Q: What is a wibble?
A: A wibble is anyone who says they are a wibble
This exchange tells us nothing about what a wibble is. What attributes do all wibbles share? Why does a wibble believe that they are one? How to identify bad-faith wibbles? How to identify mistaken wibbles?
@netflix
"I don't want the blue one"
Netflix craps on 100 years of feminist progress in 5 seconds.
Progress is rejection of gender stereotypes. Trans activism is affirmation of gender stereotypes.
@nelsonlflores
Sea horses are horses.
Pantomime horses are horses.
Clothes horses are horses.
They're all horses. It really isn't that hard to understand.
@ACLU
If males can compete fairly in female sport, what exactly is the purpose of female sport?
The logical conclusion of your argument is that female sport should be closed down and sports should be sex open. In most sports males will win everything, and females will win nothing.
@nelsonlflores
You clearly only identify as a linguistics professor if you think that compound nouns are invariably tagging subsets of the same category. Your students should get a refund.
How the hell did we ever reach a point where we are *celebrating* that telling the truth is allowed, in law, and you can't be fired from your job for it?
@thefakehazel
Explain what? The fact that in a carefully curated photo it is possible for a trans woman to mimic a woman?
By the same argument a lifelike painting of a fictional woman is a woman.
@ejrosetta
I have been told by trans activists that they can’t supply any quotes, because they won’t read what JKR wrote on the subject, because to do so would be too upsetting for them.
But they “know” that it is hateful transphobia.
@MarkHamill
JKR also supports everyone having the same rights, regardless of their gender identity.
India Willoughby demands a raft of privileges for males who believe that they are women. Privileges that would destroy female rights.
@starmum22
@TullipR
@mcgilead
The people who do this aren’t doctors, or members of the medical profession. They are witch doctors, cargo cultists, with a diploma, a lab coat, and a stethoscope.
They left medicine behind when they went down the road of these procedures.
@Paula_Griffin65
@McDonalds
Why are you presuming the sex of the security guard? Did you check his passport or ask to see his genitals? Or is it the case that you could see perfectly well what sex he is, just as he instantly clocked you, a male, going into the female facilities?
@JuniorRowing
In sports involving speed, strength, and power, Female world record times are routinely broken by schoolboys. If schoolboys could enter the female olympics they would win virtually everything; fill almost every final.
Stop talking ridiculous nonsense.
@DavidJFaber
Far from hate having no place there, it would appear to be compulsory from males when females say anything that they don’t want to hear. We’ve seen the images, and we can see who is hateful.
@PennSwimDive
Not shown in picture…
A girl who trained her heart out, lived for swimming, gave up other opportunities in order to pursue her competitive swimming. Her sporting dream was to attend the championships.
She lost her place, because it was taken by a male.
@DSanderson_85
If the law says that a dog’s tail is a leg, how many legs do dogs have?
The answer is 4. Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it one. It just makes an ass of the law.
@royalsociety
“I am non binary”:
Me me me me me me me me me me me.
Me me me me me me me me me me me.
No one cares. The concept is bullshit. Everyone is non binary (gender), and no one is non binary (sex).
@Wickes
I visit your nearby store several times a year, probably spending around £1k/year.
Following your chairman labelling me and those who accept the material reality of mammals having immutable sex, "Ignorant bigots", my business is going elsewhere. Goodbye.
@mPinoe
Read the room.
700k views for 1k likes. Ratioed.
Is that sweet
#nikehateswomen
money so wonderful? Do you really want it so much that you'll trash sport that defined you?
I am guessing that you are parroting the
@Nike
party line.
@CrunchAlias
@nelsonlflores
You would think that a "Professor of Linguistics" would be alert to semantic trickery and wouldn't be invoking it in pursuit of an obvious fallacy.
Oh.
Wait.
This is male rights propaganda. Logic and reason get chucked out of the window, along with women's rights.
@NAllison89
Eddie Izzard.
