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[Bad Writing Takes 🖊️🏳️‍🌈 @BadWritingTakes]

JK Rowling, in the Scottish Times:

"it is dangerous to assert that any category of people deserves a blanket presumption of innocence."

Grim and genuinely frightening. This is the kind of extreme rhetoric you would only normally expect to hear from fascists.

#JKRvsLGBTQ

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@JessPected @LinkisaTERF Actually, TERF was coined by radical feminists who wanted to distance normal radical feminism from transphobic creepy. Not that radical feminism is necessarily a wonderful ideology, but even they thought TERFs were trash.

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It is still genuinely incredibly to me just how devoted so many "Gender Critical" women were - and are - to defending Russell Brand once he was accused of rape.

And for no apparent strategic reason. It's not like Brand was some big TERF campaigner.

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Commiserations to Kathleen Stock and the rest of the "Gender Critical feminists" who defending Russell Brand when his victims went public.

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@LinkisaTERF Dude I don't think even TERFs pretend they care about most of that stuff, and they're the patriarchy's devoted enablers.

[Bad Writing Takes 🖊️🏳️‍🌈 @BadWritingTakes]

@flying_rodent Much like Palestinians, it's the in thing. It is what is decreed by the system. They don't need to be given marching orders or told what to think any more than school bullies need it spelled out to them which children are to be ostracised.

[Bad Writing Takes 🖊️🏳️‍🌈 @BadWritingTakes]

You know, if I was going to write an article trying to encourage fury towards the "left-wing press" for featuring pieces by Russell Brand in 2013, I probably would not publish it in the extremely right-wing Spectator, which also featured Russel Brand in 2013.

[Bad Writing Takes 🖊️🏳️‍🌈 @BadWritingTakes]

@AdnanHussainMP Many child abusers feel similarly Adnan!

[Plutôt la Barbie @plutotlabarbie]

Interesting. Are you saying that any publication that gave a platform to Russell Brand in 2013 bears some culpability for his crimes, and should be thoroughly ashamed?

[PeterShoreite @PeterShoreite]

Now compare that to the ones that have remained private.

This post is purposely misleading.

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@sarahbeliveaux I don't think Gender Critical people defend rapists because they earnestly believe they're innocent. It's because the Inner Circle are meant to be untouchable.

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

I dont usually respond to this person, but: this was a podcast episode about Majority Democrats' efforts to *infiltrate* various campaigns, it was not an attack on Talarico, who ran as a populist. Matty, of course, selectively screenshotting because he's reflexively dishonest.

[Miss Ally @MissAlly_01]

I reckon Guy Fawkes plan to blow up Parliament on November 5th was kind of genius because people wouldn't notice the explosions, what with all the fireworks going off & all.

[Marl Karx @BareLeft]

We have a 20 year infrastructure deficit, a skills crisis, and an unemployment crisis all at the same time.

This only happens when you have successive Governments who don't believe it's their job to deliver anything, and merely have to facilitate "the market".

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@BlackIslePMD If you earnestly believe that abusing children is providing "guidance and boundaries", you're a sicko

[Bad Writing Takes 🖊️🏳️‍🌈 @BadWritingTakes]

Our account has covered quite a lot of the awfulness of Kathleen Stock, from bigotry to rape joke defence, but this is unambiguously the worst she's gotten in public.

This is not out of context, by the way. Just flat out promoting coercion to keep LGBTQ from coming out.

[Attitude Magazine @AttitudeMag]

“I’m not saying the feelings are a choice, but the identity is a choice” – philosopher and writer Kathleen Stock on LGBTQ+ people
https://t.co/6Mwhr0ICs8

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@LinkisaTERF "Those people aren't real KKK members, they're hiding behind the movement to spit out racism"

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@f4rt10rd @DaviaFinch @Num1EBookLover @nicclesb 100% true.

They're surrounded by the kind of yes-men that only billionaires and cult leaders usually get to experience.

And the media just ignores anything they do that's embarrassing so they feel bullet proof.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

If a poor person spoke like this he'd be committed to a psychiatric facility and forcibly injected with haloperidol.

[Hon. PolProf of Agile Ceremonies @CeilNoyle]

lol

Counterpoint:

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I've been meaning to look into it for ages, but are there any good alternatives to CashApp that don't charge per transaction?

[union person @CantEverDie]

why are conservatives pro cancel culture and anti-comedy?

