Karsten Kjær

Journalist, free speech fighter - and @freeporttraveler on YouTube are media sites promoting ideas and destinations to travellers worldwide.

[Karsten Kjær @Karkjaer]

I Made Magic in North Korea - Here’s What Happened https://t.co/7qJqv5COxK via @YouTube

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My YouTube channel crossed 10k subs! #10kcreator https://t.co/fySMh3Rkt8

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@BjergM @thorborg JK har så evig ret. Stop den vanvittige identitetspolitik.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

You’ve asked me several questions on this thread and accused me of avoiding answering, so here goes.

I believe a woman is a human being who belongs to the sex class that produces large gametes. It’s irrelevant whether or not her gametes have ever been fertilised, whether or not she’s carried a baby to term, irrelevant if she was born with a rare difference of sexual development that makes neither of the above possible, or if she’s aged beyond being able to produce viable eggs. She is a woman and just as much a woman as the others.

I don’t believe a woman is more or less of a woman for having sex with men, women, both or not wanting sex at all. I don’t think a woman is more or less of a woman for having a buzz cut and liking suits and ties, or wearing stilettos and mini dresses, for being black, white or brown, for being six feet tall or a little person, for being kind or cruel, angry or sad, loud or retiring. She isn't more of a woman for featuring in Playboy or being a surrendered wife, nor less of a woman for designing space rockets or taking up boxing. What makes her a woman is the fact of being born in a body that, assuming nothing has gone wrong in her physical development (which, as stated above, still doesn't stop her being a woman), is geared towards producing eggs as opposed to sperm, towards bearing as opposed to begetting children, and irrespective of whether she's done either of those things, or ever wants to.

Womanhood isn't a mystical state of being, nor is it measured by how well one apes sex stereotypes. We are not the creatures either porn or the Bible tell you we are. Femaleness is not, as trans woman Andrea Chu Long wrote, ‘an open mouth, an expectant asshole, blank, blank eyes,’ nor are we God’s afterthought, sprung from Adam’s rib.

Women are provably subject to certain experiences because of our female bodies, including different forms of oppression, depending on the cultures in which we live. When trans activists say 'I thought you didn't want to be defined by your biology,' it’s a feeble and transparent attempt at linguistic sleight of hand. Women don't want to be limited, exploited, punished, or subject to other unjust treatment because of their biology, but our being female is indeed defined by our biology. It's one material fact about us, like having freckles or disliking beetroot, neither of which are representative of our entire beings, either. Women have billions of different personalities and life stories, which have nothing to do with our bodies, although we are likely to have had experiences men don't and can't, because we belong to our sex class.

Some people feel strongly that they should have been, or wish to be seen as, the sex class into which they weren't born. Gender dysphoria is a real and very painful condition and I feel nothing but sympathy for anyone who suffers from it. I want them to be free to dress and present themselves however they like and I want them to have exactly the same rights as every other citizen regarding housing, employment and personal safety. I do not, however, believe that surgeries and cross-sex hormones literally turn a person into the opposite sex, nor do I believe in the idea that each of us has a nebulous ‘gender identity’ that may or might not match our sexed bodies. I believe the ideology that preaches those tenets has caused, and continues to cause, very real harm to vulnerable people.

I am strongly against women's and girls' rights and protections being dismantled to accommodate trans-identified men, for the very simple reason that no study has ever demonstrated that trans-identified men don't have exactly the same pattern of criminality as other men, and because, however they identify, men retain their advantages of speed and strength. In other words, I think the safety and rights of girls and women are more important than those men's desire for validation.

I sincerely hope that answers your questions. You may still disagree, but as I hope this shows, I’m more than happy to have this debate.

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PÅ REJSE MED DRONNINGEN
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Jeg melder mig hermed i hyldestkoret til vor afgående dronning med en video af de bedste scener fra mine optagelser gennem mere end 30 år i Kongehuset.
Tillykke til Kong Frederik X og tak til Kongehuset.
https://t.co/yhCASMElXr

[Karsten Kjær @Karkjaer]

@elonmusk An apple a day keeps the doctor away @elonmusk

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@nytimes Typical italian Pizza called Pompeii

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@mhdksafa Tina Turner - turned her life around

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Tina Turner - how she turned her life around

