Misogynists agree

Mar 23rd, 2022 5:31 pm | By

Beardy bro wonders why there are so many more bitches in the UK than in the US and Canada. Fellow beardy bro helps him out.

Turns out it’s because…uh…we have such excellent social support for women in the US compared to the UK. Yes, sure, that’ll work.

Oh no, that’s all too kitcheny, too Mumsnetty, too of the earth earthy for them. Zack can hold a baby but he’s not going to do any of the gruntwork now is he.

Janice Turner noticed a certain…something…about this pleasant chat among beardies.

https://twitter.com/VictoriaPeckham/status/1506781353626546176

What would we do without them?



Originally created by and for women

Mar 23rd, 2022 3:35 pm | By

The Women’s Aid statement:

Our roots are in the international women’s rights movement, and our federation developed in the 1970s and 1980s in response to patriarchy, sexism, and male violence against women. Domestic abuse organisations and refuges were originally created by and for women – many of whom were survivors themselves – as spaces free from men for safety, healing, mutual support, and solidarity.

We have been at the forefront of shaping and coordinating responses to domestic abuse for nearly 50 years. We have done so by placing the needs of survivors at the heart of our work and by responding to their needs and many of our staff, board members and supporters are survivors of domestic abuse. Together with our members, we support women and children experiencing domestic abuse, challenge the root causes of violence, and address women’s experience of intersecting and overlapping systems of oppression.

But that was then. Now it’s been decided that the purported needs of men who identify as women come first.

Today, it is still widely acknowledged by expert service providers that single sex, trauma informed spaces are crucial in providing safe spaces for recovery from abuse and violence for women and their children. However, there is a trend towards gender neutral commissioning of services and its abandonment of commissioning the specialist domestic abuse services which are needed for all parts of the population. A consequence of this is that woman-led, single sex services are losing funding, which results in local communities losing the deep expertise and decades of experience these services provided. This is part of a worrying move by commissioners to disregard the sex-specific nature of domestic abuse.

Additionally, there is an ongoing exchange of different views on the inclusion of trans women in single sex spaces including with commissioners, within feminist movements and organisations, and across society at large.

So they decided to do a clarification.

Our members are a diverse group of organisations providing a range of high-quality support and services. Some members offer support to women and children only, while others support all victims of domestic abuse. Most member organisations deliver at least some women only (single sex) services, most commonly through refuge accommodation and groups.

Members routinely use exceptions within the Equality Act 2010 to provide single sex services. They do this because survivors have told them that they and their children experience trauma responses when in contact with males, particularly at the point of leaving an abusive relationship but also for some time afterwards.

Many members provide responsive and effective community support and emergency accommodation to trans and non-binary survivors. A relatively small number of trans women need to access emergency accommodation. Where they do, some member organisations provide this within their accommodation on a case-by-case basis while others provide alternative dispersed accommodation or signpost to other organisations.

So…let’s punish them, yeah?



Let men in or we walk

Mar 23rd, 2022 3:24 pm | By

Women’s Aid said a thing yesterday:

They have both – single sex and those that meet the needs of trans and non-binary people. But oh no, that can’t be allowed – women can’t have anything that’s just for women.

They just said that they have services that meet the needs of trans and non-binary people – but let’s bully them anyway, just for the hell of it.

Scotland Women’s Aid sides with the bullies.



Guest post: Pronouns place people in a double bind

Mar 23rd, 2022 11:47 am | By

Originally a comment by Bjarte Foshaug on Now that the word’s been taken away. [Title by Sastra]

That’s exactly it! As I keep saying we know for a fact that many of the people now riding the gender ideology bandwagon used to say things that would now get them labeled as TERFs and demonized any time. E.g. I have personally been referred to as both “man” and “him” by “trans allies” who, in the absence of telepathic powers, couldn’t possibly know anything about my “inner sense of self”. I have also heard some of these same people say things like “douches are really bad for women”, talk about abortion rights as a “women’s issue”, refer to vaginas as “lady bits”, talk about the Bechdel Test and how a certain movie only had x “women” in it (when the movie in question didn’t offer any clue about the “gender identity” of these people) etc… etc… The list is practically endless.

