Men were trained to associate orgasm with conquering and achieving rather than experiencing pleasure without power. It is so evident it is hard for many men to overcome that legacy.

Now, my political opponents will tell you that all my solutions are built around forcefem porn scenarios; that I plan to solve the abortion debate by making pro life men transition and forcibly implanting unwanted feti inside their newly-minted wombs. My opponents are correct--

Schools are intensive sites of bullying, racism, and stress. Some students did better when removed to remote work. That’s an indictment on our schools as much as an endorsement of remote learning, though.

All of society has become way way way too interested in policing women. Women's education, success, papers, bodies, families, toys,parenting. Micromanage women has become the world's hobby Leaders literally ignoring every real crisis but have strong opinions about women minding their own business.

Literally one of my favourite Discworld pieces of all time, this quote. Sir Terry was always at his best defining what it means to truly be human, and this was his sharpest go at it

Autism has won

Young People Aren’t Abandoning Democracy — They’re Waiting to Be Invited In | They are routinely asked to vote, volunteer, or participate, but rarely invited to shape priorities, language, or direction, writes Yardley's Stu Faigen.

Bro I'm hearing parents talk about "parenting autism" now. They think us saying "autistic people" is bad but now they're just removing people from the equation altogether. Masks well and truly off. My contempt for these people is boundless.

Surely this is a weird statistical artefact resulting from the fact that there are only 13 Labour voters left?

If they're finally admitting to putting cameras in the bathrooms of school age children, imagine where else they have systems like these that they have not yet disclosed to us.

of course bari weiss can be both stupid and evil! that is the point of transphobia, it is evil that you can do even if you are too stupid for other forms of evil, because you can just say the same 2-5 transphobic things over and over again and you get an automatic audience of rich credulous freaks

“Seatbelts don’t save every life so we shouldn’t wear them at all.” - how you hoes sound talking to me, an infectious disease epidemiologist, about vaccines.

So in the UK, they'll arrest you for supporting Palestine, and now we find they'll also arrest you for supporting those who support Palestine. If you hold a Free Greta sign, will they arrest you for supporting someone who supports those who support Palestine? British Matryoshka doll-ass fascism.

Yup. It's the chattering class driving it, always has been. IMO it's not even the American religious right to blame, sadly. It's a home-grown product of a very British self-image of cleverness and propriety indignant at those vulgar prole kids demanding they "respect pronouns," how very dare they?!

I think people think I'm making it up when I say I was reprimanded at school multiple times for *reading* but anti-intellectualism already swallowed up society before I was born. We went from "education is a route out of poverty" to "wanting to learn means you have no life" at lightning speed

ireland has had self-id for a decade and there has been no increase in violence against women and there has been no erosion of women's rights or safety it's a success story @theguardian.com: ireland has had self-id for a decade. here's why that's a danger to women, children, and your grandma

I love when people act like cis men *don't* have hormone cycles. Love it. You can just Google this shit but no, we're doing science based on vibes now

'along with five other men' see this is why i dislike the whole 'not all men' thing. like obviously it's not all men but somehow, magically, the men that it is always seem to find each other so they can work in teams. 🙄

There's a bunch of hooha right now about how cold water swimming is uniquely bad for women because cortisol or whatever and whenever one of these stories comes out I add it to the "more proof I'm not a woman" pile. Fucken love my cold wild swims, take them off my dead blue hands

A lot of abled people are blithe about horrific injuries because they literally can't imagine what a permanent loss of function could feel like. "Yeah I'd take a broken jaw for [stupid amount of money]" sounds like pure craziness to someone who already has enough agony and knows health is priceless

> Uhmmm, you don't need to pass to be a real woman 🤓👆 Mhmm... don't tell me that, tell that to the fucking cissoids... <___<

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The Christian right based in the USA is a global threat. They systematically use their absurd wealth to push propaganda internationally. They have it in for the rights of women, gay and bisexual people, and trans people. They will use any chink in the defence of any of these to attack all of them.

The idea that autistic people lack empathy is still depressingly prevalent, partly because people conflate 'caring about other humans' wellbeing & wanting them to be happy' with 'reliably able to infer a stranger's motivation & emotional state based off observing a few external nonverbal clues'.

Stop asking me to decenter men, I worked hard for the right to be a faggot. Seeking approval from fruits, specifically, is clearly still allowed

um. so is @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social and the guardian fully supports it.

