(01-11-2025, 05:32 PM)Uncle wrote: (01-11-2025, 04:16 PM)Nintex wrote: [tweet]https://twitter.com/DefiantLs/status/1878079250026144180?t=oJ6EApNVeUxqOAJScVyMag&s=19[/tweet]

turns out this is an old article, someone linked it on twitter in june 2022
https://afru.com/women-smell-trans-inclusivity/
however that's just further evidence that this shit has been seeping in at the periphery for ages and people just don't notice
Not my periphery!
(01-11-2025, 04:20 PM)HaughtyFrank wrote: [tweet]https://twitter.com/vanillaopinions/status/1877961682523169228?t=fcn4SJVbkvO6oBsOqPwhMA&s=19[/tweet]
Isn't it funny how the removal of something sends a bigger message than if it had never been there in the first place? Who the fuck even wanted a messenger theme. I bet even trans people didn't
These people genuinely don’t get how soft the culture change, or whatever you want to call it, is compared to the typical sort throughout history. Why tempt this. Everybody has a story of a dumb friend turning a warning into an overnight because they wouldn’t shut up.
(01-12-2025, 03:21 AM)HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth wrote: (01-11-2025, 05:32 PM)Uncle wrote: (01-11-2025, 04:16 PM)Nintex wrote: [tweet]https://twitter.com/DefiantLs/status/1878079250026144180?t=oJ6EApNVeUxqOAJScVyMag&s=19[/tweet]

