AAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHH
A campaign group has lost its appeal against a legal judgement relating to gender balance on public boards.
The Court of Session has ruled trans women with a gender recognition certificate do count when ensuring females take up half the posts.
So boards can be 100% men as long as 50% of them say they are women. HahahahaHA women back to the 19th century for YOU.
It’s utterly disgusting.
Victor Madrigal in all his diversity.
The repeated phrase is “girls in all of their diversity.”
It’s bio-essentialism to say elephants are not ostriches. It’s bio-essentialism to say whales are not lobsters. It’s bio-essentialism to say daffodils are not sequoias. It’s bio-essentialism to say potatoes are not grapes.
I begin to detect a pattern here.
We need to know the differences between things. It’s necessary for our enjoyment but also for our survival. Fire is not snow and it’s not like snow – if you touch it it will hurt worse than you can imagine. It’s important to know that. Imagination and fantasy and pretending are good things in their way and in their place, but in other ways and places we need to get our facts right.
Do we need to know which people are women and which are men? Ever? Often? Always?
UN Human Rights High Commissioner issues a slimy manipulative statement pretending to defend women’s rights while actually stamping on them.
Expressing grave concern about structural barriers to sport faced by women and girls in all of their diversity, lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and other gender diverse persons and intersex persons, a group of UN experts* today issued a policy position urging States and other stakeholders to respect the right of all to participate in cultural life through sports and games and to tackle discrimination against, and enforcement of equal treatment of all athletes, especially women and girls in all their diversity, LGBT and intersex persons.
This of course means the opposite of what it appears to mean. It doesn’t mean women and girls in all of their diversity, it means women and girls plus men and boys who claim to be women and girls. It’s that grotesquely twisted.
They also urged States to review standards of inclusion of intersex and trans persons to ensure compliance with human rights obligations and the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.
In other words the bit about women at the beginning was just trickery. The real point is to destroy women’s sports for the sake of men who are willing to call themselves women in order to get medals and prizes they would otherwise have no hope of getting.
The experts also expressed concern at attempts to use the male-female categorisation in sport to argue for the exclusion of trans women and women with intersex variations from female categories, and the recent intensification and instrumentalisation of this debate, which has led to the adoption of restrictive measures in law and public policy by State institutions and sporting bodies alike.
In other words they expressed concern at attempts to keep women’s sports for women.
“Categoric exclusions of trans and intersex women from women’s sports is a prima facie violation of human rights obligations under the principle of non-discrimination, and their right to privacy,” the experts said.
LIKE HELL IT IS. The violation of human rights obligations is letting men infiltrate women’s sports.
“We are also deeply worried by the accompanying, oftentimes offensive, and even hateful targeting of trans and intersex persons in social media and public discourse, especially as it links to their sense of self and bodily autonomy, as those actions impact their physical and mental integrity,” they said.
What about women? What about women? What about women, you absolute scumbags? Why are you not deeply worried about women and their sense of self and bodily autonomy and physical and mental integrity????
Two years ago, the star researcher Dan Ariely, a behavioral scientist, fell into the spotlight when a trio of data sleuths exposed problems with the numbers supporting a headline-making 2012 study he helped write. The study found people were less likely to lie on a form if they signed an honesty statement at the top, as opposed to the bottom.
On the blog Data Colada, the sleuths examined one of three experiments in the paper, which claimed to use data from an insurance company. Amid the fallout from their findings, Ariely claimed that the company “collected, entered, merged, and anonymized” the data before sending it to him. That company, The Hartford, said back then that it could not locate the data.
But now they’ve located the data.
The Hartford told NPR on Friday that they found the data they contributed but discovered that after they sent it, the data was manipulated to support the findings of the study, which was retracted in 2021. The company also found differences in font between the data they sent and what shows up in the study, not to mention altogether different numbers: some inflated, some randomized.
They also say Ariely didn’t get permission to publish the data.
The experiment involving the insurance company isn’t the only one with problems. Earlier this year, Francesca Gino, a Harvard Business School professor who’s also an author on the paper, was placed on administrative leave. Later, the blog Data Colada found problems in three papers Gino helped write, which are being retracted.
Could somebody please check the “data” on gender idenniny?
It’s kind of like Citizen Kane but without any Orson Welles. The Washington Post lines up the players:
Trump’s four-year presidency — and the tumultuous period of investigations and criminal and civil litigation since he left office — have reshaped much of the Trump family’s wealth, business and dynamics with one another, according to court filings, financial records, emails and interviews with people close to the family.
