The guy who dumped tomato sauce or soup or whatever it was on KJK brags about it:
https://twitter.com/ElianaRubashkyn/status/1639499718945574913This guy:
@ElianaRubashkyn the man that attacked kellie.. he should be charged pic.twitter.com/PI3rgsN1ll
— daz (@darrenkett2) March 25, 2023
Extra added dudely hatred of women:
https://twitter.com/ElianaRubashkyn/status/1639582734250299393… Read the restOf course he did.
https://twitter.com/IndiaWilloughby/status/1639422873008844801… Read the restHow the New Zealand Herald reported it:
More than 2000 counter-protesters – including one armed with a bottle of tomato soup – have seen British anti-trans activist Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull aborting her central Auckland rally.
How it should have reported it:
More than 2000 counter-protesters made so much noise and were so violent that women’s rights activist Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull was forced to cancel her central Auckland rally.
It does a little better in para 3:
… Read the restIn ugly scenes Keen-Minshull – who was in the country as part of her Let Women Speak tour aimed to support women’s rights – was drowned out by protesters galvanised by the LGBTQIA+ community.
As she was standing on the rotunda stage at Albert Park
Well. It seems that in Auckland, there was such a huge loud screaming mob that KJK wasn’t able to say anything, and was at one point afraid she and the people around her were going to be crushed to death.
In Auckland – henceforth to be known as Misogynistic Pimple on the Arse of the World Where Women's Rights Go to Die – #LetWomenSpeak protestors punched, assaulted and nearly crushed to death, while police fails to keep insane misogynistic mob at bay. https://t.co/pFkdm5JoJq
— la scapigliata (@lascapigliata8) March 24, 2023
Originally a comment by Sastra on On the cusp of instantiating the gender cult (by Der Durchwanderer).
It’s interesting that a “right to personal honor” is explicitly spelled out here, because I’ve been reading arguments that the Honor Culture of the past shares this concern with the emerging Culture of Victimhood. When a focus on public reputation is combined with a sensitivity to slights and a conviction that these must be avenged, the Enlightenment’s belief that humans have inherent dignity and a reasonable person ignores insults as beneath them loses ground. We return to the past — though with one significant difference.
In Honor Cultures, it was up to the person insulted to take revenge, usually through violence. The Culture … Read the rest
Originally a comment by Der Durchwanderer on People who menstruate.
(Are we quite sure “menstruate” shouldn’t be “peoplestruate”? Have we researched it?)
You jest, but I recently saw a campaign poster for the city state of Bremen with the Social Democrats campaigning “für Bremen und Brewomen”. I’m sure it won’t be long before the party is reeducated to add more nonsense to the slogan. Perhaps in the next election they’ll be “für Bremenschen”, which would at least be a fully German pun (unless of course they fear being seen as right-wing extremists for using German wordplay in Germany).
In the meantime, you can rest assured that in Germany, we’re allowed to use the word “woman” — indeed we may … Read the rest
Trump is inciting violence again.
Over on Truth Social, Trump indicates there could be “potential death and destruction” if he is charged in the Manhattan district attorney’s probe into hush money payments. pic.twitter.com/rI3fVllvdM
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) March 24, 2023
… Read the restThe posting after midnight on Truth Social, Trump’s social media platform, was his latest — and most explicit — allusion to violence that could follow an indictment stemming from an investigation led by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D), whom Trump called a “degenerate psychopath.”
Trump wrote: “What kind of person can charge another person, in this case a former President of the United States, who got more votes than any sitting President in history, and
The author of the article, Jo Faragher, is careful to avoid saying “women,” but the people she he they quotes not so much.
… Read the restBroadcaster Channel 4 has launched a period policy with the support of its gender equality employee network, 4Womxn.
The company said the policy would help employees who experience difficulties with their periods, particularly those who experience health conditions such as endometriosis or polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) and may be struggling to manage their symptoms at work.
As part of the policy, employees will be able to access flexible working arrangements, a working environment assessment, free period products in the office, and a microwaveable wheat bag to ease painful symptoms. It will also offer a quiet room
Trump having a normal one.
Over on Truth Social, Trump indicates there could be “potential death and destruction” if he is charged in the Manhattan district attorney’s probe into hush money payments. pic.twitter.com/rI3fVllvdM
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) March 24, 2023
All this angst and hand-wringing and mollification over something that should never have been an issue in the first place.
World Athletics has voted to ban transgender women from elite female competitions if they have undergone male puberty, in a decision the governing body said had been taken to “protect the future of the female category”.
Speaking after the ruling, which comes into effect on 31 March, the World Athletics president, Seb Coe, accepted that the decision would be contentious but said his sport had been guided by the “overarching principle” of fairness, as well as the science around physical performance and male advantage.
As it should have been all along. “Males not allowed in female competitions” – that shouldn’t … Read the rest
The doctor of marketing has thought of an exciting new angle.
One thing I have noticed about the anti-trans crowd is that they seem to be almost entirely middle aged and older. They’re closed minded and don’t accept the world changing around them. They can’t keep up. They’re backward. I have hope younger generations aren’t so hateful.
— Victoria Fielding (@DrVicFielding) March 22, 2023
That’s the ticket! Women over 35 are hags and witches! What an original and perceptive new insight.
