If you’ve ever wondered what it would look like if a bully made themselves out to be a victim in order to bully with impunity, you’ve not been paying attention.
I may be wrong, but when everyone assumed J K Rowling was 100% trans ally there weren’t any TERFs calling her a cunt and accusing her of ruining their childhood.
On visiting
@jk_rowling
’s twitter feed (and seeing countless trans women telling her to suck their dicks) the average person might form an opinion quite a lot stronger than hers.
I’ve recently been watching The Handmaid’s Tale and, I have to say, I find the idea that oppressed women would try to escape *to* Canada to be somewhat dated.
Obviously JK Rowling doesn’t need business advice from me. Still, if I was her I’d be very tempted to start my own ranges of toiletries and feminine hygiene products with the word “Woman” plastered all over them. Maybe even a chain of shops 🤔
I still can’t help but wonder how Harry Potter fans have missed the message of a band of brave people defending ordinary folk from a shadowy organisation working behind the scenes to take over the world and force everyone to obey their rules.
Can I just say that
@arobertwebb
is one of the very few people who is actively doing something positive about expanding the definition of what it means to be a man? If you ask me, that’s the right way round.
Actually, I remember now why I never noticed Eddie Izzard was a woman before. It’s because he kept telling people he was a bloke in a dress and that there was nothing wrong with that
I get quite annoyed at the term Gender Critical (or GC). It’s not even a thing. It’s just ordinary people. How can you just invent a thing and then insist that people who don’t believe it are some kind of organised group or cabal?
I’m not the most attractive person in the world, but in all the times I’ve fancied someone who didn’t fancy me back, it never once occurred to me that it was their fault.
It’s rare that I agree completely with anyone’s stance (not a fan of “I stand with” and “I am” hashtags for that reason), but I feel that
@jk_rowling
and
@DreyfusJames
have both managed to articulate just about the most solid, reasonable and respectful position on gender issues.
My New Year’s resolution is to be more inclusive and do what I can to ensure that trans women, non-binary men and other gender non-conforming men feel included and safe in male spaces.
If I was a trans person I’d be pretty pissed off at all these “suck my cock, bitch” nutters. Imagine wishing you could be accepted as you are, nearly getting there, then some group of antisocial, narcissistic bullies arrive claiming to speak for you.
Maybe it’s my male brain, but I don’t quite understand the sheer number of feminists who are happy to count men as allies, but think Posie Parker is the “wrong sort of woman” 🤷♂️
FAO
@billybragg
,
@OwenJones84
,
@jonronson
and
@frankieboyle
If I can just get one tweet in before I’m blanket blocked: The issue is the wholesale acceptance of males into female only areas, solely on the word of the male. How is Self-ID not a removal of rights and safeguards?
Just seen that open letter claiming that trans women pressuring women into sex are incredibly rare isolated experiences. Then I remembers the millions of Tweets and TikToks telling women to get over their “genital preferences”, not to mention being told to “suck girldick”.
Being able to bring another human being into the world is not “reducing women to their reproductive function”. It is a uniquely female ability and one worthy of respect and admiration.
TERF Island is such a weird name for a place where there is so little violent crime against trans people they’ve had to make talking about them an offence.
J K Rowling is the latest in a long line of, predominantly, Women who, while not being gay, have been staunch supporters of the LGBT community right up until the trans lobby started policing speech, redefining words and people, and insisting everyone join them in denying reality.
Is it time for a rewrite of Animal Farm in which the Farmer identifies as a pig and all the other animals are so scared of questioning his identity they cancel the revolution and just do as they’re told?
Lots of women about, very small number of trans women in comparison. Lots of trans women in toilets with weapons, no pictures of women in toilets with weapons. It’s similar to the disproportion in crime between men and women. It’s why men are not allowed in women’s spaces.
Wouldn’t it be great if billionaires had a competition to see who could clean up the most oceans or buy up the most areas of the rainforest to just leave the fuck alone instead of poncing about in space?
This is April Halley (
@TheClash709
). What sort of world is it where the statement “There are rapists in Women’s prisons”, said to the face of the Canadian Prime Minister at an official press conference, goes without comment and is then not reported, let alone investigated?
One woman, who is not a member of the media, took it into her own hands to ask the PM about sexual assaults in prisons.
Didn’t catch the first part of her questioning but she stormed to the front by a reporter.
She was escorted out after.
@VOCMNEWS
#cdnpoli
#nlpoli
Look, I’m super busy today and don’t have time for any of this twitter nonsense, but I just need you to be aware that in German you can misgender a fork.
Make no mistake, a world where women are not recognised as having separate needs to men can and will happen, so long as men turn a blind eye and women are not properly represented as 50% of the population.
Anyone genuinely interested in Social Justice wouldn’t be upset that J K Rowling can afford to take legal action against libel, they’d be upset that most people can’t.
Who remembers getting up and walking across the room to turn the TV over? I can’t even imagine being able to see a TV that small from across the room now.
It is, perhaps, the ultimate irony that so many Trans Rights Activists, so desperate not to identify as men, are the absolute embodiment of toxic masculinity.
Paywalls are shit, but obviously papers need to fund themselves. If, instead of a subscription, we could pay 10p per story I’d definitely pay for three or four a week. If everyone else felt the same they’d probably end up making considerably more money in the end.
I got involved with the trans issue because discovered I empathise with women. I didn’t realise it at first, but I empathise more every passing day. What’s surprised me most is how much I now empathise with transsexuals and see how cruel it is that they are lumped in with the T.
Dear
@ArlaDairyUK
, Please exercise extreme caution with respect to Adrian Harrop’s campaign to prevent Women’s free and open expression.
@MumsnetTowers
provides a valuable means of communication and support for many thousands of Women, more important than ever during lockdown.
The sexy naked ladies are now only 300 metres from your area. But listen, your life could depend on this. Don't blink. Don't even blink. Blink and you're dead. They are fast. Faster than you can believe. Don't turn your back, don't look away, and don't blink. Good luck.
Interesting that 50% of the population has to resort to guerrilla tactics while 0.2% have the backing of several major political parties, corporate funding and very rich individuals.
These “women don’t have penises” stickers are brilliant. That this simple statement of fact is being investigated as “hate crime” (ridiculous 😂) is raising awareness of the consequences of self-ID and the delusional nature of trans ideology. I hope to see them everywhere!!
Why the fuck do we not have a political party for reasonable people? We have at least three that can’t tell women from men and another that is literally sending people “back where they came from”.
Now, according to the BBC, skiing is racist.
The only problem is, they can't blame old, bigoted, working-class Brexiteers this time. The BBC bosses must've been very conflicted on this one...
#DefundTheBBC
Just caught up with
@BBCNewsnight
and the
@Glinner
interview. What struck me most was
@BBCsarahsmith
suggesting that “quite a lot of women think that they can speak for themselves” while interviewing Graham Linehan. Maybe next time they’ll have a GC Woman like
@Docstockk
on.
If you’re in the U.K. and worried that Halloween won’t happen, just remember: Trick or Treat is a load of American bollocks. Let the sponging little sods buy their own “candy”.