Meanwhile –
https://twitter.com/N3KOcardiff/status/1486060042000420869 https://twitter.com/N3KOcardiff/status/1486115863224848387A surprise? Why? It’s women they hate.
https://twitter.com/N3KOcardiff/status/1486118375168385024“Cute” characters who don’t suggest trans people in any way, thus promoting the happy-clappy fiction that trans people just need to be Who They Really Are (which is a cute anime character).
https://twitter.com/N3KOcardiff/status/1485752128908009473… Read the restGwent police have issued a statement about their ludicrous and abusive arrest of Jennifer Swayne on Sunday.
Statement following a 53-year-old woman from Newport being arrested on suspicion of criminal damage and displaying threatening or abusive writing likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress.
But there was no reason for “suspicion of displaying threatening or abusive writing.” All they had to do was look.
I don’t think it’s normal police practice to arrest people for putting posters on lampposts. I think they give tickets or citations; I don’t think they haul people off to jail.
… Read the restSuperintendent Vicki Townsend said:
“We’ve received several reports in relation to posters containing offensive material appearing in Newport between October and January.
“Officers on patrol
Here’s a piece of good news at last – racial gerrymandering is racial gerrymandering.
Alabama Republicans illegally discriminated against Black voters when they drew the state’s seven new congressional districts last year and must quickly redraw the plan, a federal court has ruled.
The ruling is hugely consequential, a blunt assessment of the way lawmakers use their power to draw district lines to dilute the influence of Black and other minority voters.
Pending lawsuits in North Carolina and Texas similarly allege that lawmakers illegally drew districts on the basis of race.
It sounds as if this could be the undoing of the Shelby ruling. Unless of course the Supremes get involved.
… Read the restThe seventh congressional district in Alabama, which
It seems like such a self-immolating way to sell one’s new book.
A critic who reviewed my new book made a huge fuss about refusing to use my preferred pronouns in the review. My publishers made the mistake of politely informing the magazine. I would have warned them against it, knowing how vicious transphobes can be to LGBTQ authors. >
— Laurie Penny (@PennyRed) January 25, 2022
Eye roll. Of course Julie Bindel didn’t make “a huge fuss.” Laurie Penny, on the other hand…
… Read the restReferring to a person by a name or with a pronoun you know will hurt them is a quick, easy way to let the world know who you are. Anyone can make a mistake, but doing
Man writing about Lia Thomas in the Times pretends not to know what everyone knows:
So much is open to interpretation each time Thomas jumps into the pool. She is a transgender woman, and has excelled this season while competing on the women’s team. She owns the best marks in the nation among college swimmers in the 200 and 500 freestyle, but for some, her success has also set two pillars of the sporting ethos — inclusion and fair play — in conflict.
So little is open to interpretation if you’re not being dishonest. Thomas is a man, so of course he “has excelled” while competing on the women’s team. He’s excelled by cheating.
… Read the restThomas has become a red-meat topic
The title is a story all by itself.
Laurie Penny drops a bomb on The Critic magazine in pronoun row
Pronoun row? Next up: all out nuclear conjunction exchange.
AUTHOR Laurie Penny has criticised Right-wing magazine The Critic as “rude and childish” for failing to use their preferred pronouns.
First sentence, and already we see why pronouns should be accurate as opposed to Crafted to Your Personal Taste. Whose preferred pronouns – the magazine’s? Laurie Penny’s? It’s not clear. That can happen anyway, when there is more than one she or he or they, but using the accurate ones at least keeps those ambiguities to a minimum. Using luxury pronouns does the opposite, with a vengeance.
And then of course … Read the rest
Sarah Phillimore summarizes a podcast on which Jennifer Swayne talks about her experience in the Newport jail last night.
She has splints on her arm. They put her arm up her back and she screamed. She said she was not moving. They got a van. Hardly any room to fit her in. In the end she had to lie on her back.
— Sarah Phillimore (@SVPhillimore) January 24, 2022
JV – Harry Miller's victory seems to have no effect in Wales. Why is that?
