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@Flick :blob_dizzy_face: sacrilege!

I've never tried kohlrabi.

https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/04/17/the-hilarious-meltdown-of-men-who-think-theyre-women/

It’s a ‘grim day’, they cry. The ruling threatens trans people’s ‘safety’, they say. That’s big talk from a movement that expects female prisoners to live cheek by jowl with rapists and girls to share changing rooms with hulking blokes in ill-fitting bikinis. There are dark mutterings about ‘fascism’. Munroe Bergdorf shared a post saying: ‘There is no trans debate. There are trans people and there are fascists who wish to dominate and eliminate trans people.’ Dude, it’s not fascism to say women should be free to seek rape counselling without fearing there’ll be a weirdo in a boob tube listening in.

Imagine the colossal levels of self-regard it must require to think it’s ‘fascism’ when you’re politely asked to use the right loo. It’s amazing how many of these ‘literal women’ sound like entitled men. Slandering TERFs as ‘fascists’ has been all the rage for ages, of course. Professor of gibberish Judith Butler calls gender-critical feminism ‘one of the dominant strains of fascism in our time’. It used to be alt-right wankers who called feminists ‘feminazis’. Now it’s nonbinary wankers. Two cheeks of the same arse. Trans folk are hilariously cosplaying as civil-rights activists. The Supreme Court ruling is ‘very bleak’ but ‘we will carry on’, said Shon Faye, as if his march into women-only spaces were akin to MLK’s march on Selma.

Then, best of all, came ‘the allies’. Is there anything funnier than a fiftysomething public-school arse trying to stay relevant by saying ‘transwomen are women’? Barrister Jolyon Maugham – famous for killing foxes and losing cases – declared in his haughty headmaster’s drawl that the court’s ruling is ‘profoundly unfair’. LBC knob jockey James O’Brien asked TERFs how they feel being on the same side as Donald Trump on the trans issue. I don’t know, James, I think I’m happier being on the side of Trump than on the side of a movement that mutilates young lesbians, calls women cunts and puts rapists in women’s jails so they can rape more women.

https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/04/17/schools-are-waging-war-on-parents-free-speech/

Karina Conway started criticising teachers at Sunnyside Spencer Academy in Beeston, Nottingham when she learned they were promoting the idea that children can change gender. She was concerned that her daughter’s school was affirming children as young as nine in new transgender identities – presumably by calling them different names and using opposite-sex pronouns. She was also worried that children were being wrongly taught that transgender identity is a legally protected characteristic, and that they were being shown sexually graphic resources in relationships and sex-education (RSE) lessons.

Conway’s case is only the latest example of schools taking an increasingly authoritarian line against parents they consider to be troublesome. The first time many parents had an insight into the extreme things their children were being taught was during lockdown, when lessons were delivered online. Derbyshire County Council recognised that, when it came to RSE, ‘Some parents and carers may be uncomfortable with some of the subject matter’. But rather than removing content likely to cause concern, or consulting with parents, the authority advised teachers to ‘focus on less sensitive areas of RSE such as mental wellbeing, self-care, e-safety and security… while pupils are not in school’. Its guidance made clear that ‘the teaching of some more explicit RSE could be postponed [until] pupils are back in school’.

Some schools openly say that what children are taught about sex and relationships should be kept within the classroom. One secondary school in Faversham, Kent notes that the classroom should be a ‘safe space’. It spells out: ‘This means that whatever is discussed in the classroom stays in the classroom and should not be brought up at any other time.’ The aim of the ‘safe space’ is to allow children ‘to speak freely about sex and relationships’. Such policies might not be intended to exclude parents from knowing what their children are learning, but safe-space agreements may be interpreted by children as secrecy pacts. They may even conflict with a school’s safeguarding responsibilities.

https://x.com/StanFastic/status/1912181290385707174

Fortunately, this could never happen in the UK.

Oh wait…

https://x.com/real_eire/status/1911806333843652646

Nigerian illegal immigrant may have raped over 300 elderly Irish women who suffer from dementia.

21 of them women made complaints but were dismissed.

@KeepTakingTheSoma 🙄

https://x.com/SocialElsie/status/1912567418448212438

https://www.conservativesforwomen.org/penny-mordaunt-helped-to-push-gender-ideology-out-across-every-institution-in-the-uk

When she was Minister for Women and Equalities, overseeing the Government Equalities Office during 2018 and 2019, Penny Mordaunt presided over an organisation captured by gender ideology. The output of the GEO under her watch spread gender ideology across public institutions. In doing so it undermined science, free speech, established language, women's rights, and the safeguarding of the vulnerable. The fightback from grassroots women has since consumed untold energy.

