Author Topic: Hearts and minds

Non-brainy
« Reply #20 on: August 13, 2022 »
Bullseye
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In a moment of what could have been clarity, a very annoying man in purple lipstick says, “Gender is a social construct we’ve created to violently oppress people.” His name turns out to be Travis Alabanza, and he doesn’t like that “cis people” are always saying we should do away with labels. (Which “cis people” are saying this, I do not know — most of us seem perfectly content with the words “male” and “female,” which simply describe a material reality that has been around for, oh I don’t know, hundreds of millions of years.) But Alabanza did not choose to be labelled male, and that label made him feel “horrible.” And, as we all know, if you have a feeling, the best way to deal with that feeling is to imagine a different reality exists and then demand everyone around you validate that imagined reality.

Hello again Travis! Who, rather amazingly, wasn't even the most annoying person profiled in that Guardian mockumentary (you mean they were being serious?) video from 2017.



Transing Joan
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Exploring the life of Joan of Arc, the play “uses the pronouns they/them”. In this reading, Joan is no longer an exceptional woman; by being exceptional, she is no longer a woman at all.

Eager to ward off accusations of historical inaccuracy — or outright sexism — Terry indulges in a mixture of random obfuscation and artsy waffle:


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… ‘they’ to refer to a singular person has been traced by the Oxford English Dictionary to as early as 1375, years before Joan was even born … theatres do not deal with ‘historical reality’. Theatres produce plays, and in plays, anything can be possible. The Globe is a place of imagination. A place where, for a brief amount of time, we can at least consider the possibility of world’s elsewhere.

Well, sure. It’s all made up, anyway [my link]. I just think that if you value the imagination — and believe, as I do, that it can be used to transform our awareness of what exists beyond the stage — you ought to be able to tell the difference between increasing imaginative possibilities and taking them away.

Always a sucker for a Sopranos reference.

PS. I'm all about the timing. Speaking of which witch

PPS. A grown-up enters the room

XY

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Young man
« Reply #21 on: August 19, 2022 »

- YMCA is still catchy after all these years.
- Woman is not a feeling in a man's head.
- Mother Nature is a TERF.

Mumsnet, since removed:
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This [thread] will probably get zapped too once the monitors start reporting it.

The problem is, Menno is doing that thing you're not supposed to do, which is hold up a mirror.

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I didn't have time to reply on my own thread, but saw a couple of posters saying the video made fun of men dressed in femenine clothes?!

That is not what the video is about - it's clearly laughing at the nonsensical and misogynistic idea that men can actually become women!

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Always baffled by this CF [Cheeky Fucker] idea that you can be endlessly awful to females - enjoy your erasure, rape threats, death threats, learn to cope with unwanted sex, self exclude if you can't use mixed sex spaces and sux to be you, abandon your faith/culture/disability/get over your trauma if it presents a boundary to a male person, punched, kettled and smoke bombed for trying to talk about your existing legal rights....

but they're not allowed to get cross enough to write a satirical song.

The thread that was zapped included an interesting side discussion on how you might feel if footage of you was being held up to such scrutiny.
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I feel this is where mumsnet goes from reasoned debate to sniggering transphobia.

It's quite clear that, regardless of all the important debates about women's rights, there are some posters who just think no man should ever dress in traditional women's clothing.

Some transwomen do pass, and you will never know because you won't notice them.

Some biological women have traditionally "mannish" features and get accused of being a man.

Laughing at men who think they look like women is just cheap and puts you firmly in the camp of traditional homophobia.

Which is where, incidentally, most of the "Tories who understand what a woman is" come from.

There was a time when I’d have probably agreed with BishyBarnyBee about the sniggering. But now I think about all those years - decades even - that we spent being kind and polite and pretending we hadn’t noticed transwomen, only to have our kindness and our politeness not only thrown back in our faces but actually used as evidence against us.

So now I wonder if it might have been better all round for everyone concerned if we’d all just laughed from the very beginning.
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Well, I agree with everything he said, but I didn't really enjoy the video.
It was clever. It was true. But it hurt.

I feel desperately sorry for the deluded people in those videos. I know they aren't kind to women, I know they are pretty narcissistic and probably not nice to know.

A couple of them were beautiful. Lucky chaps.
The others, well, ouch. They are what I'm afraid of seeing in the mirror when I'm trying to dress up for a special occasion! Really, really unfortunate and so unnecessary.

