political correctness gone mad

[Ab]

Men's rights activist Bettina Arndt should be stripped of her Order of Australia, Victorian Attorney-General Jill Hennessy has said.

Ms Arndt was given the honour on Australia Day for her "significant service to the community as a social commentator, and to gender equity through advocacy for men".

After widespread outrage, Ms Hennessy asked Governor-General David Hurley to overturn the decision in a letter to him on Tuesday.

Smash the patriarchy, including this woman

[fixed_truth]

Iowa determines convicted child molester no longer a threat due to sex change

Officials in Iowa have determined a convicted child molester is to be released from incarceration, explaining that the offender's reduction in testosterone levels due to transition from being a man to becoming a transgender female puts the individual at a lower risk of reoffending.

[Ab]

Author forced to cancel her book tour after death threats from progressive activists angry that she’s not Latina enough to write a book containing Hispanic characters.

https://apple.news/ABm8F4XfOQLqnxSDvTVUr2g

[Ab]

Originally Posted by fixed_truth

Iowa determines convicted child molester no longer a threat due to sex change

A preliminary report prepared by the state's expert, Dr. Jeffrey Davis, says Smith molested as many as 15 victims, ranging from ages 1 to 13

Wtaf

[Lightspeed]

Originally Posted by fixed_truth

Iowa determines convicted child molester no longer a threat due to sex change

Sounds similar to when they give offenders the option of chemical castration in some jurisdictions. It sometimes is effective.

[Ab]

Presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren announces that in her administration the Secretary of Education must be chosen by a transgender child

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/n...y-of-education

[pxpx]

*vetted

but still, pandering much?

[Ab]

Girl Guides leader fired for raising concerns about being required to admit sexually male children and keep their presence secret from parents

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...policy-admits/

[fixed_truth]

A four-month investigation concluded she had breached the organisation’s social media rules by airing her concerns online.

It also ruled she had broken the ‘code of conduct’ by refusing to adhere to the Guides’ equality and diversity policy on transgender inclusion.

She was then expelled when her membership of Girlguiding was revoked after she refused to agree to follow the new transgender rules.

She doesn't get to dictate the organisations rules and how it's run. If she can't adhere to the rules then take her scaremongering somewhere else.

[Ab]

Well yeah...? That’s the point?

[fixed_truth]

Yeah. Good on the Girl Guide organisation.

[Lightspeed]

Ab hears: the Large Gamete Guides Club.

[Ab]

I hear they also play sports

[Lightspeed]

Oh sports, hallowed, immutable sports. We could be free to be who we want to be, but alas, God burdened us with sports.

[Ab]

Speaking of sports

Chat about football or cricket in the workplace should be curtailed, a management body has warned.

Chartered Management Institute head Ann Francke said sports banter can exclude women and lead to laddish behaviour such as chat about sexual conquests.

"A lot of women, in particular, feel left out," she told the BBC's Today programme.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-51261999

[Ab]

interesting study

Males on average:
75% more muscle mass than females (yeah we know this)
90% more strength than females (yeah we know this)

162% more punching power than females (who the what now?)

Summary: Male bodies are optimised for punching other males to death.

"We had them fill out an activity questionnaire," Morris says, "and they had to score in the 'active' range. So, we weren't getting couch potatoes, we were getting people that were very fit and active."

But even with roughly uniform levels of fitness, the males' average power during a punching motion was 162% greater than females', with the least-powerful man still stronger than the most powerful woman. Such a distinction between genders, Carrier says, develops with time and with purpose.

"It evolves slowly," he says, "and this is a dramatic example of sexual dimorphism that's consistent with males becoming more specialized for fighting, and males fighting in a particular way, which is throwing punches."

https://phys.org/news/2020-02-males-powerful.html

[Nich]

Maybe that study doesn't belong in this thread. But the response to this study will probably belong in this thread.

[Ab]

Yeah true. But I still find it fascinating. If you read some of the attached articles on that new article, the basic jist is that the entire male human body is a support system for giving and taking beatings. The way male bodies are built turns a 75% advantage in muscle into a 162% increase in punch power. It's not just upper body strength, it's everything from the way our hands are shaped to the elasticity of our achilles tendons and even to the shapes of our faces (for those that didn't read further - the parts of the head and face that are the MOST different between men and women are the parts most at risk of getting broken by a punch to the face. Male faces look different from female faces because armour).

[fixed_truth]

Originally Posted by Nich

Maybe that study doesn't belong in this thread. But the response to this study will probably belong in this thread.

I can imagine responses along the lines of - check mate liberals, under no circumstances should transwomen participate in elite woman's sports.

[Nich]

this belongs here.

Awaken with JP - Coronavirus, why you should panic more.

https://youtu.be/OW7dASdQIgU

Not wanting to be infected is not inclusive, and makes you a racist.

[Ab]

https://reason.com/2020/02/03/univer...tive-berkeley/

Lol China so going to own this century

[Nich]

Andrew Doyle (aka titania mcgrath) submitted this article to Independent under a pseudonym. Zero background checks, they just enthusiastically published this woke drivel.

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices...-a8796341.html

Huffington Post was onto a good business model with the blogging approach to journalism. Keeps costs low, and keeps the anger and click-bait headlines high.

[Lightspeed]

"Voices" looks like the write-in section. If people write in misrepresenting themselves, that's on them.

I doubt you would ever come across that page unless explicitly looking for it.

[Ab]

This week, we have seen the true toll of political correctness. PC isn’t just irritating or stupid. It isn’t just woke students banning sombreros or schools getting iffy about ‘Baa Baa Black Sheep’. PC destroys lives.

