More from the pyramid:

https://twitter.com/LtHarker/status/1429442555767246855

What is this imagined community that gender-skeptics defend?

Women, for one. Are women “imagined”? No. Women are real. I don’t refer to us as a “community” because I think that word is much overused and also manipulative (so in that sense I kind of understand the “imagined community” thing), but that doesn’t mean the word “women” doesn’t name a real category of people. Do we defend women? Sure. For more see: feminism, passim.

https://twitter.com/LtHarker/status/1429444893986852866 https://twitter.com/LtHarker/status/1429448406401835010

This is the usual warping of the word “existence” – pretending that skepticism about a label=genocide. Hitler didn’t wipe out 6 million Jews by calling them something else, he wiped them out by murdering them. There’s a difference.

It can … Read the rest

Stark truth.

In November 1923, Hitler’s attempted coup failed. But no one was held accountable. Ten years later, he took over Germany.

Trump’s January 2021 coup failed. But 7 months later, Trump faces no consequences, and his co-conspirators are still in Congress.

— Robert Reich (@RBReich) August 22, 2021

It’s not even quite true that no one was held accountable – Hitler was sentenced to prison and served several months, during which he wrote Mein Kampf. So…

We’re in a race between global hotting and a fascist coup.… Read the rest

The FDA tells us Why You Should Not Use Ivermectin to Treat or Prevent COVID-19

First, snapshots.

On the left: no, not for you. On the right: yes, for you.

To be clear: 1: horse. 2: person. Horses take medication designed for horses, persons take medication designed for persons. Don’t swap between, don’t mix & match.

The FDA’s job is to carefully evaluate the scientific data on a drug to be sure that it is both safe and effective for a particular use, and then to decide whether or not to approve it. Using any treatment for COVID-19 that’s not approved or authorized by the FDA, unless part of a clinical trial, can cause serious harm. 

The FDA’s job, please … Read the rest

Hmm.

My notifications are a sight to behold. This anti-trans stuff is becoming quite extremist, and I don't use words like that lightly. It's not just an online thing – going to a transwoman's place of work and distributing anti-trans literature there is genuinely quite frightening.

— Captain Haggerty (@AngelaHaggerty) August 23, 2021

Wait. They didn’t go to “a transwoman’s place of work” – they went to a pub, a well known, popular, centrally located pub. They went to a pub, to get food and drinks. I think it’s extremely unlikely they knew it was “a transwoman’s place of work” because why would they? Why would anyone?

And the literature isn’t “anti-trans,” it’s pro-feminism and pro-reality. The gender critical view … Read the rest

The Times reports on the “we don’t allow feminist women in our pub” story:

A leading pub chain has been dragged into a transphobia row after police were called to a city-centre pub when bar staff complained of feeling “threatened” by the presence of a group of campaigners who oppose extending women’s rights to transgender people.

Yet another bad lede. Why can’t reporters write decent first sentences? Is it part of their contract not to, or what?

Also a factual mistake, the campaigners don’t “oppose extending women’s rights to transgender people,” they don’t believe that men are women and they of course opposed extending women’s rights to men, on the grounds that it’s women who need them, not men.

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Says it all.… Read the rest

Perfect example of the frenzied dangerous rhetorical overkill.

https://twitter.com/LtHarker/status/1429441961094631429

To violence. What violence? In what way did they attempt to “escalate to violence”? BE SPECIFIC.… Read the rest

The Scotsman allows itself a touch of skepticism:

A major UK hospitality chain has launched an investigation after police were called to one of its pubs after a group of women were told they had to leave because they were “transphobic”.

The women, who allege they were threatened by bar staff, left after officers were called to Doctors, on Forrest Road, on Saturday night.

However one of the pub’s employees, who describes himself as an “AGP porn addict male” on his Twitter account, said it was staff who felt threatened by the women who were “belligerent”.

There’s the skepticism. I’m not the only one who thinks a guy who calls himself a porn addict in his Twitter profile might … Read the rest

And by the way…

Under the #EqualityAct it’s unlawful to discriminate against, harass or victimise those with a protected characteristic such as sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief. This law applies to employers, associations & service providers

— Joanna Cherry KC (@joannaccherry) August 22, 2021

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Meanwhile…

https://twitter.com/Telegraph/status/1429457790553231367

To report racist, homophobic, and transphobic incidents…but not of course misogynist ones, because they don’t exist, and misogyny isn’t even a word, let alone a thing.

Also what does the paint job on that car have to do with racism? What does it have to do with hostility and suspicion toward immigrants? What does it have to do with class? Why has Rainbowism & Pride displaced all other forms of human rights struggle?… Read the rest

@belhaven_pubs @greeneking is it company policy to ban "terfs"?

And why your staff member in recounting this tale liked tweets saying feminists are worse than domestic abusers, that they aren't people but slime, that you'll put a sign on the door etc.

Do you support sexism? pic.twitter.com/6V3iSKjXFL

— For Women Scotland (@ForWomenScot) August 22, 2021

But he had perfectly good reasons.