It's a pretty cruel joke though.

I know, I know. The sooner it's nipped in the bud the better, for everyone's sake.
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It's a pretty cruel joke though.

Is it?

He didn't film the footage he used to mock the ideology and he certainly didn't put words in mouth of the mature male who said the wanted to be the "sexiest woman in the world".

The individuals themselves put content out there, they have no control over how it is used once it's in the public domain. Menno has hardly misrepresented them, it's our refusal to take them seriously when they are in fact deadly serious which causes such offence.

What else are we supposed to do? Play along? Politely ignore and hope it will go away?

Taking these males seriously is what leads to women being incarcerated with convicted sex offenders and women being raped in hospital and then being told that wasn't possible. These are examples of actual cruelty and there is nothing funny about it.

Text is from the links:

Meet Clementine Adams, a man
Is Clementine Adams serious about sex change? Is this a passing phase? Or is Clementine claiming to have a transgender soul-being just so he can raise extra money for college and enjoy eyeball access to female bodies at the YMCA pool?

I don’t know, you don’t know. Nobody knows. That is exactly the point. Until 2015, the normal safeguarding standard was “no men in the women’s areas at the YMCA” and it worked fine. Activists with fat wallets complicated that system on purpose, with premeditation, to let the Clementine Adamses of the world have whatever it is they want, whenever they want, without question.

Aggressive, Shrieking, Drowning Us Out
It was no fun being attacked by a mob of Gender Cultists. The whole experience was disheartening and at times downright frightening. It was frustrating to be undercut in sharing our perspectives and thoughts on an important issue. We wanted to speak about why banning Julie Jaman from the YMCA pool is an outrage. We wanted to share information about the damage to women that flows from imposing Gender Identity Ideology’s beliefs on everyone. Many women wanted to tell their own painful stories about why women-only spaces are important to them.

Port Townsend Responds to Transphobic Bullying With Trans-Inclusive Proclamation
After a nasty instance of transphobic bullying at the Port Townsend YMCA made national headlines across conservative media, the quiet town refused to cede an inch to transphobic outrage culture. In a much-appreciated symbolic gesture, the Mayor proclaimed the town a welcoming place for transgender people and an unwelcoming place for discrimination of any kind.

Mr Mayor
A little over the top, but contains a collection of interesting tweets from His Honor.

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(I do almost all my surfing on a laptop – do I get a pass?)

* Bonus MennoPassage to India *

Hearts and minds
« Reply #22 on: August 20, 2022 »
A little of this, a little of that.


TWAW
Quote from: Luckystar
It's like nails on chalkboard and it's EVERYWHERE.

Somebody else in this thread compared it to flat earthers and that's exactly how it feels -- like if all of a sudden Harvard and Joe Biden and the NY Times and every podcaster and film/music/video game/etc creator came out and said the earth is flat, we all know the earth is flat, only hateful bigots don't think the earth is flat. I shouldn't be surprised anymore and yet still somehow I am once again surprised every time I see a new person or institution I used to respect fall for this obvious lie.

Dr. Jessica Taylor came up with the term "masslighting" which feels pretty appropriate. People are just whole cloth lying about very fundamental basics of reality all of a sudden. It's not you, you're not wrong for feeling confused and alienated. This is a very bizarre situation...

How astrophysics helped me embrace my nonbinary gender identity
Social media reels another one in shocker.

Anti-Gender Conspiracism - Dave Hewitt
Basic terms used in good faith attempts to communicate clearly - gender (identity) ideology, biological sex, same-sex attraction, adult human female - are increasingly being flagged on sight as coded bigotry, to stem the spread of “far-right tropes”. Once you start to see honestly expressed opinions as a cover for a hidden agenda, or dogwhistles, it isn’t hard to cherry-pick evidence and frame absolutely anything in the worst possible way to reinforce your beliefs, and a descent into conspiracism swiftly follows. Where wholly valid concerns about just how many gender-questioning LGB youth are being needlessly sterilised via paediatric transition all become reframed as akin to far-right racism and ultimately genocidal.

The widespread insistence among those who see themselves as “pro-trans rights” that their opposition is all part of a wider “anti-gender” movement serves to collapse nuanced opinions into a ridiculous binary of the virtuous transactivist faux-‘left’ vs everybody else is a hateful right-wing fascist. Anyone who does not appear to fit into that binary is considered to be either a front or a useful patsy, their mind warped by “right-wing tropes”, their politics shaped by conservatism and fear. That is how you end up with absolutely ludicrous - yet widespread - beliefs like considering Mumsnet to be “part of the global resurgence in fascism” (9m50s in that podcast).

