Proving once again that anti-trans bigotry is misogyny wearing a different coat. These people never gave one SINGLE SOLITARY FUCK about women's or girl's sports in the past until trans people started showing up and then it's all "WE ONLY WANT TO PROTECT WOMEN'S SPORTS!"
So if a cis girl is better than her peers she's automatically suspected of being transgender, of course.
Delaware gets only one representative, when they have nearly twice as many people as Wyoming???
(BTW, I managed to get a blob of grape jelly from my PB&J lunch on me without realizing it. Since then, I've been cleaning it off my ID card, tie, some folders I had at my desk.....)
For me it's honey. On a biscuit, on toast, into a sauce, whatever, no matter how careful I am it gets on me. And I don't discover it until I've managed to get it on at least three other things.
A useful skill any congress person can develop is the ability to fart on cue.
Ever since Abraham Lincoln crop dusted Stephen Douglass all those times back in the 1850s and eventually won the presidency our most successful politicians have been able to get that cheese cut at the most politically opportune times. The old saying about "timing is everything" especially holds true with strategic farting.
OHJB learned this lesson early and used it often to "clear the room" when an important vote was about to happen and he needed to get his opposition to stampede out the doors. (He was also pretty good at "directional targeting")
I do hope Representative McBride spends some quality time with Joe Biden and he is able to impart some valuable political skills to be used whenever Nancy Mace happens to be walking towards McBride in the hallway.
Also, too, in addition, we don't do "(lady we don't like) is a dude" jokes here, because they're insulting to trans people. The entire premise of the joke is that there's something wrong or shameful about being trans, and that is not OK with Yr Wonkette.
ETA: I left this post up as an example of WHAT NOT TO DO. Normally it would have just been removed.
This won't be easy to fight against. Violence,hate, and disinformation are spreading like wildfire, and young people's addiction to online life is another huge issue, making them more likely to acquire sociopathic behaviors.
"On the morning of the US presidential election, my twelve-year-old son told me that Trump was going to win: ‘All the influencers back him, and he’s all over social media’ (this although my son has no social media accounts and is not supposed to go on YouTube). ‘Harris is all over social media too,’ I said. ‘Not the same,’ he said. He was right. I should have known better.
"I spent most of 2023 uncomfortably immersed in dark, angry corners of the internet for a documentary feature (Doom Scroll) on the infamous misogynist and long-time Trump fan Andrew Tate.
"The violence of Tate’s misogyny led to a ban by all the major platforms in August 2022, but his content spread even further: at his prompting, an army of followers clipped and posted his videos so that they continued to dominate the feeds of boys and young men on TikTok, YouTube shorts and Instagram reels.
"The popularity and success of such a ridiculous and disgusting character prompted some useful self-reflection: in this case, urgently needed discussions about some of the challenges facing boys and young men. But calls for healthier male role models and images of positive masculinity ignored the way that social media algorithms work: positive messages simply can’t compete with negative ones. Moderation, compromise and nuance suppress engagement and are demoted. Michelle Obama’s mantra ‘when they go low, we go high’ is a losing strategy on social media.
"The platforms’ algorithms are content agnostic: their goal is to keep hold of your eyeballs for as long as possible so they can collect your data and sell you ads. But anger, resentment and fear are what keep us engaged the longest. This is win-win for someone like Tate. Tate taught students at his online ‘university’ the adage that it doesn’t matter if they hate you or love you, so long as they’re talking about you. He figured 60 per cent negative to 40 per cent positive reactions was the sweet-spot.
One of the most striking post-election statistics was the rise in support for Trump among the young. Many of us were shocked, though we shouldn’t have been. Trump’s content was being pumped at young men at a greater rate even than Tate’s. There really is no such thing as bad publicity on social media. So why was the election result a surprise?
This is why I don't think the country will recover and go "back to normal" after Trumpism passes. The future looks like Putin's Russia, but with an ever-changing cast of dictatorial Presidential figure-heads cranked out like reality tv stars.
The thing is, education doesn't seem to work on the disinfo addicted. They're going to believe what their "gut" tells them, even though their "gut" is a idiot.
I salute McBride and her courage. She's better than me.
