Good thread by Oliver Burkeman on Slate Rose article

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twitter.com/oliverburkeman/status/960944847346700288

Thought quite good, glosswitch and Hadley too.

OMFG that article! Where to begin?

The gymnasts?

Breasts are just "extra tissue"?

The girls who grow up without electricity and haven't seen tampon commercials?

Christ on a bike I've had enough.

Yup. Doing my head in. But I liked the comments on that thread.

Yes, my periods stopped for 2 years while I bf my son.

FUCK OFF that didn't make me male!

Yes, I saw that. I felt quite ridiculously relieved that someone sensible, interesting and thoughtful from the Guardian could see this and felt it worth publicly calling out. The very off reporting of the prisoner Marie story that ended up getting written up in the New Statesman really knocked my trust in the Guardian.

Yes it's relief I feel. But will he write anything? Will Hadley? Will they be allowed to?

Hadley has reviewed Rose's book and it was great but she linked to the independent article about the trans idiot, which was an annoying write up.

Only a man would see female breasts as "just extra tissue"

That article is awful. But it's great to see people starting to ask - in public - that very basic question "how do you define a woman without referring to feelings?"

I got as far as ''...McGowan, a former Weinstein victim''.

Say what now?