Tranocity - Julie Bindel
And then there were the free-speech warriors, that told me although they personally despised my transphobia, they defended my right to say it. This is not and never has been about free speech, it's about who is silenced and who has the loudest voice. When the likes of Mary Beard and Peter Tatchell openly called me a transphobe whilst gallantly defending my right say transphobic things, I was deeply offended. When Caroline Lucas, the Green Party member of Parliament for Brighton Pavilion, who has called for the town to have its own gender clinic, gave an interview to Penis News in which she expressed dismay at my bigoted transphobic beliefs, I realised that no one except for feminists and the few feminist allies that are brave enough to stand up, were going to sort out this hell we had sleepwalked into.

The Myth Of 'Both Sides' - JL
Commentators on the gender debate are fond of the ‘both sides’ trope. But it is a myth. In truth, only one side is trying to impose a political dogma on the other using intimidation, violence and the forcible suppression of any opposition.

How would you define what a woman is?
"They seem scared of saying what they actually think knowing that there's always another layer of the purity test they haven't considered yet."

Quote from: QueenHippolyta
Concept of ‘exclusively same sex attracted’
There is a word; it's called 'queer'! I loathe the word but understood and supported its utility for those who preferred gender or were sexually fluid: pansexuals, trans etc. I thought it would be a nice 3rd place for them all to be happy without the hard sexual boundaries that lesbians and gay men have.
It wasn't enough. It is never enough.
Now we don't even have the word 'woman'
Women have to say NO

All I heard was "I don't understand the law".

Is it wrong? take 1
Is it wrong? take 2



Welcome to the Transsexual Age - (the late) Norah Vincent
[Transsexuality] signifies the death of the self, the soul, that good old-fashioned indubitable ‘I’ so beloved of Descartes, whose great adage ‘I think, therefore I am’ has become an ontological joke on the order of ‘I tinker, and there I am.’



Who is Shah Rukh? Born on this day in 1377, I chose him because he was ruler of Persia and Transoxiania. Really. That's it.

Come on
« Reply #23 on: August 21, 2022 »
Lillian Crawford came to my attention thanks to recent comments on Amol Rajan, ably rebutted on Twitter.

Why I’m picking trans* rights over Harry Potter

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In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, J.K. Rowling describes the worst punishment that exists in the Wizarding World – the Dementor’s Kiss. The procedure involves the removal of your soul from your body, leaving you with nothing but corporeal reality. Your essence, in other words, is destroyed. Rowling wrote that the human body in and of itself is worthless, that it is nothing without the soul, that it is a fate worse than death: a life merely existing in a body without an identity is not worth living.

Spoiler alert.

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During childhood I was diagnosed with gender dysphoria, the overwhelming discomfort one feels in the sex they were assigned at birth.

Lillian is male and has assigned himself into the female sex class.

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This isn’t something I talk about often – certainly not publicly, because it’s part of my private medical history.

GQ, where this piece appeared, hasn't been known as Gentleman's Quarterly for quite a while, but I still applaud the author's apposite choice of venue to go more public. They've even got a special section for some crowding under the transgender umbrella.

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The current climate around gender and sex in Britain, especially ‘gender critical’ campaign groups, no longer respects that privacy and has forced trans* [trans* is inclusive of a wide spectrum of gender identies including gender-fluid, agender as well as transsexual and transgender] people to be open about their identities when their rights are under threat to protect themselves and others.

DARVO is a staple in trans* fiction.

* [the other side of reality]

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While I have never seen the Harry Potter books as works of great literature, what they offered to me as a child was a story through which I could explain my feelings.

So, good enough literature.

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Like many children of my generation, I tried to find myself within the Potter world. Of course, I was Hermione – a girl unafraid to be clever and to show that off to others, to be bookish despite it not being ‘cool’.

Hermione was a ‘mudblood’, someone who didn’t come from magical privilege, and had to prove that she belonged as much as her ‘pureblood’ classmates, which she does through academic excellence. This is one way Harry Potter resonates with young people – the books offer reassurance that you can come to terms with your identity later in life, and that you can find a community of similar people who understand you.

