I want to take a moment to compliment you on your wonderful Substack and to thank you for exposing the insanity behind the trans movement. I particularly liked your observation in your "The Ground Zero of trans propaganda" post: "How embarrassing for an anti-radicalisation researcher to publicly reveal she has been radicalised by such a weird, Jonestown-tier belief system." So devastatingly accurate! THANKS AGAIN!
Another well-written summary that would be amusing were it all happening in a fictional universe. The item that most fascinated me was the link to Anne A Lawrence's paper. Amazing to think that just 15 year ago, she could use a title as quaint as 'Autogynephilia: an underappreciated paraphilia'. Well, we're all appeciating it now, that's for sure.
Again and again you capture the essence of this whole circus: "I’ve started to think of the parade that day as Queeronymous Bosch. Picture this: men in PVC puppy bodysuits fondling each other’s nipples while “cool aunts” in polyamory t-shirts twerk in front of the appalled hired security, who are all some flavour of just-off-the-boat East African."
That nails it. We've descended into some kind of bonobo-chimp hybrid clown world. If any kind of sanity is to reign, we need insightful and articulate voices like yours calling it out. Thank you for braving the insanity.
"I had a good laugh at this with some anon norniron TERFs: literal ex paramilitaries — big bad scary lads — have somehow ended up caping for knickermen, and their cowardly failure to tell the screamy kids of the wokestocracy to fuck off might doom their united Ireland project altogether."
No surprise at all. Those ex-provos like that sweet sweet cash.
That was an incredible read. Thought you'd peaked for this week at the Cathlolic/civil service/crossdressers/changing room alliteration but then Queeronymous Bosch. Absolutely savage dissection of the stories of the week.
C'mon, surely you can do better than to misuse the word "woke"? You write all the time about men inappropriately claiming womanhood for themselves, using our terms (girl, woman, lesbian, female) to describe themselves, yet you continue to do the same to the culture that created "woke" and defined it as something very explicitly by and about Black American culture.
We've been using the term for nearly a century, to describe our lives and culture, and as a **positive** thing, so to bastardize part of our vernacular, and further to turn it into something NEGATIVE, while arguing against men doing the same about womanhood, isn't the way to go.
You'd have more allies if you stopped colonizing and mistreating the words we created and further didn't weaponize them as something ugly or descriptive of things you hate or find annoying.
We have so much in common in the fight against gender ideology and its pervasive nature and the way men use it to harm women, but when you show zero regard for other cultures, it's hard to get on board.
I often find the meaning of English words for a British English-speaking person is different to the meaning of the same word to a north American. Additionally, words change the way they are used from one century to another and from one activist culture to another. The more crucial example of this for us terfs is the redefining of the word WOMAN.
I want to take a moment to compliment you on your wonderful Substack and to thank you for exposing the insanity behind the trans movement. I particularly liked your observation in your "The Ground Zero of trans propaganda" post: "How embarrassing for an anti-radicalisation researcher to publicly reveal she has been radicalised by such a weird, Jonestown-tier belief system." So devastatingly accurate! THANKS AGAIN!
Another well-written summary that would be amusing were it all happening in a fictional universe. The item that most fascinated me was the link to Anne A Lawrence's paper. Amazing to think that just 15 year ago, she could use a title as quaint as 'Autogynephilia: an underappreciated paraphilia'. Well, we're all appeciating it now, that's for sure.
Thanks Silvan (and Cyrus).
Again and again you capture the essence of this whole circus: "I’ve started to think of the parade that day as Queeronymous Bosch. Picture this: men in PVC puppy bodysuits fondling each other’s nipples while “cool aunts” in polyamory t-shirts twerk in front of the appalled hired security, who are all some flavour of just-off-the-boat East African."
That nails it. We've descended into some kind of bonobo-chimp hybrid clown world. If any kind of sanity is to reign, we need insightful and articulate voices like yours calling it out. Thank you for braving the insanity.
"I had a good laugh at this with some anon norniron TERFs: literal ex paramilitaries — big bad scary lads — have somehow ended up caping for knickermen, and their cowardly failure to tell the screamy kids of the wokestocracy to fuck off might doom their united Ireland project altogether."
No surprise at all. Those ex-provos like that sweet sweet cash.
That was an incredible read. Thought you'd peaked for this week at the Cathlolic/civil service/crossdressers/changing room alliteration but then Queeronymous Bosch. Absolutely savage dissection of the stories of the week.
C'mon, surely you can do better than to misuse the word "woke"? You write all the time about men inappropriately claiming womanhood for themselves, using our terms (girl, woman, lesbian, female) to describe themselves, yet you continue to do the same to the culture that created "woke" and defined it as something very explicitly by and about Black American culture.
We've been using the term for nearly a century, to describe our lives and culture, and as a **positive** thing, so to bastardize part of our vernacular, and further to turn it into something NEGATIVE, while arguing against men doing the same about womanhood, isn't the way to go.
You'd have more allies if you stopped colonizing and mistreating the words we created and further didn't weaponize them as something ugly or descriptive of things you hate or find annoying.
We have so much in common in the fight against gender ideology and its pervasive nature and the way men use it to harm women, but when you show zero regard for other cultures, it's hard to get on board.
I often find the meaning of English words for a British English-speaking person is different to the meaning of the same word to a north American. Additionally, words change the way they are used from one century to another and from one activist culture to another. The more crucial example of this for us terfs is the redefining of the word WOMAN.
Unreal isn’t it