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https://twitter.com/SusannaRustin/status/1806933864050278475Being alone with a male statistically has objectively worse outcomes for a woman than not being alone with a woman does for a male. Turning it into an issue of 'safety' *for males* when women refuse to take the risk is, there's no other word for it, obscene.
https://twitter.com/CamillaDeVille_/status/1647455732340518913It's all very well for Dylan Mulvaney to "normalise the bulge" & claim that people with his type of body should be allowed in the "girl" category. But what does he have to offer to teens who already are in the "girl" category, but don't have & can't achieve his type of body?
https://twitter.com/soniasodha/status/1642424939859910656I'm a bit more, let's say, hard-ass than Sonia on this. Babies & their welfare are all very well, but is it possible to have surrogacy that stands up to any moral standard? In principle, what happens when we decouple the relation of gestation from the relation of motherhood?
https://twitter.com/lascapigliata8/status/1638123630449000449I'm happy to go on the record & say I just didn't like her. She turned up in a bunch of Facebook groups & straight away was obnoxious to anyone who so much as asked her a question. Aggressive, dismissive, & with an entourage already on hand to turn every disagreement into a row.
https://twitter.com/SusannaRustin/status/1637795759910256641One of the reasons chess can give stoned students such a hard time untangling whether it's a sport or a game is because it breaks this rule. Not that men haven't *tried* to insist that they're better at chess than women are, refusing to let women compete etc, but it doesn't wash.
https://twitter.com/michaelcoren/status/1637537902577033218If you want to treat your own religion as a pick 'n mix where you can buy the pink love hears & leave out the salty liquorice, that's on you to justify.
https://twitter.com/RBReich/status/1636526265451569154Reproductive exploitation is primarily economic in nature. It is both expressed in, & reifies, ideological & spiritual commitments to women's inferiority & subservience, yes. But at the macro level it's about controlling human resources.
https://twitter.com/margarethodge/status/1632653565012463616Is what's going on in Israel bad? Yes. Is it unique to Israel? No. Can 300,000 people living abroad influence it? No. 16 million British people couldn't even influence what their own government did to their constitunal arrangements.
https://twitter.com/glosswitch/status/1632006100332474371Work & conflict have changed in the modern era, in ways that actually *dis*advantage size & force: fine motor skills, communication ability, all sorts of areas in which women may have a small advantage over men, are actually more desirable in our economy.
https://twitter.com/buttonslives/status/1630946925259235329I use the word 'performative' advisedly: not everyone who has a problem with Judith Butler's work has the same problem with it. (There are - surprise! - a lot of problems with it) Performativity is probably the most useful & the most misunderstood concept she foregrounded.
https://twitter.com/SanityTenacity/status/1624252021657284610Regardless of the context - gaming cons, Pratchett fandom meets, medieval encampments - the dynamics were the same. A lot of boundary violations. A lot of people with limited social skills. A lot of making the-whatever-it-is your whole personality.
https://twitter.com/MForstater/status/1624852035479736321There's a reason why it's called 'evolutionary psychology' & not 'psychological evolution': EP is a branch of the social sciences, not the biological sciences. It baffles me why anyone would want to die on that discredited hill in the name of Science™️
https://twitter.com/ha_makom/status/1625053666393698305One does wish that the people who've spent the last two decades insisting Israel is a fascist apartheid state would care even a tiny little bit that so many Jewish Israelis actually care about it not turning into one.
https://twitter.com/alexrubner/status/1624327419900436485We should pretend we don't know that the next thing after nativism is pronatalism & the control of women's bodies, then the control of women's liberty. We should pretend we don't know what normalisation looks like. We should pretend we don't know what the Overton window is.