Transed from being an interesting transgressive male who said that “a dress is man’s clothing if I wear it”, to a boring advocate of regressive sexual stereotypes. “When I wear dresses I am in girl mode”
@jasonintrator
@SinclairJM1987
That must explain the huge number of grown women who now say, “Yes, I too would have come out as trans if only it had been socially accepted 20/30/40/50 years ago”
Aren’t philosophers supposed to be able to think about what they say and not talk rubbish?
@TimWardCam
@Adam_Creme
@lunaperla
If the serving staff are slow to bring the bill when I want to leave, usually because they are rushed off their feet, I go to the counter or to the entrance to pay. (Or to the bar if it is that kind of establishment). Never once has this been difficult.
@DilW
@IrishRugby
There is no ban on trans women, so your logical train’s very start is derailed.
Males are being told to compete with other males, in the male category.
Now try again, with your argument framed from reality, if you can.
@Scienceofsport
@Ashworth101
@Justo3590
@runthinkwrite
At the start I conceded words like man and woman, to be kind. But I see now I was wrong. Lying is not kind, and concession is taken as weakness, which is why activists are now co-opting male and female too. Leaving us no words for biological reality.
@Glinner
You can add Matthew Parris to the people who have loftily "Both Sided" this argument in recent years. Older gay man, content to throw young women to the wolves rather than go against progressive wisdom.
@JustinTrudeau
Thank you for sharing a belief of your religion with us.
Not sharing your religion, and indeed not taking its silly beliefs seriously, is not hate.
On the contrary, requiring people to pretend to share your religion is hateful and oppressive.
@PennyRed
@SinclairJM1987
Everywhere is fine.
To claim that GC people are against trans people being publicly trans is completely deranged. Have you ever listened to anything GC people have to say on the subject?
Who could possibly have predicted that high profile campaigns by Stonewall et al to allow men into women's sport, rape shelters, changing rooms, and toilets, could induce the public to be more negative about trans people?
<Surprised Face>
Deeply saddened to see today's British Social Attitudes Survey shows such a marked decline in positive attitudes to trans people. In 2019 82% of us said we "weren't prejudiced at all" towards trans people - now just 64% of us feel we can say the same. 1/5
@billmaher
It is spread by social contagion amongst the impressionable young. Those with ASD or mental health conditions are particularly vulnerable, perhaps because of their greater fear of puberty and need to belong to society that has difficulty accepting them.
@scrubs_upwell
In my case the explanation is too much cake and being 62. I don’t know you well enough to guess the explanation in your case.
I speculate that you aren’t on the edge of the male Team GB, however, and that may play a part in your relative lack of pace.
@mrmarksteel
Nobody said that, or anything remotely like it.
The fact that you need to lie about the nature of the response to Shappi, and comments about Eddie, ought to tell you about the worth of what you’re supporting.
@blablafishcakes
Inappropriate for teens, let alone 5yo. By all means discuss this stuff with teens in class, but not in this trivial shallow way.
Or am I a prude?
@peterboghossian
@Lostlain1
This is very easy.
The classroom is not an appropriate place for adult sexual fetishes, which is what this is.
Would school tolerate a female teacher wearing an enormous prosthetic penis in skintight leggings? No.
Would students be allowed to turn up dressed like this? No.
@FondOfBeetles
There you go again. Trying to use reason and knowledge to help someone out of a position that they used neither reason nor knowledge to arrive at. A forlorn hope.
@PennyRed
You don’t really understand safeguarding do you?
“Most people aren’t abusers, therefore we mustn’t have safeguarding rules”, is perhaps the daftest take I have ever heard.
@JamesEFoster
Bathrooms free of males.
Prisons free of males.
Hospital wards free of males.
Sporting competition free of males.
Domestic violence refuge free of males.
Changing rooms free of males.
@francesweetman
Male on male rape in prisons is a disgusting disgraceful problem. An indictment of the penal system.
However when it is used as a lever to get some males into women's prisons some sympathy is bound to be lost, as that isn't the answer.
@JoanneLydiaY
The word female is the biological category of the large gamete producing class, across the entire animal kingdom. In mammals the body design to produce large or small gametes is binary and immutable from conception. If you want a word for feeling womanly, get a new word.
