the multiverse, People of Gender sure seem to have it their way to an unusual degree.

Would Jews in Nazi Germany be be able to tell Aryans exactly what they were obligated to say unless they wanted “a formal complaint” and “a police visit?”, and would the German Police at the time be doing their bidding by showing up at the door of ordinary civilians for making non-threatening statements that some Jews might consider offensive?

Would the Taliban regime in Afghanistan – or anywhere else for that matter – have … Read the rest

What could possibly go wrong?

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— Maya Forstater (@MForstater) November 11, 2023

Local governments should be asserting, unequivocally, that men are women.… Read the rest

I still have trouble believing this happened.

Here is the condensed version of the police interview. The woman – a lesbian, terrified by @NPNland – had the presence of mind to go No Comment. The police stated her tweets were contrary to the Malicious Communications Act and threatened her with arrest if she declined to attend…

— WeAreFairCop (@WeAreFairCop) November 11, 2023

So do you use the social media platform X? Why do you use social media? How often do you tweet?

You use ‘He/The’ in your bio. What did you mean by this?

This says ‘Just your daily reminder that trans women are men.’ What did you mean by this? Do you think this could be seen as offensive

The quandary of how much tolerance we can tolerate never ends.

In a free society we are meant to tolerate the intolerant. But there is a point when appeasing intolerance becomes a death wish.

The paradox, and the extremes, of our tolerance for the intolerant came to life in Bankstown’s Al Madina Dawah Centre last week when Muslim cleric Abu Ousayd delivered a sermon about killing Jews.

Ousayd is his new name. This man is better known as jihadi preacher Wissam Haddad, who previously has expressed support for terrorist groups Islamic State and al-Qa’ida.

Haddad cited Islamic scripture and parables about “the end of times” when Muslims would be fighting Jews and “the trees will speak”. “They will say ‘oh

Great god almighty. Unreal.

1. Yesterday, a lesbian woman was interviewed under caution by @northumbriapol for saying Trans Women are men. They interviewed her despite a warning from Fair Cop to leave her alone. This is the transcript. @SuellaBraverman @SpeechUnion

Read it all. It is terrifying. pic.twitter.com/xj1AnHuQNW

— WeAreFairCop (@WeAreFairCop) November 11, 2023

WeAreFairCop is livid, and rightly so.

6. The Chief Constable is @CCJardineNP. She is a leading advocate for the LGBT Police Network. This is her when she was radicalising West Yorkshire. pic.twitter.com/kfLPgF9GXT

— WeAreFairCop (@WeAreFairCop) November 11, 2023

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Sastra reminded us today of Freddie deBoer and I’m wondering why I haven’t been reading him all along. From August: Prologue to an Anti-Therapeutic, Anti-Affirmation Movement. I like it already – I’m beyond tired of the constant demands for “affirmation” of utter bullshit.

Dude has a way with words.

It frequently seems like canceling has run out of steam, as a disciplinary tactic; you watch people on social media trying to get somebody canceled, these days, and it sometimes feels like watching them trying and failing to get a pull-cord lawnmower started.

I need to watch the people he’s watching, because the ones I see have all too much success – but I love the punchline.

I’m not predicting

Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on About that capacity to persevere.

Perhaps Museum London is preparing her for the next round of this exhibition by giving Hutchison further opportunities to “persevere through all kinds of different challenges.” Being cancelled is just another “different challenge.”

And as for any trans participation in this event, surely there’s no greater challenge than standing up against what is possible in the realm of material reality. A man claiming he’s a woman demonstrates a Sisyphean resilience in the face of the permanently unattainable. Or to throw in another classical allusion of perpetual torment, being constantly misgendered is just like the punishment of Prometheus, having his ever-regrowing liver eaten anew each day … Read the rest

That letter from Museum London [Ontario] merits close attention.

That second paragraph. The Ontario Human Rights Commission says “the words people use to describe themselves and others are very important.”

Are they though? Especially the ones they use to describe themselves? People have a tendency to think more about themselves than others, to flatter themselves more than others, to puff up their descriptions of themselves more than others. People have a tendency to think they matter more than others. Maybe all this huffing and puffing about idennniny and the words people use to go on and on and on about themselves is not a new form of Justice or Empowerment or Incloosion but just more of the same old vanity … Read the rest

Another woman punished, banished, called harsh names for the greater glory of men who claim to be women.

"BREAKING:
I now face a 2-year ban by the CPU for speaking publicly about the unfairness of biological males being allowed to taunt female competitors & loot their winnings.

Apparently, I have failed in my gender-role duties as “supporting actress” in the horror show that is my… pic.twitter.com/CJxVZtG0VA

— April Hutchinson (@Lea_Christina4) November 7, 2023

“BREAKING: I now face a 2-year ban by the CPU for speaking publicly about the unfairness of biological males being allowed to taunt female competitors & loot their winnings. Apparently, I have failed in my gender-role duties as “supporting actress” in the horror show that is my

The latest on the corruption of Clarence Thomas:

Leonard Leo is a longtime Federalist Society leader and a key architect of the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority. He also steers a network of nonprofits that promote conservative causes in the courts and beyond.

