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@PosenIzzy @Shmoilyyoily In Yiddish, I hope...

@Shmoilyyoily "fuck off you antisemitic prick"

I'm in court working with a chassidic man today and, completely unprovoked, an English man stopped him from sitting on a whole empty row of seats saying "you take over everything," and something about "dead Palestinian babies". When I confronted him, he became aggressive. 1/

A post from the USA. Worth thinking about.

@sappholives83 I have found a good way to understand Judith Butler: put your JB quote into ch*tgpt prefaced by 'rewrite the following text using language that can be understood by KS2 pupils.' (For something with slightly bigger words you could substitute KS2 for KS3.)

I’m not the most educated person on the planet, so maybe it’s just me — but can anyone else understand this paragraph by Judith Butler? And if so, will you explain it? “The move from a structuralist account in which capital is understood to structure social relations in relatively homologous ways to a view of hegemony in which power relations are subject to repetition, convergence, and rearticulation brought the question of temporality into the thinking of structure, and marked a shift from a form of Althusserian theory that takes structural totalities as theoretical objects to one in which the insights into the contingent possibility of structure inaugurate a renewed conception of hegemony as bound up with the contingent sites and strategies of the rearticulation of power.”

@WBarnard19 @KirstieMAllsopp Because she is using her platform as a well -known person (ie someone with more power/privilege) to speak up and support the other women who have come forward.

@KirstieMAllsopp Sorry but while I understand you felt uncomfortable when it happened, I really don't understand why you want to highlight it now. I'll probably get shouted down but that's my honest opinion. It's a few inappropriate words. Nothing more. Let it go.

Why say nothing? Because you feel, in no particular order, embarrassed, a prude, shocked, waiting for a male colleague to call him out, not wanting to “rock the boat”, thinking it’s better to plough on with the day, assuming you misheard/misunderstood or just don’t get the joke.

"I'm tired of constant vigilance. I'm tired of constant vigils." A hard-hitting and insightful reflection from @_CaitlinORyan about the myriad ways that women pay for societal norms. Brava! instagram.com/reel/DA81XIgo0…

@elliot633297 To conclude, and to answer your original qn: for the purposes of this exchange my definition of a trans person is about acceptance, or at the very least respect: not 'someone who is/identifies as xyz', but rather 'someone that JG (and, I guess, you) accepts as as a trans person'.

@elliot633297 So when I say 'an actual trans person', that's who I mean: trans people who don't fit in your graphic. My qn to JG was: can she acknowledge people whom we should respect as trans (ie to not position all calling themselves trans as being dangerous/overindulged/needing protection.

This graphic from @elliot633297 is one of the most thorough and accurate I've ever seen. Well done.

@fem_mb @elliot633297 It's not me saying the groups on the graphic aren't trans: it's the graphic itself. It strongly implies that people who fall into these groups aren't trans. Hence my original qn. Re being nb ... that's about gender, not sex. (And, re sex, don't forget intersex people.)

I do not think anyone is nonbinary, as that is a nonsense claim by silly trend hoppers looking for attention. It obfviously isn't possible for anyone to be both sexes, or neither. But as for your "actual trans people": why do you say that all of the people on this graphic aren't really trans? Trans activists tell us every day that all that is required for someone to be the opposite sex is that they say they are, and no one has the right to question anyone else's identity. There is no medical diagnosis, no surgery or hormone replacement therapy, etc. required to be transgender. If they say they're trans, they are. That's how it works now.

A dignified and powerful message.

@CombatASemitism Nice try. The Talmud may say it's a crime but wayyy too many ultra-conservative J wives are told they must have 'intimate relationships' with their husbands or they will be to blame if he sins (ie finds sexual satisfaction elsewhere). Video heinous but yours is not a good look.

@NatSecSoc Guess this is as good a time as any to note that marital rape is a crime in Judaism. (Documented in the Talmud as early as the 6th century.) Not to go into a religious vs. secular debate, but it should be clear to people of all religions and creeds that this is vile.

WATCH: A preacher at registered charity An-Noor Masjid says a husband is allowed to hit his wife if she refuses to have sex with him. We've reported it to the regulator. Read more: secularism.org.uk/news/2024/09/n…

@ImtiazMadmood It's sort of funny; but sadly it erases Israeli Christians.

An El Al plane lands at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv the morning of December 25. As they land, the pilot makes an announcement, "Please remain seated with your seatbelts securely fastened while we taxi to the terminal. To those of you seated with your seatbelts securely fastened, Merry Christmas. To those of you in the aisles getting your suitcases from the overhead bins, welcome home."