Update: I started in medias res here, thinking I’d already shared the origin story, but I must have been to busy swearing about it on twidder. It was this:

/update

It’s even worse than that. The actor who plays Viola, Georgia Frost, is one of the trio who went to JK Rowling’s house and then publicized their visit with the (obviously intended) result that her address was plastered all over social media. A very nasty piece of work. It’s all the more annoying because Viola is a marvelous character and Georgia Frost is clearly not. She doesn’t deserve to play that part.

 For this is the very same Georgia Frost who this week appeared in a picture taken outside

Now look here, this won’t do at all, threatening people we don’t like with death by violence.

This is horrific. So far beneath the bottom of the barrel. Should never have been published. Needs taken down now. https://t.co/AXc88WsQIl

— Kirsten Oswald MP (@kirstenoswald) May 3, 2024

Oh rilly? say a great many people who remember when Kirsten Oswald MP beamed joyously in front of placards threatening death by violence.

Concerned. Deeply concerned.

We are deeply concerned by the new @rcgp guidance, which depends on a number of concerning false narratives spread through the media to propose severe interruptions to trans people's access to care through general practice.https://t.co/b2mY2dP9zi

— Trans Safety Network (@trans_safety) April 29, 2024

False narratives. Shall we talk about false narratives?

Let’s talk about the false narrative that people can change sex.

Let’s talk about the false narrative that people who feel discomfort or misery about being the sex they are should without question immediately start the process of pretending to be the other sex by taking cross-sex hormones and having drastic surgeries.

Let’s talk about the false narrative that people who warn against taking cross-sex … Read the rest

Vagueness instead of argument example #eleventy billion.

Transphobes are willfully ignorant of the fact that science, medicine, and history support trans people. There is NO shame in admitting you were wrong about something in light of new information.

I would implore you to step out of your echo chamber on Twitter and maybe learn… pic.twitter.com/BucZ86fHzS

— The Pissed Off Lawyer (@legaltweetz) May 2, 2024

“support trans people”?

What’s that supposed to mean?

Gender skeptics don’t drop trans people or push them over or throw them off cliffs. We don’t not support trans people. What we do is decline to pretend to believe they are the sex they are not. That’s not some kind of opposite of “support.” It’s a refusal … Read the rest

Pink News is cross because the profundities of a “non-binary person” were greeted with mirth rather than awed respect.

Dee Whitnell, who founded the #TransKidsDeserveToGrowUp solidarity campaign, released a YouTube video earlier this month in which they discussed how transgender people might find themselves “changing or exploring [their] expression or gender identity depending on the season”.

In the video, Whitnell talked about their own experiences with expression and how it changes throughout the year, as well as the concept of “genderseason” and how other trans folks might explore their expression.

In other words Dee Whitnell has noticed that people’s feelings are influenced by external factors like the weather, how early or late the sun sets, how they feel about wearing … Read the rest

La Leche League doing a quiet brag about how inclooosive its policies are.

Replies are closed. Quote-tweets are scathing.… Read the rest

Breastfeeding should be inclooosive.

Six trustees of a nationwide breastfeeding support group have been suspended for demanding that biological men be excluded from their services.

The British wing of La Leche League (LLL), which gives mother-to-mother support to those finding it hard to breastfeed, has been told by its US-based board of directors that the service cannot be single sex and they must support “male lactation”.

Also they can’t say “mother” and they can’t question gender ideology.

It’s perfectly simple, and easy if you’ll just shut up and pay attention. The baby learns to identify as getting milk out of Daddy’s nipples. Problem solved. Can we move on now?

One leader from LLLGB, the name for

Oh how about that, the BBC does know who is a woman when it comes time to pay the salaries.

Four senior female news presenters have accused the BBC of “grinding down” women on pay and failing to tackle persistent pay discrimination at a tribunal court hearing in London.

The presenter Martine Croxall – alongside Karin Giannone, Kasia Madera and Annita McVeigh – accused the broadcaster of conducting a “sham recruitment exercise” after they lost their jobs when the BBC merged its domestic and global news channels last year.

In witness statements the women, aged between 48 and 54, said they had been discriminated against because of their sex, age and union membership.

Plus their failure to identify as … Read the rest

Whoops.

Trump confirms he told the Secret Service to take him to the Capitol on January 6 but they refused to let him pic.twitter.com/GY5dzH43Ie

— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) May 1, 2024

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The Guardian attempts to report on a massive attack on women’s rights without ever mentioning women. Look, look, women treated as not deserving of rights over their own bodies, except we take it back about the “women” part, we don’t know what that word means, we never heard of any people called that, we don’t know whose rights these are that we’re writing this piece about.

These fucking idiots.

How can you report on a massive war on women’s autonomy while adamantly refusing to mention women?

You can’t. You fucking can’t. By erasing women from this news article you join Team Delete Women’s Rights.

The Guardian, or reporter Carter Sherman, or both, literally don’t use the word once. It … Read the rest

But it’s such a tiny tiny minority of people, do we really need to spend so much time on a tiny tiny tiny minority of people?