It's lovely that a bookish girl could capture the imagination of a bookish boy. Here's another author for you. (Necktie clashes with the chair btw.)

I've never read HP and have no plans to, but it strikes me that as it demonstrably shaped the lives of Lillian and many others, we might consider upgrading it to 'great' after all.

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I believe that everyone who feels a disconnect between their gender and their sexed body should be supported in transitioning to whatever degree is right for them. I believe that we as a society should not distinguish or discriminate between those who have undergone processes of transition and those who have not. To paraphrase Simone de Beauvoir, we all become, rather than are born, a man or a woman.

"The very concept of ‘woman’, de Beauvoir argues, is a male concept: woman is always ‘other’ because the male is the ‘seer’: he is the subject and she the object – the meaning of what it is to be a woman is given by men."

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This is not a belief that J.K. Rowling shares. In 2018 she liked a tweet that described trans women as “men in dresses”, which her spokesperson claimed was a mistake made in a “middle-aged moment”. At the end of 2019, she voiced her support through Twitter of Maya Forstater, whose work contract had not been renewed after she claimed “men cannot change into women”. Since then she has criticised gender-neutral language, endorsed gender critical activists and organisations, and reprimanded members of the Labour party for including trans women within their definitions of, well, women.

Rather than a single incident, it is the persistency and aggression of Rowling’s tweets and actions that have made her a threat to trans* people.

My bold. Let the record show more DARVO.

Following those links I fail to find anything that raises so much as an eyebrow, unless you count PenisNews, which thanks to its unswerving devotion to, well, you know, reliably raises gorge.

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I sympathise with Potter fans who struggle to let go of the world Rowling created because it has been one into which people have projected themselves and felt represented. This has been felt on such a scale that many fans believe Rowling should leave her work behind, and stop creating new stories in her Wizarding World.

Part of growing up is learning when to let go.

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That day may come, but while Rowling remains financially and creatively tethered to the franchise, it is impossible to distinguish the art from the artist. Every time you buy a Harry Potter book or pay to see a Fantastic Beasts film, you contribute directly to the maintenance and growth of Rowling’s power.

Ah, the power of words to cast a spell.

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As an adult, I have identified with Rowling herself, as a fellow survivor of sexual assault. My own trauma has left me with anxiety and depression, and a complex distrust of men.

Gentle reminder that you're a man. Yes, I can quite grasp the complexity.

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When I was diagnosed with complex PTSD, it transpired that I could not even begin processing the abuse I had suffered until my transition was complete because the dysphoria itself was traumatic. As a result, spaces apart from cis males are important for me, as they are for many women, non-binary, and trans* people. I have felt sympathy for Rowling when she has voiced concern at the apparent intention to dissolve these safe spaces, something she has written about at length.

What I cannot sympathise with is the move from a rational fear of abuse to an irrational fear which sees all people, or in Rowling’s case pre-operative trans women, as potential abusers. That because you have been abused by a “penised individual” – to use a phrase from one of Rowling’s own tweets – does not mean all people with penises are going to abuse you.

How many times must it be said? Women can't tell the difference between men intent on harm and men who aren't. Segregation in states of vulnerability as a first line of defense is entirely proper. Why should women and girls be the default victims of a new safeguarding minefield?

Those who push and parrot TWAW and promote self-ID have a lot to answer for.

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In recent weeks, Rowling has made repeatedly clear her connection to the gender critical movement – which promotes the view that sex is biological and immutable – that continues to grow and gain momentum.

Yay science.

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Earlier this month, Rowling dined with the figureheads of this movement on the same day thousands protested against the government’s announcement that trans* people would not be protected by an upcoming ban on conversion therapy in the UK. In 2020 Rowling had said that she would march for trans* rights if they were being discriminated against.


clicky


My turn to be hysterical I guess (see below). It must be social contagion.

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It has been argued that the words Rowling has used are confined to Twitter, and therefore cannot do any real harm. However, reports have been published proving that the mental health of trans* and cis* *my link people have been affected by ‘gender critical’ rhetoric, including most recently in The Guardian.

We're aware which side isn't a big fan of debate or free speech in general.

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Moreover, the citation of Rowling by leaders such as Vladimir Putin, as well as others in America my link again, as they target discriminatory policies against trans* people only reinforces the direct line of connection that exists between her words and real-world actions.

So many go Godwin. Well swerved.

