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if it is true that men are superior at sports, why is it that transgender athletes tend to win more medals after they transition to female?
Twitter in particular is a cesspit of the far right. It’s got to the point where if someone doesn’t have ‘antifascist’ in their bio, it’s safest to assume that they’re a fascist.
I do not fall into this category because I have always felt a profound connection with people of colour. Perhaps it’s because when I was growing up most of our staff were Filipinos.
Consider, if you will, the example of white American author Helen Keller (1880–1968). Even though she was left deaf and blind following an illness as a baby, she still managed to study for a degree, write twelve books and travel the world to give lectures. This kind of privilege is staggering.
Earlier this year I decided to spend a month identifying as BAME (Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic), and there’s no denying that I experienced some terrible prejudice. You wouldn’t believe the looks of disapproval that people gave me when I told them I was an ethnic minority.
In fact, the day after I transitioned to BAME, my personal trainer phoned me up to cancel one of our appointments. This never happened when I was white. I refuse to accept this as mere coincidence.
I started listening to rap music by the likes of N.W.A. (‘Niggaz Wit Acronyms’). It’s only since I’ve retransitioned to white that I’ve managed to revitalise my love of Enya.
I had been engaging in an act of cultural genocide simply by sitting in difficult postures on a mat.
As penance, I fasted for a week. Not that I gave up eating as such, but I did refrain from partaking in my favourite dish – smashed avocado salad with grilled kale – which took considerable self-discipline.
say what you will about ISIS, but at least they’re not Islamophobic.
One of my most radical friends is Cassandra (the second ‘s’ is silent) who is passionate about poststructuralist gender theory and vegan bloodsports.
It goes without saying that women shouldn’t have to put up with this kind of filth when they are innocently eavesdropping on other people’s conversations.
Video evidence has got fuck all to do with her lived experience.
Emily Lindin put it best when she said, ‘I’m actually not at all concerned about innocent men losing their jobs over false sexual assault harassment allegations. If some innocent men’s reputations have to take a hit in the process of undoing the patriarchy, that is a price I am absolutely willing to pay.’
On the plus side, He-Man was at least progressive enough to announce his pronouns.
Writer and activist Talia Lavin has shown how ‘most men view women as members of a separate, inscrutable & ultimately inferior species, even if they would never say so’. For the majority, women are ‘beyond the barrier of empathetic imagination’. What I love about Lavin is not only that she’s a fierce feminist, but that she can read the minds of all men.
Ninety-five per cent of prisoners in the UK are male, and of those one hundred percent have criminal records. The implications of these statistics should require no further elucidation.
The essence of toxic masculinity, then, is the preservation of a phallocentric hierarchy. And this can be enacted through violence, rape or the passive-aggressive carrying of luggage.
We all know how romantic entanglements with males can go. One minute he’s inviting you into his home for an innocent cup of coffee, the next you’re at the bottom of a well in his basement applying copious quantities of lotion.
Nor was I much cop at cunnilingus, possibly due to my mild claustrophobia.
Ecosexuality is not a choice, but if it were it would be a choice that I would freely make. Plants are so much more accommodating than men. I am currently in a very fulfilling relationship with a cactus called Josh. The sex is difficult, but not impossible. That’s what tweezers were invented for.
People claim that ecosexuality is merely an indulgence of bourgeois leftists who have become obsessed with the politics of identity. In fact, ecosexuality has a long history, dating back to early 2017.
As Stephens says, ‘in a misogynistic society, when people imagine the Earth as a “she”, they think she is less important than a he. So, the mostly all-male polluting corporate heads think they can treat the Earth badly.’ Climate change, in other words, has only come about because men see the earth as a woman, and wish to punish her for being such an uppity wench.
It never ceases to amaze me how defensive Brexit voters get when you point out that they’re fascists. The question on the ballot paper may as well have been ‘Do you hate foreigners?’
