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JKR on men in women's jails

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fromorbit · 20/02/2024 18:59

Another banger from the Queen of Twitter after she posted about the recent report on men in women's jails in Scotland.

The trans activist outrage that ensues on here whenever I share my belief that jailed women shouldn't be used as validation tools or emotional support props for trans-identified male sex offenders is as revealing as it's predictable.

Such activists can't bring themselves to concede that a man who was convicted of harming women/girls ought not to be incarcerated with the demographic to whom he is a proven danger, because if they do, all their stock arguments ('no sexual predator would bother to pretend to be trans', 'no trans woman has ever harmed a woman in a women's only space', 'there is no danger in making all single sex spaces unisex') are exposed as the lies they are. If they admit that even a single man isn't a woman because he says he is, the entire edifice of gender identity ideology crumbles. This leaves activists who rely on bullying and slogans with nowhere to go but 'you hate all trans people', 'so you're saying all trans people are rapists' and, of course, 'you are causing a trans genocide.'

I think this particular issue also causes conniptions because it threatens the activists' self image. These are people who preen themselves on their kindness and virtue, so acknowledging the truth - that they're indifferent to vulnerable women being assaulted or traumatised - threatens the idea they have of themselves. They therefore double down. The prisoners complaining aren't really afraid of rape or voyeurism or violence at all, they say. They're 'not exactly delicate flowers', as one self-identified empath put it.

If you support putting violent and sexually predatory men into women's prisons, you are knowingly forcing those women to live in fear of, and, in some proven cases, to suffer abuse that many of them will have endured pre-incarceration. You are not kind. You are not righteous. Women have the basic human right not to suffer cruel and unusual punishment. #WomensRightsAreHumanRights
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Boiledbeetle · 26/02/2024 11:53

I’d like Captain Facts to look like Edna Mole

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Boiledbeetle · 26/02/2024 11:52

turbonerd · 26/02/2024 11:12

Ditch the capes.

Have none of you seen the Incredibles?

I’d like Captain Facts to look like Edna Mole 😁

I’d like Captain Facts to look like Edna Mole

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Boiledbeetle · 26/02/2024 11:44

😁 spelling is still shite!

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Boiledbeetle · 26/02/2024 11:41

turbonerd · 26/02/2024 11:12

Ditch the capes.

Have none of you seen the Incredibles?

I’d like Captain Facts to look like Edna Mole 😁

Alas the AI cannot comprehend that superheroes don't have to wear a cape!

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fromorbit · 26/02/2024 11:17

Love this thread.

Meanwhile on twitter the JKR superheroics are trending her last banger is over 6 million views now.

Even men are retweeting it :)

Looks like Walliams might be cancelled by Willoughby... oh wait he won't be because he is a man who was doing "offensive" stuff for decades and made a huge career out of it.

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turbonerd · 26/02/2024 11:12

Or like this

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turbonerd · 26/02/2024 11:12

Ditch the capes.

Have none of you seen the Incredibles?

I’d like Captain Facts to look like Edna Mole 😁

BananaAppleBread · 26/02/2024 10:48

So great she's highlighting.

IcakethereforeIam · 26/02/2024 10:43

I noticed that and automatically assumed it was the AI's fault. Yes. Definitely! Blush

DialSquare · 26/02/2024 10:41

Brilliant!

Boiledbeetle · 26/02/2024 10:35

IcakethereforeIam · 26/02/2024 10:22

Thank you 🤣

It can't spell either.

It's spelling is appalling to the point where I assume it's deliberate! If you look at the comic book characters names they aren't right!

Boiledbeetle · 26/02/2024 10:33

DialSquare · 26/02/2024 10:28

Booooo

"Woman with long red hair holding a book looking like a superhero"

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DialSquare · 26/02/2024 10:28

Booooo

Boiledbeetle · 26/02/2024 10:28

DialSquare · 26/02/2024 10:24

Try JKR as a super hero, Boiled.

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Boiledbeetle · 26/02/2024 10:26

BezMills · 26/02/2024 09:20

So are Captain Facts, Supereality, Science Girl and Biologicus. There a lot of kryptonite about seems like

Coming to a comic store near you soon

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NotBadConsidering · 26/02/2024 10:25

Boiledbeetle · 26/02/2024 10:20

The AI is a little too literal!

🤣🤣🤣 that IS the most super turf I have ever seen. I imagine playing sport on it is like running on clouds🤣🤣

DialSquare · 26/02/2024 10:24

Try JKR as a super hero, Boiled.

IcakethereforeIam · 26/02/2024 10:22

Boiledbeetle · 26/02/2024 10:20

The AI is a little too literal!

Thank you 🤣

It can't spell either.

RedToothBrush · 26/02/2024 10:20

From Wiki:

Veritas is the name given to the Roman virtue of truthfulness, which was considered one of the main virtues any good Roman should possess. The Greek goddess of truth is Aletheia. The German philosopher Martin Heidegger argues that the truth represented by aletheia (which essentially means "unconcealment") is different from that represented by Veritas, which is linked to a Roman understanding of rightness and finally to a Nietzschean sense of justice and a will to power.

In Roman mythology, Veritas, meaning Truth, is the Goddess of Truth, a daughter of Saturn (called Cronus by the Greeks, the Titan of Time, perhaps first by Plutarch), and the mother of Virtus. She is also sometimes considered the daughter of Jupiter (called Zeus by the Greeks), or a creation of Prometheus. The elusive goddess is said to have hidden in the bottom of a holy well. She is depicted both as a virgin dressed in white and as the "naked truth" (nuda veritas) holding a hand mirror.

I find it interesting that the truth was gendered as feminine by both the Romans and the Greeks who had a deep understanding of the principles of democracy and one of these gods was literally depicted naked with a mirror.

There is no irony in this. And it is for a reason.

Men throughout history have benefited from Authoritarianism and authoritarianism has always bought misery and suffering for women as they ended up at the bottom of a hierarchy. Throughout history, women have faired relatively better in liberal and democratic societies because there is not this rush to power in the same way which involves putting others down to push yourself up.

Women also were outside the realms of power so we're not deemed a threat in the same way.

In modern Russia Putin has had issues with Russian mothers demanding the truth about what happened to their sons and have, in the past, been one of the biggest thorns in his side. They haven't been a threat to overthrowing him but they have forced change in a way few others have achieved in previous wars.

It is fascinating to see historical representations of the truth and it's importance and how it holds power to account.

Boiledbeetle · 26/02/2024 10:20

IcakethereforeIam · 26/02/2024 10:12

@Boiledbeetle we need a Superterf! D'you think AI would be willing to play?

The AI is a little too literal!

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IcakethereforeIam · 26/02/2024 10:12

@Boiledbeetle we need a Superterf! D'you think AI would be willing to play?

Crankywiddershins · 26/02/2024 09:49

DialSquare · 26/02/2024 09:28

So are Captain Facts, Supereality, Science Girl and Biologicus. There a lot of kryptonite about seems like

Yep. You could be on to a new comic there!

Rise of the Superterf?

Cosmosforbreakfast · 26/02/2024 09:41

Now there's a comic I'd buy! Maybe JK could branch out? I'd love another reason to support her.

DialSquare · 26/02/2024 09:28

So are Captain Facts, Supereality, Science Girl and Biologicus. There a lot of kryptonite about seems like

Yep. You could be on to a new comic there!

BezMills · 26/02/2024 09:20

DialSquare · 26/02/2024 08:35

She's the TRA Kryptonite

So are Captain Facts, Supereality, Science Girl and Biologicus. There a lot of kryptonite about seems like

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