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The fact is that trans* people at all stages of transition are currently living in an intense state of fear DARVO.

I've never come across a more hysterical lot than trans rights activists, who take victimisation to new heights.

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Where reform and progress had been promised and enacted over the past decade, we now see violent backlash akin to the ‘gay panic’ of the 1980s under Margaret Thatcher. As this climate intensifies, we have to decide which side of history we are on and impose boycotts and sanctions on those who oppose trans* rights. That includes J.K. Rowling.

Wrapping it up now, better squeeze in moral panic, forced teaming, and language calling to mind racial injustice. All this and Thatch too! There's a joke struggling to get out.


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When I transitioned, I made a definitive break with the past.

Wherever you go there you are.

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The most recent stage of that process has been to let my connection to Rowling and her works die with it, while making my peace with the significance they once held for me. I invite you to do the same – after all, to use Rowling’s own words, one cannot live while the other survives.

While I'm confident that's not an actual threat, it sounds uncannily like one. Quelle surprise.

Be kind
« Reply #24 on: August 22, 2022 »
Razors cut you
your face or your legs
one if you've testes
the other if eggs.
You don't have a choice
but you can pretend
gender's your enemy
sex is your friend.

Hearts and minds
« Reply #25 on: September 03, 2022 »




Quote from: Eliza Mondegreen
Phobia indoctrination
A healthy, open, supportive trans community would not look or sound like the trans community we've got. It would be honest about the risks trans people face, rather than wildly inflating those risks to instill fear.

Hearts and minds
« Reply #26 on: September 04, 2022 »
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I've always cordially loathed him without quite knowing why.

From an interesting conversation about Stewart Lee at the coven. The witches have a way with words that keeps me coming back.

Quote from: PermanentTemporary
Comedians are in a business where you literally spend decades performing in a comedy persona while a) pretending it's you, b) performatively despising those who take the persona seriously and as if it's you and c) verbally abusing those who don't take the persona seriously and heckle them to come out of character.

Actually I don't mind any of that, it's a direct descent from the role of the licensed Fool etc (thoroughly recommend the Rest is History episode where Al Murray digs into comedy in history - v interesting). But it is a fact that they understand the vulnerability of mixing reality and performance in daily life, and how it 'working' depends on other people buying into it.

It's why it's predictable that Alastair Campbell would be publicly TWAW - whether or not he really believes it, his daughter is trying to make it as a comedian and she would be very brutally required to denounce him if he strayed, or suffer professional consequences. He loves his daughter.

I enjoy Stewart's comedy.


Quote from: lapasion
...in the past, everyone was safe in the knowledge that all comedians were very left wing and had the correct opinions. So when they dropped a slur or made nasty comments about women it was fine, because they are being ironic, you just don’t have a sense of humour.

But now there are comedians who dare to disagree with Lee and his mates on a certain topic. Which means we can’t joke about anything in case we’re actually right wing and not just, you know, making a joke. So all comedy must become a boring, po-faced lecture without any actual jokes, and clapping replaces laughter.


(Factchecking that "1000 families")

Progressive Mother Tells Daughter That She's Beautiful Just The Way She Is, Unless She's Trans In Which Case She'll Need Extensive Plastic Surgery
"Don't worry Bella," said White. "God made you perfect! You are unique and beautiful and you shouldn't change anything about yourself! Unless, of course, you're trans. If you're trans, you're a total disaster and cannot be happy unless doctors disassemble your body and make it into something else. Are you trans, honey?"

The young girl shrugged and pulled her hoodie up over her head.

Taking that as a "yes," Mrs. White has scheduled counseling and transition treatment for her new transgender son.

Hearts and minds
« Reply #27 on: September 07, 2022 »
Auntie wants the audience to know this man was hounded out of a job:

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Period dignity officer role scrapped after abuse over man's appointment
Jason Grant's hiring sparked a heated online debate, with critics saying the job should have gone to a woman.

The area's period dignity working group says the role will be discontinued following "threats and abuse" to those involved.

Martina Navratilova called the appointment "absurd", and Francis Barber was "fuming". No other examples were provided. Which was the threat and which the abuse?

Quote from: Victoria Smith
People like their fiction, but they do eventually tire of lies.

Truth has become a dog whistle.

