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TODAY IN ‘IT’S NOT A FETISH’: The self-unawareness of gender identity activism never ceases to amaze. We here at The Distance would like to congratulate the Pissed Off Trannies (POT) for their successful protest against public urination laws.
Our favorite part of this story is that Vice News actually tried to frame a masculine paraphilic dominance display as a form of protest against oppression. Urolagnia — sexual thrill at the act of urinating, being urinated on, being seen covered in urine, or otherwise having urine involved, all variations on the “golden shower” — is primarily a male paraphilia, usually associated with themes of dominance, submission, and humiliation.
Thus, the “piss-in” that POT held outside the offices of the Equality and Human Rights Commission last Friday is yet another example of male sexual fetishists showing the world exactly why women need, and continue to defend, single-sex spaces despite the endless harassment they endure for doing so.
Indeed, single-sex facilities are so important for the safety of women and girls that EHRC continues to defend single-sex spaces from men exactly like these “activists,” which is what makes those paraphilic men so mad that they have to douse themselves in pee. Well done, boys!
Saying that “the EHRC has blood on its hands and piss on its streets,” the leader of this event called it “an extreme version of the public embarrassment that trans people experience on a daily basis, using the toilet that either doesn't fit with their gender or using the one that does, and then facing the backlash of people's judgement.” Get that? ‘We just want to pee — on ourselves!’
And in fact “Jamie” turns out to be really, really, really into public “performance art” involving “watersports.” He’s “terrified” that the EHRC is hurting him. He’s pissing himself in fear, see? Brilliant. Just brilliant. Five stars. A cultural watershed.


BRING BACK FREE SPEECH: Corinna Cohn, aka Heterodorx, on the men’s rights activists versus Kiwi Farms, and the active complicity of mainstream media outlets in the strangling of free speech online.
Let’s look at the belligerents and put things in context. There is Kiwi Farms, a forum which publishes personal contact information and enables harassment, but which also collects and analyzes information ignored by the entirety of the media. There is Clara Sorrenti and friends, online drama personalities who are monetizing attention. There is Taylor Lorenz, Ben Collins, and the other representatives of the mainstream media who have repeatedly signaled the desire to control the dissemination of information online. Finally, there is Cloudflare, a critical provider of internet services. At a high level, this is a spat between an internet gossip group, an irresponsible journalist nursing a grudge, and an internet clown. At the ground level, this is potentially the end of open expression on the internet. If providers of backbone services can be moved away from neutrality once, they will be moved again. This will become a recurring tactic to drive unpopular speech off the internet.
BRING BACK FREE COMEDY: I am so glad that other gender critical voices are writing better pieces about Kiwi Farms than me. I cannot improve on this factual and satirical explainer.
Word is anywhere from 5 to 3 transpeople, depending which MSM outlet/twitter thread you read, have committed suicide due to the scrutiny and sometimes doxxing (posting personal identifying documents) on KF. No direct evidence of this has been supplied but rumor has it even Grace Lavery’s career suicide ( challenging any UK feminist to a debate but chickening out when women answered the call saying debate was too dangerous for the trans community. ) was indirectly caused by KF’s brand of hyper focused scrutiny. GL instead did a radio spot showing off the divine femininity of a Market Price de Sade posh upperclass baritone. You must never laugh.
BRING BACK MUSICAL FREEDOM: UK rapper Francis Aaron has been censored for gender identity wrongthink. Too late, I am here to report that his musical genius has spread like a mind-virus, beyond the control of tech companies.
GEE THIS ALL SOUNDS SO FAMILIAR: A problem that is hard to diagnose and treat. A social media community that rewards sickness. Kids drawn into a spiral of rumination and dopamine-fueled self-harm. And it’s not even about “gender.”
“You can get addicted to being sad, and sick, and the attention you receive,” Marshal told me. “The ‘misery loves company’ thing makes you sicker.”
Another reason for spoonies’ failure to improve may be “secondary gain,” Assaf said. “There might be something you're gaining by having this diagnosis, like that it’s keeping you from a job that you hate, or from responsibilities that you don’t want to do.”
NOBODY WANTS TO DATE A NARCISSIST: Eddie Izzard is having trouble finding romance as a “woman.” Quelle surprise, as the French would say. “It's going to have to be a very confident and strong-minded woman who has a relationship with me,” complains Eddie, currently an aspiring “female” Labour MP. Truer words were never said. That angry inch doesn’t like taking “no” for an answer, does it, Eddie?
MAKING LESBIANS ILLEGAL AGAIN: A transgender organization actually argued that it was “discrimination” for lesbians to exclude penises. Because “gender identity” is a men’s rights movement.


STOP THE FORCED-TEAMING FOR FETISHISTS: Candace Mercer spoke her peace last weekend in support of Julie Jaman, the 80 year-old woman banned from her city pool and then mobbed in the town square for refusing to shower in front of a man.
When men dressed as women get erections from interacting with women in women’s spaces, we are non player characters in their sexual fantasies.
We did not give consent.
This is sexual harassment.
BRING BACK THE FREE PRESS: Here are some good suggestions for the publishing houses of the world. I especially endorse getting rid of “sensitivity readers” and paying less attention to complaints on social media.
PEAK TRANS IS A PROCESS, NOT A MOMENT: Examples of extreme male sexuality and objectification are so numerous within transgender “activism” that new people are constantly discovering the classics.


‘ACCEPTANCE WITHOUT EXCEPTION’: A 27 year-old Sydney, Australia man has been released pending trial for repeatedly, brutally raping his younger sisters and intimidating them into silence because the poor dear might suffer in a men’s jail. “To my grand astonishment,” the judge said, “I am told [he] would be held in the male section of the AMC and that would clearly not be in the interests of a person who identifies as a woman.” Wouldn’t want to put a “woman” in the men’s jail, after all, he might get raped or something.
SPINNING SELF-HARM AS A ‘GENDER JOURNEY’: Now that detransition is emerging as a real thing that people will hear about, the advocates of child sterilization are shifting to a new strategy that frames detransition as a delightful “journey” into the mouth of hormone madness.
It’s important for the medical community to take note of these experiences in an aim to prevent them from continuing to happen. They can’t do that if they deny that they’re occurring. They can’t do that if detransitioners’ voices are usurped and silenced, if they’re not even told when they transition that detransition is a possibility. Many detransitioners have told me that finding the word was a kind of cloud-parting aha moment—much the way some people described finding the word transgender.
‘BE KIND,’ MAKE IT ‘OUT THERE’: Call me a UFO skeptic who enjoys flying saucer culture. When I took a trip to Nevada a decade ago, I made the pilgrimage to the back gate of Area 51 and then the Little A’Le’Inn in Rachel for a burger and a beer. Reading this terrific Grid story about the seeming renaissance in UFO “studies,” I was struck by the way an unserious “science” has managed to get taken seriously long after its peak of popularity by just relentlessly lobbying behind the scenes. Money quote: “A lot of this stuff has risen to public notice because, for want of putting it a better way, people want to be polite.” Hmm, that sounds familiar…