Another busy week on the gender beat and here, for your entertainment and delight, are just a few of the good news stories. Enjoy! Y Viva España Some excellent news from Spain; on Tuesday the Spanish government voted for a proposal to draw up legislation to abolish prostitution. The proposed legislation would protect rather than criminalise ‘sex workers’ and introduce more stringent penalties for pimps and johns.
And one more brilliant news item - a Danish LGB breakaway group in the same vogue as LGB Alliance - The Rainbow Council was launched last week and the response has been phenomenal, and already with a twenty minute interview on national television in a prime late night background news programme.
And there has finally been some coverage on mainstream Irish radio in the last week. Excellent discussion on Liveline RTE radio 1 this afternoon. Television next hopefully. And with Graham's participation.
I'd also read somewhere a few weeks back that the Danish *government* had decided that Laws, health, policies etc should only be based on *sex* (binary - male/female) NOT "gender identity. The view being the GI was individual and should not be a basis for laws/policies that affect many. Very sensible of them. Pity its not being broadcast though.
As always, JL, thank you, and this came very early in the week.
Sports fan know what a real woman is. Those shameless bastards are definitely not wanted by the public.
If anyone had told me, 3 years ago that I would use 'wonderful' and 'Tories' in the same sentence I would have spat out my beer but here we are: Liz Truss (brilliant speech) Julia Hartley-Brewer (never lets it lie) and, as ever, Sajid Javid.
Received the lovely news from LGB Alliance last week. This is just great.
'Emily' Bridges is not a woman. 'Emily' Bridges is not female. 'Emily' Bridges is not even 'Emily'. 'Emily' is Zach. Zach Bridges -- the male, the man, the interloper, the cheat.
Great news about the LGB Alliance using National Lottery funding for a helpline to support lesbian, gay and bisexual youth - what's Twitter's rationale for flagging it as "Age-restricted adult content. This content might not be appropriate for people under 18 years old."?
I actually attended that Women and Equalities debate! Wes Streeting and Annaliese Dodds were pointing their whole arms at Truss, yelling that they will defend it too. Are they finally realising what this issue is all about?
Should be "normalized", particularly since it gets the transloonies' knickers - or knackers, as the case may be - in a twist:
"The unspaced spelling transwoman is sometimes used interchangeably, including by a few transgender people. However, it is often associated with views (notably gender-critical feminism) that hold transgender women are not women, and thus require a separate word from woman to describe them. For this reason many transgender people find transwoman offensive."
"It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually nothing more... than a whine. 'I find that offensive.' It has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. 'I am offended by that.' Well, so fucking what."
Whether transwomen are "offended" or not has got diddly-squat to do with the facts of the matter. And transwomen are most certainly not "adult human females" - AKA, "women" - which more than justifies the compound construction:
Why on earth are you sending around "Lips" in this anti-woman climate today?
Are we supposed to see it as a Covid metaphor? If so, more males died than females. No clue was given if so.
As a metaphor for the erasure of women in the trans movement? If so, that isn't clear at all. And why have the wife eat the Lips and think they are sun-dried tomatoes but taste beefy?
Are we to see it as a judgment of the medical industry's rush to perform unnecessary surgeries on women (stats show that to be true in the UK, the US, Italy, other countries as well). In the UK you have the NHS. Is it a judgment on the NHS? If so, none of that is clear either.
Dreyfus is a gay male. I suspect he is someone who does not like women, not because of his sexual orientation, but because In speaking out against the trans movement, I pegged him as not so much concerned for women and girls but concerned more because of the homophobia built into the trans movement. So now we have this film in which two women are reduced to lips. Again, is it a metaphor for trans erasure of women? Again, that isn't clear, if so. What's going on? In the distant media past I could have seen this as a Twilight Zone entry and maybe thought it clever. Not today.
And one more brilliant news item - a Danish LGB breakaway group in the same vogue as LGB Alliance - The Rainbow Council was launched last week and the response has been phenomenal, and already with a twenty minute interview on national television in a prime late night background news programme.
https://www.facebook.com/DanskRegnbueraad/?ref=page_internal
Wonderful!
That is great news from Denmark.
And there has finally been some coverage on mainstream Irish radio in the last week. Excellent discussion on Liveline RTE radio 1 this afternoon. Television next hopefully. And with Graham's participation.
Fantastic!
