The Sam Nicoresti win at Edinburgh Festival is more sinister than it would at first seem. If this man will now be catapulted to comedy stardom. whilst pretending to be a woman, he needs investigating for that grift but also for his views about women.
Let's start with his joking about women's sexuality. Here Sam discusses how he made his girlfriend a lesbian with his choice to be a woman. Hstyle routine in 'Wokeflake' (which was the basis for his award-winning Edinburgh show) you can see that he actively and viciously hates women and in particular TERF women. This is hidden away inside jokes. Flimsily.
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Let's start with joking about women's sexuality. Here Sam discusses how he made his girlfriend a lesbian with his choice to be a woman. He is explicit about making her stay with him by emotional manipulation.
The whole video is full of intense woman-hating. It is hard to select the bits that are the worst. Much of the hatred and ridicule of women's objections to trans ideological impositions on women's rights are "cleverly hidden" inside a "joke". It is vile.
Here Sam tells women that we don't care about male violence. In fact we CAUSE male violence. That we never discuss it where it matters and that we don't talk about male violence in the home or in the streets.
There is an attack on JK Rowling for pretending to be a man, which dismisses gender critical thinking.
There is the obligatory accusation that TERFs are nazis.
There is an awful dream sequence where all of the viewpoints of TERF women are parodied in the form of an insane male character called Nam Sicoresti. It is really awful. It makes gender critical women into a man who eventually goes insane and is cancelled by a female platform censor.
I won't summarise the entire video, as it is appalling in its poorly hidden, angry messages disguised behind the language of Sam being a happy hippy type who just wants everyone to get along. Sam tells us that being trans is part of your soul.
And finally - the ultimate manipulative technique - after framing TERFs as the enemy throughout - he delivers the end result. Someone - unnamed - is killing trans women. Do the maths.
if this man is carrying this message forward and is about to be beloved by the nation as a comic, then it is very dangerous for women. He is a grifting, misogynist narc who put on a dress when he saw a gap in the market to bring forward a narrative which will target women as hateful nazis.
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I visited @VirginActiveUK to ask about their single sex changing room policy and to see if they let men in. Answer - yes. Any man if he says he’s a woman. However he’s dressed as long as he says he’s a woman. Or even if he doesn’t.
I was due to meet female @VirginActiveUK staff “S” to show me round. She substituted a male and a “shadow”. I asked the very nice young lad whether he would be able to show me around the female facilities. He said “no but I can let you have a look around.” I said I had questions
He said that was fine he could answer them. I asked if a female member might be able to show me round them. He said he would fetch “S”. It was “S” I was originally supposed to be meeting. “S” asked a few basics and I said I was most interested in the female facilities
I’ve come to ask some questions about their single-sex changing rooms. Nice day to poke at policy. 🕶️🌞
I was due to meet female @VirginActiveUK staff “S” to show me round. She substituted a male and a “shadow”. I asked the very nice young lad whether he would be able to show me around the female facilities. He said “no but I can let you have a look around.” I said I had questions
He said that was fine he could answer them. I asked if a female member might be able to show me round them. He said he would fetch “S”. It was “S” I was originally supposed to be meeting. “S” asked a few basics and I said I was most interested in the female facilities.
Tomorrow @twelve0fiveUK will protest the @ECB_cricket ahead of England's cricket match against the Taliban's team Afghanistan in @ICC Championship.
4pm. Lords Cricket Ground. London. The Grace Gate entrance.
If you can't come, but want to support the women of Afghanistan please do the following:
PLEASE ONLY DO ANY OF THESE ACTIONS TOMORROW FROM 4PM - 25TH FEBRUARY.
1. Post a picture of you with an A4 message written directly to the women of Afghanistan, in the hope that somehow they will hear about it, or see it, and know they and their suffering are not being ignored as the men play cricket.
Please use the hashtag #DearWomenOfAfghanistan - example below.
Please amplify tweets about the protest if you see them. Use the hashtags and tag in @twelve0fiveUK
#DearWomenOfAfghanistan
#BoycottAfghanCricket
#LetUsExist
During the protest and throughout the match which is at 9am on Wednesday 26th February Please post directly at @ECB_cricket and @englandcricket the message
Dear @ECB_cricket my timeline has been targeted by Taliban bots for over 48 hours, including a death threat, because I’m saying the things they don’t want the world to see. That they don’t want YOU to see. Listen carefully.
The Taliban appear to have sent out an army of bots to reaffirm their propaganda and lies, which have now been exposed. They’ve been trying to convince you, and us all, that they want to ban cricket, with the Afghan Cricket Team seemingly complicit in this lie. In reality, the Taliban are using the Afghan cricket team to polish up their international reputation and gain support among the local male population. Afghan men want to play and watch cricket and when Taliban allow this THEY gain support along with the cricket team.
