Handmaid's Tale: Is this intentional or unintentional?

anonymale · 2021-01-21T09:40:20+00:00

LOL, you're really fucking reaching there.

Speaking of first-lady coats, you will recall this, worn by the large child who used to occupy the first lady's seat. Intentional?

anonymale · 2020-12-08T11:01:51+00:00

I'll take the bunch that wants to keep women's spaces for women

Kinder, Küche, Kirche, right? Conservatives are the mirror image of TRAs. Both expect and enforce conformity to stereotypes.

anonymale · 2020-12-06T16:21:52+00:00

I'm hoping for a mass ragequit among the 338 Guardian staff who signed a letter protesting about Suzanne Moore (without daring to mention her name).

anonymale · 2020-12-04T12:39:54+00:00

"1 in 3 men have been the victims of domestic violence" is false: it's based on a ropey survey from 2012. The second link deals with it in detail.

https://www.abc.net.au/triplej/programs/hack/challenging-the-mra-claim-of-a-domestic-violence-conspiracy/8632190

https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/the-one-in-three-claim-about-male-domestic-violence-victims-is-a-myth-20150429-1mw3bs.html

anonymale · 2020-12-03T11:57:33+00:00

Some background on Stella O’Malley and the situation in Ireland

As a child growing up in Offaly, Stella O’Malley was firmly convinced she was a boy.

Had she been born only half a decade later, she tells the programme: ‘I’m absolutely certain that I would have transitioned.’

In Ireland, hormonal, psychological or surgical intervention is not available to kids under 16, but they can be referred for assessment and treatment in the UK.

The Crumlin gender clinic in Dublin refers Irish kids to GIDS. I wonder if Barbie Kardashian is an alumnus?

anonymale · 2020-12-03T11:47:02+00:00

The NHS refused me a vasectomy at 21 because I was too young and might change my mind. But "Double mastectomy at 20, you say? Step this way".

anonymale · 2020-12-03T11:41:50+00:00

I agree that the Mirror headline spins the meaning of the judgment wildly, just by missing out the word ‘only’, but the judgment does not say

...that kids under 16 cannot possibly understand what the treatment will do to them because at that age they do not have the capacity.

See para 151. Rather than ban puberty blockers and hormones altogether for kids the court ruled on how Gillick competence applies to them. Para 138 sets out specifically what a child must ‘understand, retain and weigh up’ in order to be considered able to give meaningful consent. The court also says that the child must understand these for both puberty blockers and hormones as they are part of the same treatment pathway. It is a very strict set of criteria which I doubt GIDS has any chance of showing it can meet for any child currently on its books.

anonymale · 2020-12-01T16:19:08+00:00

Statement from Keira Bell:

...this fight is not yet over. I would like to personally call on professionals and clinicians to create better mental health services and models to help those dealing with gender dysphoria to reconcile with their sex. And furthermore I call on society to accept those who do not conform to sex stereotypes, not to push them into a life of drugs and concealment from who they truly are. This means stopping the homophobia, the misogyny and the bullying of those that are different.

Today I am delighted to see that common sense has prevailed and to see a reinstatement of safeguarding for children.

Standing on Keira's left is Susan Evans, the original claimant in this case, who worked as a psychotherapist at the Tavistock clinic. Apart from everything else she, Keira and Mrs A have achieved today, they've also won vindication for the many GIDS staff who have tried to express their concerns for over a decade now, often finding they had no choice but to resign.

anonymale · 2020-11-30T18:46:35+00:00

There is no way for the creator of a public Google doc to see via the Google Docs interface who's opened the document, even if the person opening it is signed in to a Google account at the time. See this article for more detail:

Explicitly shared [to a finite list of email addresses] documents show the name and avatar of users who have currently opened the document. It also shows a full history of edits made by each user. In contrast, publicly shared documents show placeholder animal profiles such as “Anonymous Badger,” “Anonymous Kraken” and “Anonymous Camel” to represent users who are currently viewing the document.

You can test this for yourself with two Google accounts and two web browsers (e.g. Edge and Internet Explorer). One account will create the document in the first browser, and the second account will view it in the second browser. Doing it this way keeps the two sessions separate.

In the first browser, sign into your first Google account, make a Google doc and make it public:

Go to docs.google.com and start a blank document. Give it a title and some garbage text if you want.
Click Share at the top right. A popup will appear giving you some options.
Click change to anyone with the link.
Click Copy link and then Done. Leave this window open for convenience. You will be looking at the document again in a moment.

