Odd Doings Down Under
Where employers must accommodate impossible pregnancies:
A lot of people have struggled to believe me when I say that the Australian Human Rights Commission is giving pregnancy protections in law to men who claim to be woman, because it’s so stupid it’s hard to believe anyone would say it.
Enjoy: pic.twitter.com/IveqVhN9KG
— Sall Grover (@salltweets) May 26, 2026
One more time. When you surrender to the lie, complications will ensue.
There may be perfectly rational reasons not to employ a cross-dressing man. Practical workplace complications, bathroom use, likely mental health issues, not wishing to participate in someone else’s psychodrama, things of that kind. A fear of him becoming pregnant is not, I’d suggest, one of them.
Previous adventures in the Land of Before Logic, where everything is terribly progressive, competitively so, can be found in the archives.
Among which, the “multicultural playgroup” in Sydney that’s all about “diversity” and “celebrating difference,” and which therefore turns away four-year-olds and their mothers for being “too white.” And where parents of suspicious pallor are promptly interrogated by staff on their “cultural background.”
And we mustn’t forget the implausible sorrows of Ms Cindy Prior, an administrator at the Queensland University of Technology, who invoked the “trauma” of sweating when politely questioned by students about the need for racially segregated computer labs.
Ms Prior, a woman of aboriginal descent, saw fit to seek damages of $250,000 from the students in court, where she claimed to have suffered “psychiatric injury” as a result of this enquiry. What with all the sweating. Ms Prior told the court that, such was her distress, she was “unable to continue working face-to-face with white people.” Ms Prior also objected to being “found ridiculous.”
Happily, her vexatious legal action, directed at three students, two staff members and the university itself, was not successful. It remains unclear whether anyone at the university belatedly realised that a job entailing the denial of access to computer resources on the basis of race – specifically, being white – might attract racists with personality disorders.
Consider this an open thread. Share ye links and so forth.
Such as “he’s crazy, and is likely to get crazier”.
Let’s try an experiment based on a vaguely-recalled memory.
First, create and post a bullet list.
That worked.
EDIT: Now try creating a bullet list and then fiddle with indentation:
onetwothree
That worked.
But when I returned to edit it, the list turned into what dicentra reported.
[ Directs stern glare of disapproval at WordPress HQ. ]
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Like I said, all-night vodka bender.
Laws protecting cultural heritage sites take second place to “diversity”.
There are two ‘list’ buttons in the comment toolbar, i.e., buttons five and six.
[ Sounds of mango gelato being eaten. ]
Its a “planetary emergency” because of MEN!
Amazing how everyone seems to know what a man is, but no one in this crowd can define a woman. Even white women who pretend to be men seem to escape the white man blame, even though they are desperate to pass as one.
[ Considers week-long project to rate the flavours of gelato made by the local deli. ]
Discourse was attempted.
Discourse was attempted.
Once again Monty Python provides the perfect illustrative quote.
From “Where are you going to put it – in a box?” for the original post to “Brave Sir Robin bravely ran away” for this link. “Ferocious courage” my pasty white ar$e – Queenie there only wants “dialogue” where she is in charge of both ends of it.
Absolutely. Ms Jacqui Lewis, our self-described fearless person – despite clearly being accustomed to deference and flattery – doesn’t seem at all equipped to deal with an honest exchange of views. Simply asking what she means by “white supremacy” reduces her to indignation, then, very quickly, lies.
The inversion, the dishonesty, is quite something. Imagine the loud buzzing noise inside that head.
I’mNot Seeing The Problem.You didn’t follow the steps I described.
Holy Kafka!
Heh. She speaks very clear English but I kept getting distracted by her emphasis or phrasing or something. Can’t put my finger on what exactly. Kinda reminds me of a Russian guy I used to work with. Or maybe German. Maybe she is French from closer to Germany?
WTP, I once had a very interesting thing happen while conversing with a French native. I had a very hard time understanding his accented english, and I finally asked him where he was from. Provence. I said something about the french provence accent, and when he continued, he was vastly more understandable. I asked, and he said he had switched to a Parisian French accent for his English. Amazing. I wasn’t even aware that such could be under conscious control, but there it was.
Fred,
After posting I did some grokking, because she’s not on wiki, and based on her last name she’s Jewish and her family most likely came from Tunisia after the war/decolonization. Or so is grok’s guess. Not that grok hasn’t steered me wrong once already today.
I had created the list by typing [hyphen][tab] on a new line.
And now when I click the curly braces below it shows <li> tags the way God intended.
Then I had to edit the post, and after I hit Save it borked up the list.
I tried singing this to the tune of We Didn’t Start The Fire but it doesn’t scan.
[ dicentra, daniel, & pst314 direct synchronized glare of disapproval at WordPress. ]