I increasingly believe that the reason Britain is "like that" with regards to trans people is just that something about transition brings to attention all of their little pointless archaisms that have somehow made it this far into the present without causing overt trouble
Welcome to the UK, where Selfridges sells no fridges, Boots sells no boots, and Superdrug is not a drugstore .
Curry’s sells no curry, COS has nothing to do with offering COS, Mango doesn’t sell mangoes, and Subway has nothing to do with underground trains.
A student asked me what the word "tyrant" meant yesterday while we were discussing Plato. Instead of giving a definition, I asked the class if anyone could define it without mentioning any modern examples, which made me chuckle.
Imagine being an older divorced guy, you go to Thailand to start a happy healthy age gap relationship, have a lovely daughter, you bring them back to the West, raise them & give inheritance. 20 years later your brainwashed daughter is radfem posting on Instagram about you. Brutal
men complaining about women dressing like hoes instead of playing it cool surrounded by sexy women is the problem like get me off this lame ass planet.
People assumed she was being bitter until the owner replied, asking her to call him privately.
She refused.
She explained that she'd worked there for 11 years and had learned the recipe directly from his mother. After his mother died, he changed the ingredients to cut costs, and customers slowly stopped buying the bakery's most popular cake.
When she suggested returning to the original recipe, he accused her of thinking she knew more than him and dismissed her.
The owner eventually admitted online that rising costs weren't the only reason for closing. Sales had fallen badly over the past year.
A bakery announced it was closing after 22 years, regular customers flooded its Facebook page with sad messages. Then a former employee commented, “Ask the owner why he fired the only person who knew how to make his mother's original recipe.”
Girl I'm friendly with explains in a groupchat that "my boyfriend is woke" bizarre situation. Cannot imagine if I were a woman dating a guy who's further left than me.
Would be like me dating a woman who's more racist than me, I'd get the ick. Very confusing. Bewildered.
I was briefly in a relationship with a girl who spent our first date talking at me about her time as the moderator of a Stormfront spinoff and how she’d scammed the NHS out of Modafinil by faking narcolepsy. It was fun while it lasted.
Guy in my seminar said that its consentual if a woman is raped at gunpoint because she could just choose death. And the girls in the class laughed at the girl who argued against him