This document illustratres this. Much more work must be done to understand how an unscientific harmful ideology completely took over an institution that was supposed to protect women's rights. Many women seek a Government Enquiry into this matter - perhaps the next Conservative Prime Minister could commit to this.

To get underway, it's worth looking back to 2016 to see that the Government Equality Office was not then completely captured by gender ideology. A 2016 report, commissioned by the GEO continued to recognise a distinction, and a difference in interest, between "LGB" and the "T". Extract below.

https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/politics/nhs-fife-under-pressure-concede-35065821

Pressure is mounting on NHS Fife to concede the Sandie Peggie case after the Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that the terms "woman" and "sex" in the Equality Act 2010 refer to a biological woman and biological sex. The landmark decision came after campaign group For Women Scotland launched a series of challenges over the definition of "woman" in Scottish legislation mandating 50% female representation on public boards.

Lord Hodge's ruling is likely to have a huge impact on the transgender debate that has raged in Scotland for the past seven years. It comes amid an ongoing employment tribunal for Fife nurse Ms Peggie.

@KeepTakingTheSoma So sick of this and this corrupt law system.

https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/scottish-news/workplace-voyeur-spared-jail-cameras-35067024

A well-paid executive who installed cameras under a woman colleague's desk was spared jail today. Ian Anderson, 61, stuck two cameras under the desk of his 50-year-old female colleague with sticky tape. He was caught after one of them clattered onto the floor as the woman, who'd worked with Anderson for 12 years at the Laing Traditional Masonry Group in Stirling, got up to go home. Stirling Sheriff Court was told that Anderson and his victim worked in the same office, with their desks backing onto each other, separated by a partition. Ann Orr, prosecuting, said Anderson was working at home the day the cameras were discovered, and his colleague was in the office. Mrs Orr said: “As she was finishing up about 5.00pm she heard something dropping below her desk.

Solicitor Mike Short, defending, said Anderson, a married man, had quit his £65,000 a year job with the firm after the discovery. He said Anderson had suffered an injury to his knee 10 years ago, which had caused a “blockage”. He said: “Over time this injury, this blockage, affected his personal life with his wife. The good thing that's come from this, is that he is now addressing the problem that he has. I asked him to seek advice and get immediate help for the dysfunction that he was going through and he did that.” Mr Short said: “There was no recording. This is an unusual offence. They worked together for many, many years. They were friends. His life has been turned upside down.”

Sheriff Claire McLachlan sentenced Anderson to 167 hours of unpaid work, and imposed a non-harassment order banning him from approaching contacting his victim for two years. He was also placed on the sex offenders' register for two years.

https://x.com/realMaalouf/status/1911908225298919471

Palestinian Muslim scholar:

“Europeans are lowlifes and a civilization of prostitutes, promiscuity, and homosexuality.

We will conquer Paris and Rome and rule Europe with Islam.”

And the useful idiots in the West protest daily in support of these people!

https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/politics/nhs-scotland-health-boards-branded-35068073

All of NHS Scotland's 14 health boards have been accused of breaking the law by not having any single-sex facilities policies, especially in the wake of the Supreme Court's ruling on Wednesday. A series of freedom of information requests by a campaigner unearthed these "disgraceful" details.

All public bodies, as well as the Scottish Government, have produced policies which allow trans people to self-identify and use the bathroom or changing facilities they identify with. This may have to be ripped up as a result of judges unanimously ruling that the definition of a woman and sex in the Equality Act relates to “a biological woman and biological sex."

Campaigner Peter Todd supplied a dossier of freedom of information requests which revealed that all 14 health boards didn't have any guidance surrounding single-sex facilities. None of the bodies have a policy they stick by for single-sex changing, toilets and showering.

One of the 14, NHS Ayrshire and Arran, said it has no communal changing facilities and only provides individual ones for parents. Rebel SNP MSP Fergus Ewing lambasted these revelations, writing on X: "Revelations today that not a single health board in Scotland has a policy for single sex changing rooms is shocking - and illegal. The Scottish Government must address this and issue orders to fix it. They have the legal powers to do so."

Shameful is right, the absolute wanking arseholes.

@KeepTakingTheSoma You bet.