Quote from: Frankie Mouche
12 Most Common Transphobic Dog Whistles
When engaging with people about trans issues, especially online, transphobic dog whistling is common place. Whether you are trans or nonbinary yourself or an ally, it is important to recognise these words and phrases.

Edumacate yourselves! This should flush the TERFs out:


Hearts and minds
« Reply #28 on: September 18, 2022 »

https://twitter.com/surma_jo/status/1571481978410799106
Quote from: Jo Surma
Side 1 = Smoke bombs, covered faces
Side 2 = Women having to wear body cameras in case they're attacked

What are the women doing to invite such a violent backlash?

Talking about women's rights. That's it. Our sex based, legal rights.

https://mobile.twitter.com/theFoxFisher/status/1571581733732257793
Quote from: Fox Fisher
Frustrated angry chants, the theatrics of coloured flares, the ninja style black uniform and the arresting of two trans rights supporters (with three police knocking one small framed person to the ground) is easy to twist in the media as something fearful

Quote from: The Argus
Two men were arrested at around 2.45pm this afternoon. One was arrested on suspicion of assault. The other person was arrested on suspicion of obstructing a police officer.

[Later a third was arrested, on suspicion of sexual assault.]

It is unclear what group they were supporting.

As someone said, it's a mystery for the ages, like the Bermuda triangle or what happened to Lord Lucan.





All that glitters is not comedy gold. These people are… something else.

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Oh my word, and one of them is a 'diversity advisor'?

Oh, the irony.

'Emily (she/her) is DCA’s media manager. She works as part of a team to amplify DCA’s leading and trusted voice in workplace diversity and inclusion.

Emily is also a campaigner, communicator and organiser with a background working in social justice, workers’ rights, and gender equality.

Recognised for her trailblazing use of social media as a campaigning and organising medium, and her consent-based collective story-telling models, Emily builds relationships to tell complex stories in accessible, impactful and effective ways.’

Helen Joyce's writeup is also worth a read.

sam

Hearts and minds
« Reply #29 on: September 20, 2022 »
Spotted in my hometown paper in the States:



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State ed board to consider anti-LGBTQ resolution

After that clickbait headline need we read the actual story?

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State education board members will consider a proposed resolution discriminating against LGBTQ+ students next week.

Let's be clear: this is about the T, as usual.

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Cleveland.com reported that Brendan Shea, a conservative board member from Madison County near Columbus, will introduce Tuesday the "Resolution to Support Parents, Schools and Districts in Rejecting Harmful, Coercive and Burdensome Gender Identity Policies,"

A+ in resolution naming.

Cleveland.com's version of this story is far superior, btw.

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which reportedly claims that biological sex can't be changed and would deny them Title IX protections.

F for framing science as the bad guy.

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In June, for Title IX's 50th anniversary, the U.S. Department of Education proposed new protections for LGBTQ+ students from discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity and sex characteristics under the landmark federal law.

In June, for Title IX's 50th anniversary, the U.S. Department of Education proposed to gut the landmark federal law.

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If approved by state board members, the resolution would require schools to out LGBT+ children to their parents no matter the circumstances

Seeing as we're streamlining the process we might as well cut the parents out too, eh?

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and ban transgender youth from participating in sports or using facilities that align with their gender identity.

In other words, it would help ensure fairness and give students needed privacy based on their sex.

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It also advocates that state lawmakers use public resources to pay for penalties incurred by school districts for ignoring Title IX legal protections.

Interesting.

As long as we're talking about money, I guess they ran out of column inches to mention that "Schools that violate Title IX could face funding cuts for programs that support everything from classroom instruction to free and reduced-cost lunches for students."

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Honesty for Ohio Education executive director Cynthia Peeples opposes the resolution.

"The state board of education must stop this toxic resolution in its tracks," Peeple said. "It builds on a foundation of falsehoods and attacks that certain Ohio policymakers have copied from divisive, extremist national groups with no concern for the wellbeing of Ohio's young people.

"It goes against the state board's core mission to support public education for all Ohio students, and breeds a culture of lawlessness by directing local school leaders to break the law."

Gotta love that her group is called 'Honesty for Education'.

Toxic… falsehoods… attacks… divisive… extremist [i.e., fact-based], inclusive... I have seen the future and it is bite-sized.

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Two other state organizations – Ohio Federation of Teachers and Equality Ohio – stand in solidarity with Peeples….

Yada yada yada. Yes, this is the kind of insightful commentary you come here for.