JL at the Glinner Update has details on the guy who asked Judith Butler those leading questions.

Butler has, not surprisingly, become a pin-up girl of the gender identity cult. She can always be relied upon to throw proper feminists under the bus when gender zealots like those at the The Guardian need to wheel out a talking head who has at least a veneer of academic authority.

On this occasion, Butler was interviewed by Jules Gleeson, a trans identified male.

Gleeson is the co-editor of a book called Transgender Marxism. He has written in the past about the ‘noxious views’ of lesbians trying to defend their sex-based rights and has likened gender critical feminists to religious reactionaries

Quite a large chunk was cut, as it turns out.

Here's the cut to the Butler piece. The entire 'oh yes WiSpa those bitches are fascists' section has gone. https://t.co/tXAwfDLtdA

— Dr. Jane Clare Jones (@janeclarejones) September 7, 2021

Here’s one I can actually read. Thanks Roz!

In a truly shocking moment of bigoted dishonesty, the Guardian has censored Judith Butler. pic.twitter.com/G6UZInA1av

— Roz Kaveney (@RozKaveney) September 7, 2021

There were “developments” you see.… Read the rest

It seems the Guardian edited that interview with Judith Butler.

The TRAs are rending their garments because apparently The Graun blinked when it realised it had called a bunch of women with completely solid left wing credentials fascists.

— Dr. Jane Clare Jones (@janeclarejones) September 7, 2021

It did?

No, edited out the bit that implied that we're fascists.

— Dr. Jane Clare Jones (@janeclarejones) September 7, 2021

So first thing I did was find that bit in my post from this morning, so that I could see how much was cut.

The Terfs (trans exclusionary radical feminists) and the so-called gender critical writers have also rejected the important work in feminist philosophy of science showing how culture and nature

Oops you’re not supposed to say it out loud.

Joy Everingham is a Methodist deacon in Canterbury. This isn’t a parody.… Read the rest

Now there’s a headline.

NWHL changes its name to remove ‘women’s’ from title

Yayyyyyyyyyyy wait what?

The National Women’s Hockey League is history. Welcome, Premier Hockey Federation.

North America’s first women’s professional hockey league to pay players a salary announced on Tuesday it is adopting the new name as part of a rebranding strategy.

Well then why not name it the Hotties Hockey Federation? Or how about the Pumpkin Spice Latte Hockey Federation?

“We felt it’s time for our players to be defined by their talent and skill,” Tumminia said. “It’s not like they’re female phenomenal. You’re just phenomenal.”

And the way to underline that point is, as always, to delete the word “women.” Sure.

Metropolitan Riveters captain Madison Packer

Greg Olear starts with the Texas law and the Supreme Court’s “Sure, go right ahead.”

After a day of excruciating silence, the Court voted 5-4 to let it be, citing some pusillanimous procedural technicality. Chief Justice Roberts sided with the three “liberal” justices, but the five other Federalist Society stooges on the bench—Clarence Thomas, Sam Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Amy Coney Barrett, and Brett Kavanaugh—gave Texas the green light to go full Fascist, thus confirming what most of us feared all along: that Roe v. Wade is not safe, that the government is at war with women, that the radical Catholics who took over the Court are pro-tyranny.

We’re stuck with them except maybe for Kavanaugh.

Kavanaugh is different.

I’m reading Jesse Singal’s review of Helen Joyce’s book in the Times, and I’m interrupting my reading to say this one thing.

A primary goal of those who adhere to gender-identity ideology is to enact “gender self-identification,” or the idea “that people should count as men or women according to how they feel and what they declare, instead of their biology,” into norm and law. According to self-ID, as I’ll call it henceforth, once an individual reveals their gender identity, that trumps anyone else’s understanding of it. If you say you are a man or a woman, or both or neither, that is exactly what you are.

When followed faithfully, gender-identity ideology has important implications. 

Yes, it does, but … Read the rest

Brazil could be having its own insurrection moment.

Supporters of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro pushed through police barriers to advance towards Congress in Brasilia on Monday night, the eve of a day of planned demonstrations to back the far-right leader in his dispute with the judiciary.

Trucks honked their horns as hundreds of Bolsonaro supporters dressed in the green-and-yellow national colors cheered them through, videos posted on social media showed.

But they failed however to reach their target of surrounding the Supreme Court, which some demonstrators have planned to occupy in a protest modeled on the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of then-President Donald Trump.

…

Thousands of demonstrators are expected to march in the

It’s announcing plans day north of the border.

Nicola Sturgeon is to set out the Scottish government’s plans for the year to come at Holyrood.

So she did that and @theSNP tweeted them all.

FM: "It will make the existing process of gender recognition less degrading, intrusive and traumatic.

It will make life easier for one of the most stigmatized minorities in our society. I think that is something any Parliament should feel a responsibility to do." #ScotPfG

— The SNP (@theSNP) September 7, 2021

FM: "And, in some parts of the world, from lawmakers intent on taking away basic freedoms and removing the rights of women to control our own bodies." #ScotPfG

— The SNP (@theSNP) September 7, 2021

Eliza speaks the truth.

"We need to rethink the category of woman"—but don't worry, the new crop of abortion bounty-hunters, sex-traffickers & johns, & religious fundamentalists of all stripes will still know exactly who they're targeting. The rest of us just won't be able to talk about it. pic.twitter.com/ZX4dPf9akK

— Eliza Mondegreen (@elizamondegreen) September 7, 2021

For the sake of the Twitter haters I’ll just arrange the rest of what she said as an essay.

Gender identity problematizes, denounces, and confuses what women need to make clear: Our sex matters.

