It’s the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.

UN Women (which doesn’t always know which people are women) tells us:

Violence against women and girls remains one of the most prevalent and pervasive human rights violations in the world. Globally, almost one in three women have been subjected to physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence, non-partner sexual violence, or both, at least once in their life.

For at least 51,100 women in 2023, the cycle of gender-based violence ended with one final and brutal act—their murder by partners and family members. That means a woman was killed every 10 minutes.

So are we talking about women here? Or about women plus men who pretend to be women? … Read the rest

I think maybe I haven’t been paying enough attention to Brianna Wu, a 6’4″ man who calls himself a woman and wants to make himself safe by putting women in danger. Like…

You would force me to use the men's restroom? Do you know how fast I would get raped/assaulted if that happened?

My life matters. I deserve dignity. I didn't ask to be born like this.

— Brianna Wu (@BriannaWu) October 22, 2024

See what he does there? Apparently without even noticing? Claims he would speedily be raped and/or assaulted if he used the men’s restroom, in order to defend his right to threaten women with rape and/or assault by barging into their restroom. He doesn’t want to be … Read the rest

This is so sick.

Jack Smith files to drop Jan. 6 charges against Donald Trump

Not because he didn’t do it, not because there’s no evidence he did it, but because there’s a law that says he can’t be prosecuted.

Special counsel Jack Smith has filed a motion to drop all four felony charges against President-elect Donald Trump in connection with his effort to overturn his 2020 presidential election in the lead-up to the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the U.S Capitol.

Trump was first indicted on four felonies in August 2023: conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding and conspiracy against rights. The case

I can hear the shrieks of laughter all the way over on the left coast.

No shortage of irony here. pic.twitter.com/puyF9J7lJM

— Chris Rose (@ArchRose90) November 25, 2024

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So declaring a particular month “Pride” month is now mandatory, and refusal is a human rights violation? Really?

The Ontario Human Rights Tribunal has found the township of Emo will have to pay damages after refusing to proclaim Pride Month back in 2020.

I do love it that the township is Emo. No YOU are.

Borderland Pride requested Emo to declare June as Pride Month and display a rainbow flag for one week but the township refused, resulting in a years-long process in which the tribunal ruled against the township. The tribunal ruled Borderland Pride will be awarded $15,000, with $10,000 coming from the township itself and the other $5,000 coming from Emo mayor Harold McQuaker.

Another apt name. Could … Read the rest

The Telegraph:

The British Transport Police (BTP) is facing legal action over new guidance that allows trans officers to strip-search women.

No, stupid: guidance that allows male officers to strip-search women. The issue is not that they’re trans but that they’re male.

Revealed by The Telegraph, the guidance allows male staff identifying as female to intimately search women so long as they have a gender recognition certificate (GRC).

Why not give out species recognition certificates to bears so that they can intimately search humans?

Cathy Larkman, retired police superintendent and national policing lead for the WRN, said: “The letter before action to British Transport Police by Sex Matters is a significant development in this sorry tale of police forces

Amnesty UK kicks women again.

The only submissions now not published in the FWS case starting TOMORROW in the SUPREME COURT are those from @AmnestyUK – it promised to publish them before proceedings commenced. This really isn't good enough. Is it not proud of its slam-dunk arguments? Doesn't it want praise? https://t.co/0re2kvCy7D

— Helen Joyce (@HJoyceGender) November 25, 2024

No wonder they dragged their feet.

Amnesty abandons women and girls. https://t.co/TUsY01vqEu

— Joan Smith (@polblonde) November 25, 2024

Also Amnesty. Single sex spaces for women and girls important for Iraqi and Syrian refugees, but not British women. Make of that what you will. https://t.co/dBQuM0yAdK pic.twitter.com/gnKDnGzFyH

— Lisa Mackenzie (@lnmackenzie1) November 25, 2024

So the thinking is that women in the … Read the rest

Originally a comment by Bjarte Foshaug at Miscellany Room.

I don’t claim any expertise on social media algorithms, but I assume they are basically designed to maximize the number of clicks by applying heuristics like “people who clicked on X in the past were more likely than expected by chance to also click on Y” (I am sure there are others here who can correct me if I’m completely off the mark). If so, it’s telling that the YouTube algorithm started suggesting a lot more Right-wing crap after I began specifically looking for gender critical material. There’s a twist to the story, however. Recently (for reasons I hope are only too obvious) I have, once again, been watching a … Read the rest

So, looking for a few specks of gold in the giant pool of dung, we find Bad Kennedy saying Big Sugar and Big Salt are not all that good for us.

The former environmental attorney – who still must face confirmation by the Senate – is considered by many to be a controversial pick, given his history of making baseless health claims, including that vaccines can cause autism and that wifi technology causes cancer.

Yet some of his ideas around reforming the FDA have found support from health experts, lawmakers and concerned consumers alike – including some Democrats.

…

Leading up to the election, Kennedy – a former Democrat – offered several ideas for tackling chronic diseases under his slogan

Exactly so.

"Not allowing" can only make sense in this context if BTP regard strip searching as some kind of perk of the job.

— Malcolm Grimston (@MalcolmGrimston) November 24, 2024

I mean if you can’t be a male cop strip searching a woman what’s the point of going into law enforcement at all??? … Read the rest

New monster much like the old monster.

Elon Musk is so excited to start his new gig ruining the federal government that he’s getting an early start by goading his millions of followers to cyberbully government employees.

This week, Musk took aim at Ashley Thomas, the director of climate diversification for the U.S. International Finance Corporation—a highly technical role that involves developing ways of securing agriculture and infrastructure against extreme weather, one agency official told The Wall Street Journal.