I'd also read somewhere a few weeks back that the Danish *government* had decided that Laws, health, policies etc should only be based on *sex* (binary - male/female) NOT "gender identity. The view being the GI was individual and should not be a basis for laws/policies that affect many. Very sensible of them. Pity its not being broadcast though.
As always, JL, thank you, and this came very early in the week.
Sports fan know what a real woman is. Those shameless bastards are definitely not wanted by the public.
If anyone had told me, 3 years ago that I would use 'wonderful' and 'Tories' in the same sentence I would have spat out my beer but here we are: Liz Truss (brilliant speech) Julia Hartley-Brewer (never lets it lie) and, as ever, Sajid Javid.
Received the lovely news from LGB Alliance last week. This is just great.
Thanks, Catherine!
'Emily' Bridges is not a woman. 'Emily' Bridges is not female. 'Emily' Bridges is not even 'Emily'. 'Emily' is Zach. Zach Bridges -- the male, the man, the interloper, the cheat.
Thank you as always for the Good News, JL. It really is heartening. ❤️
It's my pleasure - glad you enjoy it! x
Can I actually have the courage to watch ‘lips ‘ ?
Once again thank you JL
My pleasure!
Great news about the LGB Alliance using National Lottery funding for a helpline to support lesbian, gay and bisexual youth - what's Twitter's rationale for flagging it as "Age-restricted adult content. This content might not be appropriate for people under 18 years old."?
I might be bat shit crazy (highly probable ) but was James Dreyfus not highly critical of beloved Graham ?
I will accept being totally wrong
Oh I hope not. I really don't think so. He posted this only the other day.
https://twitter.com/DreyfusJames/status/1535298304417857536?s=20&t=Rj3oFMpPSgfHR-U0Njx3rw
Excellent I accept being wrong , I only get wee snippets of twatter before getting kicked out
You're not missing anything!
He got into trouble for referring to transgender 'women' as bully boys in skirts. Whatever else, that's good enough for me.
I actually attended that Women and Equalities debate! Wes Streeting and Annaliese Dodds were pointing their whole arms at Truss, yelling that they will defend it too. Are they finally realising what this issue is all about?
Couldn’t see the bear video for some reason
Try this link: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OFcKtTF92tk 😁
Thanks Lucy
Nice to see that MP Doyle-Price uses "transwoman" - compound word like "crayfish" which ain't:
https://twitter.com/JackieDP/status/1534514053284089857
Should be "normalized", particularly since it gets the transloonies' knickers - or knackers, as the case may be - in a twist:
"The unspaced spelling transwoman is sometimes used interchangeably, including by a few transgender people. However, it is often associated with views (notably gender-critical feminism) that hold transgender women are not women, and thus require a separate word from woman to describe them. For this reason many transgender people find transwoman offensive."
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/trans_woman#Usage_notes
As Stephen Fry once pithily put it:
"It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually nothing more... than a whine. 'I find that offensive.' It has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. 'I am offended by that.' Well, so fucking what."
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/706825-it-s-now-very-common-to-hear-people-say-i-m-rather
Whether transwomen are "offended" or not has got diddly-squat to do with the facts of the matter. And transwomen are most certainly not "adult human females" - AKA, "women" - which more than justifies the compound construction:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound_(linguistics)
Why on earth are you sending around "Lips" in this anti-woman climate today?
Are we supposed to see it as a Covid metaphor? If so, more males died than females. No clue was given if so.
As a metaphor for the erasure of women in the trans movement? If so, that isn't clear at all. And why have the wife eat the Lips and think they are sun-dried tomatoes but taste beefy?
Are we to see it as a judgment of the medical industry's rush to perform unnecessary surgeries on women (stats show that to be true in the UK, the US, Italy, other countries as well). In the UK you have the NHS. Is it a judgment on the NHS? If so, none of that is clear either.
Dreyfus is a gay male. I suspect he is someone who does not like women, not because of his sexual orientation, but because In speaking out against the trans movement, I pegged him as not so much concerned for women and girls but concerned more because of the homophobia built into the trans movement. So now we have this film in which two women are reduced to lips. Again, is it a metaphor for trans erasure of women? Again, that isn't clear, if so. What's going on? In the distant media past I could have seen this as a Twilight Zone entry and maybe thought it clever. Not today.
I get the joke but the joke seems to be on women.