In the second web browser go to docs.google.com and sign in to your second Google account.

Paste your document's url into the address bar. When the document opens, you'll see a round icon left of the Share button representing the document's creator. Hovering over it will reveal the name associated with your first, creator, Google account.
Leave that second browser window open and switch back to the first browser. You will see a different round icon left of the Share button in your document. Hovering over it will reveal a placeholder label as in the article I linked to above, not the name of your second, viewer, Google account.

If you want you can sign out of Google in your second browser, reopen the document, and see how that affects the pseudonymous placeholder you see in your first browser. It will probably change, but will still be pseudonymous.

I wrote at the top that the Google Docs interface won't reveal to a document creator anything about its viewers. But a malicious document can contain links which seem to point somewhere useful but actually go to a malicious domain which might record the ip address of viewers or try to install malware. Google Docs tries to help here: its default behaviour is that a click on a link in a document will show the url that link actually points to, and you have to click again to open the link. In Google Docs go to Tools>Preferences to check this is switched on.

tldr: creators of public google docs cannot see who views them, but viewers can see who created them. But you still need to be sure you trust links embedded in public Google docs before you click them.

anonymale · 2020-11-26T18:09:47+00:00

Wayback archive

anonymale · 2020-11-25T11:01:17+00:00

You seem to think you are so clever, powerful and omniscient that you can can read the minds of strangers on the internet...

The irony.

anonymale · 2020-11-24T08:32:51+00:00

...not as clear to others as they seem to be to yourself.

It's clear to anyone with a reasonable grasp of words like 'ethnography'. If I spelled it out for you, I expect you'd take that as condescension.

...it's very clear that a forthright woman expressing her views really sticks in your craw.

LOL, tell that to my wife and sisters. What sticks in my craw is that your response to this paper is egregiously wrong because you haven't understood the first sentence of the abstract. Guessing (wrongly) at what I'm feeling will not help you understand it.

anonymale · 2020-11-23T11:55:38+00:00

How is challenging a direct statement that I quoted verbatim "arguing against strawmen"? What have I "misread"?

That statement.

anonymale · 2020-11-23T11:05:24+00:00

I'm curious, do you tell men whose posts you take issue with to "relax"? Or do you reserve such condescension only for women?

If, despite having been to college, they misread things and start rantily arguing against strawmen, yes.

anonymale · 2020-11-23T09:49:16+00:00

...this sexist old shibboleth...the male-concocted, male-centering idea that big-game hunting done exclusively by males was once a/the principal way of providing food...

Relax, no one's saying that.

I suggest the 2003 film "The Snow Walker."

Of course women's knowledge and skills have over and over again meant the difference between flourishing and extinction. But that film's based on a short story by the totally unreliable Farley Mowat, the Canadian national icon nicknamed Hardly Know-it in the Northwest Territories, where he is remembered as a bullshitter. In a catalogue of his papers he wrote this:

On occasions when the facts have particularly infuriated me, Fuck the Facts!

anonymale · 2020-11-22T13:09:04+00:00

From the abstract:

We present an archeological discovery and meta-analysis that challenge the man-the-hunter hypothesis. Excavations at the Andean highland site of Wilamaya Patjxa reveal a 9000-year-old human burial (WMP6) associated with a hunting toolkit of stone projectile points and animal processing tools...analyses indicate that this early hunter was a young adult female...the earliest and most secure hunter burial in a sample that includes 10 other females in statistical parity with early male hunter burials. The findings are consistent with nongendered labor practices in which early hunter-gatherer females were big-game hunters.

anonymale · 2020-11-19T20:07:24+00:00

I believe there's been similar findings in the work place.

This article deals with the Mosuo study and one on the pay gap for female STEM graduates in the US:

Internalized gender-focused attitudes affect health, career prospects

anonymale · 2020-11-17T10:19:42+00:00

...I don't get why you're placing so much stock into what anonymous respondents to the NCTE survey said... ...the NCTE survey you rely on...

I didn't know I was relying on it. I thought I was exploring its data after you cited a statistic derived from it.

Also, you are mixing up non-surgical procedures - hair removal and voice therapy - with surgeries.

