Women's rights general conversations - Thread 9

[Kucinghitam]

Continuation of Thread 8.

There is so much excellent information and so many active discussions on FWR that I wondered if it would be useful to have a thread to sort of "cross-fertilise" between them - airing little thoughts or vignettes that wouldn't themselves merit their own thread, to highlight other posts/threads of particular interest or to point to notable developments on fast-moving threads so that casual observers know where to look.

(For example, "the X thread has meandered onto a fascinating discussion of Y" or "Poster P's amazing analysis on thread Z might have relevance to the scenario in thread W" or "Has anybody noticed this recurring theme that keeps coming up??" or even "Random bloke asked me to smile while I was choosing onions in the supermarket, grr"- that sort of thing).

My favourite depiction of Mary is actually by a male artist. I cannot express how moving I find Michaelangelo's Pieta. A mother holds her dead son. How can carved marble be so beautiful and so heartbreaking?

Poem by Magi Gibson, which I thought those here might like

I so agree. I first saw it as a child, unexpectedly coming upon it, and it felt like a bolt from the divine. It must be the most both moving and beautiful work of art ever made.

FlowchartRequired · Yesterday 21:

Is it by Michaelangelo?

Yes.

Little wokebro is disappointed he can't impose his bullshit gender views on no-nonsense older bloke: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/dec/26/dining-across-the-divide-i-tried-to-push-him-on-reparations-but-i-didnt-get-very-far

I just listened to the triggernometry with Stephen Fry. Very very disappointed with the Trig guys. There was almost no challenging questioning. And Fry can waffle on and say nothing at all for a whole hour. I really wish they’d asked about women’s rights.

I have never understood the interest in Stephen Fry or why anyone thinks he has anything particular to say over and above a random member of the public.

I think that it was Plato who first said that an empty vessel makes the most sound.

I agree. However, in this instance on their podcast, I was hoping that a mainstream gay man saying he didn’t agree with stonewall would be more interesting. It was so dull. I know it shouldn’t take someone mainstream to make the point, but it does. But Fry didn’t really make any points and certainly nothing quoteable.

Joshua sounds insufferable and John sounds admirably even keeled. Can’t believe Joshua is 29 - he comes across as quite adolescent.

I had my first baby at UCH in 2000 and they deffo had a no sex reveal at scans policy then.

I think there are loads of men (and a fair few women!) like that in Joshua's age-group. Unfortunately.

Guardian frets over adolescent boys & young men taking steroids for body building and the negative influence of social media in making contemporary body image problems contagious amongst an age cohort - no mention of the girls taking the same testosterone medications to look like boys…
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/dec/28/why-are-my-biceps-so-small-the-boys-and-young-men-turning-to-steroids

even the illustration could double as an FtM ROGD article:

I've just read this article in the Telegraph, tw for male posters...don't say you weren't warned ⚠️

https://archive.ph/6da4l

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health-fitness/wellbeing/sex/what-its-really-like-to-be-a-penis-surgeon/

It's a bit of an odd subject perhaps for these boards. I did find it interesting. This guy tries to repair some of the wreckage left after genital surgeries. I think his insight into the medical predators stalking the vulnerable, his obvious disdain for the lackadaisical oversight (yes you GMC) has obvious parallels with both so called 'sex change' surgeries and surgeries offered to women. I'm thinking of the vaginal mesh but there will be others.

A case of, a fool and his money, I suppose. As you say, the parallels are obvious. I suppose if this is becoming more widespread, it's partly another thing that can ascribed to the growing influence of porn.

Reading about the Taliban's latest batshittery (windows, windows FFS) has just about pushed me over the edge. What the fuck is wrong with so many men?

I'm afraid I cannot offer any insight into that.

Specifically, why hasn't the ICC expelled Afghanistan? I'm not sure what other sports they participate in, but they should certainly be chucked out of cricket, with a boycott against any other nation that continues to play with them.

Found this article

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14237553/Almost-two-thirds-transgender-women-prisons-sentences-sex-offences.html

I know it's come up on the boards before. I don't think it mentions how many are prison onset.

Harpy new year to you all.

Likewise from me, Happy New Year.

Happy New Year, dinosaurs!

Harpy new year, vipers.

Happy New Year to the nest of vipers!