Ivanka Trump, once considered by Trump’s business partners to be the most likely of his children to take over the Trump Organization, has largely stepped away from the limelight of both business and politics, at times telling others she was stung by the scrutiny she received in Washington…
Yeah gee why would anyone scrutinize her? Just because she’s as corrupt as her revolting daddy and was using his presidency as a tool for Grabbing More Money?? It’s so unfair.
The relationships between Trump and his three eldest children are likely to be on display over the next two weeks, as Donald Jr., Eric and Ivanka are all scheduled to take the witness stand in the civil fraud trial in New York over the Trump Organization’s business practices. Donald Jr., 45, is up first, scheduled to appear on Wednesday; Eric Trump, 39, is scheduled to appear the following day, and Ivanka Trump, 42, on Nov. 8.
The burning question is just how much they will perjure themselves.
Though he is not required to attend, Trump has shown up to court for seven days of the proceedings since they began in early October, even as some advisers have argued for him to stay away. He has told advisers he wants to attend because his children’s inheritance and his family’s brand are on the line. Several people close to him described him as livid about the trial.“Everything about it makes him angry — including that it’s hurting his children,” said one adviser, who like several others spoke on the condition of anonymity to address the family dynamics.
“The trial strikes at his identity and the family. His kids, what he’s been able to build over years and years and years,” said David Urban, a longtime adviser.
What he’s been able to build over years and years and years via fraud and lies and more fraud.
Now he’s profiteering off his ex-presidenthood.
He reported earning about $14.8 million in paid speeches in 2022 and 2023, collecting $250,000 from the Log Cabin Republicans, a gay Republican group, and about $2.3 million for four speeches from the American Freedom Tour, a group that staged for-profit Trump rallies. He made $2 million, the disclosure shows, giving two speeches to the Universal Peace Federation, a branch of the Unification Church.
Keep that up and pretty soon you’re talking about real money.
Originally a comment by Athel Cornish-Bowden on It is important to distinguish.
We should never forget the Deir Yassin massacre carried out by Irgun terrorists led by Menachem Begin, who later founded Likud, the current party of government, which continues the ideas of Irgun with less overt violence. Likud is largely responsible for the humiliations and hardships that Palestinians suffer every day, starting with the continuing invasion of the West Bank. If some Palestinians feel pushed into retaliating in horrific ways then we still need to ask who is ultimately to blame. A few years ago we had a colleague older than us — well into her 70s and maybe 80s — who was involved in non-violent support of Palestine. She and a group of like-minded people went to the Gaza Strip to see for herself how the the people were living. She had of course to go through Israel to get there and encountered extremely hostile officials who tried to stop her, and considered it quite normal to knock down an elderly woman whose opinions were not ones they approved of.
At the same time not all Israelis are like that. I have quite a few Israeli colleagues and friends, of whom few, if any, would contemplate voting for Likud, I guess. Some were quite vocal about criticizing the colonization of the West Bank when I went to a meeting in Beer Sheba (once a predominantly Christian and Muslim city, but not now) in 2013. The queue for checking in at the airport of Marseilles was interesting. The people going to Tel Aviv were all mixed up with people going to Constantine (Algeria), thus almost half Jewish and half Muslim (plus a few oddities like me). I didn’t detect any sort of hostility between the two groups: it seemed perfectly possible for Jews and Muslims to meet and chat on a personal level without any displays of antipathy.
If one is brought up as a Christian one almost automatically assumes that the Christians are the good guys when they’re involved in a dispute with non-Christians (for example in the current hostility between Armenia and Azerbaijan), but they certainly weren’t the good guys during the Lebanese civil war or during the break-up of Yugoslavia. Everything is more complicated than one may want to think.
Originally a comment by Pliny the in Between on Here’s your amuse-bouche sir.
Being a white haired guy i my ’60s, almost every time I go to a restaurant anymore some 20 something asks if I need help with the QR code menu or ordering. Or in the self-check line at the grocery, or any other place where modern IT is about. I smile, say no thank you, and enjoy my wife’s wry smile at all this ageism, knowing full well that I just spent the last 8 hours analyzing training sequences in an AI system I developed. Or figuring ways to constrain generative AI. They don’t know that, of course and I could get all pissy about it – but why. Does it matter? No. How they view me is irrelevant,
We chose how we respond to the universe. If you look for reasons to be pissed off you will find them. If you chose to have a more zen view of humanity then you will enjoy that as well. All this angst worrying about tiptoeing through a snowflake minefield is not for me.
