Don’t Let Them See The Stubble
Lifted from the comments, via Mr Muldoon, a rather coy omission:
Roxanne Tickle has won her discrimination case against the social media app ‘Giggle for Girls’, which blocked her from joining on the basis of being male. This is a step forward in ensuring transgender women are not discriminated against on the basis of their gender identity. pic.twitter.com/552Qq6r2KJ
— Amnesty International (@amnesty) August 23, 2024
A less pretentious, and rather more frank, account of the above can be found here. Note that Mr Tickle – Roxy Tickle – was enabled in his mission by the University of New South Wales, via a $50,000 grant, and that his methods of persuasion included equating insufficiently compliant women with the Ku Klux Klan, and making phone calls to the site’s owner at her home.
When not suing women who would rather not participate in his fantasies of sudden-onset womanhood, Mr Tickle spends his time sharing Instagram photographs of his underwear and neck hair, and cartoon sex toys.
Readers are invited to imagine the mindset of Amnesty International and their fellow enthusiasts of transgression. A mindset in which you have to pointedly not share an obviously relevant piece of information in order to maintain the pretence of righteousness:
Or, “If we let them see the reality of the situation, they won’t comply. So we mustn’t let them see the reality of the situation.”
Imagine that’s your thought process, consciously or otherwise.
A more honest and realistic report might say, “Weirdly vindictive cross-dressing man launches three-year-long harassment campaign against women who object to the imposition of his compulsions – namely, making women and girls uncomfortable for his own gratification.”
Or, “Weirdly vindictive cross-dressing men who exult in violating the normal boundaries of women and girls are an obvious danger, and should be regarded accordingly.”
Update, via the comments,
Mags asks,
Once registered, it is an oddly common phenomenon.
Pst314 adds,
Well, the blunting of normal, quite rational discernment does seem to be the goal. As Ms Grover put it,
I would suggest that compelling people, with the force of law, to pretend that men are actually women, and compelling them to deny the reality that, as a group, cross-dressing men pose a significant statistical threat, is itself unjust. To impose unrealism in this way, to suppress discernment of the obvious, is hardly benign. To compel people to pretend that, as the judge put it, “sex is changeable.”
And so, in the name of protecting women, and as a result of amending laws intended to protect women, women must now welcome intrusions and dangers that would previously have been recognised, but which now, it seems, no longer can be, at least not lawfully. Not only in terms of a social media app used by women to find roommates and travel companions, but also with implications for changing rooms, toilets, sports, prisons, and even rape shelters.
But, ah, smell the progress.
“Good news”
Hasn’t Amnesty International always been strangely biased in who it supports and who it condemns?
He wants to be a woman but he doesn’t like women.
Mr Tickle…
[ Slides bowl of ostensibly toenail-free peanuts to Rafi. ]
Marcus Dib, “The Offensive Tranny,” has some thoughts on the story.
Tranny Tickle is a living reminder that some people should be discriminated against.
Marcus Dib, “The Offensive Tranny,” has some thoughts on the story.
Germany says Nicht so schnell, Mac, halt mein Bier.
Fines? Gender Stalag fünf for you.
I am almost beginning to think this lot might be extremists.
Or, “You will participate in the psychological abuse of your own children.”
Next week: anorexia and cutting!
I’m just going to leave this here, again.
Or, “You will participate in the psychological abuse of your own children.”
Indeed, they are doing the meme.
And because things haven’t gotten quite odd enough.
I’m assuming it’s a wind-up, but… well.
I’m assuming it’s a wind-up, but… well.
If it is, it won’t be the way things are going, but if it isn’t another reason for cremation. I can’t imagine how embarrassing it would be to be dug up like Richard III and be wearing a frilly thong.
I suppose we could exhume your remains to check that isn’t the case.
For a fee, obviously.
Ooh. Thai food.
I suppose we could exhume your remains to check that isn’t the case.
Not mine, I am planning on a Viking funeral. You might want to rethink the velour leopard skin blogging thong, though.
[ Scraps plans for digging-up-the-dead-and-checking-their-underwear business. ]
[Scraps plans for digging-up-the-dead-and-checking-their-underwear business.]
I suppose instead you could take a page from chastity belts and go into lockable steel boxers business – LoK-BoX™ “Don’t Be Caught Dead In A Frilly Thong”.
Have you noticed the trannies who loudly proclaim that they are more woman than the real women who object to their presence in women’s toilets and locker rooms?
“Roxy Tickle.” Why do they always have porn names?
Oh, and in This Never Happens news.
Madam, you must stop noticing things.
his fantasies of sudden-onset womanhood
That. Lol!
Darn. I was all set to invest. (I found $2.35 under the sofa yesterday.)
A bit off-topic but, before we laugh too much at hapless bobbies . . .
Why assume that?