This Taliban PR machine desperately wants you to field an England team against the Afghan team, because if the Taliban make you do this, and are able to prevent the boycott, they are heroes to their people. They can declare they defeated the West, they delivered the cricket, and become heroic champions to the men of Afghanistan, who we have seen, in targeted tweets, are begging to be given their cricket.
The message to Afghan women is loud and it is callous. If England play against Afghanistan, you legitimise the Taliban and allow them to tell women, “Look, no one cares about what we do to you. England cares more about their cricket games than you. NO ONE is coming to help you'”.
When you turn a deaf ear to requests to boycott the England v Afghanistan cricket match, you stand with the men of the Taliban and every atrocity they commit against Afghan women. You and the Taliban are shoulder to shoulder at the point England play Afghanistan, and that shameful act will follow you around for decades to come.
That is the point when you turn your backs on Afghan women being dragged into sporting stadiums only to be stoned and flogged. When you deliver these men their cricket, you tell and show those women that the world doesn’t mind, or care, if they beat and stone women to death and that no one wants them to stop treating women like lesser humans.
You should be outraged, but instead you refuse to condemn the men destroying women’s lives. There is no distance you can establish between the Afghan men’s cricket team and the Taliban to make this a comfortable decision which you can morally defend. The team appear in adverts with the Taliban. The Taliban ARE Afghanistan, and the team ARE Afghanistan. You can’t split the two.
The team has in the past celebrated a Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. If you refuse to boycott the England v Afghanistan fixture, you’re refusing to condemn the Taliban’s treatment of women; you’re telling them they can treat women as they wish, and the world won’t mind.
The regime-peddled lie is that the Afghan team “give hope” to Afghans globally. This has now been written into a manipulative petition. What “hope”? The only thing the Afghan Cricket team competing achieves is to increase the Taliban's popularity! What hope do you offer for the women banned from going to university or to work, who can’t speak to each other or read aloud in their own homes? Do you want to enhance the Taliban’s popularity and kill off any shred of spirit and hope the oppressed women hold, that ANYONE cares about them?
If you wave an England team onto the pitch against Afghanistan, you offer a rubber stamp to Taliban brutality. The world will see you do it.
Where is your compassion? Your humanity? Do you care more about the money you get from tv rights than you do about women living lives of torture at the hands of barbarians? We know you've prevented English players from playing before, when it was costing you money. So, we know you can do it if you want. We can only assume you refuse to take the English team out because it will cost you money.
You're selling your integrity and your soul. You either stand with women, or you stand with the Taliban.
Make the right choice or when those women are stoned to death it is YOU who will also have blood on your hands. No money will wash it clean.
(A number of screenshots follow which ought to shame you into withdrawing the English Cricket Team.)
Here women of Afghanistan tell you the need support.
Last night we decided to do a very quiet and peaceful action. We ended up having tomato ketchup thrown all over us, drinks thrown at us, threatened by bar staff and the police called to arrest us. I wondered how such a quiet thing would go. Here is how…
The idea was to see reactions in a normal bar on truthful statements about the reality of sex versus the nefarious gender. We weren’t saying anything. We weren’t giving our views out loud. We just wondered what people would do if they looked at a quiet truth written on boards.
The first bar we sat at a table next to a middle aged man. We got a drink and sat chatting about stuff. We put 3 signs around us without saying anything. Some curious looks, some photos taken from a distance. Much as expected. Then a man came up to say he agreed with them.
Will the political leaders stop saying women-only “spaces”? The issue is service provision for female survivors of male violence, fair competitive sport, sex-segregated prison accommodation, changing rooms and toilets which are safe for females to be undressed in away from males. We don’t demand to walk around in a man-free bubble, though sometimes that would be nice, we don’t want a nice garden or cafe. We want fairness and safety. It’s not a “space” it’s safe and fair institutional provision for female people and in a legal format made clear as to sex. Stop making us sound like we are all demanding the fainting couch back. @Keir_Starmer @RishiSunak
And for goodness sake @RishiSunak it’s a piece of legislation called Equality Act 2010. It is not the “equalities act” and women can’t believe you’re serious about it if you don’t know what it is you tiny-trousered plumb.
@RishiSunak Sorry I’m just watching the debate and getting cross. When Starmer is asked about women’s spaces he answers by talking about his professional past. The question was about women. Yes you were once DPP but now you’re being asked to clarify the Equality Act. Stop ducking