Fighting for the glorious cause of…this one person.
Double Olympic 800m champion Caster Semenya says her focus is now “more about winning battles against the authorities” than collecting medals.
Semenya, 32, was born with differences of sexual development (DSD) and cannot compete in any track events without taking testosterone-reducing drugs. The South African wants to hold World Athletics to account for discrimination against athletes with hyperandrogenism.
“I fight for what is right for humanity and for inclusivity,” she said.
Inclusivity of what though? Of people with extra testosterone? Is that really a glorious cause?
Hyperandrogenism is a medical condition characterised by higher than usual levels of testosterone, a hormone that increases muscle mass and strength.
You can see his point. A medical condition is not the same as doping. It’s not doping but it is an advantage. It does kind of render the wins meaningless though.
She has argued that taking testosterone-reducing medication could endanger her health and that the ruling denied her and other athletes with DSD the right to rely on their natural abilities.
Well, that is, the right to rely on their natural abilities in competitions.
In a statement, a World Athletics spokesperson told Reuters: “World Athletics has only ever been interested in protecting the female category. If we don’t, then women and young girls will not choose sport. That is, and has always been, the Federation’s sole motivation.”
It’s never been Semenya’s motivation at all.
Wow here’s a shocker – “Barbie” Kardashian is less violent when he’s in the men’s prison wing. Who could have predicted that?
Trans inmate Barbie Kardashian’s behaviour behind bars has improved dramatically since being placed into a men’s prison. Sources say there “isn’t a peep” out of Kardashian as the lag lives within a strict and disciplined regime in Limerick prison.
The Irish Mirror revealed in August that the 21-year-old had been transferred there from the women’s wing of the jail. Prison officers in the female wing were struggling to keep her under control, as she threatened staff and fellow lags.
The “fellow lags” who are female and thus extra vulnerable to hulking strong psychopaths like “Barbie.”
Female staff at the prison did not feel safe with her presence either. Kardashian was born a male named Gabrielle Alejandro Gentile and has not had transition surgery.
She had a name change by deed poll and received a Gender Recognition Certificate from the State. However, her case came to national attention and was the centre of debate over whether or not she should be housed in a female prison.
Because that’s how demented this has become. “Trans people are who they say they are” – no exceptions. Changing the name changes the body into a female body…one that still looks like a male body and acts like a male body and is as strong as a male body. Clear?
This is worth watching because…what is he doing? Who is filming all this? Does he just systematically bring someone along when he goes out to eat and instruct that someone to record all interactions with the servers? So that he can bully and punish every single worker who recognizes a man and uses the normal polite subservient language when talking to that man? Yes, clearly that’s exactly what he does. Poisonous scumbag.
Trump has a boatload of gag orders and he’s having himself a high old time ignoring them all and telling us he’s ignoring them. Crime boss does whatever he wants all the time and brags about it in public while campaigning all too successfully for a second term as president. We’re locked in a nightmare.
The Welsh government is to redefine women to include transgender females under planned new laws.
The proposal was revealed on Sunday in a leaked draft of its Gender Quotas Bill which proposes that half the candidates in any list to be members of the Senedd must be women.
For the purposes of the proposed legislation this includes transgender women, the report stated.
For the purposes of the proposed legislation this includes transgender women, the report stated.
That is so so so fucking insulting. “Ok ok ok we’ll pass a bill saying half the candidates must be women. But we’ll also say men can be women so ha you lose anyway. Sorrynotsorry bitches.”
First, Julie Bindel in The Spectator last November:
The most important job of any union is to support its members against bullies. So why has the Society of Authors, a sort of posh union for writers, illustrators and translators, failed to support members who are receiving death threats? In August, J.K. Rowling tweeted her sympathy for Sir Salman Rushdie after his attempted murder. Imagine how she felt when she received this response: ‘Don’t worry, you are next.’ Rowling is a member of the Society of Authors and expected the union to put pressure on the authorities by condemning the threats against her. Right? Wrong.
