Taylor 🇬🇧 🇮🇪

Detrans male from Belfast now an honorary scouser ♿💖

[Variety @Variety]

J.K. Rowling has published a new essay defending her views on the trans community and calling out trans activism in the 21st century for being "elitist."

"My views haven't changed... what to me represents no change at all in my political or ideological outlook has, in recent years, seen me and women like me subject not only to criticism but also to death threats. This is because we oppose the current, dominant strain of trans activism, which holds that a man who declares himself a woman is, literally, a woman, and is therefore entitled to be treated as a woman in all contexts..."

https://t.co/3iej2VQhyF

[Taylor 🇬🇧 🇮🇪 @JulieOutrageous]

@FiascoShenanig1 @RFelange @Camsiyonna1 Lolz

[Taylor 🇬🇧 🇮🇪 @JulieOutrageous]

@Variety Kudos to J.K. for her words. Having an identity disorder which causes us to perceive ourselves as the opposite sex does not change biology, and it does not mean we are entitled to access spaces belonging to the opposite sex. Believe me, I know. I have the scars to show for it.

[Taylor 🇬🇧 🇮🇪 @JulieOutrageous]

@idrisamihere I hate that new format. It blows.

[Taylor 🇬🇧 🇮🇪 @JulieOutrageous]

@RFelange @FiascoShenanig1 @Camsiyonna1 What is Jentucky fried chicken

[Stephen Wilson @faintlyfalling]

The pseudoscience that an internal sense of being male or female is what makes you a man or a woman and that this overrides your actual sex is encountered by many young people for the first time in the classroom, where it is often taught as fact.

[Taylor 🇬🇧 🇮🇪 @JulieOutrageous]

@ohheyitsshanaj Wake up.

[Stephen Wilson @faintlyfalling]

The pseudoscience that an internal sense of being male or female is what makes you a man or a woman and that this overrides your actual sex is encountered by many young people for the first time in the classroom, where it is often taught as fact.

[Taylor 🇬🇧 🇮🇪 @JulieOutrageous]

@kimpetras Nobody is getting fetishised. People are concerned, many even horrified, that the mutilation of a person's body is being treated as an act of affirmation. Giving in to my identity disorder was the worst thing I ever did. It didn't fix anything, it was a distraction from reality.

[Taylor 🇬🇧 🇮🇪 @JulieOutrageous]

@pumpkinshardz @4gusNathan I'm over the moon for them in terms of their friendship. I do miss Heidi though and would love them to be a four piece.

[Taylor 🇬🇧 🇮🇪 @JulieOutrageous]

@snoho92 @4gusNathan Hearing the others sing Heidi's parts sounds wrong to me. If they were a four piece it would be perfect.

[Taylor 🇬🇧 🇮🇪 @JulieOutrageous]

The most performative is Twinks. #bbuk

[Taylor 🇬🇧 🇮🇪 @JulieOutrageous]

@jlb26_ Why does her mum wear a burka? Is her mum OK? 😔

[Taylor 🇬🇧 🇮🇪 @JulieOutrageous]

@BB_Superfan Nah, he's just scouse and blunt. Took me a while to get used to it since I moved here, but I get it now! #BBUK

[Taylor 🇬🇧 🇮🇪 @JulieOutrageous]

@Razamataz144 He probably jumped ship when our parties adopted batshit policies, like a lot of us did.

[Brad Stephenson @Shuttlecock]

The thing is, a whole generation didn’t hate the Star Wars prequels.

I was 18 when Phantom Menace came out, saw it opening night with a few friends from student res, and then rewatched it at least three or four times in the theatre over the next month or so.

Pretty much everyone saw this movie (and EpII & III). Guys and girls. Nerds and casuals. Many went multiple times (the box office numbers prove this).

The merch sold through the roof, every magazine featured cover stories with the cast, most casual fans thought Jar Jar was funny while the Star Wars nerds were obsessed with the tech behind the character. Girls loved Padme’s fashion while straight guys loved Portman.

The online fandom was hyperactive with fan theories, fan art, etc with a very clear even split between the male/female demos.

Fan and general public reaction was insanely positive.

This particular scene became ICONIC.

98% of the negativity came from the professional film critics. TPM wasn’t perfect by any means but the media definitely tried to push the message that it was a disaster, Jake Lloyd sucked, and that Jar Jar was offensive and racist.

This weird gaslighting that it was the fans who were negative and toxic is just current media trying to do damage control for just how negative they were at the time.

[Brad Stephenson @Shuttlecock]

This article’s the perfect example of why many publications need to refresh their style guides in regard to LBGTQ terms.

1) The word ‘queer’ is a slur primarily used against homosexual/gay men and many gay men still find the word offensive.
2) ‘Queer’ is also (inappropriately) used by other groups as an incredibly broad umbrella term which can include everything from lesbian to straight couples. In this sense, the term is needlessly ambiguous (The reader has no idea what you mean when you describe someone as ‘queer’) and essentially hides the sexuality of otherwise out individuals or characters. Likewise, calling a film ‘queer’ raises more questions than answers.
3) The word is also used (again inappropriately) by people to describe a political belief or attitude. They think ‘queer’ is something counterculture or a kind of protest. This needlessly politicises the sexuality of individuals or the act of love where there was zero political motivation beforehand. It forcefully appropriates the gay experience as a tool for someone else’s political goals and also allows them to make gay issues, trauma, and history about themselves or their cause even when they’re not gay.

[Taylor 🇬🇧 🇮🇪 @JulieOutrageous]

@recuerdodelpor1 @blakeley_t19805 @Shuttlecock People don't need to distance themselves, we're already very different. There's no correlation between sexual orientation and gender dysphoria. We share community spaces, but our experiences and needs are very different. We don't need an umbrella term to unite us.

[Geeky REAL GINGER Sparkles @desert_starr_57]

Shaggy! Noooooooo!!!!

[Taylor 🇬🇧 🇮🇪 @JulieOutrageous]

@bbuk I tire of Twinks. She claims to be the life and soul of the party but in reality she's standing in the corner holding a clipboard. #bbuk