Sam Barber

Original thread on Twitter's censorship of feminists for their belief in the reality, relevance, and importance, of the differences between male and female bodies.

@fem_mb @my_real_name Agree. One of the OGs.

I miss Gaye Chapman @my_real_name. I heard she lost control of her account a while back but I hope she hasn't given up trying to come back, even if she has to make a new account. We American TERFs need her voice.

@dobssi @SonyaDouglas Nah, Paul is just hates women, and the only real question is why. I expect he blames his mother.

@SonyaDouglas Paul just doesn’t want to see parkrun ruined by fundamentalists.

Paul sees injustice but decides he can tolerate it as it doesn’t affect him It affects Mara who finds it intolerable Paul tolerates the injustice, but he just can’t tolerate Mara fighting the injustice Paul fights against Mara Mara still fights against injustice Be more Mara

Lia Thomas is a cheat. Look at all the women he affected.

Because the unpleasant Thomas is back in the spotlight... He went from being beaten by hundreds of men to competing in national finals and setting records - while occasionally letting women go past him. I don't think Synn is really on top of this.

@salltweets Wow.

Every step was a struggle, never found my groove, hated every second of it, goal was to just get it done. But feel fantastic now 🙋‍♀️

This woman is not just a gender zealot she’s a sociopath. Her and her husband had a teen girl end her own life after their quack medical interventions. They should be in prison.

Amazing that this woman, who nearly killed a young girl by prescribing her a fatal dose of testosterone, feels she has moral authority over anyone

@matinfue @fem_mb I agree with Martin's interpretation.

@fem_mb I think these types of dreams represent the pressure, but not necessarily in direct mental imagery. I don't mean to overstep, but I think it's your brain telling you that you need to find more occasions for respite from time to time, so you don't grind yourself down.

Last night, I had one of those super-vivid dreams that still feels real after you wake up and I've been thinking about it all day. I was on a bus going home to Brooklyn where I grew up to catch a plane when I decided for no reason to get off the bus in a tiny town in the middle of nowhere and spend a few hours there. Everyone there was suspicious of me, like they thought I was a spy or something. I deliberately started doing things like moving items around in their shops and saying cryptic things to make them more paranoid. I also kept trying to buy a fruit smoothie in this stand in an old barn but somehow they couldn't or wouldn't make it for me. There was something about birds that I can't quite remember and then the next bus came and I had to get on it to make my plane but somehow I missed it even though I was standing right at the station and I realized that there wouldn't be any more buses and I had to live forever in this town where nobody trusted me or wanted me there. I was so upset that I woke up. I haven't been able to shake it all day. It's the most vivid dream I've had in years and I don't have a clue what it means.

The reason not one Democrat has been able to moderate on trans inclusion in sports is that they are stumped by Chase Strangio's conundrum: moderating on sports would mean accepting and acting on the (true) premise that trans girls aren't real girls. (They are boys.) Any claim made in the sports domain also applies to all other sex-segregated domains. Contrary to claims made by would-be moderates on this issue, there is simply no way to give ground in any domain without acknowledging the basic falsehood at the foundation of a movement that exists to deploy state power to force people to affirm. The transgender movement designed it this way, to permit no retreat on any front, by making its appeal based on a truth claim: "trans women are women." The advantage of this truth claim was that it resolved every question at once. The problem with this truth claim was that it was, in fact, untrue, and self-evidently so, such that it could not withstand any scrutiny and could only be upheld through a societal campaign of repression which it became the responsibility of the political party endorsing it to enact. All those seeking to triangulate on this issue are forever caught in this impasse, which is why no one tries to escape it, and those who do try find themselves quickly ensnared and unable to do anything about the deep unfairness that this agenda forces them to inflict on a generation of girls. As a result, there are male rapists and murderers in women's prisons across Blue America, and parents having their custody stripped from them by courts if they won't affirm a harmful falsehood that will leave their children sterilized, and millions of children being trained to hate and fear and seek to destroy those who reject false secular dogmas taught to them from the earliest age as the only truth. There can only be a clean break wherein people admit that we have to stop propagandizing children to believe falsehoods, stop acting like it's morally compulsory to treat a falsehood as if it is true, stop punishing people for telling a truth, acknowledge that all of this is profoundly corrosive to the moral and epistemic foundation of a reason-based society in a way that matters to every other aspect of a reason-based order, and that in fact threatens the continuation of that order precisely because the institutions that are stewards of this reason-based order have become infected by it more than any other faction of society. The whole thing has to be scrapped. Of course we have no precedent for societal institutions going all in on such a self-evident falsehood and thus we have no roadmap for how to pull back in a way that saves enough face for those responsible for inflicting this on society to consider doing so. In the process of inflaming this ludicrous travesty of a civil rights movement, a subpopulation of hundreds of thousands of children have been memed into existence, told their lives depend upon the fulfillment of impossible promises that can never be true, told that the non-fulfillment of these impossible promises is a form of genocide, and as a result we already see members of this subpopulation routinely acting out in the form of murderous rampages planned or executed by mentally comborbid youth who were told that pretending to be something they are not would be the resolution of all their problems, and that the whole world not being compelled by law to participate in upholding the falsehood that they've been told their existence requires is violence. This is the Democrats' -- and societies -- dilemma that it may or may not have the resources to solve.

New Oxford University study on BBC reporting of 'transgender' people: Since 2000 in the UK • 11 were murdered (mostly killed by their male partners). This generated 137 news stories • 20 committed murder. This generated just 58 news stories, of which only 23 mentioned trans

Genuine question to those who think this is free expression - what is Meganork Man expressing? Freedom of expression is a qualified right, so it's relevant to ask - what does the wearing of meganorks express? What is it intended to convey and what, reasonably, does it convey?

I really genuinely mean the question, though. I think a lot of women, me included, hear "I get off on imagining I have enormous tits" and/or "To me women are nothing more than tits on legs." At the absolute most charitable, I think the man is expressing, at a minimum, "I love enormous tits." And expressing _any_ of those in a workplace would be unacceptable. How to deal with it - a quiet conversation, a lawsuit - is secondary. I'm struck by the number of men who are saying "it's free expression, case closed," when they would easily see what was wrong with a man turning up to work with any of those slogans on his T-shirt. It wouldn't take a dress code to make it obvious that was sexual/sex-based harassment of female colleagues and students.

This week’s @thetimes column is about Zack Polanski’s desperate attempts to launder his party’s antisemitism Antisemitism is all the Greens are recycling thetimes.com/article/63ae49…

@jk_rowling Of course, this is all in furtherance of Owen's desire to clear the road for further attacks on Jewish people.

The man who's spent years talking over and attacking women for defending their rights has now decided that you must belong to a protected group to express an opinion on the threats facing it.

In 1994, I was playing a part in @Glinner ‘s sitcom, “Paris”, an OTT satire on the Paris art/philosophical scene, playing Belunaire, a rotter. I was a young actor, 4 years out of RADA, & Graham was so kind to me. I’ve never forgotten the way he made me feel 100% a part of it.

What an insane and wrong ruling… while quoting free speech!!!!!! This will be overturned- not a question of if but when

Chants of 'Globalise the Intifada' and the like were made loud and clear on the high street the day after October 7th and long before any action had been taken by Israel in response to the atrocities caused by Hamas. The police did nothing to stop it. /2

Now we have a situation where my Jewish customers (specially the elderly) are too scared to go out for dinner. I know this because many have told me the same thing. Kensington is not a particularly Jewish neighborhood. /3