Leo arranged for Ginni Thomas’s for-profit firm, Liberty Consulting, to receive an unknown sum for a contract that was to have “no mention of Ginni.” In 2012, he told pollster Kellyanne Conway that he wanted her to “give” Ginni Thomas “another $25k,” documents show. He directed Conway to get the money by billing a nonprofit he advises. In a statement to The Post, Leo praised the work by Conway and Ginni Thomas as an “invaluable resource.”

Since

P. G. Wodehouse is now writing the scripts for gender havers.

Bingo Allison the non binary priest (who is of course a straight bloke). We really do live in a bloody South Park episode pic.twitter.com/uNQvrAArBl

— Dennis Noel Kavanagh (@Jebadoo2) November 10, 2023

Bingo the Non-binary Priest – it should be a whole series, shelved next to the Molesworth oeuvre.

My favorite part is the fact that our man Bingo thinks the Bible was written in contemporary English.… Read the rest

Originally a comment by Bjarte Foshaug on How long a chain of logic do you have to use?

…but one thing I think matters is: how long a chain of logic do you have to use to reach the conclusion that this affects someone’s ability to do the job?

Of course, if the reasoning is sound, and the premises are solid, even a long chain of logic can lead to a justified conclusion. Too often, however, the conclusion is simply claimed to follow while the actual premises and inferences are best left unspecified.

It’s very similar to the way “worker’s rights”, “egalitarianism”, “solidarity”, “anti-imperialism”, “anti-colonialism”, “anti-fascism” etc. in the Soviet Union or Mao’s China were basically just synonyms for “whatever … Read the rest

Horrible bossy fool gloats at the prospect of getting people in trouble with the law for not lying about what sex ThEy is.

2. … appropriate to a person’s (in my case legal) identity would constitute detrimental treatment, or it would amount harassment ie. unwanted behaviour that: violates the person's dignity. created an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment …

— Prof. Stephen Whittle OBE, PhD, DLaws, FAcSS, (@stephenwhittle) November 9, 2023

4. … in that way, & by the 3rd or 4th occasion you would discover a formal complaint made & have a police visit. @threadreaderapp unroll

— Prof. Stephen Whittle OBE, PhD, DLaws, FAcSS, (@stephenwhittle) November 9, 2023

What about the intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive … Read the rest

Originally a comment by Screechy Monkey on Without forgetting her nursing training.

I’ve been trying to sort out my views on when someone’s statements or behavior outside of their work capacity should justify disciplinary action. (I mean morally justify, not what the legal lines are.)

It’s hard to come up with a formulation that doesn’t involve a lot of case-by-case judgment. The extreme bright-line rules don’t seem workable to me. It just can’t be the case that an employer should shrug and ignore a manager who is posting statements about how members of group X are intellectualy inferior, etc. — that obviously raises concerns that such a person can’t fairly make hiring/firing/employee evaluation decisions. Ditto for someone who is … Read the rest

Also from Reduxx:

A male athlete who has dominated the women’s category of cycling competitions across the United States took home two first-place medals over the weekend, bringing his tally of women’s gold medals up to 10 since December of 2022.

So that’s ten gold medals stolen from a woman.

Tessa Johnson, a male who self-identifies as a woman, took the top spots in both the Women’s SingleSpeed and Category 1/2 races, with the latter also coming with $150 in prize money.

During the races, which fell on the weekend before Halloween, Johnson was dressed as Barbie as part of the optional costume competition.

Attaboy: cheat the women and mock them at the same time.

According to the Chicago

Reduxx a couple of months ago:

An LGBTI rights organization in France is calling on the Minister of Equality to intervene in the case of a gynecologist who they are accusing of “transphobia.”

On September 8, SOS Homophobie, which describes itself as a “national association against LGBTIphobia” took to X (formerly Twitter) to condemn a gynecologist for stating he only provided services to females. The comment from Dr. Victor Acharian, who operates in the Pau region, was made in reply to a Google review he received in which a trans-identified male’s partner complained that Acharian refused to provide services to him.

« Je m’occupe des vraies femmes ».
Nous dénonçons les propos #transphobes et discriminatoires du gynécologue Victor

The BBC offers training for female self-shooters.

Female Self Shooters is a practical self-shooting skills training programme for factual TV and documentary, supported [by] the BBC.

Good good good. Thanks, BBC.

Aimed at female (and those identifying as female) TV producers or those at producer level, who will be in a position to use the acquired skills after the training, e.g. as 2nd camera operators, shooting taster tapes or directing your own self-shot film. 

Oh. Never mind.

Dirty trick, BBC.… Read the rest