Tim
@timblue
He/They. Another member of the Xodus, living near London. Wants to believe as few false things and as many true things as possible. Life is complicated. Let's start by trying to be kind to each other.
I said it three times at least, I can't be bothered looking for more. And I already said why. Because it's tainted by people with a long history of cloaking hatred in feminism so any project they do has to be viewed through that lens. But you then wanted a long discussion about hypotheticals.
Really? Because plenty of your fellow gender critical cultists would disagree. Many of them are quite happy to have trans men barred from both male and female spaces if it lets them discriminate against trans women. Which of these people is a traumatized survivor likely to find more threatening?
This post by @ironspike.bsky.social is so true. This song illustrates it beautifully. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_z2-...
It's like someone flipped a switch and suddenly every politician is actually doing politics!
I've seen this circulating and it looks about right. "Vote Binface. Because the alternative is Farage." is a banger of a tagline.
Anecdotes (however terrible) are not statistics. Sexual offenses are the lowest reoffending rate of any offence on record. Maybe you were working with particularly bad cases but blaming women for the men who attack them is bad enough. Completely misrepresenting the stats to do so is despicable.
The ignorant certainty continues. They absolutely do and have. They're regulars at the events, because you're following a literal Nazi ideology dressed up as faux-feminism. Did you know the first Nazi book burnings were research on trans people? Have evidence both of the Nazis and JKR's support.
You also mentioned the resolution foundation. They literally suggest a directly subsidized energy "social tariff" (although targeted) in their proposals. What is that if not a fuel subsidy by another name?
Interesting. Although, it did jump shortly after. I'm an interesting (anecdotal) data point as I'm well over the threshold to be in the top 10% by income. Close to being in the top 1%. I live fairly modestly, paid off mortgage, etc. And yet I'm still nowhere near being in the top 10% by wealth.
So, even by your evidence, inequality was highest around 1900 - when I'm sure we can all agree it was a pretty miserable time to be anything other than rich. We then had a massive drop in inequality - during which time we built things like the NHS, BBC, social housing, etc.
If I can share with you a lesson from across the pond, a tale in two parts: He spoke. We listened. We left. Labour loses.
Welcome to a social media site that isn't run by a raging transphobe. You are the one decided to use a slur and then doubled down when called out on it. Be a better person and you'll get a better reactions.
Sex isn't gender. Trans women aren't men. Do you really want these men in women's spaces? Because that is what transphobic laws are now demanding.
Love to see results like this. Greens taking votes from everywhere and coming from 4th to kick Reform to the curb!
Ok, Boomer. You made a sweeping generalization about young people. I corrected it. You got angry and accused me of bad manners. Here's a few sources to get you started. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-... www.rand.org/content/dam/...
1. Black people in the UK are 2.4 times more likely to be incarcerated then White. (5 times more likely in the USA). Is that "relatively minor". 2. Liberties are being curtailed. Yet again you recycle the racist argument. "Black people aren't being banned from all toilets". This is you:
It already has. This is the sort of bigotry your rhetoric encourages. Forcing everyone into rigid gender norms doesn't help anyone, let alone women, girls, or LGB people.
None of the people I know have been "drowned out" by anyone. LGBTQIA+ people were working together with women and minority groups and making progress for everyone before religious extremists made a conscious and well funded decision to drive a wedge into the grouping.
Want more? Ok. Here are more prominent "gender critical" people and their views on gay people and abortion rights. Here's Bev Jackson working with religion extremists to help her attack trans people (while also attacking women). And Sarah Phillmore wanting the trustees of a charity murdered.
Here's more support from JKR and Helen Joyce to Posie Parker. Here's more of Posie Parker's "work". She regularly has white supremacists and literal outright loud-and-proud neo nazis at her events. In the Melbourne one (for once) the press actually paid attention but they're always there.
Here's JKR welcoming back to Twitter a man who was banned after threatened to kill trans people and said he preferred AIDS. Here's her supporting (including financially) Kelli-Jay (also known as Posie Parker). Here's just two examples of KJK's output.
If you're going to cite logical fallacy, know the definition. 🙃 A False Equivalence is flawed, faulty or false reasoning. But it is true that the same arguments were used against Gays & Lesbians just 30 years ago. Here's a few to get you started. Just sub trans for gay and see how it reads.