Doesn’t this just say it all. Stentorian male voice shouting “YOU’RE NOT FEMINISTS” over and over and over.

Shut up, dude. You’re not the boss of us.

Some people know exactly who the women are and what they’re for.

Ten former members of a Utah-based polygamist sect known as the Kingston Group are pursuing punitive damages against the organization after they say it subjected them to years of unpaid labor, sexual violence and human trafficking.

In a lawsuit filed earlier this month, the sect’s ex-members allege: “It is largely through … illegal marriage practices that the [Kingston Group] is able to unlawfully make girls and their children religious martyrs and traffic them for sexual and labor purposes.”

The lawsuit contains explicit details of how Kingston Group leaders – who also own and operate several businesses and schools in the suburbs of Utah’s capital, Salt Lake City – allegedly arrange incestuous and sometimes underage marriages between teenage girls and adult men with exalted status to produce hundreds of children.

Women (including girls) are for breeding. That’s the purpose of them. If you don’t use them for breeding you’re just keeping them alive for nothing. Why would you do that?

The suit alleges episodes of rape aimed at forcing pregnancy, group members covering up years of sexual abuse and indoctrinating children in elementary school about plural marriage.

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Nine of the plaintiffs claim the Kingston Group made them begin working during their elementary or preschool days through their late teenage years. None of them received a paycheck, they allege.

In her complaint, Amanda Rae Grant claims she was assigned to work in her early teens at Advance Copy, where wedding announcements and invitations were printed, because “wedding pictures of little girls marrying men in incestuous or plural marriages could not be printed at Walmart”.

Another plaintiff, Jeremy Roberts, said he started working four hours a day – year-round – at a farm run by the Order when he was seven or eight. He allegedly was told that his hourly pay was $3.23.

By the time he was 12, Roberts said, he was working 12-hour shifts at a mine the Order ran.

It’s Mormonism by another name.

Philip Pullman blames the victims.

One scrap from Brighton yesterday:

All that venom and name-calling because we decline to pretend that men are women.

Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on No they don’t.

The National Organization for Women is defining “woman” as a “gender identity” now. How fucking feminist of them.

This is going to age really well, right? At some point, they are going to be mortified by this.

Compared to the UK, the US and Canada seem to be behind the curve. Over there, the tide appears to be turning; genderists are more on the defensive, what with the Cass report, and all of the court cases that are being decided in favour of GC belief. It’s not as if an ocean is still the same obstacle to information it once was. The legal and legislative regimes on either side of the Atlantic are different, so it might take a while for governments, courts, and organizations here to come around. Still, you’d think they’d be paying more attention to what is happening in the UK. But, they’re not.

It will start with lawsuits. Once the genderist position starts to cost somebody real money, things will shift. This fundamentally dishonest and deceptive ideology leaves broken, hurting people in its wake. They are lied to, and promised things that are impossible, things that all the force of will and rainbow flags in the world can never bring about.

Humans can’t change sex. It’s nobody’s fault; it’s not a conspiracy; that’s just how things are. The sexed body is not something that needs to be cured or corrected. To claim that it is necessary, or even possible, is a lie. That this “solution” is offered as a panacea for problems it can never address is a prescription for tragedy.

“Gender affirming care” is touted with the same enthusiastic hucksterism as the latest fad diet, though few diets have the guarantee of irreversible mutilation, sterility, and loss of sexual function listed in their Fine Print. Some of these victims will be looking for people to blame, people who should have known better. People who actually did know better. People who were responsible, but who acted irresponsibly. People who lied. There are so many it will be hard to choose. But they will be found. Precedents will be sought. The trailblazing done by UK feminists, and other adults in the room will be consulted. Someone will be made to pay. Once delusion meets Reality, things will be walked back, and tweets like this will disappear down the memory hole. Reality plays the long game, and Reality always wins. But, it can’t win soon enough.

NOW is fully captured, just like the ACLU and Planned Parenthood and the National Women’s Law Center. Nothing for women any more, always people. Women don’t matter any more; nobody campaigns or proselytizes for women any more; women are so much chaff.

They systematically avoid the word, even though it’s IN their NAME. The W in NOW stands for Women, but NOW has become ashamed to use the word.

Meanwhile – the item that prompted me to try to reply to a NOW tweet only to find I’m blocked –

That’s a moronic lie. Men don’t need access to abortion, because men can’t get pregnant. It’s only women who need abortion rights, and no longer have them.