JS – I don't know. Police officer's eyes looked dead, as if in a cult.— Sarah Phillimore (@SVPhillimore) January 24, 2022
Yes seriously why IS this? Why can they put a disabled woman in a … Read the rest
Newt Gingrich, a former House speaker and candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, stoked outrage on Sunday by predicting members of the House committee investigating the Capitol attack will be imprisoned if Republicans retake the chamber this year.
So he’s saying the Republicans plan to kill what’s left of US democracy if they win.
… Read the restOne of two Republicans on the committee, Liz Cheney, said: “A former speaker of the House is threatening jail time for members of Congress who are investigating the violent attack on our Capitol and our constitution. This is what it looks like when the rule of law unravels.”
…
Calling the members of the 6 January committee “wolves [who] are going to
LP keeps revealing herself to be…how shall I put this…not all that bright.
Anti-woke windbags tell themselves that not using people’s preferred pronouns makes them cool and edgy.
Actually, it just makes them rude.
It’s childish, it’s tiresome, it’s anti-intellectual- and it shows how threatened they are by the ideas of a more progressive generation.— Laurie Penny (@PennyRed) January 24, 2022
Like that. It’s not just that it’s wrong, it’s that it’s dim. Clumsy, inaccurate, clunky, backassward – just dim.
We’re not notable for windbaggery. We don’t talk more than other people. It’s just a sloppy label, that falls off because it doesn’t fit.
And then telling ourselves not using luxury pronouns makes us cool and edgy??? Could … Read the rest
Remember, women, you are not allowed to have anything that’s for women only. If you try you will be hounded and pursued until the last cruise ship melts.
https://twitter.com/salltweets/status/1485574372308189187“Will this error be fixed?” the pretend-journalist asks. It’s not an error you miserable woman-hating creep. … Read the rest
The police are there to protect you. No wait, not you. Other people. Male people. The clean ones.
The Metropolitan police have apologised and paid compensation to an academic for “sexist, derogatory and unacceptable language” used by officers about her when she was strip-searched.
“What’s that smell? Oh, it’s her knickers,” officers at a north-east London police station said to each other after Dr Konstancja Duff was held down on the floor and her clothes cut off. “Is she rank?” another said.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Apologizing isn’t enough. Compensation isn’t enough. They need to fire people, and hire a lot more women, and put a stop to this kind of dehumanizing shit.
… Read the restThe Met apologised to Duff, an assistant professor of
Julie Bindel reviewed Laurie Penny’s long unawaited book on “feminism” for The Critic.
One of the key problems with Sexual Revolution is its very premise: that we can explain misogyny in its current form with the growth of right-wing ideology and fascism. This excuses a huge growth area in modern misogyny, which is the so-called male progressives: men on the left.
Excuses it and draws a tactful veil over it. An actual feminist wouldn’t want to do that.
… Read the restAnd its style can be grating. Penny’s schtick has always been to overwrite her sentences to the point where they become tediously indulgent while saying little. For example, Penny says:
Something has broken. Something is breaking still. Not like a glass breaks
Also speaking of cruise ships…
On the fourth day of a seven-day Mexican Riviera cruise, Jesse Suphan and other passengers onboard the Carnival Cruise Line’s Panorama were denied entry at the port of Puerto Vallarta, because of the number of onboard coronavirus cases. That was the first Mr. Suphan heard about the virus spreading on the ship.
“The captain announced that five people had tested positive for Covid and were quarantining,” Mr. Suphan, a 39-year-old revenue cycle manager, recalled in a telephone interview. “But, then, talking to the crew, they told me there were between 100 and 150 crew members who also tested positive, but the captain didn’t mention that.”
Well naturally not. That might have a harmful effect … Read the rest
The Crystal Symphony left Miami on Jan. 8, as scheduled, on a two-week cruise. On the way back, things took an unexpected turn.
The climate changed?
The ship was scheduled to arrive in Miami on Saturday, but mid-trip, a United States federal judge ordered the cruise ship seized over a lawsuit regarding unpaid fuel bills. The ship changed course for Bimini, in the Bahamas, according to a cruise tracker, rather than sail into the clutches of federal authorities.