It’s ‘wax my balls’ all over again.
For those who missed the reference.
And from the subsequent comments, this:
And,
Rinse and repeat.
Haven’t heard much about Johnathan Yaniv (alias Jessica Yaniv, alias Jessica Simpson) since his assault conviction
In many cases, I would guess that the vexatiousness and the sexual dysmorphia are two facets of the same underlying issue.
Remember Cartman’s “suck my balls”? Cartman was less objectionable.
An interview, from four months ago, with Sall Grover, owner of the Giggle app, can be found here.
Oh, I’m sure they’ve been very, very active defending J6 defendants. They certainly don’t have a problem classifying cop killers as political prisoners.
In other Amnesty International news, they have recently decreed that Afghan girls & women are oppressed by the Taliban because they “identify as girls”. With the rather unpleasant implication that women and girls are complicity identifying into their own oppression. Silly women, don’t they know that if they just identify as boys, the Taliban will surely leave them alone?
“Weirdly” vindictive? “Gee, this asylum sure has a lot of crazy people in it, and they’re weirdly vindictive, too!”
I’ve read half a dozen Guardian articles and watched half a dozen Youtube videos (*), and I still don’t understand what legal point the court was adjudicating. This video is as clear as I can make out on the legal issues – that the enumerated powers of the Australian federal legislature include management of interstate commerce (how many gills in a pint), and implementation of international treaties (how many miles away from your continental shelf your territorial waters are), and that it maybe turns out that the framers of the Australian constitution intended those enumerated powers to commit Australians for ever to accepting autogynephiles in female spaces.
The Giggle side, if I understand correctly, was relying on a legal concession (and a female privilege under chivalry) that though discrimination is the worst thing in the world, women have a temporary right to sex discrimination against men until such a time as (i) men cease to have a physical advantage over women, and/or (ii) there exist men who might take advantage of this physical difference. So did the judge say that it would be ok to sexually discriminate against Mr Tickle, but that Tickle is a officially a Miss, and therefore your right to sexual discrimination doesn’t apply? Or did the judge say that your eyeballing Tickle as a Mr makes you guilty of gender discrimination?
(*) From Youtuber “Known Heretic”, the story of Brenda is a Wolf is interesting.
A small oddity about that x/twitter thread. At some point between earlier today and the first posting of the x/twitter thread here (where I saw it), the url was not to the Guardian, but to a Spectator article.
I posted a couple more details at the x/twitter thread itself.
Presumably Twitter’s Community Notes can change when more participants post different corrections. I’ve never seen that happen before.
So . . . if an official document can be found declaring Mr Justice Bromwich the North end of a South-bound horse then he must be legally recognised as such?
As Ms Grover put it,
I would suggest that compelling people, with the force of law, to pretend that men are actually women, and compelling them to deny the reality that as a group cross-dressing men pose a significant statistical threat, is itself unjust. To impose unrealism in this way, to suppress discernment of the obvious, is hardly benign. To compel people to pretend that, as the judge put it, “sex is changeable.”
And so, in the name of protecting women, and using laws intended to protect women, women must now welcome intrusions and dangers that would previously have been recognised, but which now, it seems, no longer can be, at least not lawfully. Not only in terms of a social media app used by women to find roommates and travel companions, but also with implications for changing rooms, toilets, sports, prisons, and even rape shelters.
[ Post updated. ]
Just remembered it’s a bank holiday. Wondered why it was quiet.
Justice would be treating these people as enemies of civilization.
The destabilization of society is the goal: The pervs want to tear down barriers to their depraved desires. The leftists want to tear down society by any means available.
[ Looks up UK bank holidays. ]
A bank holiday called Summer Bank Holiday. What a curiously generic name.
“We really ought to have a holiday around the end of summer.”
“What occasion should it celebrate? We’ve got centuries of history to choose from.”
“We’ll never get everyone to agree.”
“Well, ‘it’s summer’ is sufficient reason to celebrate.”
And that’s why the outrage against these “trans” women puts the cart before the horse. When you claim a “temporary right” to discrimination – the discrimination is never going to be temporary, and is not going to stop when convenient for you.
The trans are merely exploiting a few basic tenets of western society: no biological differences, rejection of single sex spaces, elevation of “feelings” or hurty words over genuine offences, subverting the legal – academic system to support the above.
Of course, for decades, it’s WOMEN who have driven these for their benefit, exploiting the basic chivalry of Western society and it’s men. And they are complaining now because a few sick perverts are using their tactics and rules against THEM.
Problem is, society is too far gone. The time to stop men getting into female bathrooms was, to take but one example , when the boy scouts were forced to accept girls….
And that, David, is the reason why (as a recent comment here pointed out) the gap between “progressive” and “others” is not gender, but marriage.