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/article/care-home-workers-are-underpaid-because-most-of-them-are-women-v7jjh6blw

Sorry business, this care home crisis. The sector has been struggling for years, of course, but is now on the brink of collapse according to Donald Macaskill, the chief executive of Scottish Care. Something that has always confounded me is how criminally underpaid care workers are when their jobs form such a vital part of society’s scaffolding. Well, I know the reason why: it is a workforce composed mostly of women. An estimated 80 per cent of adult social care staff in Scotland are female, and any profession with this sort of gender skew, or that involves caring responsibilities, tends to be undervalued. Particularly because historically a disproportionate number of women have undertaken these types of duties for no pay at all. My sister was a care worker for a few years in her twenties, looking after a man with profound disability. He required round-the-clock care and she did overnight shifts at his home on her own in a rundown part of Glasgow. Often, this man would lash out in distress, and occasionally he would hit her. Eventually my sister quit because she felt too unsafe to continue and it wasn’t worth it for the low pay. In her subsequent job as a waitress she earned more money for significantly less stress (apart from when she had to serve a certain moany — or should that be Mone-y? – baroness, but that’s another story). That’s partly why we’ve arrived at this point. The caregiving industry is underfunded, yes, but that’s because it is perceived as low-skilled, low-status work when in truth it is demanding and requires a range of skills that cannot be learnt from books. So the wages don’t budge beyond the bare minimum, fewer people want to do it because of the toll it will take on their health, and care homes struggle to find staff. Macaskill’s suggestion that Scotland should have its own visa immigration system to recruit overseas staff ignores the root of the problem — that this profession shouldn’t run on cheap labour.

https://archive.ph/hZ41l

@KeepTakingTheSoma Damn right.

https://thecritic.co.uk/why-easter-should-matter-to-us-all/

Last month, an especially egregious example of religious exclusionism went viral, in the form of a leaked letter from a primary school headmistress cancelling Easter celebrations. The letter, penned by one Stephanie Mander of Norwood Primary in Eastleigh, Hampshire, explained that “After careful consideration […] we have decided not to hold the Easter bonnet parade or the Easter service this year. This decision has been made in the spirit of inclusivity and respect for the diverse religious beliefs, represented within our school community.”

I would urge reading the letter in full because it is hard to exaggerate how beyond parody the content is. All else aside, the sheer meanness of it was jaw-dropping. (Is there a sentence in the English language more joyless than “we have cancelled the Easter bonnet parade”? You may as well declare the Easter bunny dead and warn that any child caught eating a chocolate egg will be expelled on sight while you’re at it). Yet while few schools, if any, have been quite as explicit in dismissal of Easter as Norwood, the media furore has followed the same patterns as all the others: an outpouring of concern over the war on Christians in Britain and British culture more generally, right-wing politicians weighing in (Suella Braverman called Norwood’s decision indicative of “cultural surrender” and Reform MP Rupert Lowe lamented “the poison that is being pushed on children in schools”) but within mere days it blew over, confined to the so-called culture war archives of memory.

An overlooked irony within the Norwood Primary school letter is that in the final paragraph of the letter, parents are informed of the school’s upcoming celebration of Refugee Week and the schools commitment to becoming an “accredited school of sanctuary”. Putting aside the fact that said Refugee Week is funded by an ideological quango (and the problems with this could be a separate article in itself)

@Flick 🎯

and I am really fucking sick to the teeth over all this shit now.

@RadicalCartoons @Lady_Penelope Sorry, guys, but just a big fat NO and just FUCK OFF.

https://unherd.com/2025/04/is-standard-english-dying-out/

It’s all a far cry from the encounter between Oliver and the Artful Dodger in Charles Dickens’s Oliver Twist. Alone and tearful in London, Oliver runs into a “snub-nosed, flat-browed, common-faced boy” who says “Hullo, my covey, what’s the row” to which Oliver replies “I am very hungry and tired. I have walked a long way, I have been walking these seven days”. It’s hard to know how someone brought up in a workhouse can produce this impeccable piece of Standard English, but there’s a Victorian literary convention which holds that virtuous people tend to speak in this cultivated style. Oliver turns out to be of genteel birth, so perhaps his posh English is genetically determined. You can’t have a hero who drops his aitches, any more than you can have an archbishop who drops his trousers. Moral and linguistic propriety go hand in hand. A gentleman has both good morals and good manners, the latter reflecting the former. As in the novels of Jane Austen, problems arise when someone is socially a gentleman but morally a total bastard.

A good deal of British humour springs from quick changes of linguistic register. Legendary comedians like Tony Hancock, Frankie Howerd, and Kenneth Williams all trade in abrupt shifts from the tones of the civilised middle classes to a blunter, more popular idiom. A pretentious flight of fantasy is punctured by a sudden crude or mundane comment.

https://archive.ph/xbulO