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Way to shoehorn mention of Kneecap into an unrelated and otherwise pretty good article about the long-term effects of one aspect of the Troubles for a NI family. Topping and tailing a piece in this way to make it 'relevant' is transparent (and also lame) as f www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
I reject the inference that one needs to make a choice in this context (crumble, custard and ice cream pls)
I think it's mainly just getting married to and having sex with them, rather than all adults, but sure absolutely.
The actual users voted to include trans women and a bunch of women who don't use it and aren't used to being told "no" are now trying to impose their will on other women via legal routes.
I wasn't talking to you there, and I'm also more than capable of having that same disagreement with queer people.
ok enlightened straight xx
lol. do feel free to point out literally anything that suggests I'm 'cool with racism'.
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for the benefit of the public record, not you - sorry to disappoint. you weren't uncritically accepted as a noble ally, and now you're butthurt. boo hoo.
I have no idea what concerns you, and given that you apparently consider rights to be some kind of identity-based quid pro quo, I don't care.
it's also historically accurate, regardless of your emotional reaction. like I said above, if it's so overwhelmingly important to you to use the term then have at it - I couldn't give less of a shit tbh.
lol just the 3 posts for your true colours to come bounding out. how drearily predictable.
etymology really doesn't mean shit. in the modern age it's a clinical term, and you don't need to use it. but by all means be a straight person correcting gay ppl on that point, if that's so overwhelmingly important to you.
because it's a medical term, used to describe gayness/queerness as a mental disorder.
yh this is nonsense. also your 'enlightened straight' schtick would be greatly improved by a) not using the term 'homosexual', and b) divesting yourself of the notion thst anyone gives a shit what effect others' sexualities have on you (it stopped being about you q some time ago, if it ever was).
nothing is as keenly felt as the judgement of an unwalked dog.
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In ancient Rome, the rumors of this would spread far and wide and herald great calamity.
on the contrary - I am cis and therefore OWED AN EXPLANATION
I dont see much evidence of Germany doing that rn, but point absolutely taken - we've been prepping the bottom of the bucket for many years now, and fully deserve to live there in perpetuity.
I was living in Brussels, where a biblical thunderstorm on the evening of the vote only added to the general end of days vibe. The sniggering any time I presented a UK ID to do anything official thereafter made it all a bit more tragically quotidien. That said, Germans are in absolutely no position
Just for perspective, a few weeks ago roughly 100,000 turned up for the London Trans+ Pride march. By contrast fewer than 3,000 ACROSS THE WHOLE COUNTRY, have turned up to anti-asylum "protests". Yet we are meant to take the latter as "the voice of the people" and the former as "the minority".
Britain's longstanding what now?
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cisness is natural and simply the way of the world we can tell because of the fact that it requires strict and violent enforcement to maintain
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me too now - class action?
the first is indeed sex by coercion/deception, and not comparable (what was she offering the cis dude here, exactly, other than the blower he received?). If you think the second is legally actionable sexual assault, then you are objectively an idiot.
maybe you can sue?
cannot adequately do that w/o betraying your view that sex with a trans person is, in and of itself, a form of sexual assault.
yes it is - he brought the action to prove to his mates that he doesn't like sexual activity with a trans woman, even though he engaged in it. you've not attempted to deal with entirely comparable situations if sexual regret (dick size, living arrangements, political preference) because you/1
if sexual regret is legally actionable then good lord we are going to need a bigger court system.
ah yh those ones with 'act im fine with it though unless my mate's find out, in which case I'll either kill you or see you in court' printed on the back.
'having a convo' does not have to include one's trans or cis status, any more than it has to include one's dick size, political preferences, or living arrangements. your take, and this judgment, is predicated on the basis that sex with a trans person is some kind of irretrievable harm (it is not).
if a cis man is so so terrified at the prospect of grabbing a blower off a trans woman, he can simply choose to be celibate. the delicate little flower.
and yet her genitals (jfc everyone) were not involved. odd that. can't wait for the legal action by a cis woman on account of Mr 'mine's massive, actually' having somewhat exaggerated.
'disclose you're trans and see if they kill you or not' = modern witches ducking stool
then neither is the dude that lives in his parents' basement but lies about his spacious apartment to get laid
How noble of you. But what about if a cis man was flirting with you, said trans women, in public and over said dinner? He can later sue for reputational damage because his friends saw?
But those choices are not actually any of your (or the court's) business
I don't see any ref in the article to him asking directly if she was trans, and there's no specific reason why she would have to disclose that. In any case, what's the diff between that and a man who doesn't mention he lives with his parents in order to present as a more appealing sexual partner?
Being trans is not a lie that is in need of correction, any more than a cis person needs to inform a potential sexual partner that they are not trans. My guy also brought the legal action because his mates were laughing at him.
Can't wait for all those prosecutions of secret Tories/Reform voters/Andrew Tate admirers who might gloss over those particular attributes in the interests of getting/giving a blowjob.
He can just ask for the information he needs to know before making his decision about who he engages in sexual activity with - it's not incumbent on trans people to take care of that for potential cis sexual partners.
Nowhere in the Sky piece does it say the % of foreign born people in Bournemouth. Just that this figure has risen by 47%. So in 10 years it changed from 10% to (drumroll) 15%. That is only “national news” in an intensely racist news-space.
