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This made me chuckle.

Apparently parents who want their daughters to go on camping trips without boys in the same sleeping and changing facilities are now worse than murdered or war criminals.

The first time I abandoned a girlfriend in the mountains was an accident. We had an argument about something trivial, and she decided to go off on her own for a bit to cool down. I insisted she stick to the trail, but she said she didn’t need me mansplaining how to find her way in the woods. So I dropped it. How does one manage to get lost on a mountainside, anyway? You just walk downhill until you hit a switchback or reach the valley. Common sense stuff. Well, she managed it. When she didn’t turn up by nightfall, I contacted the ranger station and they set out to find her. By 1am, I got tired of waiting and drove home. They called the next morning to say they’d found her in a makeshift den she’d dug beneath a deadfall. She was naked, gone completely feral, her face painted with menstrual blood. A ranger tried to wrap a blanket around her shoulders, and she bit a golf ball-sized gobbet of flesh from his shoulder. So they sedated her and took her straight to the nearest hospital. That was three years ago and she still hasn’t recovered human language. Needless to say, I acquired a taste for it. I’m up to a baker’s dozen now, not counting the one that found her way back to the car before I could drive off. But you never forget your first. Sarah will always have a special place in my heart.

I don't know whether you guys are history buffs, but this is quite a turnabout for both parties

@AdamLake @benryanwriter should be "7 for women, 8 for men"

@AdamLake @benryanwriter "even amongst straight people 3 would be very low" In the UK/USA the median number of ***lifetime*** sexual partners for men is 7 for women and 8 for men

One counter-intuitive thing about gay male sexuality is that the bulk of the multiple-partner sexuality occurs in maybe 15% of the population. The median number of annual sexual partners in the studies I've seen is often something like 3. But there's a fraction of the population that has a very high number of partners. In epidemiology, these are known as the "core transmitters," the group among whom there is very high rates of HIV and various bacterial STIs. Also, during the 2022 monkeypox outbreak, the virus charged through this group and then basically burned out, aided by vaccination.

It would be fascinating to know which trans people Denyer is referring to here. The vulnerable children who have other problems (autism, anxiety, eating disorders, etc)? Or the men who transitioned well into adulthood and therefore have no experience of puberty blockers?

Liberal academic @Musa_alGharbi's observations when he moved to Manhattan: "One of the first things that stood out to me is that there’s a racialized caste system here that everyone takes for granted. You have disposable servants who will clean your house, watch your kids, walk your dogs, deliver food to you... mostly minorities and immigrants and disproportionately women... And this is basically taken for granted in New York, that this is the way society operates. And yet... this is not how things are in many other parts of the country. Most other places, the person buying a pair of shoes and the person selling them are likely to be the same race — white — and the gaps between the buyer and the seller are likely to be much smaller. Even the most sexist or bigoted rich white person in many other contexts wouldn’t be able to exploit women and minorities the same way as the typical liberal professional in a city like Seattle or New York; the infrastructure simply isn’t there. It’s these progressive bastions associated with the knowledge economy that have these well-oiled machines for casually exploiting the vulnerable, desperate and disadvantaged. And it’s largely Democratic-voting professionals who take advantage of them. A few months after I arrived at Columbia, Trump won. I expected this to happen, but for most people, that was not the expectation. So here at Columbia, the day after Trump won, a lot of the students claimed to be so traumatized that they couldn’t do tests or homework. They needed time off. Now there are two things striking about that to me. First, these are students at an Ivy League school, overwhelmingly people from wealthy backgrounds — and even if they don’t come from wealth, they’re likely to be well-positioned... [but these] students seemed to view themselves as somehow uniquely vulnerable to Trump and his regime, as being especially threatened or victimized. And so they demanded all of these accommodations for themselves. Meanwhile, there was this whole other constellation of people [mostly minorities and immigrants] around them who seemed to be literally invisible to them. The people doing all the work on the campus... these ignored laborers — the people with the most at stake in this election — [were not] saying they needed time off because they were too traumatized. They showed up to work the next day and did their jobs. They weren’t making a scene, sobbing as they scrubbed rich kids’ mess out of the toilets. The juxtaposition was sobering... When I left campus, walking around the Upper West Side, or other affluent parts of Manhattan, similar scenes were playing out. Nor was New York City unique in this regard. Other knowledge economy hubs had similar scenes playing out. And the same drama that was playing out in Columbia was unfolding at colleges and universities across the country. This is precisely what I found so troubling, so difficult to shake off: It wasn’t about my own school. It was about this broader disjuncture between knowledge-economy elites, their narratives about the world, and the realities on the ground."

"Dad, what should I do if I want to have a good marriage?" "Well, son, my first piece of advice is to avoid calling your wife a whore, reformed or otherwise, to strangers on the Internet."

@The_Ice_Creamy @speckled_jim2 @PedanticPerson @MichelleDewbs Sophia, shut up mate

@d_knight73 @speckled_jim2 @PedanticPerson @MichelleDewbs That's not really answering the question. And technically no it isn't because the SC never said anything about groups

Boys should not have been in GIRLguides in the first place. As sad as this disruption may be for the boys involved, their parents should do the right thing and work on helping their sons become happy boys, instead of indulging in pretence.. Single sex spaces for women/girls must remain exactly that. Not only is that the law, it is basic common sense. If the parents of the boys involved, or some of the volunteers/staff don’t like this, they can always set up a new, gender neutral activity group 🤷‍♀️

@The_Ice_Creamy @speckled_jim2 @PedanticPerson @MichelleDewbs They are obeying the Supreme Court ruling. They have no choice

@d_knight73 @speckled_jim2 @PedanticPerson @MichelleDewbs So who does the ban help then?

@The_Ice_Creamy @speckled_jim2 @PedanticPerson @MichelleDewbs If trans people are not a big issue for GG then its not a big deal that trans girl are to be banned

@d_knight73 @speckled_jim2 @PedanticPerson @MichelleDewbs Well as I said, you're sort of the wrong demographic for its intention. But on this particular issue, is a trans person really the big problem facing the girlguides at this point?

@The_Ice_Creamy @speckled_jim2 @PedanticPerson @MichelleDewbs You haven't answered the question.

@d_knight73 @speckled_jim2 @PedanticPerson @MichelleDewbs I'm not sure you're the target demographic given your age. Although do the girlguides have a gender criteria for volunteers? I'm not sure they do.

@The_Ice_Creamy @speckled_jim2 @PedanticPerson @MichelleDewbs "But clearly they didn't have many internal complaints though." So its ok for me, a 50 year old man, to join girlguiding so long as no one complains?

@speckled_jim2 @PedanticPerson @MichelleDewbs But clearly they didn't have many internal complaints though. Sure if you look hard enough, you'd find at least one person, but how representative is that? As for your second point... that'a very much a hard disagree

Moderates: of course I support the chemical castration of children in the name of gender ideology, I just think it needs to be strictly monitored.

brain scans DO show differences between cis hetero men, cis homo men, and trans women. however, after controlling for sexual orientation, trans women brain scans are more aligned with male brain scans in all areas except self-perception (which is to be expected)

Childhood and puberty are not diseases to be cured with hormones and chemicals. Rather than demand a whole new cohort of children are experimented on with puberty blockers and hormones why not demand a full study of ALL data relating to the 9,000 or so children who were seen/treated by the Tavistock Centre?

Good grief. A Tory justifying @TransportFor London failing to mention "women" or "mothers" at all in a press release about badges to help "pregnant people" get seats on public transport 🙄