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Oct 31, 2021Liked by Graham Linehan

Sickening. I wonder what number will be enough for the enablers to wake up and say "enough"? Is 43 enough? No? 143? 1043? Do I need to keep counting? Where is the line with these people?

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"... it needs to be stated as often as possible, by as many people as possible - that TERFS are, relentlessly, the absolute worst."

Really? Worse than predatorial men who wear a skirt as a cover to sexually assault women?

I sometimes wonder if Chris Morris is secretly working on a show about all this madness, but then where is there left for satire to go when you have women defending dangerous men who threaten women, but they've convinced themselves that they're doing it in support of women...?

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Thank you Graham, for keeping up with the info and reporting. Very necessary but I'm sure it's all-consuming. I hope you get some switch-off time, too.

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There will always be feminists like Finn MacKay around to remind lesbians who are sexually, physically and emotionally abused by trans identified males that more lesbians are abused by other lesbians. And feminists like Van Badham, showing her solidarity with trans identified males - "trans women are women". And the only women questioning their status and, in some instances, their unfettered, aggressively masculine behaviour are 'TERFS'. Seemingly, 'absolute worst' kind of people.

Again, women are presented as liars and bigots, they're reprimanded and their realities and truths discredited and dismissed. These are some kind of feminists.

Get on your knees, ladies, there are men in the vicinity and they want their own fucking way, right now!

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Last women's protest I was at there was a counter trans protest - it was fascinating. Some of the group were obviously mentally unwell, then there were the rest: higher functioning TIMs and young girls.

When the protest had finished, I walked past these confused, unhappy looking girls each sitting next to an older trans chaperone. It looked wrong and my heart went out to them. Maybe I'm projecting but they looked trapped and so so sad

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In “Letter To My Therapist” Eli describes the effect of hearing her therapist call her rapist “she”.

I wonder, if my wife and I were going to therapy and she called me 'she' (I'm not, just boringly straight) would the therapist make an issue of correcting her or would they remember that the language used is much less important than hearing what is being said.

These victims are being attacked by society and support organisations because their abusers are 'trans'. That's just so fucking WRONG!

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Dumb question but is there another way to buy the book or just donate as the $25 postage is putting me off..?

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I'm looking at that Tweet, and wondering if "Vax" is short for "vacuous", or whether it refers to a device known for sucking up.

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I hate to say it but I think it's going to take a lot more incidents before the mainstream media take responsibility. Every so often I read something and think 'that's the tipping point' but it never is.

It'll either happen as a result of so many incidents that it can't be ignored, or some very high-profile offender who's already on all the front pages, will ask to be tried as a woman. For a lot of people that'll be a deeply-unpleasant introduction to what self ID actually means, followed by the champions of "tolerance" and "inclusivity" desperately scrambling for excuses.

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This is so important to document. In fact, I urge them to start keeping statistics so that the male pattern of violence can be documented.

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This has really shocked me. I’m still learning so much about the GC debate and subscribed to Graham as I just felt that he’d been dealt a shitty hand and deserved support. These predators make a mockery of genuine trans people who I believe are probably as outraged as the rest of us.

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Ugh, I am ashamed that journalist Vanessa Badham is Australian. I just unfollowed her and cancelled by $10 monthly "donation" to the Guardian. She is seriously misguided claiming to be a feminist if she thinks men can be women.

Other prominent Australian feminists I'll name and shame here....Bri Lee banned me from her Substack newsletter for using the phrase "men who say they are women", commenting that I was a "yuck bigot". My greatest sorrow was to discover that Clementine Ford, whose 4 books I have loved, also believes that transwomen are women and has my comments limited on her Instagram in case I express any "hateful" terfy opinions.

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