Shatner, You Monster

Footnote of note.
Inevitable. 🙂

Because.

It helps if you think of it as a game of Gotcha! played by escaped mental patients.

LOL. That.

It’s so transparently contrived and insincere, to a degree that insulting.

Yes!
Cruel and remorseless mockery is the only plausible response.

Yes!
You have to wonder – do they not realise that we can see what they’re doing? Just how credulous do they think we are?
But apparently, we’re expected to accept that Mr Brendon Hope, a Guardian contributor, really believes that the word “meltdown” is “an ableist slur” and intended to harm the genuinely disabled, as opposed to overgrown adolescents with no sense of proportion. And likewise, we’re expected to believe that Ms Laura Terry is genuinely fearful that the word “fishy” will somehow, via some circuitous string of associations, traumatise women everywhere, along with trans women. Despite the fact that when people use the word “fishy” to mean “questionable” or “dubious,” they aren’t generally thinking of vaginas at all.
I think we can be forgiven for entertaining the more likely possibility – i.e., that Mr Hope and Ms Terry are just opportunist scolds playing a petty and neurotic status game.

It helps if you think of it as a game of Gotcha! played by escaped mental patients.
Speaking of escaped mental patients and things fishy, let us join the Vagical Mystery Tour to make abortion safe, legal, rare, and above all, fun, by “…invoking their improvisation skills and natural wit to make jokes out of the situation.”
Meanwhile, while not part of the troupe of zanies above, let us join this young miss in celebrating her herpes. A good time will be had by all, and there will be snacks.

“One of my friends brought cupcakes. I had a little number three candle,” she said.

However, apparently not having to worry about either of the above, transphobia is still a thing as, “…it comes as no surprise that trans people are overlooked when it comes to dating. Two Canadian researchers recently asked almost 1000 cisgender folks if they would date a trans person in a new study…Only 12% of all participants selected “trans woman” and/or “trans man.”…”

The high rates of trans exclusion from potential dating pools are undoubtedly due in part to cisnormativity, cissexism, and transphobia…

Of course it is, how dare anyone have a preference, though I am not sure how all that “cis” nonsense plays out as the study showed neither gays nor lesbians were much down for the struggle either.

though I am not sure how all that “cis” nonsense plays out as the study showed neither gays nor lesbians were much down for the struggle either
I don’t see why this is such a mystery – if a female liked penis, she wouldn’t technically be a lesbian, now, would she?
This redefining of words to suit a small group of people’s fantasies is really starting to torque me off.
And this “ableism” stuff in the original post is just plain ridiculous. Stupid. It’s almost like they are reaching reaaaalllly far to find another -ism or -phobia with which to label people they don’t like.
Go Shatner – I love how he tweaks the idiots out there on Twitter.

This redefining of words to suit a small group of people’s fantasies is really starting to torque me off.
That isn’t the issue. It’s that here in the Deranged Dominion, at least, they’ve managed to enshrine this madness into law, which means it’s being enforced by force of arms.
Go Shatner – I love how he tweaks the idiots out there on Twitter.
I’m virtually certain that’s not Shatner (like, it’s an intern or something). I’ve met him a couple of times and his Twitter account just doesn’t sound like him. I’m very surprised he’s gone the Sajak route because it’s become a bit of a running gag that Shatner loses all of his money every few years and ends up taking whatever jobs he can, no matter how embarrassing, to pay the bills. For an actor, outing yourself as a conservative on Twitter is a very good way of ensuring you never work again, so I wonder if he’s just decided he’s had enough and is just settling into crotchety retirement.

Conservatives never get work in Hollywood?
I’m pretty sure Mel Gibson is conservative, and his latest films got Academy Awards. Sure it was a feel good story of a conscientious objector, but they let him direct it.
Clint Eastwood, Dwayne Johnson, Tom Selleck etc are not just conservative, but quite openly so.
It’s not quite as simple as you make out. I’m sure work is easier to get if you are openly progressive, but there’s no blacklisting.

Americans have started to glamourise the hooligan aspects of soccer as edgy and authentic…
Slightly off topic but one fascist rule I would whole heartedly endorse would be that any American whose ringtone is set to the “Olé, Olé, Olé” song could be shot. Don’t ask me why I feel so strongly about this.

awarded the Medal of Honor for the actions in the movie (not to mention his prior awards of Bronze Star with V device and OLC)
These are not important to the Academy. Better to stick with the “conscientious objector” angle.

