JK Rowling

"Jeremy is available"

Yup, I laughed at that too

The article though..is disgusting. Both if its true, with the cotton jock strap stuff, and the language used in it. I wouldn't have thought a paper could use 'trannies' and such..

I am as gender critical as they come, and hate when transphobia is screamed all of the time, but I do actually think that that article is transphobic.

"Tabitha, a lorry driver called Derek on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays"...

I didn't know the Sunday Sport was still going.

The trans-activism thing is so beyond satire now, you really can't make it up. That could just as easily be in the Onion.

"Tabitha, formerly a lorry driver called Derek...."

What a vile article, including everyone involved in it.

I laughed when I saw one twitter reply, though.

"Jeremy is available"

KatVonGulag

They do my head in running around with their dear little "thought police" hats on... blowing their little whistles and pointing.

They remind me of those (usually young) men who wander the streets in countries like Iran and Aghanistan, armed with sticks, ready to hit the legs of any woman who's wearing the wrong sort of shoes or showing ankle. I once read a cry-from-the-heart by an Israeli architect describing carloads of young men who spend all day driving from building site to building site, bustling on and inspecting the ground for bones. Any kind - dog, chicken, wild animal. They instantly get the site closed down on the grounds that it might be a sacred burial site. They travel in groups and are very intimidating.

Religion and cults like we're discussing are just a way for men to force everyone else to submit.

Yeah the Sunday sport things just nasty.

What has that middle-aged bigot gone and done now?
Shocked:

Of course it’s not true.
It’s in the Sunday Sport. The paper that brought you ‘London bus found on the moon’.

I read that ten minutes ago and my eyebrows are yet to extract themselves from my hairline.

It can't be true, surely. In fact, I'm calling bull because I can't find any mention of this Tabitha person anywhere, nor any sign of Boris having a stalker.

Oh deary, deary me. I think that a lot of people assume that all the DM articles are going to be like that, instead of the spot on journalism they actually are.

What a vile article, including everyone involved in it.

Here we go, just ignore the last couple of posts!

The cotton jockstrap, Boris accused! mobile.twitter.com/thesundaysport/status/1041054185880539136?s=21

Wrong link!
Hang on. I’ll try again.

The cotton jockstrap!
The proof. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0bk5q99/panorama-profits-before-pupils-the-academies-scandal

😁

It was Fox who said that they didn’t want to be part of the LGB because they didn’t want the T to be associated with ‘deviancy’
At the time I felt a bit sorry for them because I assumed that as a natal woman, Fox was dealing with some internalised lesbophobia, but now I know that Fox is in a relationship with a natal man, it puts a very different slant on that comment

We are in different times now, it is becoming easier to say amongst friends and acquaintances that self id has the potential to be another abuse scandal, and that women definitely do not have penises.

Completely agree. This has come up spontaneously twice in conversation in the last week - 1 male colleague whose partner is firmly GC (he was surprisingly well briefed) and at a social gathering with women who were new to the topic but totally got it.

We are in different times now, it is becoming easier to say amongst friends and acquaintances that self id has the potential to be another abuse scandal, and that women definitely do not have penises.

BettyDuMonde

Thanks for sharing that 'they' quote. Two bits of kitchen towel later & i have a dry keyboard again.

honestly, how do they find the time to police us all?

Because they are men. Men can always find the time for hobbies. It’s the women who have to ‘juggle’ everything.

Yes, hard-core! I hope they don’t stalk her.

(Fetches coat)

so much delicious power in making everyone walk on eggshells.

For reasons too personal and tedious to go into, I long ago decided to stop engaging with people who behave like this. It’s a form of emotional abuse. It’s a bit like the type of person who turns on the waterworks at any tiny criticism, or who threatens suicide to keep you in line, or turns any mention of difficulty into about how it makes them feel.

It’s something that I refuse to engage with.

So I’ve just realised why the pronoun shit pisses me off so much.

Pretty tragic of fox or owl or whatever woodland creature this is.

I think they ought to get a life, maybe go forage for a chicken carcass or something.

They do my head in running around with their dear little "thought police" hats on... blowing their little whistles and pointing.

Pearfect!

Cutted up pear...

LITERAL VIOLENCE TO PEARS 🍐

Yay! She grew a pear!

(I'll get me coat)