Journalist Who Sparked Iran Riots Remains Suspended Because #TwitterHatesWomen
Journalist Who Sparked Iran Riots Remains Suspended Because #TwitterHatesWomen
Stop the Presses - 26 September 2022
The Twitter account of Niloofar Hamedi, who reported the murder of Mahsa Amini which sparked the riots in Iran, remains suspended at the request of someone in Teheran. Like her Twitter account, Hamedi has been disappeared by the state. Remember when “big tech” was going to save the world for democracy? As always, the oppression begins with talkative women. Much praise to Mandy Stadtmiller for making this point that mainstream media seems to want to ignore, for some reason.
Women were a key force in the 1979 Revolution. They wore red berets and combat boots and chanted “Death to America” outside the US embassy. Back then, the women of Iran felt more free than they ever had before. Iran’s feminists saw a world of possibility opening up. When the Ayatollah imposed the hijab in 1982, the country was at war with Iraq, and many women accepted the hijab as a kind of political uniform — an example of the “rally around the flag” effect.
But oppression is oppression, and the women of Iran are done being oppressed.
MERMAIDS STORY HAS LEGS: Reporters are starting to see what everyone in gender critical spaces has always seen.
The Telegraph has uncovered evidence of the Mermaids online help centre offering advice to users who present themselves as young as 13 that controversial hormone-blocking drugs are safe and “totally reversible”.
In the last month alone, this newspaper has seen discussions in the charity’s moderated forum for 12 to 15-year-olds on how to raise money to start taking drugs and the best way to take testosterone.
A moderator also publicly congratulated a teenage user for deciding that they were transgender by the age of 13 and deciding that they wanted drugs and “all the surgeries”.
As a result, Mermaids now faces scrunity of their own charitable status. Remember, just a couple of weeks ago they stated in court that they do not give medical advice. Now they have been caught recommending medical devices and circumventing parental consent to provide those devices to children. Name any other charity that would get away with this. Name one.
MAKING IT UP AS THEY GO: Children are being sterilized without any guidelines, because clinicians won’t follow the guiidleines anyway. See how that works?
No strength can be added to the argument for sterilizing children because evidence for efficacy is bad at existing. And by “hostile political climate,” Dr. Bowers means that consequences for sterilizing children are becoming a possibility. Awwww
THE AMY DYESS EFFECT: In a story that has the ACLU’s grubby fingerprints all over it, Morgan Davis tells the Washington Post about the Texas Child Protective Services investigating families of “trans kids.” Davis is a “trans man,” a woman with gender dysphoria, so of course her very first response to her first such case was to lobby the department with fake suicide statistics.
Davis spent that Thursday calling people for advice. He talked to his own doctor and to people from the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Psychological Association. Davis said the guidance they gave him echoed the statements they put in writing that same week: Gender-affirming care can be lifesaving for young trans people. The governor’s letter would put those children at even higher risk of anxiety, depression, self-harm and suicide.
Now, don’t get me wrong. Hamfisted conservative politicians sending CPS after families is not the right answer to the pediatric transition fad. But the “story” here is that Davis conducted a standard interview, wrote a standard report, and then flounced from her job. That’s it. That’s the entire story.
A few weeks after the hearing, Davis was assigned a second case. This time, a teacher told CPS officials that she had seen something on a child’s Instagram page. Davis thought the teacher shouldn’t be patrolling teenagers’ social media, but it was his job to investigate, so he called the family.
Mind you, Texas CPS used Davis’s preferred pronouns and all the rest. That isn’t what she had to escape. She quit her job because she has her own hang-ups, and she needs the children to justify her medicalized response to those hang-ups.
[She] was 52, born in a generation when calling yourself “tomboy” felt daring enough, but after five decades, [she’d] decided [she] was finally ready to live as himself.
One day, a lot of journalists are going to look back with chagrin at their participation in this child-sterilizing cult and the way they helped exploit people with profound issues to do so.
VANISHING POINT: You may have seen a 4chan meme floating around that “Kayla Lemieux” is secretly a “based” reactionary at war with the woke school officials and school board. Odds are that this is false. Even if it was true that he is Mr. Mackey from South Park, however, it demonstrates that there is a point at which satire of a thing becomes the thing being satirized. This is not right, for any reason.
PRIMARK DIRECTIVE: Women in the UK have had just about enough of unisex change rooms in stores. Primark in particular has received numerous complaints of men walking in on women while they are undressed. So far, the chain has ignored any lost customers, but the issue has been galvanized by a viral video.
Of course, the sad part is that this woman lacks the basic language and analysis skills to understand her oppression. That is the victory of gender gibberish over the unfinished brains of the youth generation.
WOMAN-MAN: Comic artist Tatsuya Ishida was temporarily locked out of Twitter for this cartoon strip. Gender totalitarianism cannot abide genuine satire because it is the most effective means we have to unravel the illogical constructions of tyrannical ideas.
A SAFE SPACE AGAINST WOKE: Therapist Stephanie Winn interviews clinical psychologist Andrew Hartz on “how ideology has intruded into the practice of psychotherapy, posing ethical issues and threatening the integrity of our field.” How can people get better if the people who are supposed to help them instead engage in woke prostletyzing, or even antagonize them?
There’s an enourmous gap in our field. Lots of patients really need our help around these issues, and no one’s providing it. We need to create it.
VIOLENT COLONIALISM: Savage Minds interviews Fred Sergeant, the living Stonewall legend who was recently beaten and robbed by an angry Pride crowd, as well as Jim Fouratt, founding member of Gay Liberation Front. They are what historians call “primary sources” on the history of Stonewall and the gay rights movement. As a result, their version of that history — such as who was there, who did what, and more to the point, who was not there and did nothing — is always going to be stronger than “secondary sources” which make things up about people and put them in places where they never were. These men are the elders of the LGB tribe who remember a time before the TQAlphabet colonizers showed up.
STOP MAKING THE RIGHT WING RIGHT: Chloe Cole is a detransitioner. Her words about the child sterilization cult are powerful. Some fear that her words will hurt the electoral chances of Democrats. So here is a simple tip. If you are a Democrat, or support Democrats, then the way to stop detransitioners like Chloe from empowering the right wing politicians you fear and hate is to stop supporting child sterilization. Easy peasy!
I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THIS GAME IS: But it’s adorable to watch!
