Monday 27th June - Shhhhhhh! THE CRITIC: The organiser of Julie Bindel’s talk in Nottingham has explained how women wanting to discuss male violence were banned from a library. Siân Louise is an organiser with feminist group, Nottingham Women for Change. She invited Julie Bindel to Nottingham to talk about her decades of work in the sphere of male violence against women and organised a space for the event in Aspley Library. The event, a private talk for ticket-holders only, sold out within 48 hours.
“You can't ask an elite professional athlete to compromise their health” by lowering their testosterone says Ricci Tres.
At least we agree that pumping your body with hormones can comprise your health. Perhaps that’s a warning that will be better publicised in the future, especially to children considering or even being advised to take them.
Ricci Tres who stole a title and prize money from a 13 year old girl is not a woman. He certainly isn't a man either, as no real man would act in such a cavalier and hateful way towards a young girl.
Irish Times reporting this morning on a small protest outside a bookshop in Co Mayo on Saturday while a man in drag read stories to little kids/children inside. Part of Pride seemingly. Panty Bliss in attendance though not clear if Blisster was in ‘uniform’ or not.
Irish Times manages to drag The Proud Boys into the story! Sorry the link is paywalled (and I can’t post a PDF of it here):
Has the Labour party actually ever cared about women? Does it expect that its women supporters will dutifully do as they are told? I think they will find that women will not vote for a party whose leader can't define what a woman is, or for MPs that label women dinosaurs.
This is the first time I've been unable to finish reading A Week in the War on Women. But this is all fucking horrible. The cowardly men barring women from entering the library; sick men wanting to listen to women's accounts of rape; entitled mediocre men so desperate to have the Olympics experience, they will compete with children and Parliament rolling out the pink carpet for that disgusting, misogynistic publication. When will they learn that appeasement doesn't work? This really needs to be the death throes of this movement. Thank you JL for wading through this shit to bring it to a wider audience. I hope you have an outlet to vent for yourself.
Days late, but I have to raise this about leaving kids alone – and not – in Scotland.
"RespectMe is fully funded by the Scottish government and co-managed by LGBT Youth Scotland.''
Whenever LGBT Youth Scotland is mentioned I think of their former chief executive, convicted paedophile James Rennie, and wonder if there has been any real attempt to trace the legacy he and the rest of his fellow abusers – 'the biggest paedophile network uncovered in Scotland' – have left in their wake in Scotland.
'Scottish paedophile ring found guilty of more than 50 charges
Gay rights campaigner led double life as ringleader; Two offenders abused children of close friends'
Severin Carrell, Scotland correspondent
@severincarrell
Thu 7 May 2009 21.06 BST
'A ring of eight paedophiles, including a former welfare campaigner for young gay men, were today convicted of child abuse and producing indecent images of children. The men, from across central Scotland, were found guilty by a jury in Edinburgh of more than 50 charges, ranging from abusing infants from three months old to conspiracy and holding more than 125,000 images of child pornography.
'Two of the leaders of the gang, the biggest paedophile network uncovered in Scotland, were convicted of raping and abusing the young children of close friends while they were babysitting, and sharing images of the abuse.
'One, James Rennie, 38, THEN CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF THE GAY AND LESBIAN HELPLINE 'LGBT Youth Scotland' [my caps] had been babysitting the son of close friends, called Child F during the trial, since the child was three months old. The child's parents were so comfortable with Rennie that he was allowed to bathe, change and dress the boy, whom he went on to abuse repeatedly FOR FOUR YEARS, allowing another ring-leader, Neil Strachan, to participate.
'An engineer with previous convictions for child sex offences, Strachan, 41, had photographed himself trying to abuse an 18-month-old boy he was babysitting for friends on New Year's Eve in 2005.
'Rennie, A FORMER SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHER since sacked from the helpline, had championed the rights of young gay people. But in private, said Dorothy Bain QC, prosecuting, he had been "polluted by deviant compulsion".
'During one of the most harrowing trials of its kind, the images were so graphic that the court had to be cleared of the public and media during the 10-week hearing. At one stage, the judge, Lord Bannatyne, suddenly adjourned the hearing without explanation after hearing about the rape of a four-year-old girl.
'The police uncovered the paedophile ring after Strachan, a maintenance engineer for a paint firm and FORMERLY SECRETARY OF CELTIC BOYS CLUB in Edinburgh, handed his computer in for repair. On its hard drive, a repair technician found an image of an 11-year-old boy abusing himself.