Oh dear god the stupid.

And trans women are women, it’s in the name. https://t.co/av4kJHxol5

— Thomas Willett (@ThomasWillett9) April 30, 2024

Well, first, “trans women” isn’t a name. It may be a label, but at bottom what it is is a noun accompanied by an adjective. That’s all. You can attach any adjective to any noun; doing so doesn’t automatically create a truth. I could label Thomas Willett here “stupid boy” but that by itself wouldn’t make it true that Willett is a stupid boy.

Second…seriously?

Pretend women are women, it’s in the name.

Fake women are women, it’s in the name.

Bogus women are women, it’s in the name.

Counterfeit women are women, it’s in the name.

Imaginary … Read the rest

Revolutionaries today! They ain’t what they useta be! Why in my day we would go whole hours without chocolate in order to bring down The Man.

10/10, no notes.

You will not see a better example of the pathetic cosplay revolutionary genre than this.

pic.twitter.com/3uR03epx4B

— Daniel Sugarman (@Daniel_Sugarman) April 30, 2024

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Originally a comment by maddog1129 on Spike.

This isn’t civil contempt, this is criminal contempt. Being adjudged in criminal contempt of court is a violation of DJT’s bond conditions. He is out on pretrial release because he posted a bond in each of his four criminal cases. A condition of bond in every one of those cases is not to commit a criminal offense against any state law or federal law. “Violate no law,” is a standard bond condition in every criminal case. DJT is now subject to having his bond revoked in those cases, and being held in pretrial detention.

With regard to contempt sanctions, judges generally use a progressive approach. Fine first is typical. Remains to be … Read the rest

Darn it it’s so hard to convince everyone that you’re not the baddy when your target will insist on talking herself. Joan Smith deeply sympathizes.

If you want to see a human being squirm, just say the words “Rosie Duffield” to Sir Keir Starmer. He immediately looks like a man who wishes he was somewhere else — at the dentist, maybe, or having an intimate medical procedure. It happened again this morning, when he was asked by Susanna Reid on Good Morning Britain whether he was going to apologise to the Canterbury MP after finally admitting she was correct to say in 2021 that only women have a cervix.

Instead of answering he burbled about how well he and … Read the rest

Annnnnnnnd when the judge does fine Trump Trump wins because he just sends out another “send me money” to his credulous fools.

Donald Trump’s campaign immediately sought to capitalize after the judge in his New York criminal trial ruled him in contempt of court — the latest example of how the former president’s campaign has flipped negative legal developments into a financial boost for his reelection bid.

“A Democrat judge JUST HELD ME IN CONTEMPT OF COURT!” read a Tuesday morning email soliciting donations for Trump National Committee, a joint fundraising committee that includes Trump’s campaign and the Republican National Committee.

Of course the judge HELD HIM IN CONTEMPT OF COURT because HE WAS IN CONTEMPT OF COURT but … Read the rest

Same thing, Willoughby says. A gay man on a men’s hospital ward is the same thing as a man on a women’s hospital ward. The same thing.

Well, look at that. All you “No LGB without the T” gay guys, you enjoy the rampant old school homophobia of your new masters, because you’ll be seeing a lot more of it as blokes like this lose influence. Me, I’ll stand with Wes on this. pic.twitter.com/NU00zmf4UE

— Dennis Noel Kavanagh (@Jebadoo2) April 30, 2024

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I pointed out yesterday that calling a man who threatened to kill Rosie Duffield and JK Rowling a “troll” is offensively trivializing. I see I’m not the only one who thinks so.

I hadn't realised this news had reached the press. I think @RosieDuffield1 will agree with me that using the word 'troll' to describe men who make explicit death threats against women minimises both the offence and the effect on the recipients.https://t.co/HjrYP26Oyp

— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) April 29, 2024

You’re god damn right it does.… Read the rest

A tap on the knuckles for Trump:

Donald Trump has made his contempt for the court clear throughout his criminal trial in Manhattan, and now a judge has made it official. Juan Merchan ruled today that the former president had violated a gag order designed to protect the integrity of the trial and fined him $9,000.

Might as well fine him 25 cents. 9k is lunch money to him.

Merchan found that nine violations alleged by prosecutors were clear violations, but deemed a tenth too ambiguous to warrant punishment. He declined to levy the most serious punishment available to him—namely, tossing Trump in jail—but also had scathing words for Trump’s excuses for violating the order.

Would a less notorious … Read the rest

Some mysterious force is preventing me from posting this directly via Nina’s tweet but haha I can do it via this one so nyah, Mysterious Force.

It’s brilliant indeed.

This Video is Not Mine
It is the brilliant creation of Nina Paley @ninapaley, capturing what is at the heart of the conflict in Palestine/Israel, war in general, human nature.

You might say this video slays… pic.twitter.com/W9TOe5cDpq

— Scott Graham (@MacGraeme42) October 12, 2023

… Read the rest