@wornoutmumhack
How can anyone apply for a GRC fraudulently? What would the test be? How does one distinguish between a "real" trans person and a "fake" trans person?
At heart the entire concept is insane. It needs removing entirely, not made easier.
@Independent
You might want to start thinking of excuses for encouraging the sterilisation of non conforming children. That was the strangest hill to die on ever.
@ChronoKatie
I too have asked many women the same question. The fear in their eyes, and hesitant voice catch is manifest as they parrot TWAW. The only way to get a straight answer is to hint very vaguely at my own GC stance. The moment I do that, the floodgates of GC response open, 100%.
@nicholasrfish
"Mother" is a well understood word. It is the female who gave birth to another person.
If you want a word that means, "Male who likes to think that they behave in a maternal role", then I suggest you coin a new word. Mother is taken.
@Tomas_Mier
Because it is performative bullshit that even most of the people who chant it don’t truly believe.
Woman: Adult human female.
No male need apply.
@HomebasePol
@Acyn
I wonder what the non-binary people who can give birth have in common? Does anyone know? Can anyone guess? Does the characteristic that those non-binary people have in common have a name?
@free_equal
No one is assigned their sex at birth.
Sex is fixed at conception, immutable, often observed before birth in the developed world, and confirmed at birth with extremely high reliability. Pretending that it is assigned, centres a lie at the heart of your ideology.
@volewriter
@yona1959
@simonrim
A room which might be solely occupied by a predatory male and a vulnerable female, opening into a row of lockable cubicles.
What could possibly go wrong?
@FaeJohnstone
Because you are a man.
Fixed it for you.
Adopting social roles of femininity isn’t being a woman.
Nor is taking female hormones.
Nor is surgery to simulate male genitals.
Nor is “feeling like a woman”.
Being conceived female is the necessary and sufficient condition.
@EddieIzzardLab
Until 5 minutes ago, you famously made it clear that when you wore a dress and makeup, you were still dressed as a man, because a man is what you are. You acknowledged that womanhood is not a suit of clothing that men can wear.
What changed?
@TomBosworth
What is wrong with speech that accurately describes what is happening?
A female is losing the place that would have been hers, in a women’s race, to a male.
How should one make that travesty plain without giving you reason to call for the fainting couch?
@fem_mb
The only inexcusable error by British Cycling was ever giving Emily (and the rest of us) the impression that it could possibly be OK for a male to enter the women's category at any level of sport.
@EoinHiggins_
The hill you are prepared to die on is forcing rape victims to refer to their male rapist in court as “she”. And then endorsing imprisonment of male rapists in the women’s estate.
And you think someone who disagrees with that is “torching their reputation?
Peak 2021.
@regordane
One of the more bizarre postmodern pretences is that we don’t all know what a man or woman is.
One wonders who benefits from promoting confusion about this, other than males who want access to unwilling women.
@marcmunky
@LonnieB46409797
@helenstaniland
@DanniBrener
What on earth is going through the head of someone who thinks that "large women" represent the same danger to other women that a male represents?
Criminal statistics show that males have male offending patterns, regardless of how those males identify.
@ripx4nutmeg
Not a lawyer.
Not an accountant.
Not a woman.
Why should we expect honesty and straightforwardness from someone who centres their existence in a lie that others are compelled to affirm.
@RachelWilde13
@free_equal
@UN
You would think that trans people would like to hear that statistically they are a safe demographic.
But activists prefer to wheel out a "victim" narrative at every opportunity, choosing to make trans people fearful.
@CharliesNovella
@MonsoonUK
No one has a gender assigned at birth.
Sex is observed and recorded at birth, and in mammals it is immutable.
Most males are not abusers.
Above 98% of abusers, however, are male, regardless of how they identify.
For that reason females have spaces protected from male entry.
@GaryLineker
Some clarity on your position concerning males in women's sport would be helpful Gary.
Do you believe that it is ever appropriate for a male to compete in the women's competition? Is it divisive nonsense to tell males to compete with other males?
