Oh really?

Trans activists write to Sun condemning JK Rowling abuse story https://t.co/0oMFq2w6g2

— The Guardian (@guardian) June 15, 2020

But what about all the abuse from trans activists and their “allies”?

The Graun:

The group of campaigners said that while they strongly opposed the Harry Potter author’s stance on trans rights, they stood in solidarity with her against the newspaper’s “abhorrent” approach to a domestic violence story.

“Misogyny is a pervasive force and one that treats survivors and victims of sexual and domestic violence as bylines to their abuser’s story,” the trans and non-binary activists said in the letter to the Sun’s editor, Victoria Newton.

But what about those activists n allies?

Needs a slap, slap that … Read the rest

Trump points out that if we stopped looking for the coronavirus we wouldn’t find so much of it so then the stats would look better. Can’t argue with him there.

“If we stop testing right now, we’d have very few cases, actually,” the president said during a roundtable event for seniors.

Well no that’s not quite right. He was so close. We wouldn’t have very few cases – we would know about very few cases. Different thing.

I wonder if he knows that. I wonder if he knows that’s a different thing. Does he think he disappears when he closes his eyes?

The president expressed a similar sentiment in March, telling Fox News that he didn’t want infected patients

SUCK MY DICK JK ROWLING!!!!

— Shakina (@Shakeenz) June 15, 2020

Shakina is a trans woman.… Read the rest

Hey look who’s a star –

Hey guys, here's the chat I just had with @artymortyarty and GNC Centric for YouTube. We spoke about cults, JK Rowling, and the havoc gender ideology is wreaking on the gay community! Join us again next week! https://t.co/D1OIcIB8CA

— Graham Linehan (@Glinner) June 15, 2020

Artymorty that’s who.… Read the rest

There will be no problem with holding a campaign rally during a pandemic. Here, sign this waiver.

Republican lawmakers are downplaying concerns that a Donald Trump indoor rally planned for Tulsa, Oklahoma, for next weekend could contribute to the spread Covid-19, amid an increase in cases in the city.

The Tulsa city-county health department director, Bruce Dart, said he worried the rally could be dangerous for attendees as well as the president.

“I wish we could postpone this to a time when the virus isn’t as large a concern as it is today,” Dart told Tulsa World.

That is, he wishes Trump were not forcing it on them.

James Lankford, a Republican senator from Oklahoma, said on Sunday

Stumbling Don wants to put the kibosh on Bolton’s “I refuse to testify” book.

Donald Trump is set to sue to stop the publication of a tell-all book by John Bolton, his third national security adviser, ABC News reported on Monday.

They’ve already delayed publication by saying it has seekrits.

Bolton, a former ambassador to the United Nations, was national security adviser between April 2018 and September 2019. Controversially, Bolton did not testify in impeachment proceedings against Trump which focused on Ukraine and Trump’s attempts to bully the government there to investigate his political rival Joe Biden.

“Controversially” is putting it mildly. He’s a rat bastard and traitor.

“What Bolton saw astonished him,” his publisher said. “A president for

Again.

How people choose to define themselves is no one's business.

Thanks for speaking up, @EmmaWatson.

Happy #Pride! pic.twitter.com/wDy0pBpDGq

— UN Women (@UN_Women) June 14, 2020

First – why is UN Women, or the social media officer of UN Women, talking about this at all? What’s it got to do with women? What’s it got to do with women’s issues? What’s it got to do with the reasons women need a UN branch?

Second – for the billionth time – none of that is true.

It’s not a simple truth that “trans people are who they say they are.” It depends on what they say. Some trans people describe being trans accurately, and some insist that they literally … Read the rest

Since June 7th (5 days), Pink News has written 40 articles about JK Rowling, 37 with her name in the headline.

This is harassment, plain and simple, and a warning to other women not to speak. pic.twitter.com/CF1GeSF2nx

— Graham Linehan (@Glinner) June 12, 2020

Some examples:

Harry Potter star Rupert Grint says ‘trans women are women’ as cast continue to distance themselves from JK Rowling

As JK Rowling faces a continuing backlash, Grint, who played Ron Weasley in the hit film series, expressed his solidarity with the trans community in a statement released to The Times.

A continuing backlash which we are contributing to with all our might.

Warner Bros, the billion dollar studio behind Harry Potter, pledges ‘inclusivity … Read the rest

Accurate.

Just Be Kind pic.twitter.com/HSzNHpR85W

— Tatsuya Ishida (@TatsuyaIshida9) June 14, 2020

… Read the rest

Actual fake news:

Fox News published digitally altered and misleading images on its website’s homepage Friday that made a demonstration in Seattle, in which a group of largely peaceful Black Lives Matter protesters have occupied six city blocks, appear violent and dangerous.

The deceitful tactic was called out by The Seattle Times. The local newspaper reported that when it asked Fox News about the images, the network removed them.

“Oh, you noticed that? Well fine, we’ll take them down then. Excuuuuuse us.”

Fox News’ depiction of the demonstration mirrors much of right-wing media’s attempt to portray it as menacing. Protesters have declared a small slice of Seattle an “autonomous zone” after clashes with authorities led police to evacuate a

Furthermore, his difficulty walking and holding a glass is in fact suggestive of a medical issue.

Trump, who turned 74 on Sunday, was the oldest person ever to assume the presidency, after an election in which he questioned the health of his opponent, Hillary Clinton, notably mockingly imitating her stumble at a 9/11 memorial ceremony in New York. Speculation about Trump’s health has duly dogged his time in office.