I wasn’t aware of this, and I have to admit I’m slightly shocked.

I’m blocked by THE NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR WOMEN????? The oldest, biggest, most mainstream feminist group in the US? That organization for women now blocks women for not agreeing that men can be women? In other words the oldest, biggest, most mainstream feminist group in the US is now shunning feminist women in favor of anti-feminist misogynist men?

How did that happen?

Mind you, I’m assuming that’s why I’m blocked, but I don’t remember anything specific.

But it’s grotesque. It’s grotesque – mainstream feminist organizations shunning feminist women for the sake of non-feminist men. How is that going to advance feminist goals? How is that going to do anything useful?

I think I’ll have to send them a little note with some questions.

Texas governor plays cruel childish games with other people’s lives:

About 50 migrants, including a one-month-old baby, have been sent in a bus from Texas to the Washington DC residence of Vice-President Kamala Harris, in the latest move by Republican-led states to transfer migrants unannounced across the country.

The bus let off the migrants, who are believed to be mostly Venezuelan, outside the Naval Observatory, the traditional home of US vice-presidents, on Saturday morning.

They had been sent by the governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, while another group were flown to Martha’s Vineyard, in Massachusetts, on a flight organized by Florida governor Ron DeSantis earlier this week.

GEDDIT??? “You love migrants so much YOU take care of them nyah nyah nyah.”

Abbott also sent three buses of migrants that arrived in New York City on Saturday. Abbott had already sent two buses of migrants to Harris’s residence on Thursday, containing about 100 people from Colombia, Cuba, Guyana, Nicaragua, Panama and Venezuela.

I remember a guy who used to send trains full of people to destinations of his choosing. He’s not generally considered much of a role model.

The latest transfers are an escalation of a series of actions by Texas and Florida, both led by Republicans, to move migrants without warning to Democratic-leaning areas. On Wednesday, DeSantis of Florida chartered two planes to take about 50 migrant adults and children to the wealthy liberal island of Martha’s Vineyard, in Massachusetts, forcing local residents to scramble to help provide food and shelter for the unexpected newcomers.

Several of the migrants told journalists there was nobody at the airport to greet them, and they walked almost four miles to find help in the town, where they were put up in a church overnight.

Whatever; at least they showed the libbruls who’s boss.

Some snaps from I think Brighton:

“Rapey McForehead” is trending on Twitter so I looked to find out why. The Washington Post:

Congressman Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) told a former White House aide that he was seeking a preemptive pardon from President Donald Trump regarding an investigation in which he is a target, according to testimony given to the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Johnny McEntee, according to people familiar with his testimony, told investigators that Gaetz told him during a brief meeting “that they are launching an investigation into him or that there’s an investigation into him,” without specifying who was investigating Gaetz.

McEntee added that Gaetz told him “he did not do anything wrong but they are trying to make his life hell, and you know, if the president could give him a pardon, that would be great.” Gaetz told McEntee that he had asked White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows for a pardon.

Didn’t do anything wrong, nope nope, obviously not.

Gaetz never did get a pardon from Trump.

Aaaand The Atlantic runs an article by freelance writer Maggie Mertens that announces Separating Sports by Sex Doesn’t Make Sense. It’s every bit as stupid as it sounds, and then some.

Though school sports are typically sex-segregated, a new generation of kids isn’t content to compete within traditional structures.

Ah yes, it’s just a matter of “traditional structures,” like women having to wear skirts. Thank god the new generation of kids has seen through it at last.

School sports are typically sex-segregated, and in America some of them have even come to be seen as either traditionally for boys or traditionally for girls: Think football, wrestling, field hockey, volleyball. However, it’s becoming more common for these lines to blur, especially as Gen Zers are more likely than members of previous generations to reject a strict gender binary altogether. Maintaining this binary in youth sports reinforces the idea that boys are inherently bigger, faster, and stronger than girls in a competitive setting—a notion that’s been challenged by scientists for years.

No it hasn’t. Sports scientists are having a good (albeit furious) laugh at that line.

Decades of research have shown that sex is far more complex than we may think. And though sex differences in sports show advantages for men, researchers today still don’t know how much of this to attribute to biological difference versus the lack of support provided to women athletes to reach their highest potential.