That the Bear Mace Bigot bathroom ban didn't make it into the rules package makes me think that other congressional repugnicants may not be keen on dying on that hill, but I'm an idiot, so I'm probably wrong.
Im wondering if someone clued in the good manly Christian Representatives that under the bathroom ban Congresswoman McBride would be peeing with them, which could lead to all sorts of hard to explain photos. I know they are shameless, but after all the insane rage they have raised against trans people, walking into a bathroom with one would be hard to explain away.
Btw, what was that about the first "out" transgender member of the House? Does The Advocate really think there has been a stealth trans member heretofore?
2) being out is important. If trans people have equal rights, but only so long as no one knows we're trans, we don't have equal rights. Even if there had been 50 closeted trans people in the US Congress, the first out trans person would still be a huge step forward.
3) It reminds people that just because you don't know trans history doesn't mean that we weren't part of history, doing remarkable things.
As an illustration of that last point, Alan Hart was a physician and radiologist who made huge contributions to patient care, particularly (but not only) for those with tuberculosis. He was also trans, accessing gender affirming care in the same medical school where he got his degree -- all the way back in the 19teens. Yes, during World War 1.
He wasn't out during his lifetime, and it's a twisty set of circumstances that allow us even to know he was trans. But he was hugely influential in 20th Century radiology and had some physics chops to back up his medical education and help him interpret what X-rays were doing (and showing).
But it's not at all taking anything away from him -- rather it's telling the truth about his life story -- that his society wasn't willing to accept him as an out trans man. So if another trans man comes along with equivalent impact on medical radiology and is elevated to the National Academy of Sciences, it would still be worth noting that that hypothetical person would be the first out trans person to do whatever they did first.
"Out" honors the difficulties of our ancestors, the success of our activists, and the accomplishments of our present heroes. It's good that that's included.
It's possible. This example is on the state level. It not for the Herald, she may have been able to serve without detection. Man, it feels gross writing it that way.
<She is considered the earliest transgender person known to have been elected to a state legislature in the United States. She was outed against her will by the Boston Herald after her 1992 election. She is a perennial candidate, having been an unsuccessful candidate for political office at least 44 times.
In her only successful campaign, Garrison won election as a Republican to the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1992. She served one term from 1993 to 1995, losing her bid for reelection in 1994.>
It's certainly possible, and quite difficult for us to prove or disprove. I'm sure there are many people who served only a short time that history hasn't cared to examine in detail.
A recent series of sudden and unexplained cancelations by local authorities of appearances by her dance troupe has sparked fears Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s authoritarian drive is ensnaring the country’s most prominent openly transgender personality
Mace is still the horrible person who abused powers of government entrusted to her by American voters to falsely accuse an American of assault.
She's going to hell.
Unfortunately, not soon enough.
Also, I love Sarah McBride's official picture. :D
I'm a big fan of dorks and nerds, and she looks nerdily dorky in that photo. I fucking love it.
Being a dorky nerd myself, I couldn't be happier and prouder. :D
I decided to share it on BlueSky. Just because.
Huzzah!
Proving once again that anti-trans bigotry is misogyny wearing a different coat. These people never gave one SINGLE SOLITARY FUCK about women's or girl's sports in the past until trans people started showing up and then it's all "WE ONLY WANT TO PROTECT WOMEN'S SPORTS!"
So if a cis girl is better than her peers she's automatically suspected of being transgender, of course.
If they're so concerned about women in sports, where's the outrage about them being consistently paid less than their male counterparts, hmm?
T H I S ! ! !
Even if McBride doesn't get anything done (which I don't think will happen), she'll drive that weirdo Mace nuts for at least two years.
Ya know what I like about Nancy Mace?
Me neither.
Anvils falling from third story windows? I'm struggling to see anything positive about her.
Her name can be shuffled into Acme, after all.
Delaware gets only one representative, when they have nearly twice as many people as Wyoming???
(BTW, I managed to get a blob of grape jelly from my PB&J lunch on me without realizing it. Since then, I've been cleaning it off my ID card, tie, some folders I had at my desk.....)
For me it's honey. On a biscuit, on toast, into a sauce, whatever, no matter how careful I am it gets on me. And I don't discover it until I've managed to get it on at least three other things.
A useful skill any congress person can develop is the ability to fart on cue.
