Best tweet of the day.

'I look at all the ways men abuse women, and it absolutely baffles me that anyone would think you need a stable definition of 'men', a feminist analysis of male violence or any meaningful regulation of female-only spaces.'

These are exactly the kind of stories that self-styled nuanced, curious, reasonable men dismiss as 'incendiary'.

The planet goes on being round

This is why it's important to have principles and not just rooting interests.

I think maybe colleges need to do a one-word vocabulary test where they ask freshmen to define the word “violence” and offer remedial classes to people who think a rescinded job offer is violence, but what Hamas did to Israeli civilians is not.

Old enough to remember when being for free expression and against racial discrimination and wealth redistribution in favor of the upper class were liberal values, a.k.a. am one thousand years old

Thesis: on almost any topic, there should be lots of viewpoints you disagree with but don’t consider beyond the pale. If you divide everyone into “agrees with me” or “has unacceptable opinions”, something’s gone wrong at your end

New study on a sample of 1000 transitions that began under the US military's health system finds a 30 percent detransition rate.

Expect this to be a bit of a Rorschach, for reasons I will explain in the next tweet.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35452119/#full…

this is crazy compactmag.com/article/a-tran…

It’s actually pretty crazy being a leftist your whole life and realising a significant number of your fellow leftists think that the reason women’s sports exist is because women just aren’t trying as hard as the men are.

The Males of California Women’s Prisons

CA regularly transfers men into women’s prisons. The requests of these men can’t be denied based on physical anatomy (such as intact genitalia) or crimes committed. There is no requirement to take hormones or surgery.

Hundreds of men…

I do worry that the answer to 1 is partly 'because conservatives and radfems keep amplifying these deals, generating bonus PR for the companies'. There's a sense in which critics are Streisand Effecting this person into fame.

Ppl say 'women should just refuse to compete against trans-identifying males. That'll fix this!'

These girls did that & now their entire school - not just their team - is indefinitely banned from ALL sports & activities like spelling bees & science fairs. wcax.com/2023/03/13/sch…

We interrupt your Valentine's Day dinner to deliver some lawsuit news we really ♥️: A New York court just sided with FIRE and halted enforcement of a New York law that unconstitutionally restricts online speech.

Truly astonishing: ER visits for self-harm among teen girls have *doubled* since 2009 #TeensandTech

Well, the diversity & inclusion is working out just as we thought it would…

Nora Ephron reviews ‘Conundrum’ by Jan Morris.

In 1974

It’s even worse than I thought

Pretty sure this is responsible for about 50 different medical and social phenomena of recent years.