Mixing them up, or exploring the context as fully as that survey's data would allow? I'm not trying to catch you out or score points here, we agree that transgender ideology is immensely harmful and much more so to women and girls.

Thank you for providing the evidence I asked you for. That is a smaller minority than I have seen reported before. Your posts would be so much more powerful and useful to others if you substantiated claims unprompted, especially claims with high peaking power like the relative rarity of genital surgery for TIMs. Most of the people I talk to about it have no idea, and are much more likely to go immediately from 'well they just want to feel safe' to 'no fucking way pal' if they see good evidence. Nullius in verba and all that.

anonymale · 2020-11-16T17:42:08+00:00

...and BTW the only British men with a 'tache like that are the ones who've grown them so they can bullshit you in the pub about being in the SAS.

anonymale · 2020-11-16T17:25:29+00:00

The trans research org the Williams Institute reported in 2015 that the vast majority of males who claim to be trans - 88% - have not had any genital surgeries.

Sure it was them? I couldn't find that on their site, but I did find a 2015 survey report by the National Centre for Transgender Equality which features similar statistics. pp 100-103, table 7.5, figs 7.14, 7.15.

Since then, the number of trans-identified people has skyrocketed. But there has been no corresponding uptick in genital surgeries on males. So probably 95% or so of TIMs have their genitals intact.

Isn't 88% bad enough? If the total number of TIMs is increasing, what is the evidence that a greater proportion of them don't or won't have genital surgery?

When "gender confirmation surgeries" are spoken of for TIMs nowadays it almost always means facial feminization surgeries; tracheal shaves; having sacs of fluid or gel implanted in the chest to resemble women's breasts; lip, butt and hip injections with fillers; dental contouring, etc.

For the male respondents those procedures are all less common and less desired (facial feminisation only very slightly less desired) than genital surgery. The most common are non-surgical voice therapy and hair removal, the latter four times as common. This still means ~60% of the TIM respondents have beard stubble, mind.

The most common "gender confirming surgery" being done today by far is double mastectomy on young females.

The survey bears this out: it's about three times more common that female respondents have had mastectomies than males have had genital surgery. Table 7.4, fig 7.12.

This survey had a relatively high number of respondents: 27,715 (p. 43) but it was an online survey so the usual problems with non-representative sampling, self-selection and self-reporting apply. The authors partially acknowledge this (p. 26):

Although the intention was to recruit a sample that was as representative as possible of transgender people in the U.S., it is important to note that respondents in this study were not randomly sampled and the actual population characteristics of transgender people in the U.S. are not known. Therefore, it is not appropriate to generalize the findings in this study to all transgender people.

They do not seem to have considered the possibility that answering surveys like this could be a way for those with special sparkly genderfeels to reinforce them by exaggerating experiences of harassment or suicidality, for example.

anonymale · 2020-11-14T19:30:50+00:00

It looks like a doll mounted on a foil-wrapped dead tree. The fundraisers should have known what would happen. Hambling's A Conversation with Oscar Wilde turns him into a creature made of cigarette smoke and a melted Curly Wurly. I love Hambling's paintings but many of her sculptures are dreadful shite.

anonymale · 2020-11-14T15:51:01+00:00

Does the pope shit in the woods? From the two who contended that

feminism is for everyone

I kept hearing

my feminism is unique to me

which sounds an awful lot like 'feminism is what I say it is'.

anonymale · 2020-11-12T15:36:54+00:00

Sam Smith:

...gender non-conforming...

Also Sam Smith:

I want kids. I want all of it. I want to be with the kids, watch them grow and be with them every day. I want to be mummy.’

The thing that really gets me is that he could have taken an admirable [edit: and actually gender nonconforming] stance. He could have shown young kids that it is ok to be male and wear what you want, feel what you feel, say what you feel, be a full-time parent and love it. But apparently marketing said no.

anonymale · 2020-10-24T18:58:02+00:00

Liberal privilege checking displaces and prevents class analysis, whether economic- or sex- class. Therefore it should be refused.

anonymale · 2020-10-20T21:27:20+00:00

New Scientist is generally ok, I find. The studies that article mentions also rely on the assumption that gendered behaviour is innate, which is also a vital assumption for TRAs. As FlippyKing says, silly idea. Gina Rippon, professor of cognitive neuroimaging, has written an accessible book, Gender and Our Brains, which explores this area. I haven't read it yet, but it's likely to be more up to date and less palatable than that article to your TIM. Here's a review.