You need to be a father of a young girl like me, or a prospective parent, to be absolutely disgusted and terrified by stuff like this, or the prospect of mentally ill men entering her bathroom.
If you are a 40 year old cat lady, on the other hand….
True. There was one argument which I was somewhat sympathetic to, which was that there were “men only spaces” which were important for business networking so that excluding women disadvantaged them. But the malevolent nature of the feminist program was proved when the attack was carried against the Boy Scouts etc.
Still, I never anticipated that trannies would exploit what feminists did, and would have laughed if anyone predicted it.
40 year old cat men also seem to be a problem. And childless couples.
But feminists seemed passionately hostile to any argument even for “balancing” such conflicting concerns: It seemed clear that they wanted to eliminate all men-only spaces regardless of whether access for women was important. Only malevolence could explain what they did.
But yes, the cat ladies are the worst of the lot.
You need to be a father of a young girl like me, or a prospective parent, to be absolutely disgusted and terrified by stuff like this…
No, I, and I quite imagine others here, am neither of those and I am equally disgusted not the least because of stuff like this:
IOW – You will participate in the psychological abuse of your own children. If not, we’ll do it for you.
IOOW – To impose unrealism in this way, to suppress discernment of the obvious, is hardly benign.
…and now for something completely different and because there are so many sci-fi fans here, a cast photo from the original Star Trek.
By the way, and by way of an update to the recent squirrel-taming saga, one of my neighbours told me, with some excitement, that she’d watched me in action and had subsequently tried the same thing. She was quite amused, and a little disconcerted, by the fact that it worked.
I have instructed her to use this new power wisely.
We’ll also have to co-ordinate our crime-fighting costumes.
Yep. It’s disgusting on separate levels. Instinctively anyone, anyone who hasn’t been very severely educated and accepted it, anyone with any common sense that is, can see what this stuff is and where it is headed. Our parents, grandparents, etc. etc. etc. clearly understood these things.
On another level it’s the abuse of language, of facts, of clear reality. And that is anyone’s business who’s around.
It occurs to me the words in action may be overly dramatic. I was basically sitting on a garden bench with a mug of coffee, discreetly waving at the nearby trees.
As one does.
Your host, in action.
Some 20+ years ago we were in London strolling through Hyde Park. An older gentleman on a park bench there was something of an attraction himself as he had three or four squirrels at a time climbing all over him. Not sure who was taming whom.
Not sure I’d want the buggers climbing all over me. But it is quite amusing to watch them descend from the trees upon being waved at and then sit nearby, chomping whatever treats are on offer, while my proximity presumably deters predators and competitors for the nosh. It’s also quite interesting how you can differentiate their varied temperaments. Some are much bolder than others and seem to be the squirrel equivalent of influencers.
I know. You wish you had my glamorous life.
Would a royal robe AND a cape be too much? If you have to choose, which does the King of the Squirrels go for? Crown of course. And a scepter, which you point at the squirrel to control it.
I might be way too into this.
[ Fetches fur coat, goggles. ]
Why does anyone expect anything else from Amnesty International, the organisation that wasn’t in the least shamed by a woman in its regalia standing less than three feet away from Labour councillor Ricky Jones who cheered and applauded when he called for his political opponents to be murdered..?
Sumer is icumen in.
lol!!! The Reader Added Context is vital here!
“The person in the image is not the transgender woman mentioned in the post.”
Indeed. Please click on the link and take a long careful look and behold the individual who drove this issue.
sigh.
No one’s discriminating against “Roxy” on the basis of gender identity. Rather, only on the basis of sex. (Just like all the other males who aren’t on the app.) There’s a difference.
Sometimes the transgender operatives use “gender” it as if it were a synonym for sex, the term which they which to body-snatch and replace. And then not, when they want to emphasize that “gender” is this non-specific thing they just feel, rather than anything having to do with the body.
The word “gender” is itself always a bait-and-switch, a cheat-and-retreat, a motte-and-bailey. In short, a scam.
What strikes me about the Left today is the complete inversion of reality. Not merely having different priorities, but turning reality upside down. The trans thing is just the most recent absurdity. For example, in 2020 reporters stood in front of burning buildings and insisted the protests were “mostly peaceful”. Criticism of woke is violence but actual violence is free speech. Feminists have long decried marriage as rape and oppression–never mind that married women are the safest demographic and the happiest of female categories (esp if a more traditional marriage). Hamas support is a complete inversion. Criticizing the Chinese communist government over Covid was racism and yet chinese are not considered POC in the US. The list goes on.
Steampunk squirrel wrangler?
Hope.
Every now & then a fit of longing for a sane world, one where the moral compass doesn’t resemble a helicopter with no tail rotor, comes over me.
Another sip of coffee generally takes care of it.
Are those your blue not-suede shoes, which appear to be as yet un-stepped-on?