Parenthetically – how old is Biden? 77. He turns 78 in November. Trump was the oldest at 70 so Biden if elected will beat that by eight years. He should never have run. It pisses me off.

But back to Trump.

Such speculation continued on Saturday with regard to 

Oh Donald. You’re such a putz.

While it is common for politicians to boast about their accomplishments, “successfully walked down ramp” is not usually the kind of achievement a president of the United States would emphasize in his messaging. But Donald Trump’s campaign is predicated on depicting his opponent, Joe Biden, as a helpless invalid, and himself as a virile and improbably healthy male who sleeps with models, or at least in the same building as them, in return for compensation commensurate with the task.

See also: the 2016 campaign, when he relentlessly mocked Hillary Clinton for having pneumonia.

But yesterday, Trump was recorded walking gingerly down a very shallow ramp, staring intently at his feet the entire way,

Trump did his West Point event today, the one that meant 1107 graduates had to leave isolation and return to West Point so that Bumbling Don could bumble through some words in front of them. As always when he reads a speech he sounded exhausted, clogged, sniffy, drunk.

Plus what he said was of course garbage.

TRUMP: "It is not the duty of US troops to solve ancient conflicts in faraway lands that many people have never even heard of. We are not the policemen of the world. But let our enemies be on notice. If our people are threatened, we will never ever hesitate to act." pic.twitter.com/kMdFFngJnD

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 13, 2020

“that many people have never … Read the rest

Gender Heretic went to a reproductive rights panel at a progressive conference early in Trump’s dictatorship.

Donald Trump had just been sworn in, Roe v Wade faced its greatest threat since 1973, and activist friends were writing how-to books about home abortion, but the panel discussion was taking place in an entirely different universe.

There were no new strategies for activism on display. Instead, I heard lectures on the importance of pronouns.

Which is odd, because what could be less important in that context than pronouns? Every woman in the country could say her pronouns are he/him, it wouldn’t do a thing to protect abortion rights.

“Inclusiveness” and “intersectionalism” and validation exercises were vital things we all needed to learn

Again.

Do we see a lot of “The last thing the world needs right now is another rich black entitled man doing his learning out loud”?

No, because it would jar, because the other adjectives convey privilege, but black doesn’t.

But somehow we’ve decided it’s fitting to use privilege adjectives to pick out uppity women who dare to say things. Even when we are such women ourselves.

Also when did Rowling ever say that black lives don’t matter? Or that all lives matter or that white lives matter? When did she ever say that indigenous lives don’t matter?

I don’t know, but I’m betting never. I’m betting Gadsby just threw those in there to imply things without spelling them … Read the rest

Rowling must be punished for knowing the difference between sex and gender:

 The indiscretion for which she must be punished is saying that sex is real.

That’s sex as in male and female, not as in the activity. What kind of body a person has, not what they might plan to do with it in a “social bubble” (an England-only social bubble, it should be stressed). Sex as in the real, observable, and immutable difference between men and women.

Fortunately for her own sanity, the woman who made up muggles and quidditch and death eaters knows the difference between things that are real and things that are the product of human imaginations. She knows that sex is determined by

What is UN Women?

UN Women is the UN organization dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of women. A global champion for women and girls, UN Women was established to accelerate progress on meeting their needs worldwide.

That doesn’t work if women no longer means women but instead means women and men who call themselves women. Men who call themselves women are not subject to the kinds of contempt and neglect and dismissal that women are.

Gender equality is not only a basic human right, but its achievement has enormous socio-economic ramifications. Empowering women fuels thriving economies, spurring productivity and growth. Yet gender inequalities remain deeply entrenched in every society. Women lack access to decent work and face occupational

Talk about institutional capture…

"Transgender women are women. Any statement to the contrary erases the identity and dignity of transgender people."

– Daniel Radcliffe. via @HeForShe #HeForShe #Pride pic.twitter.com/V1NLa2yiAq

— UN Women (@UN_Women) June 12, 2020

UN Women quoting a male movie star publicly attacking the woman author who made him rich and famous. UN Women saying men who think of themselves as women literally are women. UN Women throwing women overboard with a boulder chained to their neck.… Read the rest

Another man does a pratfall by misusing that Simone deBeauvoir line.

Quite right. I don't agree with her position, but the response she had was utterly disgusting. That degree of demented verbal sadism is an indication of something seriously wrong somewhere.

— Philip Pullman (@PhilipPullman) June 12, 2020

Applause for Nigel Warburton there.

But Pullman went off the rails.

I think I prefer Simone de Beauvoir: 'One is not born, but rather becomes a woman.'

— Philip Pullman (@PhilipPullman) June 12, 2020

She didn’t mean by men saying they are women. Nope, that’s not what she was saying.

“No biological, psychic, or economic destiny defines the figure that the human *female* takes on in society”

— Dave Baxter (@JustDavidDavid)

So now The Body Shop is telling us what to think – and in fact telling us to think lies are truth. The Body Shop, for god’s sake. Hey has anybody asked Pizza Hut what it thinks?

we stand with ALL menstruators.

What for? And how? What do they do, summon all menstruators so that they can stand with them? What if the menstruators would rather sit, or run, or not be anywhere near The Body Shop?

But then the serene confident way they tell a woman that men menstruate.

People have periods – women, men and non-binary people.

They don’t though. Men don’t have periods. Commercial enterprises that sell lotion or shoes or chainsaws or dog food … Read the rest