It’s about god damn time that Twitter did something about Lineham. He’s been harassing trans women constantly, even to the point of having the police intervene, and they’ve turned a blind eye to him because he’s a verified person. JKRowling would be nice, but I don’t see that happening any time soon. 

No, I’d much prefer that we have separate conversations about Shitty Person A and Shitty Person B. That’s in an ideal world. In this world, there are still plenty of ways to have this discussion that don’t rely on bullshit tactics and don’t just look like point scoring!

It never ceases to amaze me how conservatives will twist themselves in utter knots to support private healthcare even when their own experiences demonstrate it doesn’t work.

Thanks buddy. I read the article. It is fair to read phrasing like “the initial $3 million apparently wasn’t enough for Cawthorn and his family” as side-eying their approach to litigating to recover something for his injuries, and implying some sort of greed on his part.

I swear to God I saw his picture on Twitter and before I read the story thought it was Tom Brady.

What can you say to someone like this? It sounds like he got a C- in Econ 101 and that is the extent of what he understands about how markets work. How does he think “more competition” would work for medical care? After suffering a sudden, catastrophic injury, he would have shopped around for the cheapest care? Like,…

I’d like to believe you’re doing this in good faith, since I also agree that Argento is almost certainly guilty and it’s truly fucked up that it hasn’t gotten more attention, but the thing is.... they’re both wrong! Both terribly, terribly wrong, and the public’s failure to look more closely at Argento has literally…

Thank goodness she did that so it could completely exonerate this dude from his own publicly exposed, shitty acts of abuse! Phew! Chris owes her one.

OMG my exact thought... I was like oh he didn’t answer because she was too old at that point! 

From Page Six: “Another woman, Colleen Riley, posted a 2014 message from D’Elia in which he asked her to “make out,” followed by another in which she said, “Chris, I’m 16.” D’Elia’s camp gave us another email in that chain, in which he allegedly replied, “Oh sh**. I thought you were at my [standup] show. Gotta be 18…

Rossi allegedly wrote to D’Elia, ‘I’m 21 now and [down to f***].’ His reps say D’Elia didn’t respond to her.”

I am always baffled that people overlook the fact that someone behaving inappropriately will be ejected from such spaces regardless of gender. Women only spaces are violated by men, and the kind of guy eager to bluff his way in for being trans is probably going to take "sorry sir you can't be here" as a challenge…

My point is that JK Rowling is someone who appears reasonable at first glance but she pushes the bathroom rape conspiracies as hard as anyone.

The only difference is she starts the claims with, “Having talked to many concerned females and other rape survivors like myself and my trans friends, I think their concerns…

That zero sum mentality is honestly such a challenge. It’s how we end up with this All Lives Matter bullshit, because people are so worried that someone saying Black Lives Matter must imply that their own life matters less in that moment.

Problem is Rowling sort of demonstrated the lack of difference between the two. It started off only publicly showing the latter but when publicly rebuked she put out a 3600+ word screed (like you do) with various scarestories about transpeople.

whereas I’m not sure what someone who believes the bathroom rape conspiracies has to offer humanity, and I doubt very much they could ever be convinced.

No, the difference is that trans-inclusive feminism argues that while all experiences between all communities of women, whether it be transwomen, disabled women, women of colour, LB+ women etc, may not be the same and shared by all they still fundamentally as people do face persecution and discrimination by society in…

After having had several long conversations with the latter group in recent weeks it’s clear they’re just somewhat smarter and more manipulative than the former. They want to claim to argue from a base of respectability but still portray transwomen as rapists and transmen as victims of misogyny.

I’ve only ever gotten a single speeding ticket in my life. The week before I was pulled over I was coming out of my gym late at night and this cop comes up to me in uniform and tells me how he sees me every night and I look so good and fit, and would I like to go out with him. I told him I was married and his…

Meanwhile, HR 1585 reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 that is needed to pass to re-appropriate funds for it, and was passed by The House in March 2019, is STILL sitting un-voted on in the Senate with a 3% chance of proceeding - much less getting to Trump’s desk for his signature too.