Transphobic attitudes contradict the good feminism does everyday

Funny you should mention narcissistic personality disorder, really....

... and it never enough.

These recipes, on the other hand.

There's a fat orange blimp who seems sure that it does

Donald Trump? He's the very definition of narcissistic personality disorder.......so he would. Narcissists require constant adulation and validation of their feelings.

There's a fat orange blimp who seems sure that it does....

The truth is that nobody really cares how anyone 'identifies' themselves; how they dress; what name they choose.......

The reality, though, is one cannot change sex, and that women need and want access to their single sex spaces, services and sports. That's about it, really. It's not a question of hatred or oppression. It is a case of biological, actual, material, lived reality.

Throwing a huge toddler tantrum is not going to change those facts.
The world does not revolve around individual feelings.

My ex used to do Crunchies crushed up and added to whipped cream, with a dash of whiskey, he thought it was cheesecake....bless.

Far be it from me to criticize someone for trying, bless and all, but did it not occur to him that a cheesecake might involve cheese?

I have gained the Corona 19 lbs.

And the Corona 19 recipes also! Thanks, everyone.

Could you make chocolate mousse and put that in top of Malteser base?
My ex used to do Crunchies crushed up and added to whipped cream, with a dash of whiskey, he thought it was cheesecake....bless.

This thread is why I love MN
I think I'm going to subscribe after all!

@TheMostBeautifulDogInTheWorld

I've used molasses when making marmalade - the bitterness works really well, and the colour comes out wonderfully dark.

My list is getting longer. I have gained the Corona 19 lbs.

a lot more women than trans people are oppressed worldwide

Then there are the women/girls who never made it to being born: aborted female foetuses.

(And I'm totally in favour of women's right to choose termination, but we have to accept that abortion is/can be used as a deliberate way of getting rid of potential women - there are UN figures somewhere ...)

JillAndJack1, some trans people have a pretty awful time, but then so do a lot of women. And simply by dint of percentage of the population, a lot more women than trans people are oppressed worldwide. Historically, so vastly many more that it is not possible to compute the figures, even if we invent transwomen going back for centuries.

I have never heard of a transwomen who had suffered infant female genital mutilation, for example. And I don't suppose all that many transmen have either. Nor have any transanythings before the past say hundred years and be generous suffered any oppression at all just for being transpeople, whereas women have been being oppressed because of their sex since prehistory. Nor have I come across any transperson footbinding, though that might have existed I suppose.

You have your wires crossed. Trans activists are enormously oppressing women. Women are strong, and will fight their oppression, that’s what you see.
P.s. I struggle to see how trans are even mildly oppressed.

I've used molasses when making marmalade - the bitterness works really well, and the colour comes out wonderfully dark.

(This obviously assumes you are the sort of person that likes chunky dark marmalade).

My grandmother used to make a marmalade sponge-and-custard pudding. Sadly I don't like custard, but the marmalade sponge was fab.

(Well the smarties, the tubes went in recycling)

I was wondering if you used the tubes to cut out tiny biscuits.

@AskingQuestionsAllTheTime - I knit too - but am too inert even for that at the moment.

I will have to motivate myself by the end of the month, though - it will be ds3's birthday, and as he is at home from Uni, I offered to bake him a cake, but he asked if, instead, he could have a maltesers cheesecake - by which he means a chocolate cheesecake on a base made of crushed maltesers - so I have found a no-bake nutella cheesecake recipe, and will make it on the malteser base.

It is not going to help my attempts to get my weight back under control - but it is his birthday, so I will force myself to make and share his birthday cheesecake. I am that good a mother.

(Well the smarties, the tubes went in recycling)

We just did a good old Bero book batch of cookies (with the last of the Christmas smartie tubes) - amazing, no eggs needed but you do need flour/golden syrup

I know. It’s non stop baking here.

I just made some biscuits! I've done more baking in the last 3 weeks than in the preceding 10 years.

I only have a few tbsp of golden syrup left, after a few batches of gingerbread. Darn, will have to try to get some more before I can enjoy sweet tart.

Mmmmmm. Treacle tart. Breadcrumbs we've got in the freezer, golden syrup we've got, and OH found a kg of Polish cake flour in that section of Tesco a couple of days ago so we have the makings of pastry. What is stopping me?

Inertia, that's what. And knitting.

@FloralBunting

Sussex pond pudding. Food of the gods

Omg treacle tart. I have a bag of breadcrumbs in the freezer from a failed loaf. This will sort my freezer space issues for sure! Yum.