More raging hatred of women dressed up as progressive activism:

Oxford SU LGBTQ Campaign

Statement concerning Oxford University History Society’s decision to invite Jenni Murray, and Oriel College, Oxford‘s decision to host the event.

tw: transphobia, terfs, transmisogyny

edit: The original statement said the event was taking place on Saturday 17th November. It is in fact taking place on Saturday 10th November.

We, the undersigned, are deeply disappointed by the Oxford University History Society’s decision to interview Dame Jenni Murray on the topic of “Powerful British Women in History and Society” on Saturday 10th of November, and call for action to publicly condemn her views and, if possible, cancel the event. Oxford SU LGBTQ+ campaign believe that

Meanwhile…the “skeptics” movement frays some more.

https://twitter.com/pzmyers/status/1048243301969682432

Hello PZ, I know nothing about this spat, but I have known andy, maria and Alan for the last 8 years and they are decent honest people. Have you come across them before, and have you always viewed them as liars?

— Simon Singh (@SLSingh) October 5, 2018

https://twitter.com/pzmyers/status/1048247833785065472

See it? 18 minutes apart – lies and misrepresentation are Andy’s stock in trade, then 18 minutes later I don’t know Andy apart from his comments on this one blog post.

So that’s quite a disjunction, but much worse is the sewer of comments on that post, which I read with disgust yesterday. A couple of people there are literally rejoicing that Maria MacLachlan … Read the rest