“I have decided to end my cycling career,” Arensman said. “My sister and family sobbed as they watched a man finish in front of me, having witnessed several physical interactions with him during the race."
'What is most significant about the Rip Curl campaign featuring Sasha Lowerson that was removed from Instagram just five days after being posted, is that this is the first time a major brand has responded to female backlash.'
via
@SkyNewsAust
'His jokes about people who identify (and have every right to identify) as non-binary are, at best, mocking, and at worse, hateful.
Patient: “Doctor, doctor, I think I am a pair of curtains.” Doctor: “Then you are.”'
A massive flagship Harry Potter store is opening in New York City, full of merch and other fun stuff to try to make you forget that the series’s author, JK Rowling, is a TERF who has lost the confidence of fans worldwide
"But it now appears that all it takes for an opinionated narcissist to preach to the largely female audience of Woman’s Hour about womanhood is to ‘identify’ as a woman. As a Two Ronnies sketch, this would be funny. Somehow, it has become reality."
'Former British Masters champion Victoria Hood...told BBC Sport that other riders "sacrificed" the opportunity to compete at the World Championships because "they don't want to compete" against McKinnon.'
@theAliceRoberts
@OriginalRC1
@MichealConraoi
@Humanists_UK
You tell others to be kind, then you condescend to them, while attempting to deceive them with the usual sneer about school biology and the irrelevant mention of clown fish. You are not being kind at all, but nasty. And you are misusing your position.
@Docstockk
“I asked [Hammer] how many sexes there were,” Leibiger said. “She said, ‘Two.’ I felt under personal attack."
What answer would have made the student feel otherwise – three or more?
@harvardcrimson
You are the university where 43 percent of white students admitted were recruited athletes, legacy students, children of faculty and staff, or whose parents or relatives had donated to Harvard.
So, tell us about fairness.
@dairymanNZ
'Of 134 complaints over 2017-2018, 120 reported incidents took place in gender-neutral changing rooms and just 14 were in single-sex changing areas.'
But carry on laughing about women's concerns that don't affect you.
Former Justice of the UK Supreme Court, author of a five-volume history of the Hundred Years' War; speaking at FSU event in Wellington with Bill English, and at Legal Research Foundation event in Auckland.
But to Russell, just an old rando.
@emrazz
Whenever I see men abusing women on Twitter by calling them terfs, I send them this message. It has been very effective, prompting men to think about their words or to react with threats of violence that reveal their true character.
'Thousands of rural voters could miss out on their right to cast a ballot in the general election next week, because hundreds of polling booths will be closed on election day.'
The one day polling booths need to be open: what is wrong with these people?
A note: One of our writers wrote in memory of her grandmother who passed away during our Death Week series. We have removed the tweet of the article after the horrendous volume of abuse she has received during an already distressing time. Just really sad and disappointing.
A letter in this week's NZ Listener begins: "I am wondering if Russell Brown was at the same event as I was at Albert Park one March 25 (Diary, April 8)."
I expect a lot of readers have had similar thoughts, in a very real sense.
'Late last year, Norway outlawed hate speech against transgender people... misogyny was still absent from the law, creating a strange imbalance where those who choose to be a woman are protected while those who are born a woman are not.' via
@spectator
'Waipareira Trust had agreed with Charities Services to cease making political donations and take steps to claw back $385,000 of interest-free loans made to its chief executive, John Tamihere'
@serialsockthief
@Waterstones
Her name is Kiera Bell; regret was not her motive. "I was allowed to run with this idea that I had, almost like a fantasy, as a teenager.... and it has affected me in the long run as an adult.
The book defames her.
'There is something unsightly about universities plunging its students into debt while holding up prostitution as a valid choice for financial aid.'
@UnHerd
Disinformation: it is not funded by philanthropy and it is no longer hosted by the University of Auckland. And Bryce Edwards runs the Democracy Project as a Research Fellow of VUW, which really gets up the noses of Tiso and Tze Ming.
