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@OptimistiCynic
"You may have a reason why two and two should make five, but they will still make but four" - Samuel Johnson (1779)
Katılım Aralık 2010
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I unfollow accounts that are obviously using AI to write their content SO FAST. It is obnoxious as hell to read AI posts. We hate it. Please stop. 🛑
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@SVPhillimore It's funny, I never see them argue that calling a man an "adult human male" reduces them to a penis and testicles. Presumably because they don't view males as intrinsically lesser. But then we can't expect consistency from those happy to call women "uterus havers/bleeders".
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So it’s a good thing that I am not and never have done that. Women are far more than a uterus. But only women have them.
percy@GRUBBRAINZ
@SVPhillimore @femmeshark watering down a woman to her vagina and uterus is really misogynistic of you.
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@Gaynotqueer1 It's very simple: being asexual means having little or no sexual attraction or interest in sex, except for the asexuals who still have a partner and enjoy sex, because they're nothing if not confusingly vague/making shit up as they go along. If you shrug at them, that's genocide.
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@wesyang And almost certainly the actors involved would now unironically repeat the required mantras lest they be judged as insufficiently progressive, whether their opinions had actually changed or not. But let no one say people didn't notice the approaching insanity.
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As recently as 2013, it was satire about the lunatic fringe of the Left.
Today, it's being taught to tens of millions of schoolchildren as the only truth from the earliest age.
"I accept you're a man. I accept you have a penis."
This satirical gloss on the transgender dogmas of 2013 would literally be grounds for cancellation two years later. By 2018, you could be silenced on any of the major social media platforms for it.
Genevieve Gluck@WomenReadWomen
"I don't know what a woman looks like." Somehow this 2013 skit from Portlandia is funnier now than it was then.
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@THECherdFlemsky @LoudBonnet Believing men and women are defined by regressive, conservative notions of gender is bigoted trash. Gender has as much relevance to the 21st Century as astrology or crystals. The only people who win by putting gender back into preeminence is men. It’s patriarchy 2.0.
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@LoudBonnet “I am a dissenter from gender ideology”
Lot of words to say you’re bigoted trash.
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Because I am a dissenter from gender ideology, the pronouns I use are almost invariably determined by the sex, not the gender identity, of the person I am referring to.
Becca Jiggens has minor corrections ♿️ 🇵🇸 🇱🇧@beccajiggens
@LoudBonnet Deliberately misgendering trans people in such aggressive ways is conduct unbecoming of a barrister. Again. @barstandards
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@iseult They never put them next to anyone for context. They genuinely seem to think saying your a trans man means you gain male proportions. A man's only hope for passing as a trans man is to lose inches off his skeleton and reposition his pelvis. As opposed to popping on a wig.🤦♂️
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Why are trans men threatening us?
Gay Not Queer@Gaynotqueer1
Now do actual men in women's bathrooms, go on.
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@helenstaniland Phelps gambit. ✅
Comparing black women to men. ✅
Claiming men with low testosterone are the same as women. ✅
These people have no original thoughts of their own. I could do a better job of arguing their position than them. They're just mantra repeating cultists.
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It's such an odd claim that a policy that directly protects the integrity of female sports doesn't 'protect women' because 'other things haven't been done'. This is a fairly simple and quick test that addresses one problem in women's sport that has arisen in past decade.
rory 🇪🇸@seventhswann
@charlesarthur This is not about protecting women. If it was they would do something about the abuse countless women face on the wta tour. Aside from the fact that there are no trans women on the wta tour, and even if there were trans women on hormones lose the “genetic advantage”,
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@bornofwoman It's also the argument used by people standing up for the rights of women. 🤦♂️Do they really want to align defence of women's rights with right-wing policy? How does one defend abortion access or equal pay without reference to the rights of women? Have they thought this through?
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"As you’ll know ‘I’m standing up for the rights of women’ is the argument used by conservatives and religious people in several countries, and a new staple of the anti-LGBTQ anti-Islamic right."
How is this even allowed as a legal argument?
BelfastBeatnik@BelfastBeatnik
Cowards! Disappointing but not Unexpected. If anyone was following the tribunal closely, you'll know, there's many grounds for appeal, which would create precedent. I look forward to that. If possible. My love goes out to Sara. You did nothing wrong. genderblog.net/morrison-loses…
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@SVPhillimore I think he's talking about historical figures that were slightly gender non-conforming (by modern standards) who have subsequently been transed. Or previous cultures who abhorred feminine gay men so much they called them a 3rd category of human. Not sure it's worth bragging about
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Perhaps I am just a muddled headed silly woman but in my studies of history I never noticed men with penii and testicles claiming entry to single sex female spaces, or teenage girls seeking the right to cut their tits off and claim manhood, before 2015?
Does a decade count as history? I guess it might but it isn’t 5,000 years. I am sure Ryan can with his customary charm and courtesy, explain where I am going wrong.