That’s not true either. Just ask Serena Williams.

In recent years, the question of who can play on what team has developed into a full-blown front in the culture war, based in large part on the fear that transgender girls will unfairly take over girls’ sports because of sweeping generalizations about biological athletic advantages.

Welllll, sweeping generalizations plus “Veronica Ivy” and “Lia” Thomas and a boatload of other men and boys cheating women and girls out of medals and prizes.

The insistence on separating sports teams strictly by sex is backwards, argues Michela Musto, an assistant sociology professor at the University of British Columbia who has studied the effect of the gender binary on students and young athletes. “Part of the reason why we have this belief that boys are inherently stronger than girls, and even the fact that we believe that gender is a binary, is because of sport itself, not the other way around,” she told me by phone.

Cargo cult physiology! What could go wrong?!

While the need to separate athletes by sex is still held firmly by many as a way to protect girls and women from harm, many people advocate for moving to a more integrated and inclusive approach.

Yeah let’s just blow off that whole physical thing and stop protecting girls and women from being smashed up by boys and men, and instead focus on being more incloooooooooosive [of boys and men].

What a horrible man.

School prepares for backlash over high school teacher who claims to be trans. I think the teacher is just taking the mickey.

The Halton District School Board is “standing behind” an “accepted” transgender teacher who has gone viral in social media video posts.

In addition, HDSB Chair Margo Shuttleworth tells the Toronto Sun that staff are looking at “going through creating a safety plan” to ensure the Oakville Trafalgar High School teacher’s security as they prepare for potential protests when the school opens for classes Monday.

Gone viral why? Potential protests why?

Trans? Or mockery? It looks more like mockery to me. Anyway I wouldn’t want to be in a high school class taught by that teacher.

Anna Slatz at Reduxx has more:

Shocking media first began to circulate on Twitter earlier this week, with multiple accounts sharing a mobile phone video and stills of a shop teacher demonstrating how to use a circular saw.

The teacher is seen wearing an extremely prominent prosthetic bust, one which clearly outlines the nipples through his tight shirt. He is also donning a bright blonde wig and short-shorts.

Totally appropriate for high school, right?

Action shot:

Back to the Toronto Sun:

Pre-transitioning the teacher was known to students and faculty as a male and went by a man’s name. But the teacher now identifies as a woman and is referenced with a female name.

The school board says it sees her simply as a good teacher.

“This teacher (who teaches shop) is an extremely effective teacher,” said Shuttleworth. “All the kids really love being in the class.”

I don’t believe either of those claims.

Which one really has the stupid argument here?

The “like” there isn’t “like,” because of the meaning of the word “trans.” OJ is pretending that all adjectives are just additions, but that’s a really stupid thing to pretend.

For instance: pretend; artificial; fake; counterfeit; fantasy; mock; sham.

That’s the thing about the adjective “trans”: that’s what it means. That’s its only meaning.

For that reason, it’s both fatuous and dishonest for OJ to pretend that “trans woman” is comparable to “tall woman.”

This is a really stupid line of argument!

Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on Near-total control.

In the press article, my experience of abuse by GCs and their far-right allies is not represented (and I did describe this; some of it was also read out to me). I assume this is also the case for other trans inclusive feminists who were interviewed, as the account is one-sided.

Pardon me if I fail to believe you. First, I have grave doubts about your ability to distinguish “abuse” from “criticism.” It’s a natural response to the transperbolic claim that “misgendering” is “actual violence,” and that your critics are hell-bent on trans genocide. Please. Second, the whole “far-right allies” thing is an immediate indication that yours is not a good faith appraisal of your critics, many of whom are left-leaning women.

You’re trying to hide the striking asymmetry between the actions of feminists and genderists. How many trans meetings have been harassed by threatening mobs of feminist activists? How many genderist professors have been hounded out of their teaching positions by feminist students and their allies? How many public gatherings of genderists have been greeted with bullying, intimidating feminists dressed in black, barring access to their chosen gathering place? None. How do I know this? Because I would have heard about it. We all would have. If even one of these counterfactual things had transpired, it would have been reported worldwide by captured media outlets. It would have been a front page, first item story if feminists had even once been half as threatening and intimidating to genderist gatherings and academics as trans activists have consistently been to women defending their rights and boundaries. Instead the actual threats, intimidation and violence have all been in the other direction. You’ll spin this as legitimate self-defence of a terrorized, embattled, marginalized community in the face of imminent genocide. Besides, those women are all evil, far-right bigots on the wrong side of history, so they get what they deserve. Right?

