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'The owl of Minerva takes flight, only when the shades of dusk begin to fall.' Periodically parodic. Binary. There are two of us. We alternate. They/them.
Not our name or photo.
Joined June 2009
@TitaniaMcGrath "defying her family's traditions". As always, the key is to identify an aspect of nature or long-standing tradition and re-describe it as an oppressive social construct to be overcome.
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@GadSaad The Gregorian calendar is Eurocentric. This kind of dangerous bigotry lends oxygen to the rhetoric of hate and division. What a shameful example of marginalisation of the other and of virulent zerophobia.
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@charlescwcooke @EPoe187 Sometimes I think the only people who really appreciate America are the bloody foreigners. Lol. Not really though. But their expression of love is surely the loudest.
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@_Kenziepuff I, for one, think men are to blame for no longer being men and not knowing how to treat women. Please, men, listen to this woman tell you how to be a man. The most important thing about a man is that he serves women. I've just about had it with men who only want to be happy.
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@CaspersGhost3 @navjotpkaur @JonathanCohn Women in their twenties lack the ability to consent to sexual activity with men in their thirties. It can't be genuinely consensual because men in their thirties, and especially their forties, have all the power. It is therefore a highly dubious almost pedophilic relationship.
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@EvelKneidel Stunning and brave. In other news, man finally reveals he is actually a woman. Audience goes wild with rapture.
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If gender is a social construct without any basis in sex, what precisely is one proposing to transition between?.
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@TheMendozaWoman I denounce the A Gay as a bourgeois defender of capitalist privilege and the cisnormative binary patriarchy whose instincts are to preserve essentialist hierarchical dominance structures against marginalised and oppressed transwomen.
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@PaulBurston @MatthewGreenf11 To an epidemiologist, jogging is far more capable of transmitting due to the heavy breathing. It seems this split-second decision-making action hero upon whom we depend, whose job we couldn't do and mustn't criticise, got it wrong again. But that hardly ever happens. /s.
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@FondOfBeetles @GrogsGamut Because they stop producing one size gamete and. Wait. No. We don't know. We have to ask them. Wait. This is a trick question. I am not obliged to answer. I will call you names. #QuestionsTheyCantAnswer.
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@tibby17 @OsborneInk @ACLU It's a tautological trick. Assert the conclusion in the subject and then reassert it in the predicate to create the illusion of a valid implication. Same thing with "trans women are women". Nothing new had been said. Just a verbal sleight of hand, repeated ad nauseam.
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@JulHenderson99 @uprootedflower No. It's not that. It's an ordering of priorities. Turns out promoting mass immigration and multiculturalism is more important than condemning rapists after all. Who knew?.
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@mattdolloff @maxwelltani Watch out for the 3 canards:. 1. Hate speech is not free speech. 2. Free speech is not freedom from the consequences of speech. 3. Free speech does not endow a right to be heard.
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@jackappleby @elleandback It's quite simple. Women no longer matter to the left. They were once useful. They no longer are.
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@stacyfmitchell @Miroandrej Lol. Yes. You would think so, huh. But isn't this the wrong person resigning? . But good for you for sticking up for impartiality in academic research. It's a great idea. Might be worth giving it a try. Now you have to earn a living by doing something productive. Difficult.
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@gorskon @crackedscience @CaulfieldTim @ryarmst @MarkHoofnagle @AdaMcVean @TerryPolevoy Hi Dr. Gorski,. @AlessandraAster asked you some reasonable questions. Do you fancy answering them?. I will bookmark the tweet and return later to see how you're doing. Don't worry. Take your time. I am quite willing to wait and to give your answers a sympathetic reading.
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@richardtgarland @LancsPolice On that note, I never forget overhearing a cop say, "what happened is what we say happened", in like circumstances. This is what they do.
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@maleek0812 @MsGoalieQueen @shatta_ute Well. That was spectacularly unimpressive. Do these people just wander around in packs insulting people, issuing veiled threats and intimidating with false or baseless and wild allegations?. Sure looks like it. And then twitter backs up their threats with suspensions and bans.
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@NoToMisogyny Similarly, If transwomen are women, independently of any fact about the body, why do they need hormones to change their bodies?.
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@STILLTish @beth_sails @janeclarejones Don't be silly. They can just identify the jar as an open one. Fire brigades aren't real anyway. The cisnorm most be demolished.
