What have you learned from the trans takeover

It has made me realise how utterly blind most people are to really freaking obvious misogyny.

The sheer amount of sexism that's been reframed as empowering (men) is just insane.

I've also learned how history simply repeats itself and that the same tactics get used by misogynists time and time again, decade after decade.

And that many women are incredibly susceptible to emotional manipulation and often harbour a dangerous undercurrent of internalised misogyny that leads them to undermine their own interests without ever noticing.

It doesn't take a plan worked out beforehand to overwhelm society with a toxic ideology. It can happen organically if the starting conditions are amenable and then lots of different people with different agendas exploit the situation for their own benefits.

I think I understand what people are capable of more, and hence can understand how various bits of history happened better. Some things always seemed a bit unbelievable - less so now.

One thing I've learned is that scandals aren't necessarily hidden away and are then revealed to the public in a big pulling-back-the-curtain scene.

Sometimes scandals continue while more and more people become aware, and look on helplessly, and even though the clamour rises the scandal can continue on largely unhindered.

Bernard, are you me...? 😆

turns out I really value having the freedom to make up my own mind and speak and behave accordingly.

Radio 4 is not as good as I thought it was. I don’t know if they’ve changed or I have. Both I think

being unthinkingly left wing does not make you a good person. In fact it might make you a fucking lunatic

no good ever comes from pretending things that aren’t true

I really really value freedom of speech.

I won't be going to church, for a start. Whenever anybody describes someone as a Nazi, I need to know exactly how they are using that word.
I am less fussy about where people are saying things and more interested in what they are saying.

Basically, I've had my arse handed to me for lazily leaning to the left without interrogating the landscape better. If it weren't for the I am Spartacus thread however many years ago now, it could have been years more before I looked up from the daily grind to see the new order.