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Stop the Presses - 29 August 2022
Lesbians were kicked out of a pride event in Cardiff, Wales this weekend for the crime of not liking penis. Lucky for them, lots of men were around to scream abuse, gibber nonsense about “inclusion,” and educate them in proper lesbianing. A team of police showed up to remove the hateful bigots from the event so that the men could resume patting themselves on the back for breaking the gender binary. Who knew that “the right side of history” was just misogyny as old as the hills? Other than absolutely anyone who has paid any attention at all, who knew?
Twitter also responded by locking the @GetTheLOut account. It hasn’t been enough to erase lesbians, ignore their complaints to the BBC, and chase them out of their own Pride events. Women who push back must be destroyed. The male rights movement known as “gender identity” will not be satisfied until all the “cis-lesbians” who reject penis are severely punished for thoughtcrimes.
STATE OF DENIAL: Media organizations are now bending over backwards to pretend the pediatric transition horror show is not real. Problematically, this medical scandal refuses to be fake, whatever the Washington Post says, and no matter how many times Twitter locks down the Libs of TikTok account for “hateful conduct,” i.e. being right when the Post is getting the story completely wrong on purpose.
FACTS DON’T VOTE: Lisa Selin Davis is still hopeful that we can start from a shared set of facts about sex changes for tweens. Which is great, I support her 100 percent, but as a recovering political scientist I also know that negative partisanship is the most powerful force in politics, and each of our political tribes tells itself the story they want to hear. To accept that we were wrong, that our priors have been false, and that our good intentions have led to harm, takes work and reflection and humility, whereas an instinctive tribalism is easy and feels good.
WE ARE DEALING WITH A BELIEF SYSTEM: Janice Raymond, author of The Transsexual Empire and the original academic critic of gender identity ideology, has written a piece for Reduxx on the mental gymnastics of transgenderism.
STILL NOT A WOMAN: Demi Minor, the trans-identified male prisoner who impregnated two women at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility in New Jersey before he was finally removed to a male lock-up, has claimed in a social media post that he attempted to remove his own testicle. This was an act of self-harm after staff “misgendered” him by acknowledging the material reality of his body. Minor has made various dubious and outright baseless claims before. Even if he is telling the truth, it is not proof that he belongs in a women’s facility — indeed, quite the opposite.
CHARLIE CRIST IS TERRIBLE AT POLITICS: Attention Florida Democrats. Why do you keep putting this man forward? Please stop. Just stop. FFS. There are only a very few hard and fast rules of electioneering, but one of them is that candidates should always ask for every vote. Telling people who disagree with you to vote for someone else is a great way to, you know, convince them to vote for someone else.
If I was a paranoid person, I would swear that Crist is some kind of Republican operative making Democrats look bad to build up Ron DeSantis for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination. His choice of running-mate in this governor’s race is not going to make up for his weaknesses, either.
Cubans are the largest, most active voter demographic in Florida next to retirees. Neither tranche will be impressed by this view from nowhere:
WE OUTNUMBER THEM: Canada seems like the global epicenter of wokeness on most days. However, a new survey by The National Post shows that almost 85 percent of Canadians are still not sharing their pronouns, while only a small minority — about 9 percent — wants to make pronouns mandatory. That is not “kindness,” it is elitism.
PROBLEMATICAL PRONOUN PROLIFERATION: A Canadian federal department wanted to “further [their] commitment to diversity and inclusion” by adding as many neopronoun options as possible to their interfaces. As a result, work stations at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada experienced a series of crashes and errors. Remember, nonbinary cows and chickens are valid!
TATSUYA ISHIDA ON THE STATE OF THE LESBIAN BAR:
THE ESOTERIC LIFESTYLE: YouTube’s algorithm has introduced me to “King Crocoduck” and this dissection of the annoying wokespeak phrase, “lived experience,” which is a cheap way out of engaging facts. Everyone imbues their own experiences with unique meaningfulness and neither can be directly shared with others.