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@BenWinegard @_DylanPalmer He corrupted and indoctrinated the vulnerable youth of athens with dangerous ideas that were bad for society. What did he expect?. This kind of sickness should simply pay its dues to Asclepius.
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@FondOfBeetles Please report to your local re-education committee to schedule your struggle session.
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@simpsified @my_real_name @aceoaces @monaeltahawy Your question is a leading question. It contains an assumption to which the respondent must assent by either affirming or negating. I cannot see such an assumption behind Gaye's question. Can you, and, of so, what is it?.
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@Holbornlolz You realise he'll never walk again? I find that immensely sad. Immensely sad. Just immensely sad.
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@bc_Sanders @ripx4nutmeg No. We have to stop expressing views that run contrary to the progressive narrative, as defined by our betters. That's all.
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@dianjo @Glinner @brunskellevans @TaviAndPort @Mermaids_Gender What gives these people the right to decide what I can read, and what is the source of their power? Who are they? What are they trying to achieve and why?.
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@MattWalshBlog Mines. How many women work in the mines? There should be a public outcry over the injustice and discrimination. More women need to go down the mines.
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@ChrissyTondina @MoJGovUK @stonewalluk @MOJ_Spirit @HMPPS_PiPP @MoJDandI No. They pay stonewall and stonewall tells them what to do, and they got a prize for obedience. Stonewall is also funded by the government. Stonewall basically IS the government. See @Docstockk.
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@QuikQuak @TitaniaMcGrath I imagine them in there, working away at it, reviewing and assessing.
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@DrSmileFace @guardian Not necessarily, but could be. It could be that some cop who doesn't like him put his reg on the number plate recognition system so he would be routinely stopped. Just surmising.
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@elleandback Isn't this called "emotional blackmail". "Be nice to me or I'll kill myself". It's abusive. It's coercive control. It creates an unsafe environment for cis folk. It's dangerous, disgusting and bigoted. Not a good look. Yikes.
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@JustDavidDavid @tryingattimes That's it. I've moved over. I was at the tipping point and now I can no longer resist.
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@FondOfBeetles @Join_ZOE @ReSistersU @serialsockthief @fairplaywomen @ClareCAIS Oh Emma. You really are a master of the awkward question. You make it seem so effortless. I wait with baited breath. .
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@CathyYoung63 Sigh. I'm disappointed that you are pointing out contradictions. This is not helping. You do realise you are appealing to toxic, colonial principles of consistency and logic which are characteristic of white fragility, don't you?.
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@VPointon @betsvigi9 @ProfessionalJu2 @jk_rowling @reddit Is it just me, or does anyone else feel like we are dealing with an invisible hand, but a hand of steel, unifying the various social and political institutions against gender criticism?.
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@isisvande @SwipeWright @andrewdoyle_com What you had in MLK was a proponent of rational social egalitarianism. What you have in DiAngelo is a proponent of anti-rational race supremacism. One race is attached to racism and is therefore inherently morally inferior.
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@SaffiEriksdottr @BluehairCoffee @EvelKneidel Do be sure to let us know when you figure it out. Also, why is self-id ok in the gender wars? Does anybody know? I haven't a clue.
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If people such as fast food and grocery store workers are considered to be “essential workers” during a global pandemic then they deserve way more than minimum wage.
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@laurajanejenny @bindelj Your mistake is to assume that making sense is a priority. It's been going out of fashion for decades and is now, in some cases, borderline criminal.
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@NCLanarkshire Actually, they're not periods. They're events which happen periodically. Every month you have an event, not a period. The period is the time in between. Logically speaking. Since we're calling things what they are now.
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@xflorora If gender is a social construct without any basis in sex, what precisely is one proposing to transition between?.
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@helenstaniland @tryingattimes @Twitter @MForstater Watch as the veil of censorship descends. #RepressiveTolerance.
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@sarahspoon @NCLanarkshire The Great danger in letting people use whatever language they want, is that the great uniform mass of the people might start thinking what they want, which we cannot control. This is terrifying and must never happen.
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@CathyYoung63 I support free speech, so long as rich people don't write an open letter calling for it.
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@FondOfBeetles Going out a limb as ever, Dr Hilton. Stunning and brave. But dangerous, no doubt.
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BREAKING In a shock new development, Ghislaine Maxwell, socialite and former Madam for convicted paedophile Geoffrey Epstein, has been found alive in her prison cell.