Contrary to what early coverage of brain imaging technology claimed, neuroscientists no longer believe that specific types of activities and aptitudes are dealt with solely in discrete parts of the brain. Instead, the brain is a network of networks. It is also extremely “plastic,” constantly changing to reflect whatever its owner experiences and does...It makes no sense, Rippon argues, to speak of brains as fixed organs when they can be changed literally at will.

Much of the rest of Gender and Our Brains describes how exquisitely sensitive to social input the brain is—especially in infancy and childhood—and how pervasively gendered that input is. “A gendered world will produce a gendered brain,” she writes.

anonymale · 2020-10-19T22:46:46+00:00

Gript.ie is a media outlet in the same sense that a drug dealer is a pharmaceutical outlet.

I had not appreciated how mendacious this shower of fascist bastards are. I won't link to it, but the site features a video attempting to discredit Catherine Corless, the Galway historian who uncovered the horror of Tuam children's home.

Eight hundred children of unwed mothers died there over thirty-six years, with only a handful having a record of burial. She found where the rest had gone: into a disused sewage tank. The [edit] resulting explosion of public outrage forced the Irish state to form a commission of inquiry which reports regularly. Its final report is due on Oct 30th. [end edit] There is to be a thorough forensic investigation of the whole site. None of this would have, could have happened without Catherine Corless' relentless dedication.

The investigation released its fifth interim report in March 2019. It details the investigation into the site by forensic archaeologists, civil engineers and others into the structure the children's remains were found in. The report makes it completely clear that this was not a crypt, but an effluent tank. The arseholes at gript take a few of Corless' words, and a few of the report's words, and in order to make a cheap anti-abortion point portray her as contradicting the report after endorsing it. Their contempt for women in general and Catherine Corless in particular ought to show that these fuckers only report on transgender cases because they like all fascists want to reinforce gender, not criticise it or minimise its harms.

Uncritical boosting of a fascist site's dubious claims of persecution only makes it easier for TRAs to claim that their radfem critics are in bed with the far right. For that reason you should remove this thread, BEB.

anonymale · 2020-10-19T11:35:55+00:00

Sauce, goose, gander.

edit: assuming harassment is the real reason. There's no way the cops or GMC could be interested in his past tweets, which are all entirely benign.

anonymale · 2020-10-18T20:05:53+00:00

Gript.ie is a media outlet in the same sense that a drug dealer is a pharmaceutical outlet. There are still three articles on this case up on the Irish Independent site, and one one the Limerick Leader. All state that the violent offender in question was born male, identifies as a woman and wants to be in a female prison. It would appear possible to report accurately on this story without breaching the court order mentioned in the linked article. The purpose of the latter appears to be ultra righty tighties positioning themselves as noble paladins of the truth. Fascists, however, uniformly hate women and aren't good at hiding it. Take a look at gript's stance on abortion.

anonymale · 2020-10-18T16:09:26+00:00

Would it have been hard for you to type that unprompted?

HRT

It's not replacement if the hormones weren't there in the first place. This is one of those concepts TRAs have stolen.

anonymale · 2020-10-18T14:59:05+00:00

The numpty responsible is getting a well-deserved roasting. My favourite:

Because the gender fantasy of some spoiled, entitled, bellend really matters when testing for a virus? Give your head a wobble FFS.

anonymale · 2020-10-18T14:47:50+00:00

OK, I'll bite. I'm not willing to sit through an hour of TRA chatter though. I got a few minutes in during which they fail to mention the original lead claimant in the judicial review, Susan Evans, a psychotherapist who worked at the Tavistock clinic ~~and later became a governor of the NHS trust which operates it~~ [edit: I got that wrong, her husband Marcus Evans was a governor. He resigned over its treatment of gender-dysphoric kids].

Is the supposed danger to abortion rights something to do with this argument, promoted by Penis News and Mermaids? That if under-18s are ruled unable to consent to hormone treatment, then their ability to consent to contraception and abortion without parental consent (called 'Gillick competence' in English law after the litigant whose challenge to this failed in the 80s) will also be challenged in court by the religious right.

It is true that Paul Conrathe, the solicitor acting for the claimants, has acted in various anti-abortion cases. As I understand it his argument in this case is that Gillick competence is being stretched too far here by the nature of the treatment (experimental, poor evidence base, etc), and its consequences (infertility, lack of improved mental health, etc.), not the age of the patients.