When I was 14, I was raped by a 14 year old boy. I do not hate 14 year old boys. I just know what happens when 14 year old boys are raised in a petri dish of misogyny where accountability doesn't exist.

it's already here it's called 'gender critical', @polphilpod.bsky.social. these ppl are so oblivious to what terfs are the entire country is completely ill prepared and is going to get blindsided.

jesus the military is so disgusting.

Do you ever get really sad thinking about how Tumblr's structure, its porn bans, Google's enshittification, and users deleting their blogs have all conspired to make thousands of genuinely insightful and creative Tumblr posts effectively unreachable? 🧵

To give you an idea of how well I think the UK's new anti-misogyny classes will to work: my schools were run by former clergy who did Christian assemblies with mandatory prayer (and bible study to punish bad kids). RE class was only Christianity. The bible was one of the only library books...

David Walliams' reputation was an open secret, junior staff were told to meet him in pairs & never visit his home, yet HarperCollins only dropped him when a Telegraph investigation came out. The problem is not just him. HarperCollins knowingly promoted & funded a guy sexually harassing junior staff.

Seeing a lot of "meat is good for you, fibre is bad for you" right wing male discourse and wondering how many of them just have rampant, undiagnosed IBS-D. I needed to adopt a low fibre diet for years because I couldn't hack anything else. It was awful, but at least I knew what was happening.

When I was writing my book, my editor suggested I use ChatGPT to fact check each chapter & convert my links to MLA format. I tried it & it literally made up fake links & fake authors. This scared me so bad and it’s why I hired a criminology graduate student to fact check for me

a lot of AI advocates are this red guy

Another problem I have with Liberals Aside from their constant appeasing fascism, but they believe in "the system" so much that no matter how many times its shown fascists don't care, they're going to do it anyway, Libs will still say "but he can't do that" anytime Trump wants to do something insane

yeah bcos if there's one thing mentally ill and neurodivergent ppl are good at it's filling out, and keeping track of, paperwork i fucking hate wes streeting. he's such a dangerous idiot @drrosena.bsky.social, the only mp i can think of to tag, can you not point out how this is stupid? added alt

I hate the narrative that every past autistic girl/woman was dismissed as "quirky" because while that did happen to some people, there is a whole other contingent who WERE obvious. They were the ones getting lobomised and straightjacketed and diagnosed with wandering uteri. Stop ignoring them

“So many people in Scotland have been badly affected by the cost of living crisis and social divisions over immigration. Its hard to look at these problems and not think: would the negative impact have been lessened if the Brexit vote had gone differently?" #Brexit #Eramus #Scotland🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

I am convinced in the future we will look back and realise the sheer unimaginable folly of letting a virus that can cause immune dysregulation and cognitive dysfunction in humans infect and re-infect the global population over and over again. Worse still, that we encouraged it.

France exonerates women convicted over abortions before legalisation

I've come to believe it's because the only solution they have for any problem is paying a company to do it. They have no problem solving skills of their own so they just outsource government to whichever company their friends work for Decades of Thatcherism has genuinely ruined our political class

those who predicted authoritarianism were both dismissed, & deeply misunderstood, by the media my latest for @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/2042...

“it’s reasonable to ask questions about trans girls in sports” was always intended to mainstream transphobia. It’s absurd that people fell for it. Democrats are constantly letting oppressors set the terms of debate instead of just saying “no, fuck you.”

I really do feel like common AuDHD thought patterns & the way psychiatric literature describes flight of ideas & pressured speech in mania are so adjacent that some people get diagnosed as bipolar who are actually ADHD/autistic & unable to translate their fizzing thoughts to normies.

im sure as education secretary, and equalities minister, @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social will be able to tackle this while simultaneously releasing 'equality' guidance that says very loudly that if someone doesn't look 'womanly' enough they can be discriminated against and harassed no coherence at all

the average cis person's opinion on trans people seems to be "they shouldnt be allowed to transition until a decade after puberty, also i prefer them when they pass. no i dont know how any of this works and i wont listen if you try to explain"

Reminder that laws forcing trans men to use ladies' toilets isn't an oversight- it's a deliberate ploy to get trans men arrested and brutalised. Thankfully, we can overcome this by just using the men's toilets anyway. Fr, what'll they do, make me whip my flange out? My fanny is gorgeous anyway

Meanwhile, any business that provides usable toilets, but not for everyone - including trans people - will be in clear breach of the Equality Act 2010. Yay, legal clarity, great work everyone!

WHI study in 2001: HRT reduces all-cause mortality but CEE+progestins have a marginal increase in the risk of breast cancer, but not mortality male Dr in 2024: we need to take all women off HRT and stop their pharma shill doctors! estrogen is literally evil and kills you! drink soy milk instead!