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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.

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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



Staggered

Dec 29th, 2021 5:15 am | By

What a display.

The vastly condescending James Max tells Kellie-Jay that “somebody can be born in somebody else’s body” and two minutes later that “you can never be in the brain and body of somebody else.” Well which is it?

He reminds me of Jolyon. The smugness twins.… Read the rest



From the Salinas Valley

Dec 28th, 2021 3:37 pm | By

This is where the stapling on of the T to the LGB has been such a destructive mistake:

Two California teachers were secretly recorded speaking about LGBTQ student outreach. Now they’re fighting for their jobs

Hm, I thought when I saw the headline. Are we talking about LGB, or T?

This fall, a pair of middle school teachers from the Salinas Valley traveled to Palm Springs for the California Teachers Association’s annual LGBTQ+ Issues Conference. There, on a Saturday afternoon, Lori Caldeira and Kelly Baraki spoke to a few dozen people about a subject they knew well: the difficulty of running a GSA, or gay-straight alliance, in a socially conservative community.

So far so good. GSAs are a good … Read the rest



Style and substance

Dec 28th, 2021 12:17 pm | By

Trans journalist group tells us what we can say about trans people:

A trans journalist group which advises media on how to cover trans-related topics has published a style guide encouraging media outlets to “kill” stories on trans criminals, censor detransitioners, and erase all references to biological sex.

Next up: rapist journalist group publishes a style guide encouraging media outlets to call rapists “heroes” or “rapscallions.”

And by “accurately” … Read the rest



Fine more tips!

Dec 28th, 2021 11:33 am | By

Worried about losing all your brain cells?

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Local to what?

Dec 28th, 2021 11:22 am | By

They’re just complying with local law

Amazon quietly removed criticism of President Xi’s books by scrubbing bad reviews, ratings and comments from its Chinese site, it has emerged.

The US retail giant agreed to Beijing’s demand to have anything below a five-star review of Xi Jinping’s book The Governance of China removed from Amazon.cn about two years ago, Reuters reported, citing two unidentified sources.

The US retail giant is just being polite.

An Amazon spokesman said that the company “complies with all applicable laws and regulations, wherever we operate, and China is no exception.”

If there’s a law that all Jews must be reported to the government for deportation and elimination, who is Amazon to argue?

Last year,

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Two major glass ceilings

Dec 28th, 2021 7:51 am | By

Ground-breaking! Giant leap!

Rachel Levine has shattered not one but two major glass ceilings this year. In March, she became the first openly transgender person to win confirmation in the US Senate after Joe Biden nominated her as assistant secretary of health.

Then in October she was sworn in as the first openly transgender four-star officer as an admiral and head of the US Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. At that exalted rank she gets to wear the blue uniform of the corps, which though non-military is one of eight uniformed services.

First! Glass ceiling smashed! Twice!

Until you remember – this is a man. It’s not smashing any glass ceiling to appoint a man to an important government position. … Read the rest



A watershed moment

Dec 28th, 2021 6:07 am | By

No independent thought allowed.

Russia’s supreme court has ordered the closure of Memorial International, the country’s oldest human rights group, in a watershed moment in Vladimir Putin’s crackdown on independent thought.

The court ruled Memorial must be closed under Russia’s controversial “foreign agent” legislation, which has targeted dozens of NGOs and media outlets seen as critical of the government.

Just define “critical” as “foreign” and your work is done.

Memorial International’s closure marks an inflection point in Russia’s modern history, as efforts to publicise crimes under Soviet leaders such as Joseph Stalin have become taboo 30 years after the secret government archives were opened after the end of the Soviet Union. While not quite seeking a return to the

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