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Prove that you can’t sweat sir

Dec 31st, 2021 12:16 pm | By

Innocent on grounds of inability to sweat m’lud.

Lawyers for a US woman who has accused Prince Andrew of sexual assault are seeking proof of the British royal’s alleged inability to sweat.

Virginia Giuffre’s legal team made the request as part of a civil case against the prince in a New York court.

Ms Giuffre, 38, alleges that Prince Andrew sexually assaulted her when she was a teenager at the homes of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.

Prince Andrew has consistently denied the allegations.

In a 2019 interview with BBC Newsnight, he said a “problem” with her account was that a medical condition at the time meant he could not have been sweating, as she claims he was.

So … Read the rest



More lies

Dec 31st, 2021 11:33 am | By

They just straight-up shamelessly lie about her.

When HBO announced its upcoming reunion special “Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts,” the star-studded lineup did not include You-Know-Who.

In the weeks leading up to the highly anticipated program, streaming New Year’s Day on HBO Max, not a single teaser, trailer or poster has featured “Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling, who has come under fire in recent years for repeatedly expressing anti-transgender views.

That’s a lie.

Rowling has been known to object to lies of that kind, so I wouldn’t be surprised to see the Los Angeles Times (normally a respected newspaper) issue a correction with apology.

She hasn’t “expressed anti-transgender views.” It’s not “anti” to point out that … Read the rest



Movers and shakers

Dec 31st, 2021 11:15 am | By

Speaking of people who disagree –

https://twitter.com/WomenReadWomen/status/1476269878843641856… Read the rest


Did you know other people disagree?

Dec 31st, 2021 10:47 am | By

Genius is still at it.

Ulrika in York is a Twitter comrade; she gives him a good pasting, and he keeps coming back with “Yes but other people disagree!!”

You don’t say. What the hell does he think we’ve been doing all this time? We know other people disagree, and that they’ve been dismantling women’s rights because they disagree, and that’s why we’re fighting back.

Other people always disagree. That doesn’t mean they’re right. People … Read the rest



Engulfed

Dec 31st, 2021 8:13 am | By

A random accident?

Knoxville’s Planned Parenthood building was engulfed in flames early Friday morning and is a total loss.

Fire crews were called about 6:40 a.m. as heavy smoke was coming out of the back of the structure, Assistant Chief Brent Seymour said. There were no injuries to report. The building was being renovated and the clinic had not been used in some time.

Seymour said it’s too early in the investigation, with parts of the building unsafe to enter, to be able to say what caused the fire.

We can make some educated guesses though.

In January 2021 someone fired a shotgun at the doors of this Planned Parenthood clinic, shattering the glass and lodging bullet holes in the

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The shrill voices

Dec 30th, 2021 4:31 pm | By

My god, this guy!

https://twitter.com/thejamesmax/status/1476633423154487302

Shrill. You couldn’t make it up.

Oh sir, please sir, sorry sir, we’re sorry our shrill squeaking voices hurt your ears, but you see sir, we’re made that way sir, we have higher voices than you strong wise large better people do, which is why we have such a struggle to get people like you to listen to us, and why we don’t want to share all of our spaces and prizes and protections with the deep-voiced kind of people. We’re afraid they might assault us you see sir, because some of you have been known to do that sir. It’s probably because of our shrill voices sir, for which again we apologize sir, but … Read the rest



Just that one pesky majority

Dec 30th, 2021 3:01 pm | By

I wouldn’t call it reflection, exactly.

He doesn’t reflect on it so much as explain why he was right about it.

He tells us he found what Kellie Jay said deeply uncomfortable, and compared it to “the stereotypes and tropes that were used twenty years ago to describe gay people and to um not allow them the human rights that thankfully we have in today’s world” – about what’s … Read the rest



He’s learned that he has a point

Dec 30th, 2021 11:21 am | By

Points still being missed.

It doesn’t have to be a trans person, it doesn’t have to be a man who identifies as a woman, it can be a … Read the rest



When women don’t melt

Dec 30th, 2021 10:21 am | By

I have to say, full marks to Kellie-Jay for that interview. Starred double first. I have different political views from hers in general, but she’s exactly what’s needed for the James Maxes of the world. She’s direct and calm and decisive, and men like him can’t stand that. He interprets it as “she is evil” when all she’s doing is telling the truth, very crisply. Her performance and his freakout over it are a master class in The Marriage of Trans Dogma and Misogyny. He would take her presentation for granted in a man, but in a woman it looks like creepy supernatural power.

James Max is responding to people on Twitter and with each response he underlines how clueless … Read the rest



The hostile argument

Dec 30th, 2021 9:34 am | By

No YOU’RE the baddy.

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If you were disappointed

Dec 30th, 2021 9:19 am | By

This guy – honestly.