I think it's a behavioral thing tbh. My staff didn't like them from the start and things got worse

I don't think such hate groups are well suited to fitting in. Several of my regulars despised their presence & then left upon finding out who they were

I've not seen that in ages

— the blood, the meb, the

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This is the guy who called Marion “terf” and told her to finish her drink and get out:

Hi to all the new people, I'm not that interesting really honest, I just run a pub and kick hate groups out when my staff feel threatened

— the blood, the meb, the beers (@mebisdead) August 22, 2021

His profile self-description is…candid:

AGP porn addict male, cumbrained, submissive, moisturised and in my lane

they/she siad/sí

‘power brat & feral’

mildly nsfw

Porn addicted autogynephile man tells woman to get out of restaurant/pub because she’s a Known Feminist and he recognizes her.

He told his story last night:

mother of fucking god you'll never believe who i just had to kick out my

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More on that get out of our pub you bad bad woman incident tonight.

For those asking, I believe the t shirt said #womenwontwheesht and the main objection was to Marion's presence.

Member of staff tried to invent excuse to exclude her as she arrived and thereafter staff were hostile & aggressive.

— For Women Scotland (@ForWomenScot) August 21, 2021

https://twitter.com/Obsolesence/status/1429216843508682760 https://twitter.com/tweepwitch/status/1429210429209956352 https://twitter.com/millar_marion/status/1429210678691303432 https://twitter.com/millar_marion/status/1429210438672293892 https://twitter.com/millar_marion/status/1429210346254897152

It’s all just revolting.… Read the rest

I think I’m pretty conformist and orthodox on the whole Covid precautions issue, including the parts that are about not infecting other people as opposed to avoiding being infected myself. But I don’t know…

This aft I was walking down a side street and a woman pulling a grocery cart hove into view at the corner, and stopped to put a mask on. I kind of wondered “Mask?” because I was the only person in sight, but oh well – but then as the distance between us shrank she snarled at me: “I’d cross the street but my house is right there” – pointing ahead. For a second I thought she was joking but then I realized – cross the … Read the rest

There was a terf gathering in Edinburgh today.

In the evening they went to a pub.

The police were summoned.

Reports @policescotland were used tonight as personal arm of TRA bar staff @DoctorsBar who reported women for the heinous crime of paying for drinks and consuming them quietly while in possession of wrong opinions as expressed on T shirts.

5 officers were, apparently, needed.

— For Women Scotland (@ForWomenScot) August 21, 2021

The women, who were already leaving left. But very pissed off to be treated like criminals

— For Women Scotland (@ForWomenScot) August 21, 2021

https://twitter.com/millar_marion/status/1429208337900621828 … Read the rest

Good one.

Dear Science Deniers,

(Anti-vaxers, anti-maskers, climate hoaxers, flat-Earthers, etc)

You found one another & communicate via stupefyingly advanced technologies that pivot on the discoveries of scientists.

Just thought I’d remind you of that fact.

Sincerely,
Your Smart Phone

— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) August 17, 2021

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Alabama is having a big Covid surge so NATURALLY failed president Donald Trump is having a “rally” there. Make Pandemic Great Again.

Donald Trump was due to stage a rally in Alabama on Saturday night, in a city that has declared a Covid emergency and in support of a congressman who both backed Trump’s attempt to overturn the election and this week sympathised with a man who threatened to blow up the US Capitol.

The former president will speak in Cullman, Alabama, in part in support of Mo Brooks’ bid for a US Senate seat.

Like other southern, Republican-run states, Alabama is struggling with a surge in cases of Covid-19 fueled by the contagious Delta variant. On

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This is so profoundly contemptuous of women: pretend woman goes to Brazil to get a “womb transplant” so that he can have a baybee.

I wonder how many pregnant women in favelas could use better health care. I wonder how much pretend-woman’s “transplant” and ensuing care is going to cost.

Jessica Alves has revealed she has travelled to Brazil in her bid to become the first known transgender woman to have a womb transplant.

The Celebrity Big Brother star, 38, shared her hope that she would be able to get pregnant after undergoing the £30,000 transplant.

It is possible that Jessica could fall pregnant through IVF if she decided to go through with the transplant.

Millions languish in poverty … Read the rest

As the news was pouring in from Kabul, the Biden administration saw fit to make a big fuss about that most oppressed group in the universe – people who think their sex isn’t their sex.

https://twitter.com/STILLTish/status/1428385610998468613 https://twitter.com/STILLTish/status/1428385624231448585 https://twitter.com/STILLTish/status/1428385637057576965 https://twitter.com/STILLTish/status/1428385650856845320

“that would keep you from playing on the sports field” is the usual lie. You’d think government officials would manage to avoid blatant lies like that, but it seems not. The “obstacles” would be to boys and men taking places for girls and women. That’s all. They boys and men can still play, just not on the other teams. “Oh but they’re on estrogen, which puts them at a disadvantage.” Ok, but it doesn’t follow that they get to transfer that … Read the rest

Judith Wright tells us:

My local Labour party voted through a motion for the online women’s conference which took place at the end of June. The motion (that I drafted) asked Labour to re-endorse its manifesto commitment to sex-based rights. It also called on Party leaders to condemn the abuse received by women. It stated that the misogyny that women face for speaking out  “would not be tolerated were it directed at a person/people with any other protected characteristic.”

Predictably, our perfectly reasonable motion was rejected by the conference arrangements committee because they claimed “it diminish(es) the experiences” of these other groups of people.

Meaning…what? That it diminishes those experiences because in fact women’s experiences of abuse really are… Read the rest