Women's rights general conversations - Thread 10

The green C on the second line is making me twitch.

I made a meme.

This.

The most perfect summary of the women’s rights movement.

They can never cope with the idea that being sex-realist or gender critical means believing that gender-based characteristics are a bunch of stereotypes that some people like to buy into that do not change anyone's sex or give them a right to access any single-sex spaces or activities.

And that the rest of us should not be obliged to subsidise.

I didn't know the US has National Women's Hall of Fame...or it did until 2024 when they induced a bloke. Apparently he's essential for understanding womanhood. Bloke doing peak mansplaining. Currently living in a throuple.

That was a good read. Thank you.

This brought back memories of earlier discussions where people said that sport would be the thing that blew the lid off this nonsense in the eyes of the general public, because everyone - including men - could see what a pisstake it would be to allow males to infiltrate women’s sports. Anyway, a good read….

archive.ph/2025.08.24-103303/www.telegraph.co.uk/sailing/2025/08/24/tracy-edwards-trans-activists-fights-back/

Saw a transwoman in Tesco today. I kept bumping into them as we were taking a similar route around the store.

He was over 6ft tall and heavy built and I'd guess around late 50s in age. He had long hair tied in school girl bunches and was wearing a spaghetti strap sundress and strappy sandals. He had a male face with stubble, a flat chest with chest hair coming out of the top of the dress and hairy male feet.

What I noticed though was his behaviour in the shop. Most people just wander around with their trolley and maybe ask the odd question to staff when they need help finding something.

He was going around staring at customers and deliberately trying to make eye contact in an intimidating way so he could start up a conversation. He spoke to every staff member he saw. Every time I overheard him, he was telling people he was a woman and he loved sundresses.

He just came over as creepy and weird. Ordinary biological women don't behave like that. They just go in and do their shopping without any fuss. It's like he was demanding attention from people in the shop to validate his perception that he is a woman.

Indeed. Quite a few of the categories explicitly say ‘female’ so we can hope.

Unfortunately, unless they have a written definition of wormen one can't safely assume anything.

Is this a good sign?

Women into Leadership - Categories - Leadership Awards https://share.google/KPhmb66Zja1PwoJpO

Is it safe to assume that 'women only' is following the SC clarification?

Hadley Freeman’s Times column today on various Scottish strands

https://www.thetimes.com/article/232b37ff-7e7f-4932-93ee-bc10e0eee33e?shareToken=38dbb36e46afd14c3c41f925258e57d6

I love this line from Ditum’s column: “ The Sturgeon version of feminism is little more than a childish excuse for her own failings: a big patriarchy did it and ran away.”

Also damning Sturgeon with the faint praise of being slightly better than Johnson

And here is Sarah Ditum on that book.

https://www.thetimes.com/article/3b515acd-b11c-4b05-a28a-d1b45c599a85?shareToken=42c59c7ee6122b0f95a75eb5d2850113

That was a lovely passing sideswipe.

Stock's ending was just brilliant.

My favourite bit of the JKR review is actually the bit taking the piss out of Boris

Thanks for the Kathleen Stock review. She is another fantastic wordsmith.

The last two sentences, oh god...😬

"If Frankly is anything to go by, then, strictly speaking Sturgeon never did have imposter syndrome. To have that particular malaise, your nagging suspicion you aren’t really up to the task has to be wrong."

Thanks, bignosebignose - nice to see you!

The review by Kathleen Stock is harsher on Sturgeon that JKR's, far more critical and goes into more detail. I love them both, though.

Anyone know what the numbers are on how many copies have been sold?

Kathleen Stock also putting the boot into Nicola.

https://archive.ph/HapPo

There is also a “clusterfuck”, but if it were very sweary she would be criticised for it.

Great takedown.

Greetings @bignosebignose

She has been annotating her copy and is going to auction it for charity. There's plenty of swearing there - she posted a photo on X of a page where she's written ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME!!! across the top....