Van Rimseleer

And now any sort of concerted opposition seems to have faded away altogether. Observant readers will note I am writing an article about British politics, and directing my arguments to a British audience, in an American publication. In the months leading up to the Code of Practice (bathroom ban) being unveiled, the right wing press lobbied hard for trans exclusion (and are celebrating now), but unless I have missed something, I don’t think there’s been a single unequivocally pro-trans opinion piece in a mainstream media. Straight news reporting will ‘both sides’ it, including quotes for and against (see the BBC’s write up or the Independent’s), and there has been some reporting that quotes trans people on the impact this has had on them, but no major newspaper or outlet has a pro-trans opinion line.

right wing handwringing over birth rates has always unsubtly been a combination of wanting more white babies/wanting control over women, so it's bothersome that the popular response to that is just pointing out the cost of living. "we Would be having more kids if you guys made some positive changes to society" and such. pronatalist sentiment is becoming so much more explicit that I don't think many self-styled progressives are ready to reconcile with the fact that many women simply do not want to have children. we already see how women are demonized for refusing to undertake the thankless burdens of their mother and grandmother's generations lol, I can't imagine how full abdication from child rearing will come across to some people.

I think this rhetoric also ignores that the right wing want the inverse for Black and brown people - this logic of “raise living standards and we’ll have more kids” is a white perspective that ignores white supremacist medical violence, forced abortions, forced sterilisation, mass deportations, mass incarceration, police murder, imperial aggression, and forced removal of children from families as institutional programs of population control (Canadian residential schools, for example, were built for this exact purpose).

this is actually so sad to see this has so many notes on it and the wrong photographer was credited. honey literally had a gofundme up not too long ago so they could do an artist residency and another to help their best friend.

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Sargeant: The one thing I really couldn’t get purchase on from your essay is I got a very clear sense of masculine vice and masculine virtue. That masculine virtue is about risk-taking, about embracing chances, brotherhood, fighting, making up, comfort with turbulence, right? And masculine vices are about vulgarity, condescension toward women, in some sense. And female vices are about gossiping, backbiting, irrationality, ostracism. I never got a sense from your piece whether there were female virtues at all — genuinely. That’s why I’m asking. I got a sense of balance for the men, but not for the women. Andrews: I saw that you made that criticism elsewhere. If —— Sargeant: It’s a question. It’s only a criticism depending on your answer. Andrews: If you want to know what I like about women —— Sargeant: No, that’s not my question. Andrews: You can ask me. Douthat: What do you like about women, Helen? Andrews: Well, just to finish that particular thought before I answer that question: It’s a little bit feminine, honestly, to focus on my likes and dislikes ——