@RNN_RoyalNews I've noticed that if she dislikes someone (Meghan, say), everything they do is evil and awful. Meanwhile if she agrees with someone politically, or socially, she'll forgive behavior she excoriates others for. Total hypocrite IMO
And don't get me started on Paula Froelich...
@EmmiPinkhurst The Dear Colleague letter and all the anti-liberal stuff that the Obama administration instituted was my moment of radicalization. I work at a university and the way we were told to treat students accused of sexual violence was horrifying.
I can’t figure out if he’s gone completely insane, or if he just says these things because he knows his followers, supporters, and the people who send him money are complete morons who get excited by statements like this.
The only thing I do know for certain is that every single one of the witnesses would inject Turtleboy’s imaginary “truth serum” into themselves, if there were such a thing. But I know one person who wouldn’t—KAREN READ.
@RNN_RoyalNews I bet Liam is the next publicist who quietly moves on (and then is publicly outed for moving on) due to this, since the level of vitriol/snark in the emails I've seen reported on can only come from Harry.
That boy is soooooo angry at everything
@wokal_distance He’s making a good argument for how trans identifying boys can join a boys team and no one will care, just like those girls did. The BOYS can be relied upon to deal with it, rather than making us girls always be the ones doing the accommodating
@benryanwriter As a 57 YO, I remember being on Tumblr circa 2008-2015 and thinking that all these children would grow up, get into IRL relationships and grow out of the nonsense they spent hours posting about.
Instead, they grew up and took over media. Jesus.
@SaltySteno@901Lulu I feel like people don't want to believe that tips turn into investigation leads that need follow-up which might include going back to her house to rule something in or out. It's a lot more fun to just assume all of this is unusual because some old cop on YT says it's weird.
@Glinner Yes. I thought you might be interested in this:
Here’s an incredibly prescient message on Mumsnet from 8 years ago about what it could look like ten years from 2017.
'He has a point, but he's too blunt.'
From the start, a key tactic of the gender identitarians has been linguistic prescription, and it's proved shockingly successful. Trans activists' shibboleths and euphemisms have been allowed to penetrate the upper echelons of our culture with devastating consequences to freedom of speech and belief. Huge swathes of liberal media, the arts, academia and publishing have thrown themselves with gusto into the defence of a quasi-religious belief causing provable real world harm, and in their arrogance they've been outraged when people they assumed were part of their In Group have refused to march meekly along in lock step.
Time and again, I've seen and heard well-educated people who consider themselves critical thinkers and bold truth-tellers squirm when put on the spot. 'Well, yes, maybe there's something in what you're saying, but it's hateful/provocative/rude not to use the approved language/pretend people can literally change sex/keep drawing attention to medical malpractice or opportunistic sexual predators. Why can't you be nice? Why won't you pretend? We thought you were one of us! Don't you realise we have sophisticated new words and phrases these days that obviate the necessity of thinking any of this through?'
As the vibe shifts, and a lot of people in the elite professions start trying to reposition themselves, the obvious place to start is, 'it's not that I couldn't see your point, but did you have to say it that way?' We dissenters were supposed to find a way of questioning the chemical castration of children while calling it 'gender affirming care.' We were meant to defend the rights of vulnerable women while also using female pronouns for male rapists. We should have found a way to discuss fairness for women and girls in sport, while pretending that the ineradicable physical advantage men have over women doesn't exist.
Either a man can be a woman, or he can't. Either women deserve rights, or they don't. Either there's a provable medical benefit to transitioning children, or there isn't. Either you're on the side of a totalitarian ideology that seeks to impose falsehoods on society through the threat of ostracisation, shaming and violence, or you're not. The alternative to being 'blunt' - using accurate, factual language to describe what was going on - was to surrender freedom of speech and espouse ideological jargon that obfuscated the issues and the harms caused. We've always needed blunt people, but we need them most of all when being asked to bow down to a naked emperor.
FYI @stellaomalley3 this podcast caused a Trevor project link to appear on my feed describing conversion therapy. Never saw it before. YouTube added it - I assume without your channels knowledge or consent…
Here's a handy guide for confused journos, and anyone else who might find it helpful
The IOC organises sport for Males and Females separately.
Male and Female refer to biology, specifically, gamete production.
Males should not be in the Female category.
All 'trans' people are either Male or Female.
Male trans people (trans-identified males or
'transwomen') should not be in the Female category. This is because they are Male, not Female.
People with DSDs are all either Male or Female.
DSDs are all either Male or Female DSDs.
For example, 5ARD is a Male DSD. MRKH is a Female DSD
Male people with Male DSDs (like 5ARD) should not be in the Female category. This is because they are Male.
Female people who are trans, (trans-identified females or 'trans men') are eligible in the Female category, so long as they comply with antidoping rules.
This is because they are Female.
Female people with Female DSDs (like MRKH) are eligible in the female category, so long as they comply with antidoping rules.
This is because they are Female.
All trans people and all people with DSDs are welcome in, and eligible for sport, in the right category.
Hope this helps.
@RNN_RoyalNews I wonder if the Kardashians didn’t have legal permission to post photos or video? I bet H&M wouldn’t wanna show up on a Hulu reality show in violation of their Netflix exclusivity contract…
@SushiTheShihTzu@JenCarsonTaylor@LeeCohen IMO, the key is that Andrew agreed not to fight the stripping of his titles and styles. The Sussex duo will be less sanguine about losing their titles and their ability to monetize their royal victimhood.
Also Andrew's scandals weren't just born of poor judgment IMO
@CreekSod@nancytsidley@StephanieSidley They left in the 7th inning which is about 7-8 pm IIRC. Plenty of time to tuck the kids in after treating them to the game of a lifetime…
@JulieCar94@HiddenTrueCrime I’m not that surprised because her bestie Susan Hendricks sucked his dick during the trial. Just super disappointed and it makes me doubt her whole story. Huge HUGE red flag to see her complimenting him. And it didn’t work - she’s his new focus, plus she’s lost people like me
FYI, @JamieWhistle - big NYT Athletic article about how missing periods is causing long-term health problems for elite athletes. I'm sure that's not a problem for minor TIMs, though, right? https://t.co/siSukPkcMV
@hadamind2@katrosenfield@TheFP I don't think you follow enough people who are invested in conspiracy theories. "Macron is a man" believers would either contort that photo into proof that they're right about her, or call the image AI
Conspiracists WANT to believe, so they keep believing, no matter what