I agree Daniel. But there’s a difference between less inclined to tolerate and blacklisting.
There’s a whole load of progressive actors who stop getting work too. Sometimes a conservative doesn’t get work for reasons completely unrelated to politics. If Charlie Sheen was conservative some would link his lack of work to his politics.
What annoys me is the pressure put on some celebrities to state positions. Taylor Swift has had to endure rather too much of this. She’s a young pop singer. Her politics is totally irrelevant to her job.

I don’t even understand how ‘meltdown’ relates to disabled people.
I think the implied claim is that because some children with autism, for instance, can have emotional outbursts related to their condition, we therefore shouldn’t be allowed to criticise emotionally incontinent adults, even when their outbursts and tantrums are nothing to do with disability and are in fact evasive, abusive, bullying, etc. It assumes that the word meltdown is now, somehow, a proprietary term, for exclusive use by parents of autistic children, etc., and must never be used by anyone else.
If that sounds a little contrived, that’s because it is.

Shatner confirmed as greatest Kirk.

From Sneeze’s link:
“That’s a misconception and a myth,” he said regarding performance boosts due to higher testosterone levels. “There’s no physiologic advantage to being assigned male at birth.”
So, just ignore all those world record lists in things like track and field or the inconvenient incidents where ostensibly world class women’s soccer teams keep losing to U15 boys’ squads. The Inner Party will determine the facts, Comrade!

…he said regarding performance boosts due to higher testosterone levels. “There’s no physiologic advantage to being assigned male at birth.”
From the link, “he”, being Alex Keuroglian, an academic psychiatrist whose “research” has bugger all to do with physiology, but a lot to do with LSMFT politics, vs. Bob Girandola who, though not an MD, has evidently been involved in training people since around 1970, and is a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine.
Who to believe on this one is a real puzzler.

I say we call their bluff. No more separate men’s and women’s events. They will compete against one another, because inclusion. Now admittedly, that effectively means the end of women’s sports, but oh well. Take the 100m. Florence Griffith-Joyner (Flo-Jo) ran the fastest time a woman has ever run back in 1988, with a time of 10.49. I’ll let someone else confirm my math, but according to my calculations that record has stood for 30 years. The entry mark required for men to qualify for the Olympic 100m event is 10.16. So, basically zero women would make the Olympic team in that event. I’m sure they’ed fair better in boxing.

Star Trek: the Retirement Home Years
Oh dear. It has an air of someone not knowing when to leave a party.
Wait a minute. In the last TNG episode, wasn’t Ancient And Quarrelsome Picard Of The Future™ portrayed as suffering from some kind of space dementia – or was that just one possible future? Of course, I’m now picturing a niche sci-fi series about a dotty old duffer who soils himself and can’t find his teeth.

The fastest time for a woman completing a marathon is 2:15 or 2:17, depending upon which authority you wish to recognize. By comparison, the men’s fastest time is 2:03. By further comparison, men first hit the 2:15 mark in 1958, an age when sports science consisted of “maybe put down the cigarette until the event is over.”
So by all means, if the Powers That Be demand that we stop recognizing significant differences between men, women, and those few poor souls who haven’t figured it out yet, then let’s just run an open marathon with no such distinctions. Let’s pop some popcorn and watch the feminists and the LMNOP± brigade sort it out.

Florence Griffith-Joyner (Flo-Jo) ran the fastest time a woman has ever run back in 1988, with a time of 10.49.
To your point, High School boys regularly run under that time. Not to mention Flo-Jo’s results are strongly believed to be PED assisted.

For your amusement…
Oh my. Might explain why older men go for younger women.

In former times, coats of arms containing lions without genitalia were given to those who betrayed the Swedish Crown.
Please let next week’s headline be King Carl Gustaf announcing that any man wearing this symbol of betrayal will be considered a traitor to the Crown and shot on sight.
Please please pretty please!

Meanwhile, in Canada: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/british-columbia/article-victoria-to-remove-statue-of-sir-john-a-macdonald/
So, a statue of our first Prime Minister is “a painful reminder of colonialism”. This is in the city of Victoria. VICTORIA! Shouldn’t the name of the city itself be a painful reminder of colonialism?? I vote we rename Victoria: “City McCity Face”.

Might explain why older men go for younger women.
Nah, younger women are prettier and more likely to be fertile than older women (as a general rule).
Men age like whisky. Women age like milk.

[ Starts boarding up windows and hiding anything remotely breakable. ]
Should I have said “wine” rather than “whisky”?:-D
Case in point:

Who is this Tom Cuise fellow?