turns out this is an old article, someone linked it on twitter in june 2022
https://afru.com/women-smell-trans-inclusivity/
however that's just further evidence that this shit has been seeping in at the periphery for ages and people just don't notice
Not my periphery! 
Oh, the periphery
Oh, the periphery
Oh, the periphery
Oh, the periphery
Stay away
Stay away
Away, away
Stay away, away
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and that includes the female voters! hot-cha-cha
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Some of these almost look unreal now.
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scrolled and scrolled and did not see
cartoon beaver with mastectomy scars
(01-13-2025, 08:05 PM)TylenolJones wrote: Flags at half mast.
https://twitter.com/benmullin/status/1878805945226314178
01-14-2025, 04:50 AM
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oh god i hadn't even seen the video
omg
01-14-2025, 04:54 AM
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(01-14-2025, 05:01 AM)Alpacx wrote: The New York Times and The Athletic robbed me of my voice and my hope, and helped steal my life: A trans woman’s nightmare
You've been phobia indoctrinated by a cult
Quote:My answers on suicide-related questionnaires set off alarms for my healthcare team. I’ve had a breakdown. I wake up screaming because of my nightmares.
Quote:This is my story. It took two months to write. My hands shake, my body convulses, trembles. As a transgender person, I am in danger.
TURN OFF YOUR PHONE
GO TO THE NEAREST STATE PARK AND WALK THEIR LONGEST TRAIL
OH WOW THAT BIRD HAS A PRETTY NEAT CALL, HE SOUNDS NICE
LOOK AT THAT FUNGUS ON THAT LOG
MAYBE AFTERWARD YOU CAN GO TO WAL MART AND BUY A 5000 PIECE PUZZLE OF A COOL WATERFALL
Quote:I haven’t worked since Nov. 3. After an all-nighter two days later to watch election results, I emailed my boss and HR to say I’d be unable to work that night. Then I slept for 16 hours. Every day. For a month.
From that email:
Quote:Every network I saw last night mentioned that Trump spent more money on anti-trans ads than on any other issue. And that it obviously worked. Let that sink in. We are about 1-2 percent of the population. And now we are more vulnerable than ever.
Whether it wants to admit this or not, The New York Times played a significant role in this outcome, allowing bad-faith actors’ propaganda into its coverage of us, which has led to Times articles being official court documents in legal cases in states passing bans.
I’d hoped to wake up to a brighter future in a better country. Both were worse than I’d been counting on, my future and my country. I was shattered. Still am.
Three people at work checked on me after the election. We have hundreds of employees. One family member checked on me. Maybe the lesson is, most people don’t care. Maybe they approve of what’s happening. Or, maybe people don’t know what’s happening. The Times and legacy media share some responsibility for that.
Quote:In February 2023, one year after the sale, I needed time off for mental health. The Times smugly rejected credible complaints about its coverage, dismissing trans journalists as “activists,” then a day later let trans people know what it really thinks of us. Its “In Defense of J.K. Rowling” column gutted me.
I emailed management:
Quote:In terms of scope and reach, I can’t think of an entity that has done more damage to the trans community in the past several years than the Times.
I referenced the column, which was bad enough then and has aged horribly (a common arc for Times opinions). She’s the villain we’ve always said she was.
Even if the timing of (the column) was mere coincidence and not a direct response to criticism, I wrote in my email, some decent human being in a position of power at the Times should have put that opinion piece on hold to avoid the appearance of giving an editorial middle finger to people like me. That no one stopped it was chilling to our community, but not a surprise.
Quote:My full email is in this post, but this part speaks to how beaten down I was:
Quote:I have never felt more alone, more isolated, than I do now, and the power imbalance in all of this, given the consequences to the trans community amid efforts to take away our healthcare and force us out of existence, is breathtaking in its own right.
The Times has been complicit in these efforts to do us harm, and trans journalists take offense at any suggestion to the contrary. … I don’t need to hear a lecture from anyone about how journalism works. This is my 40th year as a professional.
I took a month off. That was 23 months ago.
Quote:Feminist philosopher and gender studies scholar Judith Butler says, “Anti-gender is one of the vectors through which fascist passions are stoked and circulated, and those are passions that support increasingly authoritarian regimes that justify their wars and their acts of destruction by appearing as if they are putting an end to what threatens society with destruction.”
And from a November interview: “Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?”
We must stick together. Cisgender women, they’re coming for you too. Attacks on bodily autonomy attack all of us. I was never coming for you. My joy stole nothing from you.
Quote:The Times published the defense of the notoriously anti-trans Rowling on Feb. 16, 2023. I was diagnosed with heart failure two months later. My health nosedived. The diagnosis was later overturned, but the medical mystery remains. My body never got the memo.
They broke my heart. That’s my explanation.
That’s legal. They’re allowed to break my heart. Morally, they’re on their own.
There’s financial wreckage amid the debris of my lost years before coming out, so if I’m fired, without an income, my life would be over. If I stay silent, my life is over anyway. If I don’t stand up for my rights, who will? Almost nobody, 2024 showed me.
What life have they left me? When I’m out of legal moves and out of savings, what then? The world doesn’t need another homeless trans person.
Quote:I’m tired of men — most of them white, the majority straight, always cisgender, usually Christian, men who imagine they’ll be fine regardless — and women who uphold the patriarchy getting to discuss my life publicly while I don’t. White men: the original, all-time champion beneficiaries of U.S. “identity politics.” (I say this aware that for too long, as a journalist and male-presenting white adult, I was more problem than solution.)
Wake the fuck up, Times leaders. Wake the fuck up, journalism. Destructive politics like we’re seeing found America’s vulnerability: uncritical devotion to outdated ethics, norms and rules. The architects of this takeover identified our weakness and are using it against us. It’s you. You’re the weakness.
Dr. Annie Andrews, a pediatrician who knows what time it is, understands: “We cannot fight back against nefarious political forces without engaging in politics.”
In our dystopian future, those who foisted their rules upon me will be on the run by day, crouching in front of a fire by night, probably alone, muttering as they continue to search for safe drinking water, “At least I stayed off the playing field of politics.”
Quote:I didn’t ask for any of this. Didn’t ask the Times to buy the company I work for, didn’t ask for journalism, the industry I’ve given my life to, to betray me, didn’t ask to be trans.
I didn’t ask to be born.
What a bunch of fucking narcissism.
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Have you ever noticed how Judith Butler writes like Joseph Smith
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Brianna Wu made it 30 mins in to this episode of Honestly before bringing up GamerGate.
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(01-14-2025, 05:01 AM)Alpacx wrote: The New York Times and The Athletic robbed me of my voice and my hope, and helped steal my life: A trans woman’s nightmare
You've been phobia indoctrinated by a cult
Read that and I'm still confused. There isn't a single example of harassement or bad behaviour toward her from either the Athletic or the NYT. As far as I can tell, she's still employed by them. She's mad because she, a staff editor for the Athletic, doesn't have the last say over the editorial content of the NYT. That's it? And somehow, this has ruined her life and left her on the brink of homelessness and death?
Also, there's a (very slow) narrated version:
https://soundcloud.com/user-664371111/my-narration-of-my-story-about-the-times-and-the-athletic/s-4nMZwTWA3j3
(01-14-2025, 06:59 PM)Ethan wrote: (01-14-2025, 05:01 AM)Alpacx wrote: The New York Times and The Athletic robbed me of my voice and my hope, and helped steal my life: A trans woman’s nightmare
You've been phobia indoctrinated by a cult
Read that and I'm still confused. There isn't a single example of harassement or bad behaviour toward her from either the Athletic or the NYT. As far as I can tell, she's still employed by them. She's mad because she, a staff editor for the Athletic, doesn't have the last say over the editorial content of the NYT. That's it? And somehow, this has ruined her life and left her on the brink of homelessness and death?

Also, there's a (very slow) narrated version:
https://soundcloud.com/user-664371111/my-narration-of-my-story-about-the-times-and-the-athletic/s-4nMZwTWA3j3
...and just like that, The Athletic will never, ever hire a trans person again.
you're getting so much more than an employee
(01-14-2025, 04:28 PM)HaughtyFrank wrote:
Great follow up post about these adult men in the 20s to 40s claiming to be teenagers and yelling racist if anybody points it out. Poor kid has a full beard and stage 7 male pattern baldness.
At least nobody will learn anything from this experience.
(01-14-2025, 08:36 PM)Polident wrote: At least nobody will learn anything from this experience.
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