Rishi Sunak says 'a man is a man and a woman is a woman'

jadis · 05-02-2025, 06:37 AM

jadis · 05-10-2025, 08:56 AM

When the Truth Is Uncomfortable – and We Want to Look Away

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Both the UK grooming scandals and the medicalisation of ROGD teens highlight how the visceral reality of body horror drives us to turn away from deeply unsettling truths.

jadis · 05-11-2025, 10:44 AM

First appearance in this thread for the very smart Helen Lewis, a "gender critical" author from the UK, writing about another author I happen to enjoy: the one and the only Andrea Long Chu.

The Worst Argument for Youth Transition: Andrea Long Chu says the unpopular part out loud.

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Trollishness is Chu’s preferred style when writing about gender. She has written that she transitioned to experience “benevolent chauvinism” and to wear hot pants, and argued that “my new vagina won’t make me happy, and it shouldn’t have to.” The modern trans movement has largely tidied away the suggestion that sexuality—and particularly, the sexual fetish known as autogynephilia, where men become aroused by the thought of themselves as women—has anything to do with transition. Yet Chu has steamrolled through that taboo too, wondering aloud whether sissy porn made her trans. Sometimes I think only her ideological opponents actually read her work. Certainly, liberals tend to get uncomfortable when you quote from it, because they know perfectly well that this is not the trans-rights narrative approved by GLAAD and the Human Rights Campaign. You have to argue against her with one hand tied behind your back, politely overlooking her actual, published statements, including her claim that the anus is “a kind of universal vagina through which femaleness can always be accessed.”

QQpy3ko · 05-15-2025, 11:52 AM

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Originally Posted by jadis

Interesting, never thought of it this way. Do you mind my asking what line of work you're in? This sounds like something a Russian who's into the hard sciences (what's called in Russian the exact sciences, tochnye nauki) might say. My parents are both from that milieu.

I do programming.

Or we can do it an opposite way: lets give 'man' and 'woman' for genders,
and for sports and some medicine and etc use 's-man' (man by sex), 's-woman'. Or even whatever term for sex ("whatever_new_word" for men, "whatever_another_new_word" for women) though if your gender is 'man' - 's-man' fits well to you.
Then I don't mind be 'zero gender' and 's-man'.
Anyway we leave 'man', 'woman' for gender or sex it will require to claim 'until 2026 women and men were pointing to both sex and genders depending on context'.

jadis · 06-03-2025, 08:53 AM

A document was circulated within Police Scotland claiming that the view that there are only two sexes was a “key feature” of the Nazis’ beliefs.

Fascinating. Having read a few months ago most chapters of what I assumed was the most up-to-date scholarly synthesis of our knowledge about the Third Reich and its ideology, I must have missed that bit. The more you know.

jadis · 06-21-2025, 01:15 PM

Easily one of the funniest stories ever featured in this thread

jadis · 06-22-2025, 11:55 AM

Killer’s criminal record ‘wiped clean’ after self-identifying as woman

jadis · 06-22-2025, 04:13 PM

If there's one place where the UK gender wars are raging nonstop, it's JK Rowling's twitter account.

I like this one for two reasons: it's revealing of what the trans allies think deep down about "transwomen", and it reminds me of a line by Angela Carter that "it's every woman's tragedy, that, after a certain age, she looks like a female impersonator." The many ironies of gender...

jadis · 07-06-2025, 09:42 AM

Brilliant on how the transgenderism is a quintessentially American phenomenon that went global, like so many other things do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TC7G...nAndersonMedia

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jadis Music Addict Join Date: Jun 2021 Location: dont ask Posts: 1,606	A document was circulated within Police Scotland claiming that the view that there are only two sexes was a “key feature” of the Nazis’ beliefs. Fascinating. Having read a few months ago most chapters of what I assumed was the most up-to-date scholarly synthesis of our knowledge about the Third Reich and its ideology, I must have missed that bit. The more you know. __________________ You hide behind a borrowed chase for the sake of future days

06-21-2025, 01:15 PM	#246 (permalink)
jadis Music Addict Join Date: Jun 2021 Location: dont ask Posts: 1,606	Easily one of the funniest stories ever featured in this thread __________________ You hide behind a borrowed chase for the sake of future days

06-22-2025, 11:55 AM	#247 (permalink)
jadis Music Addict Join Date: Jun 2021 Location: dont ask Posts: 1,606	Killer’s criminal record ‘wiped clean’ after self-identifying as woman __________________ You hide behind a borrowed chase for the sake of future days

06-22-2025, 04:13 PM	#248 (permalink)
jadis Music Addict Join Date: Jun 2021 Location: dont ask Posts: 1,606	If there's one place where the UK gender wars are raging nonstop, it's JK Rowling's twitter account. I like this one for two reasons: it's revealing of what the trans allies think deep down about "transwomen", and it reminds me of a line by Angela Carter that "it's every woman's tragedy, that, after a certain age, she looks like a female impersonator." The many ironies of gender... __________________ You hide behind a borrowed chase for the sake of future days

07-06-2025, 09:42 AM	#249 (permalink)
jadis Music Addict Join Date: Jun 2021 Location: dont ask Posts: 1,606	Brilliant on how the transgenderism is a quintessentially American phenomenon that went global, like so many other things do. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TC7G...nAndersonMedia __________________ You hide behind a borrowed chase for the sake of future days

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