Did anyone see the ITV News piece about of water bills on customers?

It depends @artishard if, like me, you don't have a twitter account we've not been able to view tweets directly for a few days. If you do then the tweet might have been deleted.

"Something went wrong"

Yep, you could say that...

Just clicked the twitter link and got the 'something went wrong' screen...has the tweet been removed?

*eyes !!

Imagine this being the hill you decide to die on.

The use of "you lot" is familiar.

I wish that was true. But trans will still score 23 out of 24 on the list of things people will claim they're worried about, there'll be no major boycott of events where men regularly beat women in sport, there'll be no mass rising of support for the likes of Rosie Duffield or Miriam Cates, there'll be no pressure on Starmer, Sunak will blunder on.

Yes, there'll be more public disgust at this, but beyond that?...

I look at things like Grenfell Tower. I'm sure in decades past, that would have brought governments down. Now?...

For me, the Rubicon was crossed with the Cass Report into the Tavistock. I would have bet the house on that shocking politicians out of their complacence. The reality? Tumbleweed.

Damn it! Just as I left for the school run. Bingo! Bingo! Bingo!

Many people's area are completely open, believe me.

It's not that they don't get it. They do. They just disagree with you pointing it out.

Spoilsport.

https://academic.oup.com/jcem/article/106/5/e2047/6123860?login=false

Re-posting some links which may have been deleted in the other thread:

https://lascapigliata.com/2018/03/26/analysis-of-study-of-induced-lactation-in-trans-identified-man/

It is Pride season and all of the paraphillias are on display - and they know that people will just stand by a clap as they pass by.

That's the goal of endless boundary pushing and this type of wilful exposure. The hope that people will become immune and start to see the behaviour as being within a range of 'normal' or 'acceptable'. That is the goal of queer theory. To 'queer' everything in this way. Usually predicated on matters of sex, sexuality and sexual practice.

I'm not sure why you have put the word biological in quotation marks, as if this is a quaint concept that has no basis in actual reality.

A woman is an adult human female. This is a biological category - which is what many males are trying to simulate when they cos play at breastfeeding.
If being a woman had nothing to do with biology why do you think so many men want to appropriate those biological experiences?

And yes, I am shouting, because I’m so fucking angry that some people will actually ignore the utter abhorrence of a BABY, a real live baby, being used as a prop for someone’s fetish; will ignore so many safeguarding red flags it makes Regent Street last month look restrained, all to BEEEEEEEEE KIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIND.

Fucksake. Open your eyes to what’s really going on here.

BUT HE’S NOT ACTUALLY FUCKING BREASTFEEDING, IS HE???

Jesus wept, some people really will turn themselves into a pretzel to give men and their public fetishes a free pass, won’t they?

@MadamPickle spot on. That's exactly how they think

Oh, i see this person has a nipple clamp fetish. And has posted about it.

Completely up front.

If they don't want it widely known they shouldn't post their proclivities from one end of the internet to the other. Completely up front.

Yes, they can.

But I'll bet they're not posting their nipple clamp shopping on DM and also posting their self indulgent smug faces on SM when pretending to BF a baby claiming that their made up fantasies are true facts.

Do you lot realise “biological” women and mothers can also use nipple clamps during sex? Does that make their breastfeeding a fetish as well?

At this stage I think a man could stuff a cushion up his jumper and say he was pregnant and some people (including some female MP's) would go along with it and say who are we to gatekeep pregnancy. What even is pregnancy, anyway? Lots of women get pregnant and don't produce a live baby at the end of it, etc etc. You can be pregnant and have no symptoms, look at all the women who give birth and didn't realise they were pregnant. Some women don't even show all that much. He could draw a line on a pregnancy test with a biro and people would say look, he got a positive test, it must be true.

ITV did it for clicks on an otherwise dull piece that no-one would have watched. That we'd end up here seems inevitable because these individuals do seem to often have certain interests. I'd like to say a male openly pretending to breastfeed a baby is the line in the sand that will make people finally start listening to women. But I doubt it, sadly. Because they're still male and we're still only women.

For those who can't access twitter.

I think it's up to other people to chose the language they're most comfortable with when choosing to swear. You don't have to use it but telling other people what language they can and cant use very much comes from the TRA camp.

Utterly distressing