Las palabras de Isabella Rossellini 🇮🇹 son una bocanada de aire fresco en una sociedad que a menudo vive obsesionada con detener el reloj. Su reflexión desarma los mitos de la eterna juventud y plantea una mirada profundamente liberadora sobre el paso del tiempo:
"Soy mayor y tengo el aspecto de una mujer de mi edad. Algunas mañanas, al mirarme en el espejo, me pregunto: ‘¿Y si me opero?’. Pero siempre lo descarto, porque la cirugía es como cuando vendaban los pies a las mujeres en China, una nueva manifestación de la misoginia. Podría parecer de 56, pero cuando tuviera 76, aparentaría 66... Es ganar una batalla para perder la guerra. Además, con el tiempo, la belleza reside sobre todo en la elegancia y la inteligencia. Pienso, por ejemplo, en María Callas, Frida Kahlo, Anna Magnani... A los 20, todos somos atractivos con unos vaqueros y una camiseta, pero luego la belleza se convierte en una cuestión de estilo, personalidad y carisma. No hay que ocultar los defectos, sino transformarlos en lo que nos hace únicos. Ya no busco ser sexy, sino expresar lo mejor de mí misma. Cuando eres joven, estás bajo mucha presión: el trabajo, el dinero, los hijos... Pero a medida que envejeces, te sientes más libre, más segura, y haces lo que realmente deseas. ¡Nadie habla de lo maravilloso que es envejecer!"
The growing number of women wearing the hijab in Europe is in the 18-25 age group. This is analogous to the young white women doing trad wife performances.
Ten years ago I took this picture of myself knowing that I had made a decision:
to speak my mind was more important to me than having friends who would hold me down and not let me speak.
You can see it in my face already: I knew what would happen. I knew what I was doing.
I sat down and took a picture thinking, I want to remember the moment I made up my mind, and the feeling of knowing it would forever change my world.
Everything negative I thought would happen did, and more. I'm not a stranger to losing friends.
But I'm at least able to say to myself, I made a choice, and I haven't been completely ruled by the fear I feel.
“Prime Minister Albanese has dismissed efforts to fix the Sex Discrimination Act as a “culture war”. If that is the label he prefers, then he is content to watch a culture war in which some men threaten women while the government remains on the sidelines.”
My latest op-ed 👇
The Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne, an order of nuns, have cared for poor cancer patients free of charge since 1901. Now the New York Department of Health is threatening them with fines, a shut down, and even imprisonment — all because they refuse to play the gender game.
The Department of Health has ordered the sistersto cease separating bedrooms by sex. The sisters have also been ordered to permit cross dressing, to use preferred pronouns, and to “recognize a right to consensual sexual relations, including sex outside of marriage.” The nuns, the DOH has decreed, must attend “cultural competency training” if they are to continue caring for the poor, and surrender the right to live by the tenets of their faith.
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I know everybody’s still laughing at the Jason Arday story and wondering how on earth anyone could believe such absolute wild madness.
Well, can I just throw one word into the conversation?
Trans.
Jason Arday is a traditional con artist.
The same people who kissed his arse and believed he’d walked on the moon while helping deliver Queen Victoria's babies are the same people who believe Bob the Builder over there is a woman if he puts a dress on and says the magic words.
These two things are related.
The fact that people can look at Arday and recognise that they’ve been conned, but somehow can’t understand that men who claim to be women can also be con artists, is something I will never quite understand.
It’s the same inability to question the story they’re being sold. They become so invested in believing the narrative that they stop looking at what is actually in front of them.
So can we please have that conversation?
And can the brain-dead people who were fooled by Arday wake up and realise that if they were capable of being fooled that easily once, maybe just maybe they should start questioning some of the other things they’ve been told to believe?
Because the Arday story really should be a wake-up call.
You were fooled.
Now ask yourself why.
Shout out to all trans activists sharing the blacklist of women's and gay rights organisations published by @AmnestyUK! You're demonstrating very effectively that in spite of their hasty backtrack it can be easily accessed forevermore, increasing legal liability. Thank you!❤️
In 1916, a pack of dogs attacked a private zoo in Hawaii. Two terrified wallabies broke out of their cage and escaped into the mountains.
What happened next is one of the wildest accidents in wildlife history.
After the wallabies vanished into the forested cliffs of Kalihi Valley, the zoo's owner called for a massive public hunt. Nobody caught them.
A local newspaper joked that they might eventually "produce a breed of Hawaiian wallabies."They were exactly right.
Despite being 5,000 miles from Australia, the steep volcanic rock faces in Hawaii turned out to be the perfect habitat.
By 1984, researchers counted roughly 250 wallabies thriving in the valley. They had even started developing their own unique evolutionary characteristics.
The craziest part?
They aren't considered invasive.They only eat non-native plants.
They don't compete with native species (Hawaii has no native land mammals).
Because they peacefully coexist with the ecosystem, the state of Hawaii officially protects them. It is strictly illegal to hunt or harm a Hawaiian wallaby.
Back in their native Australia, the brush-tailed rock wallaby is fighting for its life. Predators, habitat clearing, and the devastating 2019-2020 bushfires wiped out an estimated 70% of their remaining habitat.
But that accidental Honolulu colony?
They have no foxes. No feral cats in the cliffs. No bushfires.
Two wallabies that broke out of a cage 110 years ago accidentally founded what might be the most secure population of their species anywhere on Earth.
It’s quite amazing that the state will give women this much police protection against trans activists so we can safely hold a rally advocating for women only spaces… but not actually allow us to have women only spaces even for safety.
oh...I genuinely loved her. When I was a young teen I thought (& still do) that she was one of the most exquisitely beautiful women I had ever seen. Then I met my gf. Who looks a lot like her. She even laughs like Penelope Keith. And then that made me love PK even more
We're entering a dystopian era where a man can buy a baby from a marginalized woman - who is called a "gestational carrier" btw - while declaring himself both a woman and a mother - because governments say it's his "human right" to do so.
1 this is a fab piece of writing (I mean it's Julie. It's going to be
2 Lionel Shriver is a big deal in our house.
3 Time to write a fan letter to Julie cos she has long been 🌟
'Writing fan letters again, like a teenager; I just got a lovely reply from my idol Lionel Shriver'