Whenever somebody mentions the words "sex/work worker," I don’t picture a high-class call girl. No, what I picture is a woman standing on a street corner, wearing barely any clothes, bugging out because the drugs she needs to cope with life are wearing off. I see her standing there, hoping some fat, greasy, disgusting slob of a truck driver will pull over and pay her five pounds to do whatever he likes to her so she can keep feeding her crack habit—just so she doesn’t have to think about the horrible things she does. I see this on my way to work.
So excuse me if I don't have time for the "sex work" is wonderful crew.
Un super size me pero de tacos, y en lugar de empeorar la salud la mejora en todos los aspectos, se es más feliz, se encuentra la verdadera paz mental.
Today marks the 10th anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo attack, where Islamist gunmen killed 12 people in response to the magazine's controversial cartoons.
So, naturally, we should all share the cartoons on X, highlighting the importance of free speech and the right to satire.
Nothing about this feels good, because John Oliver generously gave his time for my charity Lumos and I liked him very much when I met him, but God knows, if you ever need an example of motivated reasoning and confirmation bias, this video's for you. An undoubtedly intelligent person spouts absolute bullshit to support something he wants to be true, but isn't.
According to the UN, female athletes have lost nearly 900 medals to trans-identified men competing against them in women’s sporting categories. Girls have been ousted from teams to make way for boys. Women have suffered serious injury playing against trans-identified men (see Payton McNabb, mentioned below).
Again and again I've come up against men who argue exactly what Oliver does here, using the very same talking points. With a straight face, the 'believe the science' guys will say 'actually, we don't yet have enough data to say whether men and boys are stronger and faster than women and girls'. The 'be kind' crew can't see what the issue is. 'Why are you bothered, it only affects a tiny minority of females?'
To prove to their progressive credentials - and (coincidentally, I'm sure) indemnify themselves against repercussions from cultural elites in the media, academia and publishing who've showed themselves more than ready to kick people to the kerb for failing to mouth the approved mantras - people with a lot to lose are currently prepared to make idiots of themselves. They'll stare unabashedly into a camera and insist that their audiences' eyeballs are incapable of seeing what's plain as day, and that there's something wrong with the great unwashed for believing that girls are being robbed of opportunities and put at physical risk.
If you want to tell the world you're happy to watch females suffer injury, humiliation and the loss of sporting opportunities to bolster an elitist post-modern ideology embraced by a minute fraction of the world's population, fair enough; you're allowed your opinion. But if you've just told girls they don't deserve fair sport, maybe rethink using all too real and common sexual predation against young women as a punchline for your 'edgy' closing joke.
A raíz de este post en Instagram, voy a explicar, como se lo expliqué a mi marido, porqué elegiría encontrarme con un oso. No es porque eligiendo al oso somos "más feministas". Es una elección estudiada y premeditada, al menos en mi caso. (Sigo ⬇️)
@MellamanSiL Qué horror, pobre Andrea. He terminado de leer un libro de relatos cortos de la escritora hace poco sin saber esta historia y se me ha revuelto el estómago, como puede mostrar una pluma sensible ante tantos temas humanos y ser el peor monstruo.
Spain recognized a Palestinian state next week, but their embassy will stay in Israel as the diplomats don't want to give up their "standard of living and security."
Wait, so this was an entirely performative gesture with absolutely no impact on the ground?
Color me shocked.