[yoshimi battles a reading backlog @nise_yoshimi]

the Russell Brand stuff and the UK Naughty Sex Act is such a lovely thematic overlap. A ruling class whose unaccountable sexual exploits are the privilege of power viewing the population of proles and plebians as exactly as full of overflowing sinful impulses as themselves

[REALMSCHATNOIR @REALMSCHATNOIR]

I flat-shared with 4 others in London age 20. I had finished Uni...worked a good job Selfridges, slept on friends floor to try save for my own place closer to town. A flatmate was a loud obnoxious Australian, scary even, everything was shouted..he was horrible, I avoided him, he would find ways to demand more money from me. I paid towards council tax and some towards 'floor' as well as of course my part of general bills too so we never knew why he was being so vile..aside from vile sake...

I came home from work to a flat party at 8pm. I was handed a coke, I can't drink alcohol, I have crohns..it hurt to drink. I have ZERO recollection of anything until 6am, i was ontop of him, he was SA'ing me fully.

I was a virgin saving myself. I am autistic, I had serious issues with people touching me. I immediately jumped off..horrified...there were others in the room one guy watching it all...I still can barely speak of this..but there is a point.

I IMMEDIATELY packed my suitcase. I was so confused...I had no idea what happened...I was sore..tired..and utterly confused. My friend who's floor I slept on was still asleep. I left to go to nearest tube...he chased me the whole way repeating 'it's just sex..what's your deal, what's wrong with ya?' I now can't even listen to Australian accents...I never said a word. I got on the tube his voice ringing in my ear..

I went to my nearest friend who was In Oxford. I got bed in a hostel until I could gather my mind. I had interviews at MTV and TV channels all set up.. I didn't want to return to scotland. I had bruising on my neck..arms, absolutely brutal cystitis..i was torn up 'down there'.

What did I do?
I disassociated. I did not know what the hell I had done all that night. I could not figure it out. One year later my friend got married. That beast was there, I froze in fear. Infront of everyone in hotel breakfast he shouts 'Why you ignoring me..i fucked ya'

what did I do?
I just didn't respond..I was frozen....he had terrified me in such a deep way...I froze..am sorry...thats what happened.

TWENTY years later. I am a mother, lost a child, my own mother died, covid hit..my marriage failed..moved country..son struggling autism, i had a tumour nearly kill me, then my crohns..it was A LOT.. and I ended in therapy

It was not until then I could piece anything together. 1- I openly disliked this man, people knew I avoided him ad was afraid of him..I would NEVER have consented ever, even drunk...and...as I mentioned i can't drink, Id throw up. Only one answer, he drugged me.

On top of SA..he could have killed me, with crohns you don't know what your absorption is doing, so dangerous...I as able to sit and piece it together when I could face it...and it took 20 years...

so I don't judge anyone who 'took 20 years' to report.

[Anime Outsiders @animeoutsiders]

There's a reason this happens, and it's a very funny one.

English dubbing has adopted this "imitate the Japanese" fumble because of the dub vs. sub debate. While it's largely framed around the culture war these days, dub vs. sub has been around for decades, and the old sub-only crowd was far more Reddit about it, even though Reddit didn't exist yet. They were the comic book guy, but weebier.

At some point, English dub directors started taking their angry ravings on /a/ to heart. Previously, English dubs would hire theater actors, and just let them act. You'd occasionally get dubs using the JP voices for reference, leading to awkward performances like in the OG Gundam dub. But, for the most part, actors were told to act, the main caveat being to match the lip flaps.

But the old sub-only crowd saw the very notion of Japanese media characters speaking in the same language, cadence, and tone as the people in their lives that rejected them as annihilating their escapism. You especially saw this in their reaction to the English voices of anime girls. Hearing their waifu speak with the same voice as the girls who rejected them was a genuine, honest-to-god trigger. I have personally seen some of the most absolutely unhinged and mentally ill forum posts over how a girl sounds in a language track. Haruhi discourse alone...

Because these people were so vocal (and by god were they vocal. Even today a sub-only fan can't go a day without reminding you they're sub-only), dub studios assumed this is what the fans at large wanted: sound more like the Japanese performances.

English dubbing got worse for the oldest reason in the book: trying to appeal to an audience who would never buy your product in the first place. To this segment of the anime fandom, Japanese wasn't the language of the nation of Japan, it was the elven tongue of their happy place. No English performance would gain their approval. And yet studios tried to cater to them. Now this is what we get.