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Just listened for the the first time - really fascinating! I googled for Gender Critical coming out day to see the website, and there was no sign of it on the first page. The first two hits were a couple of Pink News articles complaining about, followed by a journal article about Philosophical Problems with Gender Critcial Feminism. Weird, as I never read Penis News, and while I do read journal articles, this seems a bit niche to pop up on the first page. Further down were more articles lambasting it, and of course, Stonewall. The actual website didn’t turn up until the second page of results!

I did the same search on DuckDuckGo, and it was the very first hit! Penis News was still third, but I find it rather creepy the way Google is filtering my searches.

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Icelandic accents and Arty getting emotional in the same episode?

Lovely.

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As your topic is boobs,People wonder why no one trust authorities, the lies are so massive and distractions so immense. If I’m called a man because I HAVE to have a double mastectomy tomorrow (I can’t wait for it obviously as it WILL literally save my life) I will be really annoyed. I was asked why I had cut off my hair during chemo, “was I a Nazi? “ and “why do such a thing? I’m usually just left speechless at the assumptions and ignorance. Always men. Exactly right it’s all a power thing, which is an extraordinarily difficult to carry around having to listen too constantly and as a women of course I’m not allowed to react as it deserves, which exposes the absolute objectification of women and the also assumed right to comment negatively and with prejudice against women who are fetishised and not a bunch of reproductive, slave parts. Also yes they do the same to children and it is sadistic.Anime clearly represents it perfectly. Women are not human and not deserving of respect. The whole patriarchal gamut. Why are we having to talk about respecting these “vicious” people? These things are happening everywhere and why a women’s hospital was targeted for terrorism just the natural target for misogynists who want to do maximum damage target women and children all the time and everywhere. They know women could be dangerous as they know what they’ve treated us like and expect no one would have to put up with such things and their behaviour against women and children scares them knowing what they deserve for what they’ve done to us. That’s what scares them…they know what they deserve by their own standards.

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Regarding the IOC, Ross Tucker Sports Science, Phd, does a very good and cathing analysis on his podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/za/podcast/the-real-science-of-sport-podcast/id1461719225?i=1000542224517

Tucker reviews The UK sports council guidelines on this Instagram video: https://www.instagram.com/tv/CUevYGKKLES/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

He was a member of the team who produced the World Rugby guidelines which concluded that inclusion of transwomen in the female category came with the unacceptable cost of safety and fairness.

If you have been listening to him for a while, it's interesting to hear the measured, neutral evidenced based tones start to crack when discussing the latest IOC Guidelines.

Still catching up on past episodes, but if you haven't had him, a future guest maybe?

https://sportsscientists.com/who-are-we/dr-ross-tucker/

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...scathing...

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Excellent episode Graham. Sorry to hijack but if you haven't come across it already, you must listen to S5E1 of The Skewer on Sounds. It dares to lampoon Benjamin Cohen and his inability to describe gender fluidity, and ends with the hard-hitting 'punchline' from Chapelle's show about his trans comedy friend. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001154r - 9m45s in, to the end. Hope you see this if you haven't caught it already. According to some voices in the BBC's diversity and inclusion slack channel - it's another bit of transphobic content we've put out.

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Another great programme. Steve Martin was the first man to make a joke about if he had breasts he wouldn't be able to stop fondling them - back in the 80s. Can't remember the film. Really hope you do send the Denton's link to Nolan - it's so creepy when you see the same tactics being used. It's the same in NZ.

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Very good one, thank you!

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