@stellacreasy
@jk_rowling
At one time permission of slavery was the law, but no matter.
At one time females not having the vote was the law, but no matter.
At one time homosexuality being illegal was the law, but no matter.
Taking refuge behind “It’s the law”, is both morally and logically vacuous.
@PSNILGBT
BTW, you may find the ratio to your post a clue pointing at why the public increasingly holds police services in contempt. This kind of virtue signalling bullshit, nothing to do with policing, is why.
@1_largemalt
When males started calling themselves lesbians, and entering women's sports competitions, changing rooms, and other spaces where vulnerable women can be found.
Also when some people started agitating for confused children to be sterilised and surgically altered.
@betsvigi9
@Sammie_Brown86
@CaptainVirgilx
Exactly. I started out very both-sides ish.
Then I listened to the demands from trans activists and saw the aggressive male behaviour of trans women when they are thwarted.
That was enough to make me hardline GC.
@CP24
What fantastic news. A really low murder victimhood rate. The US can be proud of how safe trans people are. Just as the UK can (zero murders since 2019)
So we can stop all the stories about, "Most oppressed and marginalised community" then?
@mgtmccartney
Wonderful counterpoint to, “Medical consensus is that affirmative care for gender dysphoria is best”.
No. Without evidence base, randomised control trials, the medics doing this are little different from witch doctors or homeopaths.
@helenstaniland
All that expensive education, purchased with the Hermione Granger wealth, didn't buy Emma an ounce of critical thinking.
"This trans woman I know is lovely, therefore any man who claims to be a woman must be allowed into female spaces..."
How thick is that?
@SunilSarwal
Feel free to outline the 3rd sexual role in mammals.
We will wait.
Gender is just personality. No more reason for anyone to care about it than star sign or favourite colour.
@Homely_1_Kenobi
Angry assault of uppity women, followed by insincere apology, is the standard MO of violent abusive men.
Next time women get uppity, the cycle gets repeated...
@victor_madrigal
Why are you lying? There are numerous well documented harms against women from males claiming trans ID for access to them.
What do you gain from damaging the barriers that protect vulnerable females?
@DanielAndrewsMP
So trans women don't want access to women's spaces, sports, and opportunities? No other males have that "basic right", after all. That's great news.
You just need to share that insight with trans rights organisations so they can stop campaigning for such access.
@salltweets
Reversed burden of proof is demanded.
The appropriate question is, "Why should males be allowed into spaces that are defined as exclusively female, for reasons of female safety, privacy, and dignity?"
@AbortionCare
I think it would be very unlikely for me, a man, a male (or indeed any other male) to get or need an abortion.
When you pretend that everyone gets abortions you erase the fact that abortion and giving birth are specifically female experiences and concerns.
@billybragg
What next, campaigning against vegetarianism on the grounds that Hitler was a vegetarian? We mustn't amplify Hitler's views on any subject, must we?
@fg4_qw
@free_equal
@UN
In the entire UK no trans people at all have been killed in the last 3 years. The rate since 2010 is well below 1/year. One of those was killed by another trans woman. All were killed by males.
There is no evidence for trans identity being associated with murder risk.
@TullipR
One side calls for openness, high quality medical evidence, and debate.
The other side calls debate “violence” and evidence based medicine “immoral”. The failure of gender clinics to collect follow up evidence is a feature of that industry, not a bug.
@sheela_na
Once again, beyond parody.
Will they be seeking the views of trans men concerning prostate or testicular cancer?
Of course not. Trans men are females. We know that, because the MRAs have no interest in them.
@BBCWomansHour
No-one has an issue with trans women in sport. TW are 100% welcome in the male category, where they belong. "Woman" is not a hormone level. Letting hobbled males into women's sport is absurd, however much they hobble themselves.
@NadiaWhittomeMP
You don’t even have a material definition of man or woman.
Define the groups you’re talking about, then one can have a discussion about safety.
An important element is that males should not be in shared spaces with vulnerable females, wouldn’t you say?