Frederick Guy

Born San Francisco 313ppm
worked mostly London
living Rome

[Frederick Guy @FrederickGuy4]

@ChrisCillizza Fair point: Hindenburg was not a Nazi, he was merely an important Nazi-enabler. That distinction should be maintained. Similarly with Collins & Trumpism.

[Frederick Guy @FrederickGuy4]

@anniemgc @ContraPoints @KareemRifai Indeed

[Everything Price Sufferer (but especially eggs) @agraybee]

From 1966 to 2025 we dropped sterile flies over South America that ate screwworm and thus prevented them from spreading, but the le epic efficient cracked coders at DOGE thought this was a silly waste of the ~0 dollars it cost us.

[Róisín Michaux @RoisinMichaux]

Replacing sex with gender identity in law is a sign of civilisation, I'm learning. May I introduce you to fetishistic transvestism

[Frederick Guy @FrederickGuy4]

@JohnStu60603562 @keithdorejel "There are trans people/kids" is empty unless the rest of the ask is nailed down (with kids, that ask goes much further). But since we seem to share an understanding of what the general ask is, I don't think we're going to agree on much more. Take care.

[Frederick Guy @FrederickGuy4]

@drhossamsamy65 @Lambdoid Their own government lets boatloads of refugees drown in the Mediterranean in order to dissuade others from coming, and for some reason these demonstrators don’t get so worked up and organised about that. So nice to have perfect villains & perfect victims, in another country!

[Frederick Guy @FrederickGuy4]

@robertgraham @pdxer25 Yes, difference, Hunter vs Trump kids, of several orders of magnitude in $. But also Trump family corruption
1 swings big policies - war, peace, economy, justice...
2 is part of a broad pattern of corrupt & personalized government
Really, no comparison.

[Frederick Guy @FrederickGuy4]

@JohnStu60603562 @keithdorejel Many in the blue bubble, w the most well intended, & kind, support for trans rights as currently understood, have so internalized this story as to not understand that for many others, the truth of any of the three claims I've just listed is not obvious. How to lose elections! 2/2

[Frederick Guy @FrederickGuy4]

@JohnStu60603562 @keithdorejel You presuppose the reality of gender identity, correspondence of GI to presentation, & acceptance of idea that GI should stand in for sex in social interaction. This is not just asking for decency - it is demanding that everyone swallow the whole story. 1/2

[Frederick Guy @FrederickGuy4]

@jeee475 @JohnStu60603562 @keithdorejel Rowling's point is - I think, & at risk of following John in putting words in her mouth - is that TW are men. What evidence does John have that TW, as men, pose less of a risk to women, than other men do?

[Frederick Guy @FrederickGuy4]

@JohnStu60603562 @keithdorejel What is reductionist in what JKR says?

[Frederick Guy @FrederickGuy4]

@JohnStu60603562 @keithdorejel To the extent this is so, blame trans-rights activists, who have adopted a maximalist position, namely that gender identity should replace sex for all legal and social purposes (a view which you seem to hold, with the possible exemption of athletics).

[Frederick Guy @FrederickGuy4]

@JohnStu60603562 @keithdorejel No problem with any of that - unless you are defining that lack of discrimination, etc, as requiring everybody to pretend that sex has changed. JK Rowling put it very well when she first stepped out on this issue:
https://t.co/Ee9atM8tiT

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Dress however you please.
Call yourself whatever you like.
Sleep with any consenting adult who’ll have you.
Live your best life in peace and security.
But force women out of their jobs for stating that sex is real?
#IStandWithMaya #ThisIsNotADrill

[Frederick Guy @FrederickGuy4]

@JohnStu60603562 @keithdorejel Prisons. Domestic violence shelters. Official statistics (health, education, employment). & more
The category Sex matters. To return to Keith's political Q: if you say it's contemptuous not to accept broad replacement of sex with gender id, you lose most people.

[Frederick Guy @FrederickGuy4]

@JohnStu60603562 @keithdorejel What are you calling trans rights?

[Frederick Guy @FrederickGuy4]

@JohnStu60603562 @keithdorejel Since you seem to think that claiming sex categories are important reduces to contempt for someone, I’m not sure where to start answering that.

[Frederick Guy @FrederickGuy4]

@JohnStu60603562 @keithdorejel Live however you want. Sex, like disability or age, has real consequences for people. This is not contempt for anyone, and I think you are avoiding the issue by labelling it in that way.

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

This is a fun story, but note that Barack Obama and Joe Biden both also had to deal with Israel’s desire to get a war with Iran going and managed to actually avoid this situation rather than just yelling on the phone.