… Read the restJo Bartosch in The Critic on the mobbing of Moira Deeming:
… Read the restDeeming is facing a vote to have her removed from the Liberal Party for “organising, promoting and attending” a Standing for Women (SfW) rally that was gatecrashed by far-right extremists. In a statement following the event, Deeming said neither she nor SfW had done anything wrong, and that the “event was attended by Muslims, Christians, Atheists and members of the Greens, Labor, LDP and Liberal Parties”.
SfW organise events in countries around the world with the aim of encouraging women to talk freely about the impact of transgender activism on their lives. The gatecrashers at the SfW rally in Melbourne were later identified as members of the National Socialist Network. Dressed in black,
The smug self-admiration of Billy Bragg is a sight to behold.
Because I’m in the business of calling out hate merchants, not sitting down with them while they lecture me on the error of my ways.
— Billy Bragg (@billybragg) March 24, 2023
He says, merching hatred of women as hard as he can.… Read the rest
Call me crazy but I kind of think schools should try to teach things that are true as opposed to made-up wacky fantasy.
Scottish children as young as 11 are being taught in school that they are “queer” if they do not yet know their sexual orientation, it has emerged.
So….infants are queer, babies are queer, toddlers are queer. That doesn’t sound very true.
Teaching materials at Boroughmuir High School, Edinburgh’s top state school, also claim that there are three biological sexes and suggest that highly controversial concepts around sex and gender are facts.
Highly controversial, and new, and derived from fashion and nagging rather than biology.
… Read the restThe Boroughmuir High presentation states that “queer” is a term “many people
World Athletics has banned trans women from international competition, Sebastian Coe has confirmed.
That is, World Athletics has banned men from international competition. You’d think it would go without saying. If it’s women’s, it’s not men’s.
The governing body has opted to exclude male-to-female transgender athletes and those with differences in sex development (DSD) from female competition if they have gone through male puberty.
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Lord Coe, president of World Athletics, has confirmed the “difficult” decision to change its rules starting on 31 March.
“Difficult” only because of tons of senseless pressure. I actually remember when everyone took it for granted that things for women were for women.
… Read the rest“The decision that the council made is a
Starmer is perhaps reconsidering.
Sir Keir Starmer signalled a climbdown on Labour’s transgender stance on Thursday as he said lessons have to be learned from Scotland.
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Sir Keir had previously vowed to reform the Gender Recognition Act to allow trans people to self-identify, but appeared to back away from the pledge during a press conference in Stoke-on-Trent.
Sir Keir told reporters: “I think that if we reflect on what’s happened in Scotland, the lesson I take from that is that if you’re going to make reforms, you have to carry the public with you.”
But who says they are reforms? Changes aren’t automatically reforms. If you’re going to make “reforms” that trash women’s rights, you don’t have … Read the rest
Very fair and impartial reporting from the Guardian:
The independent senator Lidia Thorpe was pulled to the ground after attempting to storm the stage at a rally in Canberra held by anti-trans activist Kellie-Jay Keen, who also goes by the name of Posie Parker.
Draped in an Aboriginal flag, Thorpe struggled with police before she was stopped by them; she returned to the pro-trans rights rally to cheers.
Except that “anti-trans” isn’t the right label. The issue is the way trans ideology is shredding women’s rights. That’s too long for a label, but “anti-trans” is too inaccurate and prejudicial for a label.
… Read the restThorpe, who recently staged a protest attempting to block the Sydney Mardi Gras parade to protest Indigenous
As Fox News continued to broadcast lies about Dominion voting systems and the 2020 election, Tucker Carlson, one of its star hosts, used one word over and over to describe what the network was doing – “reckless”.
Those messages were the first pieces of evidence Justin Nelson, a lawyer representing Dominion, displayed on Tuesday as he began his argument for why a judge should rule the network defamed his client. “Reckless was a meaningful word” – in order to win the case, Nelson has to prove that Fox acted with “actual malice” – that its hosts, producers, and executives knew the statements were false or acted with reckless disregard to the truth.
Interesting. “Reckless … Read the rest
What the Senator said about her intentions in storming up to KJK from behind and yelling “You don’t belong here!”:
Indigenous Senator Lidia Thorpe says she was “pulverised” by police at Kellie-Jay Keen’s anti-trans protest outside Parliament House in Canberra @australian pic.twitter.com/kCs0JUVXuz
— Jess Malcolm (@jessmalcolm1) March 23, 2023
“We do not tolerate this kind of filth being on Ngunnawal and Ngambri country. This Nazi support that these people have – they are racist, they are homophobic, they are destroying people’s lives. This country should be ashamed that they even let people like this in this country. Now I went to tell her, or that thing – that they are not welcome here. I got pulverized by … Read the rest
Mr Menno is paying attention.
https://twitter.com/MrMennoTweets/status/1638799268688564224If you’re going to go wrestling the police it seems kind of stupid to wear a short tight skirt and high-heeled shoes with no backs. Jeans and trainers next time.
https://twitter.com/MrMennoTweets/status/1638801486019719170 https://twitter.com/MrMennoTweets/status/1638813418609156097 https://twitter.com/MrMennoTweets/status/1638815553866301440… Read the rest