Ryan Cullen@RyanCullen90
So close to 5000 years then aye? 😂😂😂 Another micrococked, gammon headed, divorced dad pretending not to understand history
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@DreyfusJames @DavidBahry But if you're not careful, James, you'll get homophobic cultists telling you to sleep with the opposite sex and calling your same-sex attraction a genital fetish. Maybe they'll start chemically castrating young gay people for having incompatible gender norms for their body. 🤦♂️
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@DavidBahry You’re attempting to teach grandma how to suck eggs. I’m well aware of the situation. I’ve been in it since the 80’s. And I’ve managed to cope without being lectured by a cartoon.
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Yeah.
A ridiculous cartoon completely trounces an argument…🙄
Please…don’t do this. It’s akin to turning up to an argument using the word “cís” or “assigned at birth”.
You’re automatically filed under “not to be taken seriously”…
David Bahry@DavidBahry
@DreyfusJames Be less gullible.
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@FondOfBeetles Medieval nonsense meets vacuous drivel. But which is better? There's only one way to find out. FIGHT!
GIF
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“The Code tells organisations what the law permits. It does not tell us who we are as the Body of Christ.”
GIF
Welsh Women Speak Out 📣🏴💪🦕@RhywFenyw
What on earth is the @ChurchinWales on about in this statement? We get it that Bishops know more about the Bible than the Equality Act, but this is just vacuous performative drivel. Despite a female archbishop they still don't give a damn about women. churchinwales.org.uk/en/news-and-ev…
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@Heccles94 No, they're not. They're asking them to follow the laws of the land. They're asking them to stop libelling people who do follow those laws. They're asking them to apply rights equally instead of selectively. They're asking for fairness and safety to take priority over ideology.🤷♂️
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TERFs are trying to rid the world of some of the most important and harmless organisations in the world:
Park Run
Girl guides
Amnesty international
It’s not normal behaviour.
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@jakethepie @ripx4nutmeg @MatthewGreenf11 Me too. Earned an Archaeology degree in the before times when it was a major no-no to interpret history through a modern lens.
Now it seems you won't pass unless you've demonstrated an intersectional, post-colonial interpretation of non-binary skeletons and queer pirates.
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@ripx4nutmeg @MatthewGreenf11 I loathe the transing/queering of History. In my day, doing History at uni, we were trained 2 b aware of how History is inevitably interpreted/reinterpreted according 2 contemp needs/preoccupations but were warned abt the dangers of back-projecting contemp concepts onto the past.
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This is a real hour-long BBC Radio 4 documentary, about two female 18th century pirates.
Almost nothing is known about them bar that they wore men's clothing at a trial.
But that doesn't stop the BBC concluding that they were both 'queer'.
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@ForWomenScot @jk_rowling They don't actually believe it. It's just another thing to add to the regurgitating smear pile:
"JKR lives in a mouldy castle".
"JKR is anti-Semitic."
"JKR is a Holocaust denier."
"JKR named herself after a conversion therapist."
"JKR posted upskirting pics."
So tiresome.
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No, @jk_rowling did not post an "upskirt" picture, a crime defined as secretly taking a picture without consent for sexual gratification, or to cause humiliation, alarm, or distress. Fred was on stage at a filmed/photographed event flashing his inner thighs to the camera.
These men trivialise the humiliation women face by comparing an exhibitionist fetishist with women who are secretly recorded. Tristan is not some rando, either, he is co-chair of End Conversion Therapy & has the ear of @scotgov.
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@Emily_Mckenzie @miffythegamer @SexMattersOrg Oh no! I'm not an anti-Semitic piece of shit who believes Israel is uniquely evil & genocidal & colonialist & war-mongering & baby-killing. 😲The situation in the Middle-East is an absolute shit-show with bad actors on every side. If you think it's goodies vs baddies, grow up.
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@OptimistiCynic @miffythegamer @SexMattersOrg Funny you mention "colonising". You seem to be fine with a bit of colonising when it's done by Israel.
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We have written to Dame Julia Unwin, chair of the Charity Commission, in a joint letter co-signed by forty organisations, calling for a reset on the culture of intolerance towards gender-critical views.
Charities should lead the way in upholding human rights and the law, not smear those who do.
sex-matters.org/posts/updates/…
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@miffythegamer @SexMattersOrg And we don’t tolerate misogynistic, homophobic, colonising, bullying, men’s rights activists like you. Women & gay people have rights too, no matter how desperate you are to redefine them to include men & straight people. Sorry if that makes you sad.
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@SexMattersOrg I wouldn’t tolerate racists and I wouldn’t tolerate transphobes either.
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@ruairidhtaylor @janeclarejones So sex is recognisable in humans *based solely on facial features* at 94% accuracy. That's remarkably precise. Almost as if it's evolutionarily wired into us.