Am I close? If not you will need to give me a clue.

anonymale · 2020-10-18T13:36:45+00:00

Glinner's article on Peto is now the top google search result for "heather peto". Excellent!

anonymale · 2020-10-17T18:22:02+00:00

From Jane Clare Jones:

Really really pleased to announce that the new quarterly feminist magazine I’ve been working on is now taking subscriptions! The first print edition will be out at the end of the month.

anonymale · 2020-10-16T13:35:33+00:00

Rosie Duffield is everything Heather ( formerly Warren) Peto will never be: a woman, a successful politician, the owner of a heart.

anonymale · 2020-10-15T16:46:14+00:00

Part of Savile's MO was to cultivate officials who could allow him access to victims, and ensure that they feared him mightily. He used a mix of [edit: charm,] direct physical intimidation and hints that he had kompromat on them. They knew he always had at the very least the ability to ensure that they would suffer indelible guilt by association if he went down. The other part of his MO was to choose victims society holds in contempt: mainly girls. That is how he was able to operate in plain sight for decades. We know this because of the numerous public enquiries into his offending that have taken place since he died.

On the other hand, pizzagate is just some horseshit cooked up on 4chan. The pizzagate/qanon mobs sending death threats to pizza company employees are animated by exactly the same cult-like psychodynamics at work in the heads of TRAs threatening noncompliant women with death.

anonymale · 2020-10-15T16:25:06+00:00

And Jerry Sadowitz

anonymale · 2020-10-13T10:35:13+00:00

...and published in 2014. Maybe get off youtube for a while and read about the pernicious effects of its recommendation algorithm.

anonymale · 2020-10-12T14:25:15+00:00

Jayden Lowe was eighteen, not twelve. Helen Webberly, the doctor responsible for prescribing puberty blockers to her, and also to a twelve-year-old, cannot now practice medicine in the UK after being convicted in 2018 of practicing illegally. She now prescribes puberty blockers to British children via a company based in Hong Kong.

anonymale · 2020-10-12T11:04:10+00:00

What an ignorant fuckwit. May as well have been hosted by Bill Barr. Never heard of Florynce Kennedy?

anonymale · 2020-10-12T10:43:44+00:00

...aaaaand the top tweet for that hashtag is

Biological men reclaiming #adulthumanfemale because apparently the definition of "woman" is transphobic. Just let women be, mate.

(slow clap) Great job there, absurd porn-sick man.

anonymale · 2020-10-10T09:11:26+00:00

We don't need to refer to a Kremlin propaganda organ to get the facts on this case. rt only publishes stories like this because it fits into one of the Kremlin's overarching propaganda themes: that the West has become decadent and effeminate because of feminism, while Russia embodies the strength of the traditional family. This narrative does not distinguish the T from the LGB, portraying them as equally perverted.

https://www.womenarehuman.com/latest-chapter-of-cancel-culture-in-trans-activists-twitter-war-on-women/

anonymale · 2020-10-09T09:20:10+00:00

https://media.giphy.com/media/m1y5Iver1GNR6/giphy.gif

anonymale · 2020-10-08T09:19:40+00:00

Watts is evidently a fucking lunatic. Posts videos of himself making weapons for use on 'bigots', i.e. people who say things he doesn't like.

Update: cops found 'what appeared to be a shotgun' in his car.

anonymale · 2020-10-05T18:09:20+00:00

Not wishing to minimise what Jenny Lindsay's been through but she was warned by the police that there were credible threats to her safety, rather than personally threatened. She tweets that she had already decided to leave by the time the police contacted her:

Ah, I have to correct this: I had already decided to leave due to 'the atmosphere in my sector.' The sole call from police was honestly such a minor thing its irritating to see it reported this way! Essay is best for full story.

And:

...leaving Edinburgh not linked to police call. It was troubling, of course! The entire thing was. Is.

Lindsay's essay on what was done to her is called An Anatomy of a Hounding.

anonymale · 2020-10-05T11:15:31+00:00

The playwright is Carolyn Gage, a renowned lesbian feminist. She's been subject to TRA censorship for years, despite making room in her work for trans identities. Nothing but total submission is acceptable to them.

anonymale · 2020-10-03T10:06:53+00:00

One of the things that peaked me was hearing him describe (paywall, sorry) TRAs gloating over his cancer diagnosis. These days, if you care to look, you can find them gloating over the end of his marriage.

anonymale · 2020-09-29T17:52:08+00:00

Is that Charles/Charlotte Clymer on the left?

anonymale · 2020-09-26T08:34:16+00:00

No, an opponent tweeted in reply that there are 16,000 barristers.