This was less than 10 years ago, and even today they keep slipping up and making revealing blunders (e.g. Silent Bob’s taunt about Ophelia’s “overwhelmingly male commenters”) showing that even they are unable to consistently live up to their own demands. When specifically talking about trans issues words like “man” and “woman”, or even “male” and “female”, refer to an inner sense of self etc., but for all other purposes (in good Orwellian fashion) they still talk, think, and act as if they knew perfectly well how to tell a biological female from a biological male. It also goes to show that (despite claims to the contrary) gender critical feminists and their allies are not the ones who have betrayed their cause. My concern was for biological females whatever you prefer to call them ten years ago, and my concern is for biological females whatever you prefer to call them today. The “gender uncritical” side, on the other hand, may still claim to stand up for people called “women”, but that’s just a bait and switch since the people called “women” now are not the same as the people called “women” back then.

Indeed, as I keep repeating ad nauseam, everything about gender ideology ultimately comes down to a “bad pun”. If you have what it takes to detect a pun when you hear it, you know everything you need to know to debunk all of gender ideology: If the person formerly known as Ellen Page is a “man”, then I’m not. You can’t define that person in without defining me out, certainly not while insisting on a non-trivial distinction between “men” and “women”. After all, you have just taken the only thing that ever made me a “man” out of the definition of “man”. On the same note any definition (if they had one) of “woman” designed to make it true that TWAW also makes it no longer true that biological females are “women” in any sense of the word that’s relevant to the issue. Yet the whole justification for why transwomen TIMs need to be included in all the spaces previously reserved for biological females ultimately rests on the premise that both groups are the same in some real sense (as opposed to in name only).

And this explains, once again, why everything about gender ideology is “best left unspecified”. I have often invoked the metaphor of a boat full of holes where the water leaks in. You might be able to plug some of the holes some of the time, but there are too many holes and not enough plugs, so in the end the only way to stop a leak in one place is to remove a plug from somewhere else, thus opening up another leak. If they were upfront about which plug they are using to stop which leak at any given moment, the bait and switch would be obvious to everyone, so the compromise is to keep everything perpetually in the air and try to have it both ways, e.g.:

• For the purpose of making it true that biological females are “cis women”, “cis” simply means “not trans” and doesn’t come with any implicit claims about what’s going on inside other people’s heads. But for the purpose of making it true that “cis women” are whatever they have to be to make “cis women” and “trans women” subsets of the same group, there are distinct and identifiable “feminine” ways of thinking/feeling/behaving/”presenting” (best left unspecified) that both groups supposedly have in common, thus making them the same “kind” of people.

• For the purpose of arguing that TWAW, physical traits are totally irrelevant to “gender”, no body type is any more or less “aligned” with being a “woman” than any other, any body belonging to a person who identifies as a “woman” is by definition a “woman’s body” etc. But for the purpose of arguing for the necessity of puberty blockers, hormone therapy, surgery etc. changing one’s body into a bad imitation of the other (supposedly non-existent or at least totally irrelevant) biological sex is so vitally important that anything other than automatic and unconditional affirmation is “literal violence” or even “murder”.

• For the purpose of making TRAs a legitimate social justice movement “trans rights” simply means “the same kind of kind of rights as everyone else”. But for the purpose of making it true that “TERFs” are “denying the rights” of trans people, “trans rights” means 100 % blind, uncritical, unconditional, unthinking acquiescence to all their demands in advance.

• Etc… etc…



Be sure to omit the core of the issue

Mar 23rd, 2022 11:05 am | By
Be sure to omit the core of the issue

The Guardian frowns on Ron DeSantis for saying that men shouldn’t compete in women’s races.