'A further 7,000 images were found, together with emails clearly showing that other children were at serious risk. Lothian and Borders detectives launched Operation Algebra, and were given warrants by courts in the United States to obtain email records from Microsoft. Expert witnesses were able to identify one digital camera used to record the abuse from the photographs.
'That investigation exposed Rennie's identity. He had assumed the email name "Kenny Plover", whose email address "kplover99" was said to stand for "kiddie porn lover". His email account was accessed from the offices of LGBT Youth Scotland in Leith, Edinburgh.
'Sophisticated tracking equipment then located Rennie's broadband Wi-Fi signals in the Meadowbank area of Edinburgh.
'Strachan, using the name "Mark", sent Rennie images of his abuse of the toddler on New Year's Eve. Further investigations by police uncovered the identities of the other six men who made, shared and collected abusive images: Colin Slaven, 23, from Edinburgh; Neil Campbell, 46, John Milligan, 40, and John Murphy, 44, all of Glasgow; Ross Webber, 27, from North Berwick; and Craig Boath, 24, from Dundee.
'Milligan had 78,000 images in his possession. He was allowed to listen on the telephone to Rennie abusing the toddler, and had discussed getting access to the boy. Webber, Boath and Milligan were found guilty of conspiring to participate in the sexual abuse of children along with Strachan and Rennie. Campbell was cleared of conspiracy. The men will be sentenced later.'
Has there been any real examination of the legacy these men and their like left in their wake? How did Scotland get to where it now is, so captured and groomed into belief in all things gender/queer/TQ+++, and at the heart of gov't? Not to mention various legislative efforts to undermine parents' rights and families? What is known about this ring's past or indeed present doings, other contacts who weren't caught or convicted, or who else in positions of power turned a blind eye or indulged or perhaps even joined them?
Perhaps especially, what has become of those they influenced, groomed or abused as minors, now grown? What has the impact been on them?
Privacy and confidentiality issues are of course an issue, plus likely denial and sweeping under carpets, but I do wonder what follow up there has and has not been, who may have influence where, and over whom.
“You can't ask an elite professional athlete to compromise their health” by lowering their testosterone says Ricci Tres.
At least we agree that pumping your body with hormones can comprise your health. Perhaps that’s a warning that will be better publicised in the future, especially to children considering or even being advised to take them.
Ricci Tres who stole a title and prize money from a 13 year old girl is not a woman. He certainly isn't a man either, as no real man would act in such a cavalier and hateful way towards a young girl.
Despite the grimness of this, there is evidence of a powerful fight back.
As for the hairy weirdo in Toronto - isn't that almost a symbol of what the situation is: women are disappearing and being replaced by men.
Irish Times reporting this morning on a small protest outside a bookshop in Co Mayo on Saturday while a man in drag read stories to little kids/children inside. Part of Pride seemingly. Panty Bliss in attendance though not clear if Blisster was in ‘uniform’ or not.
Irish Times manages to drag The Proud Boys into the story! Sorry the link is paywalled (and I can’t post a PDF of it here):
https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/social-affairs/2022/07/02/mayo-bookshop-targeted-by-objectors-to-drag-queen-event/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=RSS%3AITEM%3ATITLE&utm_campaign=lunchtime_latest_digest
Oh, God.
Gender talented my arse.
Has the Labour party actually ever cared about women? Does it expect that its women supporters will dutifully do as they are told? I think they will find that women will not vote for a party whose leader can't define what a woman is, or for MPs that label women dinosaurs.
Posie says it was "probably a mistake" to allow girls into the Scout movement and I agree.
It was a precursor to the current madness and the cynical part of me thinks that was the plan all along.
This is the first time I've been unable to finish reading A Week in the War on Women. But this is all fucking horrible. The cowardly men barring women from entering the library; sick men wanting to listen to women's accounts of rape; entitled mediocre men so desperate to have the Olympics experience, they will compete with children and Parliament rolling out the pink carpet for that disgusting, misogynistic publication. When will they learn that appeasement doesn't work? This really needs to be the death throes of this movement. Thank you JL for wading through this shit to bring it to a wider audience. I hope you have an outlet to vent for yourself.
Holy fuck! Couldn't make it to the end, will have to come back to it later...
No mention of Scottish women in Parliament this week?
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/protesters-in-anti-sturgeon-t-shirts-ejected-from-holyrood-gender-law-reform-debate-kbqm8r5wb
Days late, but I have to raise this about leaving kids alone – and not – in Scotland.
"RespectMe is fully funded by the Scottish government and co-managed by LGBT Youth Scotland.''