To be fair, he was somewhat taken aback by the fact that KJ is sharper than he is and knows a lot more about the subject than he does and was not shy … Read the rest



A familiar accusation

Dec 30th, 2021 5:59 am | By

Kellie-Jay eviscerates that smug conceited prat in the Spectator:

‘I just get the impression she hates men’, said a wound-licking James Max, on TalkRADIO, after he interviewed me on Wednesday. It’s a familiar accusation from those who fail to drum up rational arguments for the destruction of women’s rights.

He got that impression because she’s a great deal more intelligent than he is, not to mention skilled at arguing on live radio. Naturally a woman who makes him look stupid by being cleverer than he is must hate men.

The tone was set when Max tried to link the views of J.K. Rowling to the notorious outing of George Jamieson by the Sunday People in 1961 — four years before

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Another psyops manual

Dec 30th, 2021 4:55 am | By

Look behind the curtain, see how they plot the manipulation.

https://twitter.com/Docstockk/status/1476500190634946561

It’s all about them there “effective opening values” – which turn out to be the inevitable banal “freedom to be ourselves” – which in fact is not any kind of progressive (let alone left-wing) value at all but sheer narcissism.

Also, it’s funny how they say “a race class gender narrative” but then go on to ignore class entirely…as they always always do. Class just doesn’t have the glamour of race n gender, and it doesn’t offer the same opportunities for bullying women. Mention class at the outset and then ignore it entirely in the substance.

https://twitter.com/Docstockk/status/1476501027314622471… Read the rest


A much darker truth

Dec 29th, 2021 3:47 pm | By

James Max is still digging.

What is the “much darker truth”? He doesn’t say. I guess we’re supposed to surmise that she wants them all killed, or something. Very respectable way to argue.

https://twitter.com/carolinmcmillan/status/1476174484356968453

So he thinks the “physicalities” don’t exist? So, what, then? We’re all just spirits?

Really not a clever man.… Read the rest



Sex trafficking a minor

Dec 29th, 2021 3:27 pm | By

Ghislaine Maxwell found guilty on all but one of the charges.

Maxwell has been found guilty on five of six counts – including the most serious charge, that of sex trafficking of a minor.

This carries a possible 40-year sentence, which means the 60-year-old could spend the rest of her life behind bars.

This charge relates to the testimony of Carolyn, who testified about being paid for sex during visits to Epstein’s Florida home between 2001 and 2004.

At the time of her first visit, she was just 14.

Maybe she should decide she’s a man.… Read the rest



Annoy some of you

Dec 29th, 2021 3:00 pm | By

Stupid person makes bid for glory, fails utterly.

https://twitter.com/RussInCheshire/status/1476282156242591752

Oooooh brave and daring, saying he’s all for trans rights, as if that’s The Unpopular View in his circles.

Vanity aside, what does he mean? Does he think feminists who don’t agree that men can be women are not “behind trans rights”? This is where the stupid comes in. We’re not opposed to trans rights, unless they are some special new arbitrary dogmatic set of rights that aren’t really rights at all…but of course that’s exactly what he means. He thinks there are “trans rights” that make it fine for men to compete against women in sports, and take jobs reserved for women, and win awards intended for women, and all … Read the rest



He met a lot of sex offenders

Dec 29th, 2021 11:18 am | By

Another front in the war:

Also, why would sex offenders not do that? Why … Read the rest



Not the end

Dec 29th, 2021 9:59 am | By

Another oh so confident man telling a woman how stupid she is for not believing that sex is all in the mind.

The end? Hardly.

What does it mean to “feel they are one sex”? Nothing, really. Do we “feel we are” humans? Primates? Mammals? Do we feel we are alive now at the end of 2021 as opposed to 1921? Do we feel we live on planet earth as … Read the rest



Guest post: Back to the Argument from Damage

Dec 29th, 2021 7:42 am | By

Originally a comment by Sastra on Verification.

when a trans person says they are male or female, that is what they are and that is how we should treat them. It is damaging to them to say otherwise.’

If the second statement is removed, would that change the truth of the first statement? In other words, is “a transwoman is female and a transman is male” dependent on “ trans people are damaged when other people say otherwise?”

If so, then the damaged trans people would be conclusive evidence of their sex, in the same way the fact that people believing in God is conclusive evidence that God does, in fact, exist. Or, a closer argument: because religious people … Read the rest



Verification

Dec 29th, 2021 5:51 am | By

My god this subject brings out the stupid in people.

Explains? Explains?? Explains what? That’s not an explanation, it’s a stupid and dogmatic assertion.

I’m pretty sure we all used to know that we don’t have to believe whatever people tell us about themselves, because some people lie sometimes.

That becomes all the more the case when what the people are telling us … Read the rest