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Further to this, touched on in the comments,
Here’s Helen Joyce on transgender overreach, exploited politeness, and belated pushback:
There is no way that you can say to a man who identifies as a woman, insists he is a woman, that, fine, he can do what he likes, but he can’t actually come into women-only spaces – and that you reserve the right to say that the reason is because he’s a man – that doesn’t offend him…
What has happened is that a lot of women have seen their willingness to be polite absolutely taken advantage of… What it’s come down to is that people who don’t identify as their sex have taken other people’s politeness as license to override other people’s desires, needs, rights, and boundaries…
It reminds me of a sign, when I was a child, that shopkeepers used to have behind the till, that said, “Do not ask for credit because a refusal often offends.” Don’t ask to come in, don’t ask me to call you a woman, if by that you mean that you’re entitled to come into women’s spaces, or to count as one. And then I won’t have to refuse, and you won’t have to complain.
Full interview below:
An earlier, longer interview with Ms Joyce has been mentioned previously and can be found here.
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I chuckled.
Sweet. Pity the wheels didn’t go over his neck, though.
From 2018: Doctors twerk during surgery–and without masks.
John Derbyshire’s advice applies to the professions, not just walking down the street.
Here is a short video clip.
Libertarianism is fundamentally as utopian as socialism.
Indeed.
Black livestreamer says we’d be living under glorious socialism if only all the white people had been exterminated.
So . . . how many Africans is he ready to exterminate? He did say ‘every single slaveowner’.
Distressing to whom?
Take a little time off ’til this blows over.
So yet another reason to have my upcoming colonoscopy done sans anesthesia.
[ Checks Ephemera links one last time, is amazed to find everything still there. ]
[ Celebrates with gin and tonic. ]
Black livestreamer says we’d be living under glorious socialism if only all the white people had been exterminated.
Scott Adams tried to warn us.
So yet another reason to have my upcoming colonoscopy done sans anesthesia
Barkeep! The hamster urine, if you please.
No worries. The doctor assured me that the probability that it would make me gay is extremely low. Though…given my extremely limited faith in what the medical profession tells me…
[ Sprays WTP with hamster urine, fetches bag of weasels. ]
Things are getting serious.
Time for this again
But it’s never this weasel, who would be an adornment to any blog.
under glorious socialism
I thought you said “glory hole socialism.” In retrospect, I’m not sure there’s a difference.
[ Sprays WTP with hamster urine, fetches bag of weasels. ]
Could be worse. Could be a bag of gerbils.
I always get sucked in to commenting on threads when Phryday Ephemera comes out.
“That wasn’t real socialism!”
My teenage years coincided with Elisabeth Sladen as Sarah Jane Smith. But that doesn’t count as “fancy[ing] the Doctor” in my book.
In the short clip I saw, Warren does come off as an introvert, but that is not at all the same as an autist. I notice a trend of “the spectrum” being invoked to tar anyone that values reason over “tha feelz”, or interpersonal politics, or shouting with the loudest crowd, with a syndrome. I was a schoolkid when autistic kids were first inserted in the mainstream school system in the name of “normalcy” and from what I saw autism is manifestly not over-dependency on logic. (I acknowledge there are degrees of severity, but still…).
Saying “he must be on the spectrum” (and maybe with a drawled “poor creature” at the end suppressed) just plays into the hands of those same “peers and employees” that live off fallacious worldviews and conventional wisdom – and now, perhaps, more than a little AI! – and need, for their own peace of mind and amour-propre, to turn any cogent or principled resistance into a case of abnormal psychology.