Notices by Gabble (gabble@spinster.xyz)

@jmakesart It’s ‘making fun of gender roles’ in as much as they think of ‘women’ as ‘a gender role’.

I have been baffled by people treating drag as something edgy, cool, transgressive. It makes me think of rugby guys dressing up as girls at every opportunity, for every party and every night out, because that’s how cool manly guys bond with other men. It makes me think of every single mixed nerd group having ‘tarts and vicars’ parties that just become ‘tarts’ parties, because all the nerdy men want to wear fishnets and miniskirts with big fake boobs, because they think that’s sexy and so crazy, and look how degenerate I am! It makes me think of every single old comedy TV show which worked in men dressing up as women, because what could be funnier? But also they wanted to play the roles themselves. And it makes me think of traditional pantomimes that grandparents take the children to, with old washed-up soap stars pretending to be Widow Twanky, hilariously still experiencing sexual attraction despite being old and ugly.

It is so intensely uncool. It’s like if the media kept trying to tell me Morris Dancing was cool and edgy, and I say this as someone who quite likes a bit of Morris Dancing in moderation.

@Flick @sim @dcc @kirby @p I say “wait and see” a lot, but this is a classic example. It’s not implausible: the law and procedures around CSAM are strict, even if the actual sentences are laughable for real offenders. If a kid tells you another kid sent them an inappropriate image, you are supposed to immediately lock the phone away and contact the police, who will have someone authorised look at it: if you look you can be committing an offense.

I find the unchanging nature of this stuff fascinating. Does anyone with a twitter account know when he posted this, and if it’s still up? I’d be interested in being able to link people to it.

@Flick @benis_redux @shrikefliesfree Yeah. I’m still inclined to wait a week more to see if anything else comes out of the woodwork, but the account of the incident itself very clearly cannot match the more wild versions being passed around, given the CCTV, the witnesses, and the media interest (the Mail definitely) in finding anything like that. The version he gives himself, in the Courier, already includes things like his sister shoving a girl away from him, which seems likely and also seems like the sort of thing that kids that age would build into the stories being passed around of her ‘battering’ a child.

But also, I am really worried for her. It is likely that all sorts of stuff has happened in her life up to that day, and now there is all this media and internet focus on her, as well as her face everywhere. Bits of it are already out there. I’d want her supported, and things that happened to her properly investigated and dealt with (not at all a given, as you know), but it would be awful for that to be played out in public for people to consume as entertainment, and her face is going to be on the internet for a long time.