Florida governor Ron DeSantis has issued a proclamation that a resident of his state is the “rightful” holder of the NCAA 500m freestyle title won by trans swimmer Lia Thomas last week.

Trans swimmer? So Thomas isn’t a real swimmer but just identifies as one?

Also, we can do the scare quotes thing too. DeSantis said a resident of his state is the rightful holder of the NCAA 500m freestyle title “won” by trans swimmer “Lia” Thomas last week. Thomas didn’t actually legitimately win that title, because it was a women’s race and he has a male body.

The Guardian does the careful wording thing throughout – generic “trans” instead of trans woman, to make the story less clear; LGBTQ+ to disguise the fact that it’s purely T. It’s sneaky, and it kind of reveals that they know they’re not being honest.

Thomas made history last Thursday as the first known transgender athlete to win a US college swimming championship when she took the title in Atlanta.

Like there. The issue isn’t transgender athlete, it’s intrusion of a man into a women’s competition.

However, her victory caused a backlash among right-wing politicians as well as groups that oppose transgender athletes taking part in women’s competition.

Not “transgender athletes”; specifically male transgender athletes. We object to it because of the obvious grotesque unfairness, which you’d think the Guardian could mention right up front.

DeSantis’s proclamation has no power to change last week’s result and is a continuation of policies in Florida that target the LGBTQ+ community.

That’s probably true, but the fact remains that Thomas should not have been in that race, for the obvious reasons that the Guardian has still not bothered to mention.

In June, he signed into law the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act, which bans anyone assigned as male at birth from competing in girls and women’s sports.

Yes, and why is that? Believe it or not the Guardian still doesn’t say.

Thomas has received both support and criticism. On Monday, World Athletics president Sebastian Coe said transgender athletes pose a risk to the integrity of women’s sport.

Why? How? Guardian still doesn’t say.

“Gender cannot trump biology. As a federation president, I do not have that luxury. It is a luxury that other organizations not at the practical end of having to deal with these issues have,” Coe told the Daily Telegraph. “But as far as I am concerned, the scientific evidence, the peer-reviewed work we have done, those regulations are the right approach.”

Why? How? Guardian still doesn’t say.

We get four more paragraphs, and still it doesn’t say.

It’s quite extraordinary – a whole long piece on the subject and the Guardian never says why anyone thinks it’s unfair for men to compete on women’s teams.



A cavalier attitude

Mar 23rd, 2022 10:26 am | By

Bozo is saying how much better he would handle it.

“I listened to him constantly using the N-word, that’s the N-word, and he’s constantly using it: the nuclear word,” Trump told Fox Business on Monday.

“We say, ‘Oh, he’s a nuclear power,’” Trump said. “But we’re a greater nuclear power. We have the greatest submarines in the world, the most powerful machines ever built …”

Idiot. It doesn’t matter whether we’re “greater” or not because a nuclear exchange with Russia would mean millions of people dead, whole cities destroyed, survivors if any poisoned and helpless.

“You should say, ‘Look, if you mention that word one more time, we’re going to send them over and we’ll be coasting back and forth, up and down your coast. You can’t let this tragedy continue. You can’t let these, these thousands of people die.”

No, that is not what he should say.

When Trump was in power, in 2018, he announced that the US would withdraw from a cold war nuclear weapons treaty which kept US and Russian nuclear weapons out of Europe. It duly did so

Very. bad. move.

In office, Trump also demonstrated a cavalier attitude to diplomacy regarding North Korea, another nuclear power.

Though he courted the dictator in Pyongyang, Trump also told Kim Jong-un he had a “much bigger and more powerful” nuclear button and would answer any threats “with fire and fury like the world has never seen”.

He also asked the rapper Kid Rock and rocker Ted Nugent what he should do about North Korea.

It’s a mistake to give clowns access to the nukes.



All he said was

Mar 23rd, 2022 9:24 am | By

I would share the originating tweet but he’s locked his account and I don’t follow him so I can’t.