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

When Tina Turner left her first husband - who was also her boss, captor, and brutal tormentor - she snuck out of their Dallas hotel room with a single thought in her mind: "The way out is through the door."
From there she fled across the midnight freeway, semi-trucks careening past her, with 36 cents and a Mobil gas card in her pocket. As soon as she decided to walk out that door, she owned nothing else.
When she filed for divorce, she made an unusual request. She didn't want anything: not the song rights, not the cars, not the houses, not the money. All she wanted was the stage name he gave her - Tina - and her married name - Turner. This was the name by which the world had come to know her, and keeping it was her only chance to salvage her career.
Things could have gone a lot of ways from there. She could have labored in obscurity for decades, maybe making records on small labels to be prized by vinyl connoisseurs in Portland. She could have stayed in Vegas, where she first went to get her chops back up, and worked as a nostalgia act. And, of course, given what she had been through, she might have ... not made it.
What happened instead is that Tina Turner became the biggest global rock star of the 80s. I'm old enough to barely remember this, but if you aren't, it was like this: The Rolling Stones would headline a stadium one day, and the next day it would be Tina Turner. A middle-aged Black woman - she became a rock star at 42! - sitting atop the 1980s like it was her throne.
She managed this because of whatever rare stuff she was made of (this is a woman whose label gave her two weeks to record her solo debut, Private Dancer, which went five times platinum); because she decided to speak publicly about her abusive marriage and forge her own identity, and in doing so give hope and courage to countless women; and also because - in a perhaps unlikely twist for a girl from Nutbush, Tennessee - she had her practice of Soka Gakkai Nichiren Buddhism, to which she credited her survival. She remained devout until the end.
Tina's second marriage - to her, her only marriage - was to Edwin Bach, a Swiss music executive 16 years her junior. Of him, she said, "Erwin, who is a force of nature in his own right, has never been the least bit intimidated by my career, my talents, or my fame."
In 2016, after a barrage of health problems, Tina's kidneys began to fail. A Swiss citizen by then, she had started preparing for assisted suicide when her husband stepped in. According to Tina, he said, "He didn't want another woman, or another life."
He gave her one of his kidneys, buying her the remainder of her time on this earth and perhaps closing a cycle which took her from a man who inflicted injury upon her to a man willing to inflict injury upon himself to save her from harm.
Born into a share-cropping family as Anna Mae Bullock in 1939, she died Tina Turner in a palatial Swiss estate: the queen of rock 'n roll; a storm of a performer with a wildcat-fierce voice; a dancer of visceral, spine-tingling potency and ability; a beauty for the ages; a survivor of terrible abuse and an advocate for others in similar situations; an author and actress; a devout Buddhist; a wife and mother; a human being of rare talent and perseverance who, through her transcendent brilliance, became a legend.

Will Stenberg

[Mick Jagger @MickJagger]

I’m so saddened by the passing of my wonderful friend Tina Turner.
She was truly an enormously talented performer and singer. She was inspiring, warm, funny and generous. She helped me so much when I was young and I will never forget her.

[Karsten Kjær @Karkjaer]

@MBrgger nej, ik så trendy sustainable at arbejde i Nordborg

[Karsten Kjær @Karkjaer]

stor ros fra Ricky

[Ricky Gervais @rickygervais]

Just finished the Danish TV series #HvideSande (White Sands), and it was absolutely brilliant. Beautifully written and directed with an amazing cast, but the relationship between the 2 leads and their pitch-perfect performances absolutely blew me away.
Also, there's a dog.

[Karsten Kjær @Karkjaer]

https://t.co/2eg4wWzLha #IranRevolution
Protests in Copenhagen in support of revolution in Iran

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#IranRevolution2022 https://t.co/2eg4wWzLha
Human chain protests in Copenhagen

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My YouTube channel crossed 1k subs! #1kcreator https://t.co/GeKYn7oq8l

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LIVE: NASA's SpaceX Crew-4 mission launches to the ISS https://t.co/EQS0zjRDEj

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While the world watches Ukraine fight for freedom, Taliban terrorize and try to silence all voices of freedom in Afghanistan. No way!

[Sami Mahdi @SamiullahMahdi]

Baqer Mohseni, a university professor, is detained by the Taliban. He has been the bravest voice criticizing Taliban regime in the past 7 months. Mohseni has become an icon of free speech for daring to the face of this brutal group.
His family confirmed that he is arrested.

[ClaireBerlinski.substack.com @ClaireBerlinski]

The world pretty much stood by and watched as China swallowed a vibrant, free city like a boa constrictor ingesting a mouse. I don't know why this surprises me--little in my experience suggests this wouldn't be the case--yet it does. https://t.co/cgwMgplzQB

[Karsten Kjær @Karkjaer]

Join @Malala and Afghan women's rights advocates @ZarqaYaftali & @ShaharzadAkbar's urgent call to world leaders to get Afghan girls back in school #LetAfghanGirlsLearn https://t.co/1NYeEVQz51

[Lotfullah Najafizada @LNajafizada]

2 weeks of darkness in Afghanistan - an op-ed by @FaridAhmad1919
https://t.co/qPdDLbHCDH