Since they’re using the term “re-education” to describe sensitivity training, it seems clear that they have absorbed the Jordan Peterson idea that trans people are tyrants capable of brainwashing and suppressing free thought. Implied in this belief is the idea that discrimination against trans people is justifiable…

This is tough, because my dad had a way of being casually, gratuitously cruel, especially to my mom. He never hit me, and my mom only talks about the one time that he shoved her hard and she fell. He was shaped by a shitty youth and childhood and the imperative men in his generation had to be hard, and see that…

Thank you. There are definitely organized groups in the TERF universe who use cult techniques, the most obvious of which is “love-bombing”, where a concerted effort is made to make a new recruit feel appreciated and special with expressions of approval and affection, especially when they encounter questions or…

Regarding “masterpieces” that’s been a deprecated term among art historians for quite a long time, partly because of inflexible tendering in the english language. For instance, a painting by Artemisia Gentilleschi should properly be called a “mistresspiece” but nobody wants to do that, or refer to her as an “Old…

It must be such a great comfort to TERFs that the rapist and creep judges are on their side against trans people. Anyway, congratulations to my US friends for having this little ray of sunshine break through the relentless shitstorm for a minute.

This is a bit that a lot of people have trouble grasping, so I’ll patiently explain: Canada has a single-payer health insurance system, operated independently by each provincial government but with federally-mandated standards. This system covers essential health care, and the definition of what is essential changes…

Definitely a filthy racist.

I would be super grateful rn if our provincial medical officer would let just one RMT work for just one hour on the pinched nerve in my back. As it is my partner and I have been texting our guy for advice and he has been replying with instructions of things to (gently) try and a lot of “careful you don’t make it…

In fact, I think she cut-and-pasted this tweet from some other poor-me-they-called-me-a-transphobe transphobe whining somewhere and just swapped in “Karen” for “TERF”.

Next month it will still be the virus, hon

Father Brown kind of fits your Miss Marple category, and is an excellent distillation of the picture of the English countryside presented in many of these whodunits: villages full of eccentrics (and always-pleasant weather, which is the most unrealistic aspect), and mysteries solved by an unassuming, humble, but…

The Edge of Night was another soap that started on radio and migrated to television. I know it only because it was the only soap opera carried nationally on the CBC in Canada for like, decades. I used to come home from school and wait for the filler music at the end to finish so I could watch whatever kids show was…

That's a movie, Mars Hates Women

Canadian here. 15 years ago I had weird numbness in my hands and feet, numbness that was slowly getting worse and affecting a larger area. About two months after I saw my primary doctor, and with lots of tests in between to rule things out, I was seeing a specialist is neuromuscular diseases, and by the end of that…

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