And rather than ask would/could they define sex, I'd rather ask whether they should, since biologists are the experts on that. Lawyers routinely consult experts on matters outside law. When asked, biologists can state the scientific consensus that sex is biological.

anonymale · 2020-09-23T09:20:08+00:00

You knew there was a 'but' though, didn't you?

Following a review of hate crime laws, the Law Commission said the majority of evidence it had seen related to misogyny but it would consult on whether “sex or gender” as a protected characteristic should cover women and men or women only.

anonymale · 2020-09-22T14:13:37+00:00

It would be cool if on the next row over there was a display entitled "Love JK Rowling?" with a stack of all her books.

Not if you worked there. Can you imagine how often some petulant blue-haired chump would demand you fetch the manager because the books are being literally violent?

Earthsea

God, yes.

anonymale · 2020-09-22T08:07:02+00:00

Sistah Space

anonymale · 2020-09-22T07:35:30+00:00

Bernadette Banner

I began watching one of her videos to hear the accent and didn’t last thirty seconds:

...I don’t own a lot of clothing...

[shot of a walk-in wardrobe larger than my bathroom]

Yeah, fuck off.

anonymale · 2020-09-21T16:24:27+00:00

You have been wrong about her work before.

anonymale · 2020-09-21T16:11:11+00:00

Testicular

Not just a man: a bawbag.

anonymale · 2020-09-21T12:54:54+00:00

No and lol no.

I have no "gender identity" and reject being called cis.

Same here.

anonymale · 2020-09-21T09:34:47+00:00

Leeds ReSisters members were arrested yesterday. Buy ReSisters United stuff here.

anonymale · 2020-09-21T07:41:15+00:00

There isn't a no option. Any signature will count as in favour. Is that what you want?

Responses are sampled and verified. 80k fraudulent signatories were found to the 2016 petition to revoke the UK's decision to leave the EU. Odd patterns like lots of signing from the same postcode by people not on the electoral register there will show up and be removed quickly.

anonymale · 2020-09-20T22:06:11+00:00

"Trans people need trans political representation!" - If TIMs are women, then women already represent them. Similarly, men already represent TIFs.

anonymale · 2020-09-20T17:52:04+00:00

The title starts 'scientists', not 'a blog writer claiming to be a neuroscientist'. You make strange, ranty claims like 'secular science still has a bias where people impose their beliefs which can be outright lies' and 'the scientists just invent totally new religion instead'. Clearly you are talking about science and scientists in general there and claiming that an absurd article represents the scientific consensus on biological sex. That is what is misleading about your post. Doing obviously silly things like that (more than once now) just makes you less credible.

You're confusing 'authoritative' and 'authorities' as well. Either you don't know those words have different meanings, or you're again trying to mislead people. I no longer care which.

anonymale · 2020-09-20T10:33:04+00:00

Click on the little white gear-wheel icon at the bottom of the video and select a slower playback speed?

anonymale · 2020-09-20T10:21:43+00:00

It's great to see Not The Fun Kind getting so much support in the yt comments! My fave:

What they putting in this blue hair dye these days?

Rowan Ellis styles herself a geek as well as a feminist, but asks on twitter for help with video file format problems. Hhhm.

She reminds me of the queen-bee character Amanda in Sharon Horgan and Graham Linehan's comedy Motherland. Middle-class, patronisingly superior. In that show Diane Morgan plays her opposite Liz, and NTFK includes a clip of another Morgan character, absurdist middlebrow documentary presenter Philomena Cunk, in her response video. Here's the whole thing:

It's easy to see how these fearsome and almighty genitals convinced generations of men that they were superior.

anonymale · 2020-09-19T17:46:50+00:00

IANAL. Employment tribunals do not set legal precedents but employment appeal tribunals - the next tier up - may, and so may higher courts. Here's an example. British cyclist Jess Varnish lost an employment tribunal appeal which, had she won it, may have established in law that 'amateur' athletes training under 'athletic performance agreements' with their sport's governing body are employees with rights such as maternity leave entitlement. She was dropped from her team by a fragile sexist arsehole coach who hid behind 'performance reasons', when actually he didn't like her public criticism.