Whenever LGBT Youth Scotland is mentioned I think of their former chief executive, convicted paedophile James Rennie, and wonder if there has been any real attempt to trace the legacy he and the rest of his fellow abusers – 'the biggest paedophile network uncovered in Scotland' – have left in their wake in Scotland.
The Guardian on the day of their conviction, 7 May 2009: https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/may/07/scottish-paedophile-ring-guilty-child-abuse
'Scottish paedophile ring found guilty of more than 50 charges
Gay rights campaigner led double life as ringleader; Two offenders abused children of close friends'
Severin Carrell, Scotland correspondent
@severincarrell
Thu 7 May 2009 21.06 BST
'A ring of eight paedophiles, including a former welfare campaigner for young gay men, were today convicted of child abuse and producing indecent images of children. The men, from across central Scotland, were found guilty by a jury in Edinburgh of more than 50 charges, ranging from abusing infants from three months old to conspiracy and holding more than 125,000 images of child pornography.
'Two of the leaders of the gang, the biggest paedophile network uncovered in Scotland, were convicted of raping and abusing the young children of close friends while they were babysitting, and sharing images of the abuse.
'One, James Rennie, 38, THEN CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF THE GAY AND LESBIAN HELPLINE 'LGBT Youth Scotland' [my caps] had been babysitting the son of close friends, called Child F during the trial, since the child was three months old. The child's parents were so comfortable with Rennie that he was allowed to bathe, change and dress the boy, whom he went on to abuse repeatedly FOR FOUR YEARS, allowing another ring-leader, Neil Strachan, to participate.
'An engineer with previous convictions for child sex offences, Strachan, 41, had photographed himself trying to abuse an 18-month-old boy he was babysitting for friends on New Year's Eve in 2005.
'Rennie, A FORMER SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHER since sacked from the helpline, had championed the rights of young gay people. But in private, said Dorothy Bain QC, prosecuting, he had been "polluted by deviant compulsion".
'During one of the most harrowing trials of its kind, the images were so graphic that the court had to be cleared of the public and media during the 10-week hearing. At one stage, the judge, Lord Bannatyne, suddenly adjourned the hearing without explanation after hearing about the rape of a four-year-old girl.
'The police uncovered the paedophile ring after Strachan, a maintenance engineer for a paint firm and FORMERLY SECRETARY OF CELTIC BOYS CLUB in Edinburgh, handed his computer in for repair. On its hard drive, a repair technician found an image of an 11-year-old boy abusing himself.
'A further 7,000 images were found, together with emails clearly showing that other children were at serious risk. Lothian and Borders detectives launched Operation Algebra, and were given warrants by courts in the United States to obtain email records from Microsoft. Expert witnesses were able to identify one digital camera used to record the abuse from the photographs.
'That investigation exposed Rennie's identity. He had assumed the email name "Kenny Plover", whose email address "kplover99" was said to stand for "kiddie porn lover". His email account was accessed from the offices of LGBT Youth Scotland in Leith, Edinburgh.
'Sophisticated tracking equipment then located Rennie's broadband Wi-Fi signals in the Meadowbank area of Edinburgh.
'Strachan, using the name "Mark", sent Rennie images of his abuse of the toddler on New Year's Eve. Further investigations by police uncovered the identities of the other six men who made, shared and collected abusive images: Colin Slaven, 23, from Edinburgh; Neil Campbell, 46, John Milligan, 40, and John Murphy, 44, all of Glasgow; Ross Webber, 27, from North Berwick; and Craig Boath, 24, from Dundee.
'Milligan had 78,000 images in his possession. He was allowed to listen on the telephone to Rennie abusing the toddler, and had discussed getting access to the boy. Webber, Boath and Milligan were found guilty of conspiring to participate in the sexual abuse of children along with Strachan and Rennie. Campbell was cleared of conspiracy. The men will be sentenced later.'
Has there been any real examination of the legacy these men and their like left in their wake? How did Scotland get to where it now is, so captured and groomed into belief in all things gender/queer/TQ+++, and at the heart of gov't? Not to mention various legislative efforts to undermine parents' rights and families? What is known about this ring's past or indeed present doings, other contacts who weren't caught or convicted, or who else in positions of power turned a blind eye or indulged or perhaps even joined them?
Perhaps especially, what has become of those they influenced, groomed or abused as minors, now grown? What has the impact been on them?
Privacy and confidentiality issues are of course an issue, plus likely denial and sweeping under carpets, but I do wonder what follow up there has and has not been, who may have influence where, and over whom.