The referendum result was baffling for many reasons, not least because the electorate were explicitly told how they were meant to vote and still managed to fuck it up. There’s really no helping some people.
Admittedly, the phrasing was clumsy. What they actually meant to write was: ‘This vote is advisory. The government will ignore your advice.’ This isn’t the first time that typographical errors have caused confusion.
One of the unwritten rules of a democracy is that referendums can be overturned if a sufficient number of rich celebrities demand it.
People are far too sentimental about the elderly. I am no longer helping them to cross the street. They opted for Brexit, so as far as I’m concerned they can take their chances with the traffic. Remember, too, that these are the people who fought in the Second World War. How can shooting at Germans be anything other than xenophobic?
That’s the wonderful thing about identity politics; you never have to explain yourself, or even develop your thoughts into what right-wingers call a ‘coherent argument’.
Men who disagree with feminists = misogynists Women who disagree with feminists = internalised misogynists
The day my intersectional feminist poetry earns me as much as a male banker is the day the gender pay gap can be declared a myth.
Socialism is the principle that everyone deserves to be equal, even the poor. Critics point to the fact that socialist governments in the past have failed to eliminate poverty. But this is a misunderstanding of our aims. If there were no poor people, then there would be no point in socialism, which would make us all capitalists by default. And why would anyone want that?
Identity politics has never been a great vote-winner, but there’s more to running a country than having the support of the populace.
Corbyn has been dogged by accusations that his party is an ti-Semitic, which I don’t believe for one second. I’ve always loved Jews. I admire their caustic wit, their financial acumen and their cunning. And I have no doubt that Corbyn feels the same way.
Twice a week I spend an hour at my local primary school, teaching the kids about period poverty or the evils of corporate capitalism, or explaining to them why gender is a destructive fiction.
If the Darwinists are right, and flawed traits are eventually eliminated through a process of natural selection, it won’t be long before the human species has evolved beyond the undignified urge to reproduce.
I magine thinking that free speech meant that people can say whatever they want, whenever they want. That’s exactly how Nazi Germany started.
Owen Jones has pointed out, the phrase ‘free speech’ is ‘nothing more than a political ploy, a ruse, a term the far right wilfully abuse to spread hatred’.
My guiding principle, which has served me very well for all my twenty-four years on this grubby male-ridden planet, is that those who to try to defend free speech are invariably crypto-fascists. These are the kind of people who miss the racist ‘good old days’ and like to say the word ‘mongoloid’, which is incredibly offensive to the spastic community.
If it weren’t for free speech, Pol Pot wouldn’t have been able to order the death of a single Cambodian.
this new woke era, our law enforcement agencies are not content to police crime, but also non-crime. This is a huge relief, because for a long while now too many citizens have been not breaking the law and getting away with it.
With this in mind, it seems obvious that in order to defeat bigotry, we only need to eradicate the words required to express bigoted views.
Debates are all very well in principle, but there’s no need to represent all sides of an argument.
Niamh McIntyre, said, ‘The idea that in a free society absolutely everything should be open to debate has a detrimental effect on marginalised groups.’ A university is hardly the appropriate place for exploring alternative ideas.
when Cy Endfield made his 1964 film Zulu, he insisted on casting numerous actors of colour.
If Luke Skywalker had been cast as an aborigine back in 1977, racism would have been eliminated by now.
This is important, because if works of fiction don’t send a positive message about diversity, it’s difficult to see what function they serve. Movies exist to educate us, not to entertain.
I would therefore like to see more shows in which women are depicted as powerful in order to send a positive message, but simultaneously depicted as weak in order to reflect the ways in which women are oppressed in society.
This is because humour is a patriarchal construct, which explains why the stand-up industry has historically been so dominated by straight males,
Such major figures in the comedy industry are right to insist on these parameters, and to remind us that the purpose of comedy is to educate the masses in matters of social decorum and the limits of free speech. If comedy is too humorous, this goal is unlikely to be achieved.
