Tweeting about the Cass report is bigotry? That's quite funny but also totally deranged, lol
And yep, they're men. In sport, that's the whole problem. Can't talk about the problem without saying it. Their trans identity is irrelevant.
It has nothing to do with sports? No idea what point you're trying to make?
Both doping and males competing in the female category are violations of fair competition. One is obvious to you, the other is invisible. I would encourage you to reflect on why that is. Meanwhile (at least) hundreds of men continue to compete in female sports at all levels. www.shewon.org/males
Exactly!
I can't help but wonder if we were talking about men's sport, & there were 10 athletes known to be doping, bumping winners off the podium & other competitors down the rankings, if you'd shrug & say we have bigger fish to fry, or if you would care about fairness then, if it was affecting the men?
I wish I had too. I think one thing that stopped me is feeling I had to write some kind of analysis of what what happening and what I thought/felt about it and that was so overwhelming I just didn't write anything. But any analysis can come later (if ever). Now I wish I just had the facts in order!
A man is free to dress as he pleases, to call himself a woman if he wants, & to live according to this belief about himself. But it's not his right to demand that others deny reality (sex) & give up their own rights (female sporting category). Other people have rights too. That's where the line is.
Painting of a sitting young white woman facing forwards viewed from slightly above, the subject wears a long blue skirt and a striped top, she holds an acoustic guitar, behind her is a green patterned curtain
Woman with guitar, 1920, by French painter Suzanne Valadon #WomensArt
And saying that caring about fairness in women's sport is "a front for bigotry" comes across as just an excuse not to look at the actual issue honestly. It shouldn't be surprising that women care about our sports, and resent having to include men in the category that exists to exclude them.
It's not about the numbers (although numbers are significant & increasing). It's either fair, or it isn't. Fairness either matters, or it doesn't. Sporting categories (age, disability, etc) exist for a reason. No animus, everyone can complete according to the same rules, in the appropriate category.
You said it doesn't happen but what you meant is that it *does* happen, but it doesn't matter, because fairness in women's sport is less important than men's feelings about their gender. It's fine if you don't care, but at least be honest about your position.
You would imagine wrong then.
You might also like to take a moment to think about why the problem is asymmetrical: there are no women with trans identities on the men's podiums. Funny that... almost like sex matters? 🤔
www.shewon.org
Encountered this when trying to organise to meet a friend in London on a Sunday. She'd be coming from Leamington Spa. With works and strike action there was no way to do it in less than 6 hours return. Faster (& probably cheaper!) for her to visit me in Barcelona!
www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/advic...
The usually measured Hannah Barnes excoriating here on the hopeless incompetence of the WESC meeting. A must read: www.newstatesman.com/politics/soc...
#WOMENSART blog:
The Glasgow School Sisters who Influenced Klimt
womensartblog.wordpress.com/2017/10/14/t...
Yet more evidence that known creep is a creep (and possibly much worse). Those men who pontificate about what amazing feminists they are are always the ones to keep an eye on 🙄
BBC News - Neil Gaiman faces more sexual assault allegations
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Claire Bretécher, French cartoonist #womensart
#January
He's behind you!
Going by the price of a dozen decent prawns at Mercat de l'Estrella this morning, that seems entirely reasonable 😅
l'Abaceria, the Grácia market that's currently "temporarily" (5 years and counting) in Passeig Sant Joan. It was even more festive at my local Mercat de l'Estrella with people on stilts, a brass band and a dancing Santa. I love this town.
Barcelona food markets at Christmas are very high on my favourite things list ❤️
If you're not in a choir you really should be. Balm for the soul. Here's the Barcelona English Choir doing Queen at our concert on Saturday.
(Great little video thanks to an artist you can find on IG @originalwindyman )
Find someone who loves you as much as my cat loves central heating
That these two turned out to be entitled sexual bullies as well as the power-crazed misogynists we already knew them to be. What a massive surprise.
Artwork featuring a plump tortishell cat with patches of orange and black and a white belly, paws and chin, curled up on a white mat sleeping, with back to the right and facing left, viewed from slightly above
Coco Sleeping (2003)
by Scottish artist
Elizabeth Blackadder
#Sunday
They tell on themselves so much. One side engages with the actual issues and harms with evidence and from many angles with plenty of internal disagreement, while the other has nothing but "experts say..." from captured institutions and activists, appeals to emotion, and "shut up bigots"
Aww my first Bluesky threat! 😊 This is just like old times!
Huh. Turns out Bluesky *is* just like old-skool Twitter, but not in a good way. Baying mob of absolute nutjobs demanding @jessesingal.com be banned for easily disprovable things they completely made up.
And here was I thinking it was just kind of dull.