A report into police and council failings in Manchester has found that gangs of predominantly Pakistani men were free to abuse up to 57 girls after chief cops and local officials turned a blind eye to this foul, cruel behaviour. Why did they turn away? Partly out of fear of stoking racial tensions. Partly because they were worried that drawing attention to the grooming and exploitation of mostly white working-class girls by Asian men might ‘incite racial hatred’ and damage multicultural relations.

Let’s put it plainly: they sacrificed girls to political correctness; they thought that preserving the ideology of multiculturalism was more important than protecting girls from harm.

The independent review into grooming and abuse in Manchester in the mid-2000s, published yesterday, makes for grim reading. It says there were up to 57 victims, mostly white girls aged between 12 and 16, and 97 potential perpetrators, mostly men of ‘Asian heritage’. The review makes clear, from some of the evidence it acquired, that some of the abuse networks were made up of ‘predominantly Pakistani men’. That is, similar to Rotherham, Telford and other parts of the UK, this was a case involving what is sometimes referred to as a Muslim grooming gang.

The girls were groomed, sexually abused, plied with drugs and raped. They suffered, in the review’s words, ‘the most profound abuse and exploitation’. But little was done to help them. Their abusers were not brought to justice. And this catastrophic failing was in part fuelled by what the review refers to as Greater Manchester Police’s concerns about ‘sensitive community issues’. As one news report summarises it, the police were ‘keen not to be seen targeting [a] minority group’. As a result of this PC cowardice, of this mad multicultural sensitivity, the abuse continued.

https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/0...kistani-gangs/

[Lightspeed]

Ah yes, the only time we care about rape. When we can use it to blame.

[Lightspeed]

Aussie doing it's bit to keep women in their place.

[Ab]

Oh lol that's terrible.

[Ab]

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The families of three female high school runners filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday seeking to block transgender athletes in Connecticut from participating in girls sports.

“Forcing girls to be spectators in their own sports is completely at odds with Title IX, a federal law designed to create equal opportunities for women in education and athletics,” attorney Christiana Holcomb said. “Connecticut’s policy violates that law and reverses nearly 50 years of advances for women.”

https://apnews.com/8fd300537131153cc44e0cf2ade3244b

I'm sure this will go well.

[Lightspeed]

It makes sense. Traditional sports are based around traditional concepts of gender.

I just don't see how non-traditional gender representations fit in traditional sports. Trying to force them together is only going to cause drama.

New sporting paradigms will emerge.

[Ab]

Title IX has basically become a law that says "if you make a female student feel bad, you have committed sexual violence, and by derivation so has the school that allowed you to do it". It's usually the CAUSE of PC gone mad rants. That Title IX is being used here to protect female student athletes from being smashed by transgender male student athletes is...interesting.

[Ab]

this is why we can't have nice things

Queer activists disrupt Pete Buttigieg event in San Francisco

https://apple.news/AU5PNd3jDMR-yNIMG3fFwmA

[crocos]

Possible unpopular opinion incoming

Only way an LBQT+ candidate is going to get into power is by not frightening the old white men in charge too much. If Buttigieg was more representative of the wider LBQT community it would make him ineligible in the eyes of anyone with money (= power = ability to impose their will).

That being said, even if it wasn't Buttigieg, who could be good enough? As relatively small as it is, the various paths leading people to their LBQT+ sexuality are so varied that expecting a single candidate to represent them (especially on a platform based around the person's sexuality rather than their actual policies) seems 1) infantile and 2) impossible.

[Ab]

Call me crazy but I thought that a gay man being in the running as a presidential candidate was a positive step. Of course I should have realised that by being an able-bodied white non-transgender middle-class English-speaking man he is literally worse than Hitler. Hell, better disrupt his campaign because we may as well give Trump a second term.

[Lightspeed]

"Hey hurt people! Stop being hurt, it's not convenient right now!"

[Cyberbob]

Originally Posted by crocos

Only way an LBQT+ candidate is going to get into power is by not frightening the old white men in charge too much.

Might be easier just to wait a while. They are pretty old.

[Nich]

there will never be an LGBTQ+ candidate, because it is an impossible unicorn of a condition statement
(if (and lesbian gay bi trans queer))

a lesbian is hated by gays
a gay man is hated by lesbians
bi persons are not a problem and fly under the radar, no real skin in the queer game. shouldnt be in the alphabet club imo
some trans want to just blend into society
some trans want society to change and adapt to them

I love how there’s just a + at the end now. Just read that as “etc etc ...” . LGBTQ does not suggest a trend or pattern, + is almost there just to be painfully inclusive as an admission that once you’re past queer it’s just identity groups with a population:1 because everyone lives their own truth. fuck. that. You’re determined to be misunderstood and excluded if you think you’re one of a kind.

each identity group has unique challenges , progress, and prejudice. There is little crossover and LGBTQ just adds a layer and dilutes the battle each group faces, doesnt progress the cause for any of them, doesnt make them stronger banding together.

[Lightspeed]

What are you afraid to lose that's got you working out such opinions?

[Nich]

I am saying no ambassador for LGBTQ will ever be woke enough to represent the fragmented and disagreeable "community". The gatekeepers will not allow it. No, not white hetronormative old men with old ideas with a boot on the neck of a subset of the population, but the community itself.

Lets have a gay, trans, pronoun-sensitive world leader. I have no problem so long as they are good a their job. We have nothing lose and everything to gain.

[fixed_truth]

transwoman wrestler wins major title
Another blatent example of physically superior transwoman dominating sports.

[Ab]

Originally Posted by Lightspeed

"Hey hurt people! Stop being hurt, it's not convenient right now!"

"San Francisco queers what did the gay man from the small town in Indiana do to hurt you?"