'It may feel good and inclusive for liberals to claim all genders are equal in all things, but thankfully women aren’t going to be erased quietly. Mothers won’t let their children be indoctrinated without a fight.'
I have never seen anything like this suppression of news. Respected new organisations and journalists are throwing away their integrity to maintain a myth about the events of that day.
Gender ruins everything.
I was at this protest - it was mob violence and
@radionz
@MediawatchNZ
should be ashamed of themselves for pretending it wasn't
We have the footage here -
#nzpol
A group of women hired a room in a pub to watch a feminist documentary, Adult Human Female. Now the pub is being persecuted by a horrible woman.
This is the reality of transgenderism: no debate, no discussion, no dissent.
Transgender ideologues stage a violent protest and shut down a women’s rights demonstration, but Greens co-leader Marama Davidson says the problem is white cis men.
Will Kim Hill be talking to a gender-critical feminist on a later show, someone who might refute some of Judith Butler’s claims, particularly the lie about GC women being allies of right-wing groups?
And terf is a slur, not a descriptive term.
@SaturdayRNZ
@CreditSuisse
@HERoesinB
@FT
@PippaBunce
This is the bank that eventually settled for $197 million with the US Government and €150 million with Germany, as compensation for helping citizens evade taxes. Of course they will tell you a man is a woman if it is to their advantage.
Farrier is angry because she thanked her disgraced manager and has yet to apologise for belonging to a church that had issues. Farrier expects her to atone for the sins of others. He really is a nasty little man.
'The British Columbia Supreme Court set aside the decision of The Human Rights Tribunal, finding that the Tribunal had made an error as the shelter has the right to freedom of association as a women-only space, irrespective of gender identity.'
@RichardDawkins
I read an article in the University of Auckland alumni magazine about A/P Siouxsie Wiles, joint leader of the harassment campaign against the Listener Seven. She explained that we are not living in a cancel culture but a consequence culture. A chill went down my spine.
@LucyHunterB
Rhona Hotchkiss, a former prisoner governor: “The vast majority of men who identify as transgender in prison did not do so before they came into contact with the justice system.”
They found their authentic selves in the cells. Someone should write a paper about it.
'What is it about the trans lobby that makes it so unforgiving of opposition? It strikes me that this is a new species of censorship. One underwritten less by ideological arrogance than by hyper-fragility.'
A ban might prevent doctors from giving medical advice that does not affirm a child's professed gender identity. Over 80% of trans teens grow out of their dysphoria, but doctors would be criminalised for telling them, or treating them accordingly.
While we are talking about altered news, we should also remember that, not long ago, RNZ fabricated a story. The police made no such urge in the wake of PP's visit. The headline was changed when Plunket talked about it, but the story is still up.
@SFPublicLibrary
"Art that could be interpreted as promoting violence" is mealy-mouthed. It is a message that promotes violence, as do the "pride bats" and the sledge hammer. Their purpose is to threaten women.
Some people are trying to stop Meghan Murphy talking in Wellington and Auckland. She has been demonised in the media. But nobody will say what she says that we must not be allowed to hear.
@marinashutup
@MsMagazine
You cannot bear somebody having different views from yours, so you tell on them like the school sneak. And then you boast about it.
'Transgender women are almost always portrayed as victims, with late-transitioning white computer programmers in the Home Counties weaponising the deaths of Brazilian transsexuals to bolster their standing in the oppression stakes.'
@MediawatchNZ
'Women at the event were scared. An older woman was punched in the face by an activist while a pregnant marshal feared for her safety and unborn child as the protesters surrounded the rotunda where she was stationed.'
Imagine being six-foot-plus and wearing this violence-inciting T-shirt to the
#IWD2019
march in a country where a woman is murdered every 30 hours.
#NiUnaMenos
#8M2019
@ICaitlinCherry
'The Disinformation Project reports that Parker’s visit sparked a huge increase in online hatred directed towards the trans community.'
They provide no evidence. I see many tweets from those who are appalled that the media did not report the assaults on women at Albert Park.