He’s not some petulant and barely literate Young Person, he’s an adult academic at Oxford ffs. Yet he too considers it appropriate and useful to say publicly that Rowling is “spreading hatred” and far to the right of Marine Le Pen.

Updating to add:

Emphatic agree, except for the laugh part. It’s more disgusting than funny.



Surprise surprise

Mar 23rd, 2022 5:41 am | By

Oh gee golly guess what the Taliban have gone back on their promise to re-open high schools for girls. I thought they were sincere!

The Taliban on Wednesday abruptly reversed their decision to allow girls’ high schools to reopen this week, saying that they would remain closed until officials draw up a plan for them to reopen in accordance with Islamic law.

Well what’s the holdup? They’ve had months, in fact they’ve had centuries.

Tsss. We know what the holdup is. They have no intention of doing any such thing, and never did.

The keeping women in the dirt part is not some frill on the edge of their theocracy, it’s the whole point. It’s crucial. It’s central. It’s what makes them theocrats. Hatred of women is at the very core of their religion. God is a man and women are garbage.

Talk of their re-opening girls’ schools “in accordance with Islamic law” is nonsensical, because Islamic law=women are garbage, and sly crafty lying cheating garbage at that. Women are worthless, and also guaranteed to try to get away with doing their evil slutty womany things. Of course they can’t go to schools, which would be whorehouses where they learned how to get away with doing evil slutty rebellious womany things.



Guest post: Now that the words have been taken away

Mar 22nd, 2022 5:26 pm | By

Originally a comment by Artymorty on Culture wars in a blender.

There’s something about all this ostentatious word-swapping that gives up the game, that exposes the distinction between the reality which transactivists can see just as clearly as we can, and the performance that they put on. The words are so jumbled at this point: if the words “transgender female” are just as likely to refer to someone like Eliot Page (a female who identifies as a man) as they are to Eddie Izzard (a male who, at least some of the time, identifies as a woman), the activists end up having to fall back on their senses to make out which is which: they look at an image of the person or they suss out from context clues what sex the person is. It’s always there: the fact of a trans person’s true sex needs to be known in order to correctly perform the collusion in the trans person’s fiction.

And now that the words have been taken away, it just emphasizes how easily we can all tell — trans activists just as much as the rest of us — what someone’s true sex is, usually just by looking at them.

I imagine a scenario with a police lineup: four men and one rather masculine-presenting woman are lined up for a witness to identify.

Cop asks the witness, “Is one of these five men the person who robbed you?”

Witness says, “Wait a minute. I see four men and a woman.”

Cop points directly to the woman and says, “No! She’s a man!”

Witness replies, “Well then how did you know which one I was referring to?”



A freezing hellscape

Mar 22nd, 2022 12:00 pm | By

Human Rights Watch on the situation in Mariupol:

Thirty-two civilians who managed to escape southeastern Ukraine’s besieged city of Mariupol last week told Human Rights Watch how they struggled to survive in below-freezing temperatures as Russian forces relentlessly attacked the city. They described men, women, and children sheltering in basements with little to no access to running water, power, heating, medical care, or mobile phone service since the siege began on March 2, 2022.

Russian forces laying siege to Mariupol should immediately ensure that civilians in Mariupol are not being denied access to items essential for their survival such as water, food, and medicine, and should facilitate safe passage to areas under control of Ukrainian forces for civilians who choose to leave the city.

“Mariupol residents have described a freezing hellscape riddled with dead bodies and destroyed buildings,” said Belkis Wille, senior crisis and conflict researcher at Human Rights Watch. “And these are the lucky ones who were able to escape, leaving behind thousands who are cut off from the world in the besieged city.”

It’s a long, detailed report, well worth reading.