Ever since Abraham Lincoln crop dusted Stephen Douglass all those times back in the 1850s and eventually won the presidency our most successful politicians have been able to get that cheese cut at the most politically opportune times. The old saying about "timing is everything" especially holds true with strategic farting.
OHJB learned this lesson early and used it often to "clear the room" when an important vote was about to happen and he needed to get his opposition to stampede out the doors. (He was also pretty good at "directional targeting")
I do hope Representative McBride spends some quality time with Joe Biden and he is able to impart some valuable political skills to be used whenever Nancy Mace happens to be walking towards McBride in the hallway.
"We cannot allow a methane gap!"
You win.
"requires disclosing jobs like this one on conflict of interest forms (which Birkeland did not do)."
The conflict of interest forms are clearly in conflict with *her* interests!!!
That's the *real* conflict of interest!
Like, Nancy Mace is going to shoot her in the face on the floor and they'll laud her as a fascist hero.
'FAITH AND FAMILY' = 'stealing and committing adultery.'
When a preacher continually bullshits about "faith and family" you can count on that Pulpit Pimp fleecing the flock as he gets some..."side action"! 😈
Nancy M. is kinda square-jawed "herself", IMHO. Has anybody peeked in her underoos?
Please delete. https://www.wonkette.com/p/rules-for-commenting-radicals
RULE 4:
Also, too, in addition, we don't do "(lady we don't like) is a dude" jokes here, because they're insulting to trans people. The entire premise of the joke is that there's something wrong or shameful about being trans, and that is not OK with Yr Wonkette.
ETA: I left this post up as an example of WHAT NOT TO DO. Normally it would have just been removed.
Thank you, Ziggy!
Now THAT'S a lousy jerb.
This won't be easy to fight against. Violence,hate, and disinformation are spreading like wildfire, and young people's addiction to online life is another huge issue, making them more likely to acquire sociopathic behaviors.
"Angry Young Men for Trump
by LRB blogger, Liz Mermin
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/november/angry-young-men-for-trump
"On the morning of the US presidential election, my twelve-year-old son told me that Trump was going to win: ‘All the influencers back him, and he’s all over social media’ (this although my son has no social media accounts and is not supposed to go on YouTube). ‘Harris is all over social media too,’ I said. ‘Not the same,’ he said. He was right. I should have known better.
"I spent most of 2023 uncomfortably immersed in dark, angry corners of the internet for a documentary feature (Doom Scroll) on the infamous misogynist and long-time Trump fan Andrew Tate.
"The violence of Tate’s misogyny led to a ban by all the major platforms in August 2022, but his content spread even further: at his prompting, an army of followers clipped and posted his videos so that they continued to dominate the feeds of boys and young men on TikTok, YouTube shorts and Instagram reels.
"The popularity and success of such a ridiculous and disgusting character prompted some useful self-reflection: in this case, urgently needed discussions about some of the challenges facing boys and young men. But calls for healthier male role models and images of positive masculinity ignored the way that social media algorithms work: positive messages simply can’t compete with negative ones. Moderation, compromise and nuance suppress engagement and are demoted. Michelle Obama’s mantra ‘when they go low, we go high’ is a losing strategy on social media.
"The platforms’ algorithms are content agnostic: their goal is to keep hold of your eyeballs for as long as possible so they can collect your data and sell you ads. But anger, resentment and fear are what keep us engaged the longest. This is win-win for someone like Tate. Tate taught students at his online ‘university’ the adage that it doesn’t matter if they hate you or love you, so long as they’re talking about you. He figured 60 per cent negative to 40 per cent positive reactions was the sweet-spot.
One of the most striking post-election statistics was the rise in support for Trump among the young. Many of us were shocked, though we shouldn’t have been. Trump’s content was being pumped at young men at a greater rate even than Tate’s. There really is no such thing as bad publicity on social media. So why was the election result a surprise?
This is why I don't think the country will recover and go "back to normal" after Trumpism passes. The future looks like Putin's Russia, but with an ever-changing cast of dictatorial Presidential figure-heads cranked out like reality tv stars.
That and a constant firehose of disinformation to create paralysis among voters.