All the reports I've read on Taylor's case say that while not a binding precedent it is going to be influential in future tribunals.

anonymale · 2020-09-19T17:28:31+00:00

Nope, Taylor left and then sued for 'constructive dismissal': being forced to resign to escape a hostile work environment. He now works for another company, Arup. Linkedin page. Maybe a female engineer lost out to him for that job. Whether or not that's the case he is now effectively unsackable, and any company he applies to work for in future will need cast-iron reasons to turn him down.

anonymale · 2020-09-19T16:26:35+00:00

"Justice and mercy...they're very grand emotions." (RBG documentary).

anonymale · 2020-09-19T15:01:02+00:00

Pronouns in Dublin:

yi
you
yiz
youiz
youz
yer wan
yer man
dem lot

Source. Since it seems I need to spell such things out for some people here: this is a comedy sketch made by Irish people, making fun of themselves/other Irish people.

anonymale · 2020-09-19T14:51:04+00:00

Just to be absolutely clear, Dupont is not a real person. Lazy satirist Andrew Doyle created the character and 'Titania McGrath'. His entire output has half the wit of a 'women don't have penises' sticker.

anonymale · 2020-09-19T14:40:32+00:00

https://www.gendertrending.com

Seems to contain most if not all of the old posts.

anonymale · 2020-09-19T12:57:49+00:00

The reason for male seahorse pregnancy and their generally awe-inspiring strangeness is that they mutate and therefore evolve faster than other fish. I guess TRAs are using seahorses to justify the female-erasing language contortions we're expected to make to accommodate TIFs. However, male seahorses produce sperm, not ova. That's how we know they are male. It makes about as much sense to say seahorses disprove the mammal/fish binary as to say they disprove the sex binary.

anonymale · 2020-09-19T09:38:49+00:00

This thread’s title is misleading. Not the first time OP has pulled this shit.

Articles published on SciAm’s blogs subdomain are opinion pieces published in its Voices series. OP is misrepresenting the nature of this article in the same way TRAs do by presenting it as authoritative. If a first-year biology student submitted this work their professor would summon them to the office.

SciAm (a popular-science monthly), like Nature (a scholarly journal), are clearly doing this for woke clicks and to avoid woke drama but that is not the same as being under the thumb of a sinister TRA conspiracy. There’s no need to invoke conspiracies when market forces and editorial cowardice explain events sufficiently.

BTW SciAm devoted an entire issue to gender ideology in 2017. In July Margaret Atwood was embarrassingly taken in by it as well as the article this thread's about. She started tweeting about gay penguins and 'hermaphrodites'. Actual scientists had to point a few things out to her, and her comments didn't go down well with intersex people either.

anonymale · 2020-09-18T21:55:37+00:00

No thanks, I don't need to hear another word about him.

anonymale · 2020-09-18T17:34:06+00:00

i've been sent 3 IP loggers by terfs in attempt to dox me

I don't think it's paranoia so much as male self-importance combined with stupidity. He's seen his fellow keyboard warriors on twitter threatening to "get your IP so I can doxx you" and thinks it sounds cool. So because in his mind he's a lynchpin of the struggle for trans rights, TERFNAZIS must want to take him down and this is how he thinks it's done. LOL no. He knows as much about doxxing as he does about every other subject he mentions: nothing.

OP, this is all very entertaining but why are you letting this gasbag waste your time?

anonymale · 2020-09-18T16:43:43+00:00

Comment on the paper from Anne Lawrence and expanded on by Kay Brown, both HSTSs.

Lawrence:

Nuttbrock et al. did not emphasize that their results provided a significant validation of Blanchard’s typology, but this is, in fact, their most important finding.

Brown:

Nuttbrock et al. ... make the rather astounding conclusion that only the older generation of trans-folk have or will have autogynephilic arousal to cross-dressing, since in their view, the “exotic” nature of cross-dressing will become a thing of the past, and thus not lead to the development of sexually arousing fetishistic cross-dressing...