Well we can’t have that. We mustn’t do anything to make sure agriculture and infrastructure can withstand extreme weather. Who needs agriculture and infrastructure?

Speaking of fake jobs, last week, Donald Trump announced that Musk would be co-heading

Here is Janet Inglis explaining what’s wrong with Tim “Sarah” McBride intruding on women:

Oh for goodness sake!
He's a man.
A man who has taken photos of himself entering women's toilets.
A man who has campaigned relentlessly for an end to women's single sex spaces and sports.
A man who uses resources intended for women only.
A man who uses women only services.…

— Janet Inglis (@DieMadTerf) November 23, 2024

He’s a man.

A man who has taken photos of himself entering women’s toilets.

A man who has campaigned relentlessly for an end to women’s single sex spaces and sports.

A man who uses resources intended for women only.

A man who uses women only services.

These are all

Guardian US columnist Margaret Sullivan frowns in the direction of Republican Nancy Mace, because of Mace’s failure to pretend that a man who calls himself Sarah McBride is a woman. Women are supposed to embrace everyone! It’s in the paperwork! It comes with the territory! Women are not allowed to disbelieve men who claim to be women, because that’s Not Kind.

I would much rather share a ladies’ room or a locker room with Sarah McBride than with Nancy Mace.

McBride, of course, was just elected to Congress and, in January, will be the highest-ranking elected official in America who is transgender. The 34-year-old comes to the US House of Representatives after serving in the Delaware legislature; before that,

Originally a comment by Bjarte Foshaug on This miasmic swamp of delusional bullshit.

We keep using the word “trans” as if it meant one thing, when the differences between a sensitive, “girly” boy who likes dolls and dresses (previously likely to grow up gay), a teenage girl with no prior history of gender dysphoria who comes to see herself as a “boy” (or “non-binary”, “queer” etc.) through social contagion from friends and online influencers, and a porn-obsessed straight man who gets turned on by the idea of being his own jerk-off fantasy couldn’t be more glaring. We also keep talking about ”gender dysphoria” as a single, one-size-fits-all diagnosis with a single cause (being born in the wrong body) and … Read the rest

Trump is a hero to the working class!!

Yeah right.

The New Republic has the details:

You probably missed it, because it created barely a ripple in the media, but last Friday, a federal judge appointed by Donald Trump struck down one of President Biden’s most pro-worker policies: his effort to ensure that far more Americans benefit from overtime pay. Around four million salaried workers with lower incomes are the losers in this decision, yet it generated startlingly few news stories and no outraged missives from leading columnists.

Well, look, it’s only money. Journalists and columnists focus on Higher Things.

[Biden’s] administrative rule, proposed last year, would raise the existing income threshold for many workers to qualify for extra

Again with the dishonest concealing language.

Transgender police allowed to strip-search women under new guidance

Once more slowly for those all the way at the back:

“Transgender” is not the issue; the issue is MALE. The issue is MALE police allowed to strip-search women. Saying “transgender” when you mean “male” just conceals and veils and obfuscates what is being forced on women.

Transgender police officers can strip-search women under new guidance issued by the British Transport Police (BTP).

The guidance, seen by The Telegraph, allows male staff identifying as female to intimately search women so long as they have a gender recognition certificate (GRC).

Say the “male” bit up front, in the headline and the first sentence, not after both. … Read the rest

The New Republic:

Elon Musk is so excited to start his new gig ruining the federal government that he’s getting an early start by goading his millions of followers to cyberbully government employees.

This week, Musk took aim at Ashley Thomas, the director of climate diversification for the U.S. International Finance Corporation—a highly technical role that involves developing ways of securing agriculture and infrastructure against extreme weather, one agency official told The Wall Street Journal.

Ways of doing what now? Securing agriculture and infrastructure against extreme weather?? What kind of god damn lefty crazed woke bureaucrat would want to secure agriculture and infrastructure against extreme weather??! Who the hell needs agriculture and infrastructure? Nobody but those pathetic … Read the rest

Get a piece of paper and you can strip-search women all you like.

Transgender police officers can strip-search women under new guidance issued by the British Transport Police (BTP).

The guidance, seen by The Telegraph, allows male staff identifying as female to intimately search women so long as they have a gender recognition certificate (GRC).

Men get to do what they want. Women, not so much. Men get to frighten and humiliate women; women get to be frightened and humiliated.

The guidance says officers can search people of the same sex as “either their birth certificate or GRC” in BTP jurisdiction. 

Authorised in September by the assistant chief constable for network policing, it reads: “British Transport Police recognises the status

It’s Trans Day of Remembrance again? Still? Always?

A Scottish council has been accused by JK Rowling of honouring the death of a notoriously violent transgender prisoner by flying a flag above its headquarters.

Edinburgh City Council flew the pink, blue and white-striped flag above the city chambers on Wednesday to mark Transgender Day of Remembrance.

Why? Why did Edinburgh City Council do that? Does it fly a flag for a Day of Remembrance for all the sets of people who are neglected or oppressed or abused or exploited before it bothers with people who have luxury fantasy identities?

In a message posted on X, formerly Twitter, the local authority said it was a “day to remember people who have

Why why WHY is this dreck being handed out in schools??? Aren’t schools supposed to be responsible about what they teach? Isn’t that a core part of their function? It’s not really education if it’s a pack of lies, is it.

This leaflet was handed out to a class of 11 year olds in Wales today.

It tells them that there are “men who have periods”.

Our schools continue to be infiltrated by dangerous ideologues. @Keir_Starmer – When are you going to end this madness once and for all? pic.twitter.com/dIpkIkNaG9

— James Esses (@JamesEsses) November 21, 2024

Boys and men don’t have periods. Telling children they do is malpractice. Boys don’t have sore breasts or bloating. Girls who “don’t identify … Read the rest