All 32 Mariupol residents interviewed by Human Rights Watch described periods of sustained and often intensifying attacks with explosive weapons, from the beginning of fighting on February 24 to the moment they fled the city. Witnesses described attacks that killed and injured their neighbors as they took shelter in their homes, prepared food, and fetched water, throwing them from buildings and piercing them with fragments. The attacks also destroyed and damaged homes, businesses, and critical civilian infrastructure, such as hospitals and schools, collapsing and burning buildings in numerous parts of the city. The descriptions of the attacks and their effects are consistent with the use of explosive weapons with wide-area effects.

There’s a section about medicine, a section about electricity, a section about food, a section about water and elimination, aka 50 people sheltering in a basement having a single bucket to crap in. There’s a section about leaving.



Culture wars in a blender

Mar 22nd, 2022 11:11 am | By

It’s only girls.

The governor of Indiana governor on Monday vetoed a bill banning transgender females from girls school sports.

The ACLU called it hateful. I guess girls don’t have a civil liberty to have their own sports.

Republican sponsors of the bill said it was needed to protect the integrity of female sports and opportunities for girls to gain college athletic scholarship but pointed out no instances in the state of girls being outperformed by transgender athletes.

Well, good that it hasn’t happened yet, but what if it does?

The law would prohibit K-12 students born male but who identify as female from participating in a sport or on an athletic team designated for women or girls. It would not prevent students who identify as female or transgender men playing on men’s sports teams.

Which shows that it’s not a “transphobic” bill, because if it were it would ban students who identify as female or transgender men playing on men’s sports teams.

Democrats argued Republicans were following a national conservative “culture war” with the transgender girls sports ban.

Why is it conservative to protect women’s sports and liberal to allow them to be damaged? In other words why aren’t Democrats protecting women’s sports with or without Republicans?

“Signing House Bill 1041 into law would have put the lives of our children in jeopardy,” said the state Democratic chairman, Mike Schmuhl. “However, this unnecessary debate has set a tone with kids that being transgender means something is wrong with them.”

See above. It’s not about “transgender”; it’s about males invading female sports.



But what about trans women in Ukraine?

Mar 22nd, 2022 10:11 am | By

Yes yes yes apartment blocks and art museums and theaters full of people sheltering from the bombs are being smashed but let’s wring our hands about the trans women who aren’t being allowed to leave Ukraine.

As strange hands searched her body and pulled back her hair to check if it was a wig, Judis looked at the faces of the Ukrainian border guards and felt fear and despair.

Judis is a transgender woman whose birth certificate defines her as female.

Legally, there is no reason why she should not be allowed to pass with the thousands of women who are crossing Ukrainian borders to safety every day.

Yet, on 12 March at about 4am, after a long and humiliating search, border guards determined she was a man and prevented her passage into Poland.

When Ukraine imposed martial law on 24 February, all men aged between 18 and 60 were banned from leaving the country. Since then, it is estimated that hundreds of Ukrainian trans people have attempted to cross the border. The Guardian has been told by activists and aid workers that, despite their legal status as women, dozens have been mistreated and pushed back at the borders, with many fearing for their lives in the event that Russia’s transphobic regime takes over.

Russia’s transphobic regime. Yes, that’s definitely the standout thing about the Russian regime: its transphobia.

It’s extremely grim that men old enough and young enough to fight are not allowed to leave Ukraine; it’s one of the few ways female people have privilege compared to men. It’s horrible and, cosmically speaking, grossly unfair, but war is like that. War is unfair. I find it simply repulsive that the Guardian bothers to whine about trans women not being allowed to leave in these circumstances. Have sympathy for all the men by all means, but to single out the ones who like to wear skirts is revolting.

The Guardian even took the trouble to take a snap of the trans woman who Wasn’t Allowed To Leave.

Judis, a transgender woman, walks down a street in Ukraine

Excellent snap. Captures how womany he is. How could the border guards be so cruel?

All those people in the background – they don’t matter, they’re just cis people.



Cis authors

Mar 22nd, 2022 9:19 am | By

So much ardor, so little thought.