My own prediction is that nothing of the sort will happen. Late transitioning, autogynephilic transsexuals of the future are already in the making, marrying their girlfriends, dealing with their autogynephilic nature as best they can, dreaming that someday that they too will be ready to live full-time as women and get SRS and HRT. After-all… I heard this very same prediction 30 years ago… that everyone in the near future would be transitioning young, as it was no longer difficult to seek out SRS/HRT, given the easy availability. Nothing changed.

anonymale · 2020-09-17T15:47:31+00:00

If only more people did. Actually they wouldn't have to love it, just take it seriously. Wouldn't that be a breath of fresh air?

anonymale · 2020-09-17T07:26:59+00:00

There's tons of appearance-based racial prejudice within different races and ethnicities...If you're unaware of this, you need to explore more.

Fucking hell, why not just tell me to check my privilege: it would have been easier to type. I'm one of those people who caught shit for looking Irish and regularly got assaulted for it into my twenties. A close relative has a large facial disfigurement. We both knew plenty about appearance-based prejudice before we left primary school.

In contrast, gammons got their name because of their behaviour, not because of something they're unable to change. It's because they so easily lose their shit about things which are not a threat to them. There are plenty of affluent middle-aged white men who are not thought of as gammons because they discuss their similarly abhorrent opinions calmly. For example Jacob Rees-Mogg affably shifting blame for Grenfell fire victims' deaths on a talk radio station. Any gammon who doesn't like the label can simply learn to discuss politics without ranting.

This is beside my main point anyway, which is that tv discussions like the one this thread is about are just means for tv companies to sell audiences to advertisers. They are not meant to inform.

anonymale · 2020-09-16T21:28:08+00:00

Also, mate, as you know "gammons" is an ageist, sexist and racist slur meant to belittle, demonize and slag off an entire chunk of the British population. Not cool.

Are you serious? Come on. It's an insult invented by white people to mock [edit: white] people with different politics, not people perceived as racially different. The fact that they tend to respond with exactly the outrage they gleefully deride 'snowflakes' for just makes it all the funnier.

anonymale · 2020-09-16T15:17:23+00:00

The counter is "yes it has".

A Further Assessment of Blanchard’s Typology of Homosexual Versus Non-Homosexual or Autogynephilic Gender Dysphoria

Extending the studies reviewed above, transvestic fetishism was much higher among the non-homosexuals (82.6%) compared to the homosexuals (9.6%).

anonymale · 2020-09-16T13:57:11+00:00

They mirror each other. Butterworth is the absolute prong who a couple of years ago [edit: in 2012] took a black delegate's place at a national student LGBT conference because he suddenly identified as black after failing to bag the seat by virtue of identifying as Jewish. And he of course writes for Penis News. Just as Morgan's job is to trigger millenials, Butterworth only appears because he'll trigger the gammons, not because he has anything meaningful to say. Their function is to put eyeballs in front of ads. God forbid they'd get a female guest on to discuss JKR. Who'd watch that? (sarcasm)

anonymale · 2020-09-16T12:23:43+00:00

My god this is poetry.

anonymale · 2020-09-16T10:16:37+00:00

I think it’s very unlikely that any autistic person who’s interested in trains will come to believe they are a kind of train. (I’m autistic). BTW ‘obsessed’ is a pejorative word. Please don’t use it about autistic special interests. We absolutely need to pursue our interests to stay mentally well.

anonymale · 2020-09-16T10:13:47+00:00

gender vendors

Love it!

anonymale · 2020-09-16T10:13:16+00:00

What therapist actually thinks that autism is something you can cure?

A bogus one. This struck me as an extremely odd statement from the lead researcher on a paper about autism.

anonymale · 2020-09-16T09:48:56+00:00

We’ve talked about this study before.

I mentioned some of its methodological and conceptual deficiencies. Gender-critical people don’t fit into the paradigm of these researchers at all, as far as I can tell. I’m neither cis nor gender-diverse because those categories, [edit: like the concept of gender itself] rely on harmful stereotypes.

anonymale · 2020-09-15T18:25:33+00:00

Clearly a rich man in his seventies has less to lose and fewer shits to give but he must know about the career damage Graham Linehan, for example, has suffered.

anonymale · 2020-09-15T15:58:20+00:00

Gaun yersel big man!

anonymale · 2020-09-14T09:21:00+00:00

I’m trans-Scottish. My pronouns are get/tae/fuck.

anonymale · 2020-09-13T18:35:04+00:00

I tried to choose one, but couldn't, and now I find I can't choose words to describe how much I admire her. They are all insufficient.

anonymale