Women’s healthcare depends on the recognition of sex difference on the part of medical providers, scientific researchers, health communicators, and patients.

Gender identity trades clear language and targeted research into

Speaking of that interview with Judith Butler…

Right @guardian. I will be lodging a formal complaint about your apparent policy of blaming and shaming victims of sexual offending in your pages.

We have known for some time that the man who entered the WiSpa changing rooms is a sexual predator. This is outrageously defamatory pic.twitter.com/05g43PFrgv

— Lydia Lambfruit (@Kings_of_Lydia) September 7, 2021

And so she did. It’s an excellent letter.

Sent. pic.twitter.com/2wTL8GlNxK

— Lydia Lambfruit (@Kings_of_Lydia) September 7, 2021

… Read the rest

Judith Butler doing her tedious thing:

…what it means to be a woman does not remain the same from decade to decade. The category of woman can and does change, and we need it to be that way. Politically, securing greater freedoms for women requires that we rethink the category of “women” to include those new possibilities. The historical meaning of gender can change as its norms are re-enacted, refused or recreated.

Yes, of course: what it means changes, the category changes, and obviously securing greater freedoms entails that, not least because it’s the same thing. We change the meaning by gaining the freedoms. That doesn’t mean we “change” it by including men in it. That’s not change … Read the rest

Wow. Years of collaboration just torched as if they had never been.

They WHAT??

First, the claim:

Next, the email:

Is it August 2015 again? The echo is strong. There were three SBM editors and Hall was one of them, but suddenly a minor contributor becomes “an editor” to bolster the Gorski-Novella excuses for plunging the knife into Hall’s back.… Read the rest

Republicans in the spotlight for encouraging violent sedition resort to threats to avoid attention for encouraging violent sedition. It’s a bit like pouring ammonia on a burn.

Top Republicans under scrutiny for their role in the events of 6 January have embarked on a campaign of threats and intimidation to thwart a Democratic-controlled congressional panel that is scrutinizing the Capitol attack and opening an expanded investigation into Donald Trump.

It’s almost as if bullying is literally all they know how to do.

The House minority leader, Kevin McCarthy, decried the select committee’s investigation as a partisan exercise and threatened to retaliate against any telecommunications company that complied with the records requests.

Thus demonstrating what a law-abiding and conscientious guy … Read the rest

It’s always worth being reminded of how illegitimate the whole situation is. Bush 2 lost the popular vote, Trump lost the popular vote, McConnell blocked Merrick Garland because he could and then rushed in Amy Coney Barrett because he could. A minority rules over us.

The confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett did more than install a supermajority of conservatives in the court. The locus of power on the court shifted from the more mainstream conservatism of Justice Roberts to the more ideological and rigid extremes of Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito.

As the Texas ruling underscored, this is a court far more conservative than the nation whose constitutional meanings it is meant to protect. And it is a court

This one is hilarious – it’s so unabashed in its FOCUS ON ME rule for life. Hello world, unlearn everything you know to fit me into your worldview.

It’s 2021 people! You should have already been focusing all your attention on me! What’s the holdup?!

Also I love the time-sensitive aspect. What happens in 2022 I wonder? Will everything have been reversed so that we have to focus on “Them” in order to fit “Them” in our worldview all over again but opposite?… Read the rest

Huh. It’s not boys sexually abusing girls, it’s generic “children” doing it to generic “children” – according to the BBC.

Reports of sex abuse between children double in two years

Between children? Really?

Reports of children sexually abusing other children doubled in the two years to 2019, according to police figures obtained by BBC Panorama.

But were they reports of “children” doing this?

It’s not until paragraph 5 that we get

And overall, a big majority of cases involved boys abusing girls.

You don’t say.… Read the rest

Well of course they do.

To be honest, teenagers almost always have more nuanced conceptualizations of gender than their parents.

— Jack Turban MD (@jack_turban) September 5, 2021

Their “conceptions” of “gender” are “more nuanced” because that’s what’s available to them. That doesn’t necessarily mean they’re right. That question still has to be decided on the merits.

Sometimes teenagers are indeed in the vanguard in a good way: civil rights activists in the 1960s for example. Even then, though, there were plenty of teenagers on the other side, and besides that, not every vanguard is On the Right Side of History.

By “gender” Jack Turban means sex as well as gender. By “nuanced” he doesn’t mean “people can wear whatever … Read the rest

Elliot Kirschner on Lassen National Park, which he knows well from childhood summer vacations:

For those who have never been to Lassen, or maybe haven’t even heard of it, it is one of the true gems of the National Park system, although far less famous than its cousins like Yellowstone and Yosemite. It’s a place shaped by an active volcano, Lassen Peak, which last erupted a little over a century ago, and all the geothermal activity that goes with it. Its streams, lakes, meadows, and forests teem with wildlife and vistas both epic and intimate. As much as the sights, I remember the smells. Around the bubbling mud baths came the pungent odor of rotten eggs from the hydrogen

Bottom line? Women stink. Not just “stink”=are bad but STINK: smell of rotting fish.

So I'm recording the "right side of history" response to seeing a group of women on a train in Scotland.

It's really mind blowing https://t.co/tjAn7rnmpi

— Kat "I'll bring the sausage rolls" (@KatarinaHill2) September 4, 2021

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— Kat "I'll bring the sausage rolls" (@KatarinaHill2) September 4, 2021

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— Kat "I'll bring the sausage rolls" (@KatarinaHill2) September 4, 2021

The new misogyny is indistinguishable from the old misogyny.… Read the rest