Hm. What she needs to worry about is being a boring writer and thinker whose brain is full of clichés.

Cis authors, eh – I guess those are the ones who actually know how.

More seriously, note the complete failure to think about what she’s saying. We’re supposed to take all announcements that our work is flawed as true and valuable? We’re not allowed to filter the bad out of the good, the clueless out of the informed? Why would that be a rule? Here she is saying things on Twitter so she knows what Twitter’s like – yet she’s telling us to listen respectfully to all criticisms, including tweets from random strangers on social meeja.

Of course she’s not listening respectfully to the criticisms of her writing on Twitter.

And anyway, whatever else you do, be sure to fund raise on the back of it.



His incredible achievement?

Mar 22nd, 2022 8:37 am | By

Labour MP.

https://twitter.com/charlotte2153/status/1505130262778236933


Episode

Mar 21st, 2022 5:25 pm | By

Ok this is scary. Antarctica is hot:

The coldest location on the planet has experienced an episode of warm weather this week unlike any ever observed, with temperatures over the eastern Antarctic ice sheet soaring 50 to 90 degrees above normal. The warmth has smashed records and shocked scientists.

That’s no good. It’s bad in itself, and scientists weren’t expecting it, so what else could happen that scientists aren’t expecting and that could cook us like so many eggs in a pot? You don’t want temperatures soaring 90 degrees. That=being cooked.

Parts of eastern Antarctica have seen temperatures hover 70 degrees (40 Celsius) above normal for three days and counting, Wille said. Helikened the event to the June heat wave in the Pacific Northwest, which scientists concluded would have been “virtually impossible” without human-caused climate change.

Yes but that wasn’t 70 or 90 degrees above normal! Not even close! It was maybe 30 degrees above normal, or 33 or so. The hottest was 108F and normal for late June is I think 75ish. 90 degrees above normal is fucking terrifying.

The historically high temperatures in Antarctica followa pulse of exceptional warmth on the planet’s opposite end. On Wednesday, temperatures near the North Pole catapulted 50 degrees above normal, close to the melting point.

Great great great. Awesome.



Immersion

Mar 21st, 2022 4:03 pm | By

Kathleen Stock explains to us about immersive fiction:

Getting immersed in fiction is a familiar state for most of us. Nearly all of us do it, and some of us do it several times a day. When you dip into a novel, binge on a box-set, or even just daydream furiously about succeeding romantically or seeing your enemies fail, you’re doing it.

I did it in all my spare time (time not at school, not around grownups or for that matter children, time not doing homework) as a child. I was always “being” someone out of a book or a tv show. My way of playing was basically just to roam the countryside while “being” Mary Lennox or whoever – there was no plot, no dialogue, no story, that I recall, there was just the “being.” Immersive fiction was my happy place.

Being trans is a form of immersive fiction. Why do non-trans people immerse themselves in trans fictions? To be “kind,” to seem kind in order to earn social capital, to avoid shunning, and…

And fourth, there’s a desire to undo human sexed categories with the power of words, because you heard from some whackjob academic that this was a coherent and politically desirable thing to aim for.

Why does this matter?

[I’t seems to me that transactivism provides a fascinating case study of what can happen when a political movement abandons truth as a direct aim and pursues fiction instead.

Kathleen gives a fascinating account of the way academics are providing “surrounding details for the foundational fictions of the trans industry.”

The game for some academics is to provide convincing-looking backgrounds for predetermined fictional conclusions such as “transwomen are women”, “transmen are men”, and “nonbinary people are neither women nor men”. Since the system currently rewards them for doing this, I think their unconscious motive is often career advancement and social recognition from peers, though it’s inevitably dressed up as something moral.

I picture them like the animators at Disney or Warner Brothers, cranking out the furniture for the immersive fictions of the day.