Edit: FYAC
The thing is, education doesn't seem to work on the disinfo addicted. They're going to believe what their "gut" tells them, even though their "gut" is a idiot.
I salute McBride and her courage. She's better than me.
That the Bear Mace Bigot bathroom ban didn't make it into the rules package makes me think that other congressional repugnicants may not be keen on dying on that hill, but I'm an idiot, so I'm probably wrong.
Im wondering if someone clued in the good manly Christian Representatives that under the bathroom ban Congresswoman McBride would be peeing with them, which could lead to all sorts of hard to explain photos. I know they are shameless, but after all the insane rage they have raised against trans people, walking into a bathroom with one would be hard to explain away.
https://youtube.com/shorts/7XruXsY-EL4?si=fZy9ng94ytQe1AFW
OT: A bush baby is a tiny marsupial that has biiiig eyes.
Here is one!
Squeeeeeee to the power of OMG so adorbs!
They are such perfectly precious miniscule marsupials!
Maybe we should let the animals take over.
They help one another, they share food, and they only fight when someone else attacks them.
I've been firmly in favor of THAT for decades now.
Yes.
That is one reason we have a doggo. ;)
Good for Ms. McBride!
Btw, what was that about the first "out" transgender member of the House? Does The Advocate really think there has been a stealth trans member heretofore?
I generally write things this way b/c
1) you never know
2) being out is important. If trans people have equal rights, but only so long as no one knows we're trans, we don't have equal rights. Even if there had been 50 closeted trans people in the US Congress, the first out trans person would still be a huge step forward.
3) It reminds people that just because you don't know trans history doesn't mean that we weren't part of history, doing remarkable things.
As an illustration of that last point, Alan Hart was a physician and radiologist who made huge contributions to patient care, particularly (but not only) for those with tuberculosis. He was also trans, accessing gender affirming care in the same medical school where he got his degree -- all the way back in the 19teens. Yes, during World War 1.
He wasn't out during his lifetime, and it's a twisty set of circumstances that allow us even to know he was trans. But he was hugely influential in 20th Century radiology and had some physics chops to back up his medical education and help him interpret what X-rays were doing (and showing).
But it's not at all taking anything away from him -- rather it's telling the truth about his life story -- that his society wasn't willing to accept him as an out trans man. So if another trans man comes along with equivalent impact on medical radiology and is elevated to the National Academy of Sciences, it would still be worth noting that that hypothetical person would be the first out trans person to do whatever they did first.
"Out" honors the difficulties of our ancestors, the success of our activists, and the accomplishments of our present heroes. It's good that that's included.
George Washington.
Never had kids, never saw him without pants . . . Just saying.
Maybe someone should have asked. He couldn't tell a lie, you know.
'I did it with my little hatchet. Do we have any bandaids?'
It's possible. This example is on the state level. It not for the Herald, she may have been able to serve without detection. Man, it feels gross writing it that way.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Althea_Garrison
<She is considered the earliest transgender person known to have been elected to a state legislature in the United States. She was outed against her will by the Boston Herald after her 1992 election. She is a perennial candidate, having been an unsuccessful candidate for political office at least 44 times.
In her only successful campaign, Garrison won election as a Republican to the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1992. She served one term from 1993 to 1995, losing her bid for reelection in 1994.>
"The Boston Herald" = a YUGE rag back in the 1992 timeline. I've been gone, so I don't know anymore....
It's worse than ever. I only see the front page when I am at the store but I can just tell.
Thank you for the info. I guess it's "good" to know that some things are MEANT to be the way they are....
It's certainly possible, and quite difficult for us to prove or disprove. I'm sure there are many people who served only a short time that history hasn't cared to examine in detail.
I'll just add this:
W.E.D.em Boyz
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U.S. press reporting on trans issues in America: Should we be able to hunt trans people for sport? It's complicated.
U.S. press reporting on trans issues in a country we deem evil: China disrespects the revolutionary gains won by the brave activists as Stonewall.
CNN @cnn.com
2d
A recent series of sudden and unexplained cancelations by local authorities of appearances by her dance troupe has sparked fears Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s authoritarian drive is ensnaring the country’s most prominent openly transgender personality
https://bsky.app/profile/leftistwonk.bsky.social/post/3lewhhhlqs22t