How did this situation become so entrenched so fast? There was certainly nothing like it in connection with feminism and its critics, was there? Opposition and emotion, yes, but surely not such systematic and intense vilification and ostracism? (Shall I call it V&O for short?) I don’t think feminism has ever had that kind of power or invoked that kind of loyalty.

This. This still blows my mind. Women have never been able to get the police to take rape seriously, but they’ll go all out against limericks.

Unlike feminism, its political subject is not female people but rather all those subjected to gender oppression – a concept that is redefined to emphasise lack of choice and affirmation relating to gender identity.

But how is this supposed concern for “all those subjected to gender oppression” working out in real life? Again there is a striking imbalance in how all this high-falutin’ theory is applied in society at large. Also a striking imbalance in who it is that bears the burden and pays the price of this application of gender ideology.

We’ve all seen examples posted here on B&W of the ongoing, concerted erasure of the word “woman” in a broad range of organizations and institutions. All in the interests of “inclusivity”. But is there an equivalent, concerted effort to erase the word men in all those same arenas? No. Only women are subjected to this treatment.

At the same time that “woman” is being banished from institutional vocabularies, women’s single sex spaces have effectively been turned into mixed sex spaces. Toilets. Prisons. Rape crisis centres. Hospital wards. Sports teams. Human sexually dimorphic physiology means that men, on average, represent a physical threat to most women in a way that does not happen in the reverse direction. The cover that gender self ID provides to potential sexual predators is one that endangers women disproportionately, if not exclusively. If we replace “sex” with “gender” as the exclusive locus of legitimate concern, than this lopsided cost and damage are rendered invisible. The underlying explanation of sex discrimination is no longer available or allowed under a regime of gender primacy. If the category of “woman” is redefined to include men, then the concept of women being a sex class with its own needs and interests becomes incoherent, and can no longer be used as the basis for defending anything exclusively “female.”

This is not an issue of equivalent importance to men, as, traditionally, under patriarchy, they had amassed most power to themselves to start with. Women have had to take power from them. Men were the norm, the standard, the model. Trans identifying females are not a threat to the male power base. The definition of “man” is not on the table. Never has been, never will be. We are not being erased, or colonized. Gay men are not being attacked for “genital fetishism” or “sexual apartheid” to anywhere near the same degree that lesbians are. You never hear anyone make the claim that “we’ve always entered your spaces,” or “women will always force their way to gain access to men.” Yet both “arguments” are made against attempts to retain women’s single sex spaces. Men’s boundaries are ultimately secure against women, and always will be, because of male advantages in physical strength.

In actual practice, women are the clear losers in the gender game. The invasion is unidirectional, and has nothing to do with”equality”, “fairness” and “inclusion.” No amount of gender studies degrees can erase or sugar-coat this truth, whatever statements, petitions, and apologies emanate from these useful idiots in academia. How they see this as “justice” is beyond me. The only way they will be on the “right side of history” is if they’re the ones writing it.

First of all, what is Forbes Power Women’s Summit? I’d never heard of it so I had to look it up. (It’s tricky trying to figure out the grammar. Is it a summit for power women? If so, what are power women? Is it a women’s summit organized by Forbes Power? If so, what is Forbes power? Is there a third option?) Google explains all:

In 2013, Moira [Forbes] launched the annual Forbes Women’s Summit in New York City, which brings together 250 female leaders to discuss and solve the world’s most intractable issues.

I don’t know or care who Moira Forbes may be, but at least we know where we are. It’s some kind of corporate jamboree for women. It’s cool that 250 women can go to a corporate summit and, without further ado, solve the world’s most intractable issues.

Anyway, of course there had to be the usual insult.

Dylan Mulvaney isn’t a woman.

It’s physical.

But. It seems the aggression failed.

Updating to add more snaps:

More on the Leeds march:

That was 5 minutes before the march was due to start. Nothing since. I expect they’re way too busy working to uncancel the march to do any updating. Please tell us again how vulnerable trans women are.

Wait here’s something.

Yes West Yorks Police please do explain.

Alarming development.

That’s now. The march should be in progress. But

People are seeking confirmation.