The Nimrod Effect: How a Cartoon Bunny Changed The Meaning of a Word  Forever « UNREMEMBERED

In the area I’m most familiar with, academic Philosophy, a dedicated band of thinkers seek to provide complex and technical post hoc rationalisations for mantras first expressed by adolescents on Tumblr in 2011. The fact that truth in its traditional sense is not their object of inquiry could not be made plainer.  See, for instance, philosopher Katharine Jenkins, who starts her 2016 article on the nature of womanhood, published in prestigious philosophy journal Ethics, by declaring: “The proposition that trans gender identities are entirely valid—that trans women are women and trans men are men—is a foundational premise of my argument, which I will not discuss further.”  (It’s telling that “valid” is used here in the Tumblr sense of identities being validated like passports or parking tickets, and not in the sense of logical validity more traditional for academic philosophy).

I’m going to stop now, lest I quote the whole thing. It’s all that good.



In a fashion hostile

Mar 21st, 2022 1:03 pm | By

Jolly is taking the war to the phobes again.

That’s a very peculiar argument, or attempt at an argument. There doesn’t have to be any “link of logic” between three claims to preserve them from being bigotry. There can just be three claims that are all true, without being particularly linked to each other. There can be three (or two or five) claims that are linked in some ways and separate in others. There can be a lot of things. Joly’s first two claims are linked, actually, but if they weren’t that wouldn’t make them untrue or proof of bigotry; you need more than that.

Let’s look at them.

Maybe you think trans women shouldn’t compete in women’s sport.

I do; of course I do. Why? Because men have many physical advantages over women.

Or trans women are a danger to cis women.

That’s the wrong way to put it. Trans women are potentially a danger to women for the same reason all men are potentially a danger to women, which is the same as the reason trans women shouldn’t compete in women’s sport. Men are stronger than women. There’s more to it than that – some men like to bully women, some men like to terrorize women, some men like to assault women, some men like to rape women. Men who disguise themselves as women are potentially a threat, yes. That’s not saying all trans women are a threat, it’s saying women have no way of knowing which ones are, so we can’t just assume they’re all safe the way women are (generally) safe.

Or being trans is a mental illness requiring therapy.

Again, wrong way to put it. Thinking you’re the other sex can be a mental illness, or something between mental illness and perfect mental health – in short it may benefit from therapy. It is after all a delusion, in the sense that no one is literally the opposite sex, so why wouldn’t it sometimes benefit from therapy? That, again, is not bigotry. I suppose Jolyon is taking the line that being trans is fabulous and joyful and no one would hesitate to be it for a second if it weren’t for all the bigotry, but that can’t really be right, given the fact that people can still see what their bodies are.

Zero for three.



Loomy McLoomface

Mar 21st, 2022 11:21 am | By

“Natalie” Washington’s claim that Lia Thomas is only 5’8″ is not holding up very well.

https://twitter.com/FondOfBeetles/status/1505966528533041156

Who ya gonna believe, your lyin’ eyes or “Natalie”?



Do you like beer

Mar 21st, 2022 10:40 am | By

The Guardian Live is reporting from the Supreme Court hearing.

Senator Ted Cruz, a Republican from Texas and a presidential aspirant, is speaking now in remarks peppered with conservative talking points and grievances.

Cruz began by recounting the history of Supreme Court nominations and lamented how contentious they have become, though he notably left out the controversial and unprecedented decision by then-majority leader McConnell to deny Obama the opportunity to fill a supreme court vacancy, which infuriated Democrats and poisoned the already-poisoned well…

Echoing his Republican colleagues, he said the hearings would be different [from] the Kavanaugh hearings. “No one is going to inquire into your teenage dating habits. No one is going to ask you with mock severity, do you like beer.”

And why is that? Because she doesn’t have a history of sexual assault or of alcohol abuse. Kavanaugh has such a history. It matters.



Let’s ask a Natalie

Mar 21st, 2022 10:03 am | By

Yes I definitely want to listen to this guy explaining how it’s fine for Lia Thomas to steal women’s prizes.