In other words the ship went on the lam. Such an ethical industry.
… Read the restSteven Fales, 51, an actor and playwright, was on the cruise with a couple of friends “hoping that the pandemic would end and trying
The Gwent cops certainly seem terrified about these OffenSive posters.
‼️ We are investigating a number of posters containing offensive material being installed throughout #Newport.
Please do not remove any posters yourself. Instead, call 101 or send us a direct message on social media. The relative authority will then be alerted to safely remove.
— Gwent Police | Newport Officers (@GPNewport) January 21, 2022
“Safely” remove – because they’re radioactive, you see, and poisonous, and wired to explode, and laced with razor blades. Stay 500 feet back and summon the helicopters.
Although this may explain why you dislike women talking about DV.https://t.co/p2Xg7GJLce
— For Women Scotland (@ForWomenScot) January 24, 2022
Well no wonder they’re mad at women. Male … Read the rest
The dangerous sticker-poster tells the story herself:
Yesterday Sunday 23rd/01/22 I was arrested for hate crime. Gwent police saw me as an exceptional threat to the T community by posting stickers and posters that did not mention T once. They were feminist in content and, I felt, pleasingly informative to women and concerned
— Quetiapina. 🏴🦖= = (@quetiapina1) January 24, 2022
… Read the restAs I was arrested, my left arm – in a splint was pushed upwards until I shouted in pain. When I was released at approx 3.30am I was left to travel through the centre of the city and up the very steep hill. They kept my phone so if Dwayne had broken down I would have
— Quetiapina. 🏴🦖=
Strange doings.
Police seem to be doubling down after the Court of Appeal decision. Latest DM asking for advice about woman who is bi polar and using mobility scooter arrested for ‘feminist’ graffiti and stickering. Waiting for interview. pic.twitter.com/9PJAlj0SZj
— WeAreFairCop (@WeAreFairCop) January 23, 2022
In other words, We Are Fair Cop received a direct message about the arrest of a woman for feminist graffiti and stickering. They didn’t stop with arresting her though. They held her until 3:30 a.m. and then threw her out to get home on her mobility scooter, without her phone, which she always keeps with her in case the battery on the scooter dies.
… Read the restThe police are at her house with search warrant. These are
Trump thinks it’s very very very unfair that anyone is investigating his darling little children who just want to play with their teddy bears in peace.
Former President Donald Trump believes that his children are being targeted by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Jan. 6 commission and the New York attorney general to deflect attention from President Joe Biden’s failings.
Or – and hear me out for a second – it could be that they did illegal things.
“It’s a very unfair situation for my children. Very, very unfair,” he told Secrets in a telephone call.
You know how he could have avoided it? By maintaining a wall of separation between them and his crimes. Instead of course he raised them … Read the rest
It’s Nominate a Queer Icon Time.
Meat Loaf, arguably the most unlikely musician to have ever become a full-fledged pop star, has reportedly died at the age of 74…He was also known, at least by some of us, as an icon of queer masculinity—an inspirational and aspirational figure of manhood and butch lesbianism for people of all genders.
Ooh, Mabel, how queer is that. An icon of manhood and butch lesbianism! I’m so out of touch I can remember when those were two different things, not the same thing with different labels. That’s the joy of queering things though: you get to talk complete nonsense and pretend it’s “iconic.”
… Read the restGay and queer aesthetics are known for stepping outside
Trump had perhaps his worst week ever:
It included a rebuke from the supreme court over documents related to the 6 January insurrection which Trump incited; news that the congressional committee investigating the riot was closing in on Trump’s inner circle; evidence from New York’s attorney general of alleged tax fraud; and, perhaps most damaging of all, a request from a Georgia prosecutor for a grand jury in her investigation of Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election.
The week ended with the leaking of a document showing that Trump at least pondered harnessing the military in his attempts to overturn Joe Biden’s victory.
Aka his attempts to steal the election in order to make himself … Read the rest
