The Uncancelling of JK Rowling

Oh that's excellent news.

In a few months we can start saying she's been cancelled all over again!

Your last sentence made me laugh so much 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Probably because they have to take so much s#it from men that they need a longer duodenum to hold it all. 😬😉

Seeing the cancellation of women in Iran it's firing up the boilers of certain factions in the Western world.

I’m probably preaching to the choir, but Caroline Criado-Perez book (and newsletter) Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men is brilliant on the sex differences and gender differences (thinking about gender roles not bio stuff) between men and women. Brilliant but infuriating.

Policy makers are supposed to start with human rights as the objective, and work back through biological differences and find ways to adapt and adjust policies to achieve those rights for all, not look at differences and similarities and use them as a means to deny rights to women.

Education and periods, for example. Right to: education. Means of achieving: sanitary protection and toilet availability for girls in schools. Wrong thing to do: making toilets unisex and removing additional rights to privacy & dignity.

But the UN has gone mad and yes, it's bloody depressing - and dangerous.

Tbh, I think it’s more that 21st century patriarchy has managed to weaponise both the differences and similarities between the sexes against female humans.

The patriarchal narrative has subverted earlier feminist de-emphasising of the biological and using it against women. The concept of gender has been entirely turned inside out in the process and positioned as the only thing that actually matters.

It’s incredibly depressing.

Yes, and just dick around with language till it does the job you (the patriarchal you) want it to.

We are a sexually dimorphic species. Human rights should apply equally to all humans. Policies to achieve, maintain and protect human rights should take account of differences and similarities, and work from them towards equal rights, not twist them to deny female humans their rights.

Things like the right to freedom of assembly and association has gone down the toilet for human females, because human males have been given priority because they said some magical words that don't even make scientific sense. Which means that women's right to freedom of belief has also been deprioritised, again at the expense of the magical words of men and male-dominated institutions who are lying about science. In the western world. In countries like UK.

Exactly. Either we are soooo different and need to be kept in line or we are exactly the same so need to kept in line.
Heads I win, tails you lose.

Yes and now it seems the script has been flipped. Now our simularities with men are being weaponized against us.

I've always been quite wary of pointing out biological differences between males and females in the human sexually dimorphic species, because they've been used historically as a stick to beat women with.

So this finding could be used to argue that gastroenterologists would benefit, during their specialist training, from a more detailed knowledge of female-specific small intestinal morphology and function (and how important it is to relate that to female endocrinology across the lifecycle, as pp have noted above).

Unfortunately the socio-political structures in which we live allow for an argument to be put forward that this new study confirms women's natural reproductive function and therefore that means it's 'unnatural' for them to have careers. Well, you all know the arguments. Women, know your limits! and all that.

That's why women in Victorian times had to change their bloody names to get a book published and taken seriously.

My mind immediately went to the way that our digestive system is crushed during pregnancy. I remember a weird thing where I had to lay on my left side in order for my food to properly process after eating. 😩

@AutumnCrow many things go tits up in menopause sigh...

BUT please carry on listing the biological differences

In terms of our (lack of) understanding of the long-scale evolution of human gut size and morphology, it has been hypothesised that female humans are better able to buffer environmental challenges.

It could be argued that this links to their reproductive role.

Might also explain why women's gut function can go tits up in menopause ...

(Sciency bit: the study just published shows the logistic regression model for small intestine length with sex as a covariate showed a significant difference between males and females (F3,15 = 88.31, p = 9.291e−10). Specifically, the researchers found that females have consistently and significantly longer small intestines compared to males; t-value 15 = 2.245, p = 0.0403).

My darling DD had to have a hysterectomy for medical reasons, because she’s a woman. My dear niece cannot become pregnant for other reasons, but those reasons arise from her being female.

How dare you imply these two women are in the same category as transitioned males. You should be ashamed of yourself.

Oh and by the way, I can no longer conceive or give birth, because of my age, and I’m definitely not in the same category as a transwoman.

I did not! That's fascinating. Are there theories as to why? Wonder if it's something to do with breastfeeding

Differences not balances damn autocorrect

No I didn't. I know our brains weigh less though. So many biological balances

Did you know that women, the old-fashioned kind, have longer duodenums than men?

There endeth today's first lesson in the biology of humans as a sexually dimorphic species. Thanking you.

Women who don’t have a uterus -either through birth defect or surgery- can’t produce sperm. Men who don’t have a uterus are healthy men. If they have their penis removed, they will still never produce eggs.
Biology is a terf. Fact.

Not really. You've just not been clear. Can you explain yourself better?

What? I'm just using the traditional argument tactics that TRA'S use! I would know I used to be one. I'm literally an expert. Lol

It doesn't feel good to be on the other side of it does it?

Incredible twisting of my points but yeah have your fun

So now hotdogs a terf? If a tw has a cock so almost all of them then they are not actually a woman? Do you know anything about actual tw? Or did you think they've all had the sex change op you speak of?

Maybe men who've suffered from prostate cancer are transmen too! I think that means they deserve to have their gender confirming surgeries paid for by the government!