'I support cis women, but those of them who do not support me simply do not know their own minds bless them'
I mean ditto, but it's a pretty well established playbook at this point (see JKR's original 'I'm transphobic because DV' screed)
I am so fucking sick of this vile argument that fighting anti-trans hate is making perfect the enemy of good. Forcing trans people out of society isn’t “good”!! It’s fucking evil! “Once that is done” means “let a bunch of people that I deem less important die in the meantime”. No! Fuck you!
What the study shows is that white, well-off, gays and lesbians in mid-to-senior roles in workplaces that self-select for a hate group's mailing list do not like being included under the LGBT+ banner. Shocking! I don't have to run a survey to know everybody else doesn't like them, either!
That's a wonderful question. I have devised a way for you to bring wife back. However— if you look back, she will turn into a pillar of salt. I understand this could be considered an inconvenience.
actually there's no evidence that any of what's detailed in that article took place.
M&S cannot breach employee privacy in that way, and there's no evidence of an apology beyond complainy mum terf saying one was made.
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It's just really hard to process that huge swathes of the Israeli public are doing The Zone Of interest on a national scale.
Now THAT'S how you write a fuckin short story. samkriss.substack.com/p/born-in-th...
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and why will it definitely be racist lol
Oh for the luxury of having absolutely no skin in the game and thus being in a position to make such brave, noble choices. And chin up those whose lives are actually impacted by this shitty government - you'll just need to wait until times are less historically inflectious, or sth.
what's a 'nativist sentiment', in practical terms? just an example?
Lol I think everyone's quite clear on the salience of immigration as an electoral issue, and making policy on the basis of what Nigel Farage might say is for chumps.
Speaking from Europe, the US has always appeared like that.
This could be an AfD ad
God forbid a foreigner earns £50 for 14 hours of cycling across town to deliver burgers, eh?
Anas was reporting on elderly collapsing in the streets, as people wander, gaunt and desperate, looking on in desperation.. He broke. We all broke with him. Anas is human, as are all Gazan civilians all Palestinians, enduring this inhuman, unmitigated, unending and worsening catastrophe #SaveGaza
and hating your life and family.
not that what he actually said was very important to the discourse ('owen jones says you are bad for having a cleaner').
he also said you should pay your cleaner during lockdowns when they were not working for you, as your very WFH-friendly jobs continued and it was no skin off your nose. honestly i think it was that that tipped them over the edge.
the freedom to pay dictatorships a ton of cash and visa liberalisation measures to kill, torture and arbitrarily detain would be migrants, absent any democratic oversight, then cry about it when it all goes tits up. you're welcome for the correction.
it makes it unsurprisingly racist. and for the love of anyone vaguely connected to you, stop posting x
and how wildly successful their approach has been to date, really.
ok - 'that's a 'dealing with men' discussion'. hope that helps with your wilful miscomprehension.
And as per usual, it's the people seeking and in need of protection who suffer.
The militarisation of EU borders has been ongoing for years - it's not specific to Russia, even if that's the current context for Poland, Finland et al. As before, the EU is very much in the find out phase of enabling neighbouring and/or hostile states to instrumentalise asylum-seeking in this way.
Odd then that you seem so intent on personally illustrating the benefits of self-censorship.
The nurse in question, importantly, is Palestinian. Qwhite interesting why that nurse in particular might be accused in this way.
not on past evidence, it can't. or won't, more specifically - Member States also constitute part of 'the EU'.
in any case, none of this was created by any of the people who froze to death in the forest on the border with Belarus. They're not pawns in your 6th form geopolitics.
'terrorists' now, is it? see previously posts for why exactly this jingoistic approach to policymaking re: borders by the EU and Member States has served that opportunity up to Russia on a platter.
because they want targets for water cannons?
the border guards are being attacked at a militarised border. colour me shocked that a decision to militarise a specific situation engenders violence and conflict.
if you set out to restrict asylum and entry at borders, and pay and give concessions to other countries to achieve those things, its really no wonder they'll have you over a fucking barrel when the fancy takes them.
violence at borders and asylum are completely intertwined, and militarising borders a) has been shown to be ineffective in achieving any border-related policy objectives and b) is what got everybody into this mess in the first place.
my efforts are my business. I'm also quite happy for activism and advocacy to focus, as they do, on upholding international law and the right to asylum across the piece, regardless of location or state at fault.
yes there's of course no active opposition to US immigration policy lol. also it's 'international law', not 'norms'. also so what?
So what?
Absolutely China is the natural moral yardstick for EU member states with respect to fundamental rights. Sure thing.
also we're taught wars, pandemics and the like as series of exciting events, when in reality they're largely just an uncertain, creeping slog to live through.
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The people responsible for this early foray into “just asking questions” fake news creation (successfully sued for it by ITN) are now on panels/R4/in the House of Lords etc.
‘I believe that damaging and destroying weapons of war is one way of waging peace: I can only conclude that for the British government, the waging of peace is terrorism.’ Huw Lemmey on Palestine Action. Online early from our next issue. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
what is 'door knocking age'?
The London version www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
also her politics, but sure go off
I grew up queer under Section 28 in the late 80s and 90s and am thankful to have made it out alive. Plenty didn't, and the vast majority still bear the considerable scars. He already won the race to the bottom, and I have no qualms about feeling celebratory today.
your thinking rather than moralising would be a great start tbh. you have fun with that, bye bye now x