Not only did the Society fail to defend Rowling, but the chair of the management committee, Joanne Harris, appeared to mock her. In response, a group of members tried to use last week’s annual general meeting to remove Harris. Unsurprisingly, we were defeated; a climate of fear reigns over much of the publishing industry.
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So we decided to try to take control of the Society. We proposed two resolutions. The first was on the duty of management to uphold its stated aim ‘to protect free speech’ and to look at how best to protect the fundamental right of all authors to express themselves freely. Second was the resolution that Harris stand down as chair of the management committee, ‘in light of her documented behaviour and comments, which are not compatible with the Society’s goals of protecting free expression and their policy of dignity and respect’. As soon as the resolutions were made public, supporters of Harris began to tweet slurs about her detractors, calling us transphobes. Harris retweeted a number of these slurs.
Julia Williams, one of the authors of the open letter, spoke in favour of the resolutions at the meeting, describing it as ‘the most bruising and terrifying experience of my career’. Williams, who has worked in publishing for more than 30 years, told me: ‘I have never known such a toxic and bullying culture as exists now. But being agentless and publisherless means I have nothing left to lose. So I did it for those who are so scared for their careers they cannot speak.’
Now fast-forward to today:
Hurrah!
All in fun! Just joking! Where’s your sensayuma?
Originally a comment by Sackbut on Not Selfridge’s.
It is important to me distinguish:
– the actions of the Israeli government;
– the state of Israel itself;
– Israelis;
– Jewish people;
– Palestinian people;
– the nation of Palestine (whatever that means currently);
– the actions of the Palestinian government;
– the actions of non-governmental groups.
I keep looking for nuance in the various protests, and in reports of these protests. I keep hoping to see protesters make clear that they are criticizing government actions and not damning the civilian populations. I keep hoping for news coverage to make this clear. But it is distressingly rare. Protests like this one are described as “pro-Palestine” rather than “pro Palestinian people” or “anti Israeli indiscriminate attacks” or similar. And the protests, regardless of what chants or slogans they invoke, seem to show up to harass Jewish people or groups, rather than Israeli government offices. Why M&S, instead of the Israeli consulate? Why banging on the windows of a library harboring Jewish students, instead of anything whatsoever associated with the Israeli government, or with the American government or military, or anything at all relevant to the actual war effort?
“Israel is a terrorist state” could be a slogan used by anti-Zionist Jews assembled at the Israeli embassy. But no, it’s just a slogan used by people who assume “Israel” and “Jews” are the same thing and bear the same responsibility.
Horrific.
The Marks in Marks & Spencer was Michael Marks, a Jewish immigrant from Belarus.
Trump again told to shut up, again fails to comply.
A federal judge has reinstated a limited gag order on former President Donald Trump in his 2020 presidential election subversion case. It prevents him from criticising court staff, prosecutors and possible witnesses between now and his trial.
Judge Tanya Chutkan had temporarily lifted the order earlier this month so his lawyers could appeal but reinstated it on Sunday. An hour after the news emerged, Mr Trump called the judge “Trump hating”.
Laura Norder innit.
The former president is also under a gag order in a separate ongoing civil fraud trial in New York.
The judge in that case has issued two separate fines against Mr Trump for violating that order, one for $5,000 (£4,100) and one for $10,000.
Keep doubling.
Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on Protecting the public.
If they are that “acutely vulnerable” then maybe the outside world is not for them. If they really must go out of doors, they should make it brief. They should wear blinkers, lest they be upset by anything alarming coming into their peripheral vision. Looking down at the ground is also to be recommended. For longer, more dangerous journeys, they should be preceded by someone walking 10-20 yards ahead of them, ringing a bell, wearing a sign proclaiming “CAUTION: ACUTELY VULNERABLE PERSON APPROACHING!” This will give people in the vicinity time to hide from view anything that might upset or give offence.
There is no such thing as some particularly specially inordinately “acute vulnerability” that afflicts trans people and no one else.
This idea can be interpreted or rephrased a number of ways, some being more subtextual than this claim for particular sensitivity.
Only trans people’s needs and concerns are of importance.
Trans people are particularly demanding and vocal on encountering things they don’t like (like Islamists and cartoons of Muhammad), best not piss them off.
Please don’t hit us, we’ve done what you want us to.
These books are hidden away and we’ll give you a hard time and make you feel guilty about asking for them. And you should feel guilty. Bigot.
We love Big Brother trans women even more than you do. Why do you hate trans women so much?