What happens when you add in body type, skeletal structure, gait, fat distribution, every other unconscious cue?🤔
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@janeclarejones 6% women with their hair masked and no make-up allowed were not recognised as biological Women in one research study - why are you so in denial of the harm GC campaigners and their funders do to women and girls?
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Why would we be the only animal who can’t recognise the sex of other members of our species without gender cues?
Harry Eccles@Heccles94
It will lead to a lot of people being less safe who do not fit gender stereotypes or gender norms.
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@michael180966 @soniasodha Males who claim that they've transitioned into women are often utterly indistinguishable from men; tall, burly, aggressive, Adams apple, hands like dinner plates, etc. You want them in women's toilets?
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@soniasodha Women who've transitioned using testosterone etc plus surgery are utterly indistinguishable from men; bearded, burly etc. You want them in women's toilets?
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There’s no other sex than ‘birth sex’. It’s a scientific fact that sex is binary and immutable. You’re the sex you’re born. And if a single-sex facility allows people of the other sex to use it, it’s not a single-sex facility. That’s it.
Sky News@SkyNews
From 5 August, thousands of single-sex toilets will need to change to be birth sex only news.sky.com/story/from-5-a…
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@Red_Velvet_ESR All I ever see them do is project our own arguments back on to us. Except the arguments don't fit *at all*. I think they only do it for engagement. Best ignored.
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The projection is so strong with this one.
Sam (he/him)@mushycrouton
Gender criticals tend to be: - widows and widowers - abuse survivors - traumatised Gender critical ideologues groom vulnerable and traumatised people. Vulnerable people are easier to radicalise and terfs will happily use that trauma to manipulate and prey on their victims.
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@ObhishekSaha @SVPhillimore @JMchangama If their only claim had been "anti-rights" you may have a point. Unfortunately, they then claimed many of those groups were engaging in conversion practices, were financed by far-right evangelical groups, were against abortion, and should be stripped of charitable status. 🤦♂️
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@SVPhillimore @JMchangama Pretty amazing how all you censorious GC folks seem to think there is a unique meaning of the term "rights" that is accepted by all. Calling someone "anti-rights" is a subjective opinion so it can never be a "lie".
Abhishek Saha@ObhishekSaha
For something to be a lie, it must first pertain to a factual statement, and there must be a degree of common agreement on the meaning of relevant words. For a GC to call a trans woman a man is not a lie because they are using the word "woman" to track biological sex. But the trans woman herself, or a gender identitarian may define the word "woman" differently, to track self identified gender rather than sex, and it's not a "lie" when they describe the trans woman as a woman. People have wildly different opinions on what rights or human rights should look like. When the word "rights" is used in political discourse by a person, it typically does not refer to the exact rights protected in the law of that country, but rather refers to rights as the person thinks ought to be. Given this, calling someone "anti-rights" is fundamentally an opinion, not a statement of fact, because it depends on your opinion of how rights should be properly understood. There is a conceptualisation of rights (which I don't share but Amnesty might) according to which it is a rights violation to omit trans women from a women's space. Under this, of course Beira's place and FWS are anti-rights. Under a different, libertarian conceptualisation of rights (which I do share), it is a rights violation to legally prevent private organisations from having single-gender spaces organised on the basis of gender rather than sex. Under this conceptualisation, FWS (and the Equality Act) may be fairly described as anti-rights. And so on. So calling someone "anti-rights" is almost never a lie; it is usually a reflection of your view on what rights are. On the other hand, as far as I am concerned, seeking to use the law to stop someone from calling you "anti-rights" is definitely anti-rights, because it directly attacks free speech rights as I see them.
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It never ceases to amaze me how shallow the commitment to free speech is. For years, groups and individuals have - rightly - warned that debate arounds LGBT+ issues were being shut down through inflated hate speech laws and punitive cancel culture.
Yet now, these same groups use the language of offense and harm to threaten Amnesty with legal action due to a shoddy and ideological report that called certain groups "anti-rights". I can't count how many times I have been accused of being anti-rights due to my opposition to hate speech laws which some view as protecting the rights of minorities. Groups like @TheFIREorg and @ACLU have been likened to "Neo-confederates" running interference for "white supremacists" for the same reason.
I think these critics are deeply misguided, but it would never in a million years occur to me to threaten such critics with legal action. Not only do I think that you should be free to label me "anti-rights" (or worse if you think such labels are warranted), tactically, the idea of using libel laws to shut down opponents in a contested ideological debate is so short sighted and will almost inevitably come back to bite these organizations the next time they use hyperbole to advance their cause. Thank God for the First Amendment and the American culture of free speech. I love Europe, but the Old World is so utterly lost when it comes to free speech.
J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling
Another letter to add to @AmnestyUK's overflowing mail box, this one from women-only rape support service, Beira's Place. 1/3
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