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@Glinner @lloyd_rm @selina_todd @KJ_Harrison @Womans_Place_UK As always, in politics, a glossary is needed. The entry for "hate group" reads, "a group they hate".
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@LisaBritton So caring for others is not a male trait? Are you sure?. Men love women. Women love kids. Kids love puppies. Perhaps it is the preeminent human trait?.
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@MrsStephinMerit @my_real_name @monaeltahawy Yes. It is a logical trap because the implication of your answer, as you well know, is inconvenient for you. That doesn't mean the question no longer demands an answer.
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@gorskon @crackedscience @CaulfieldTim @ryarmst @MarkHoofnagle @AdaMcVean @TerryPolevoy @AlessandraAster Just a few minutes after I posted the above, the good Dr. Gorski, perhaps finding discretion to be the better part of valor, posted this:
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@Jackand79892662 @shatta_ute @elleandback It's like we're in a giant Asch conformity experiment, and they want to know whether we're willing to go along with pure BS.
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@stillgray @CaspersGhost3 @navjotpkaur @JonathanCohn Not a troll. A satirist, please. I have my pride to consider.
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@ZubyMusic 15 years? Not really. The left was always Authoritarian, as Orwell foresaw. The difference is the resistance has prevailed and now exercises cultural power, but the instinct for censorship was always there. This is just Marcusian #RepressiveTolerance.
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@JaniceFiamengo It really is shameless, isn't it? Apart from yours, I think my favorite tweet on it is Sarah Haider's. Speaking for myself, rather than merely letting it die, I'd like to shove it into the ground with a pile driver. But I day-dream too much.
Yes, the facts of the matter are different this time. But “#BelieveWomen” was never conditional. The idea that any group could employ it when they wanted, but never have to answer to it themselves was always hopelessly delusional.
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@NM_Rdg @jacknibbler @Holdenmagroin75 @Holbornlolz 99% magistrates are just rubber stamps. This officer has been caught on camera admitting he can lie in court and be believed and using it as an instrument of power over his victim. I never forget overhearing a cop in like circumstance say, "what happened is what we say happened".
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@BlanchardPhD You finally worked it out. Yes. It's about denying the existence of reality independently of representation. Congrats. All there is is representation.
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@thepingmachine @thatbilloakley @pixelatedboat Thank you. Fantastic illustration of how discursive rationality is an instrument of the patriarchy.
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@DArtagnan71 @Passie_Kracht @my_real_name @monaeltahawy Andrew, Is it morally acceptable to you that some people are exclusively attracted to people of the same biological sex (NOT gender identity)? Just yes or no, please. #QuestionsTheyCantAnswer.
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@MrsStephinMerit @my_real_name @monaeltahawy *couldn't answer without either committing to an inconvenient conclusion, or contradicting her Big Trans progressivism.
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@jvandewest @OrwellNGoode @ezralevant Sadly we know that it is still far too hard for marks to be open and accepted for what they are, and we will keep campaigning until every black mark is accepted without exception.
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@inkigal @BlanchardPhD Sex isn't assigned, any more than the number of arms is assigned. Sex is observed.
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@jayjoseph22 Thank you, trusty overlord, for advising me these books are dangerous and may harm my mind. I've decided not to read them. Thanks.
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@FondOfBeetles @TomBoyOptional @InstituteCrick There's nothing quite so instructive as an awkward question.
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@elleandback This is Orientalism at its worst. The Pennines don't exist outside the arbitrary designations of cartographers. Geoessentialism is dangerous to those who don't identify with their assigned location.
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@MasterMorgan317 @my_real_name @monaeltahawy Nobody said she was. She was asked a question. She chose not to answer. No one can force her to. The question remains, however. Archived! #QuestionsTheyCantAnswer.
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@JaniceFiamengo This reeks of patriarchy. We need a game where women are free to transcend their boundaries and succeed through their own agency as equals, independent from men and without regard to the contingencies of sex. What could that be?. Something like Monopoly, for example.
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In today's news, Netflix movie depicts Jesus as gay. In yesterday's news.
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@WeAreFairCop @SussexPCC Compare and contrast with this:. BBC News - Shoplifters taking under £200 worth of goods 'not pursued'.
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@splcenter I don't know. If you come into a country illegally, breaking your part of its social contract, how can you in good conscience expect it to provide you with benefits, and how can you get benefits, when your presence is illegal?.
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