Well, I’ve had some discussions with progressives, on crime, recidivism or whatever, in which it was hard even to establish some basic common ground. There were so many important variables that just didn’t seem to register, or indeed seem welcome as things one might consider. Like how violent criminals actually behave, and how they tend to differ from thee and me. So many egalitarian assumptions that were utterly unrealistic.
It was sort of like trying to describe the colour blue to someone who can’t see.
Not after they poked their own eyes out they can’t
Apropos:
It’s why I try to link to, or embed, footage of actual, relevant examples. Because seeing the behaviour does tend to reveal things one might not normally consider. It being so outside of one’s own mindset, one’s own moral universe.
Say, the fact that they found what they did hilarious. The sociopathy, the murdering of some random elderly cyclist, being recreational.
More from Peter Moskos:
Quoting a police abolitionist, the Economist informs us that
A commenter writes:
I’ll read the article when my local library unlocks it (later this week, presumably).
I first heard that “building trust” bullshit back in the 70’s or even 60’s.
Band name: IQ Men
First album (to be released next June): Icumen
I will not take anyone’s argument seriously until they can pass the “Did Trump tell people to drink bleach?” Socratic test. It’s simple. It’s as objective as you can get. The absurdities are glaring. I’ve administered it about a dozen times now. No one has made it past the first question without blowing up.
As I must’ve shown dozens of times, as in the three previous links, violent criminals tend to be profoundly selfish and self-absorbed, to a degree that’s quite boggling, and yet they often receive pretentious sympathy and are favoured, grotesquely, with the status of victim. As if they were the party we should care about, and do our best to spare from harm. As if they would ever be likely to reciprocate.
Very often, pretty much by default, the perpetrators don’t even seem to regard their victims, their prey, as human beings at all. Say, while selecting their targets by race, electrocuting them, mugging them on their own doorsteps, robbing their homes, and stealing their wedding rings. More often than not, we are but objects in their world. A world that’s all about them and their malevolent little egos.
Remember Churchy La Femme’s rendition?
That I don’t.
Reminds me of so many leftists who appear to think reality is a movie or TV show where they are the writers and directors. Saying something makes it true, they control the audience with “applaud now” signs, obvious things can be hidden/changed with no explanation, images are reality, etc.
[ Watches squirrels. ]
[ Is watched by squirrels. ]
if you gaze long into squirrels, the squirrels also gaze into you.
and
Indeed. Leftism treats us as objects even as it talks of us as subjects.
I warned you.
All I clearly recall is Churchy crooning while playing his guitar. It would take far too long to hunt down the cartoon in my library.
Right, off to have an early night. Have scheduled a post to materialise just after midnight, UK time.
Play nicely. Use coasters.
Begins pasting “eat at Harga’s House of Ribs” on coasters.
Why do we need to use coasters? This bartop appears to be made from a slab of 316 Stainless Steel.
They make great little frisbees that you can fling across the room with a flick of your wrist. Or so I’m told.
Last time I tried sharpening their edges I got an hour in the Correction Booth.
For trying to hone pressed paper? Should have been two hours.
Can we deport the family please? Gangbanger shoots two people, killing one. Chicago police show up, and shoot the gangbanger dead. Gangbanger’s parents “have questions” and immediately hire lawyer to sue the city.
If you’ve got a man in a female only space, you’re dealing with someone who has no respect for boundaries
Now do men’s private clubs, golf courses, and gyms.
Of course, for decades, it’s WOMEN who have driven these for their benefit, exploiting the basic chivalry of Western society and its men. And they are complaining now because a few sick perverts are using their tactics and rules against THEM.
Sooner or later, everyone comes around to patriarchy.
Figure it out yourselves, ladies.
Also the “homeless” and miscellaneous loiterers in public libraries, museums, bookstores, etc.
Re squirrel obsession: an engineer who first garnered internet fame with his videos involving taking vengeance on porch pirates, branched out several years ago, notably when he tried to prevent squirrels in his back yard from raiding his bird feeders. Predictably his good-humored Rube Goldberg efforts to defeat the reiving critters failed, but got him a huger audience for similar work; his latest was a backyard Olympics, featuring the same cast of characters as his previous work. All worth a look.
Provided they aren’t marauding on my own feeders I’m not immune to squirrel charm, but I manage to temper it by reminding myself just what their teeth look like closing on a human finger.
Women weren’t 100% excluded. Some of the men’s clubs had hostesses.
Silly women, don’t they know that if they just identify as boys, the Taliban will surely leave them alone?
Well, no, but the attention might not be what they want. Afghanistan does have a reputation for certain Hellenic practices – the Dancing Boys of Afghanistan qv
In my yoofage Summer Bank Holiday was known as August Bank Holiday. Given that it is always the last Monday in August, why change the name?
As for Sumer is Icomen in, it is really more a case of Sumer is Agoing out.