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Fiddler Nathan Drake
Nathan Drake on fiddle; on banjo and guitar are his sons Jasper ("Sleepy") and Weldon.
Nathan Drake, Jasper "Sleepy" Drake, and behind him brother Weldon Drake
The Drake family playing at a Saturday night dance.
That Saturday night dance again.
Weldon Drake
Jasper "Sleepy" Drake on banjo, sister Monnie on guitar.
Back from the Saturday shopping trip.
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Still in Ireland, here's a case in point:
A 32-year-old who routinely sexually assaulted his young step-son and threatened to break his arms and legs is serving out a six-year sentence in women’s prison. A solicitor for the child sex abuser is appealing the sentence, arguing that the prison time is far too difficult for a “transgender woman.”
The man, whose identity is being withheld from the public in order to protect the identity of his victim, had become romantically involved with a woman and moved into the home where she lived with her four-year-old son.
Between September 2011 and September 2013, the man had engaged in a campaign of terror against the small child, abusing the boy whenever his mother was not looking.
In several instances, the man pulled the child’s trousers down and made him lie on the bed, where he was subjected to sexually abusive acts. In addition, the man often slapped the child and threatened to break his arms and legs.
The man’s abuse of his step-son came to light when neighbor’s witnessed him shouting at and threatening the boy.
On December 9, 2019, convicted of 10 counts of Sexual Assault Contrary to Section 2 of the Criminal Law (Rape) Act 1990 and a count of Child Cruelty. The man has since begun identifying as a woman.
This man has had no treatment – not even cross-sex hormones – but he's in possession of a gender recognition certificate, which is what really matters.
Though even a spell in a women's jail is too much for him:
Senior Counsel Roderick O’Hanlon is appealing the convicted child sex abuser’s sentence on the grounds that the sentencing judge did not have sufficient regard to the difficulties a “transgender woman” would face in prison.
And the number of female child sex abusers has been going through the roof recently. Have you noticed?
Irish women’….
For Ceri Black, a founder of LGBAI, extreme transgender ideology leads to the bullying and silencing of lesbians. Black says the women supporting the notion that ‘trans women are women’ are the most privileged, with the least to lose.
‘To hear rich, white, self-proclaimed “feminists” expound from inside their gated communities and ivory towers the thesis that trans women are women and belong in women’s spaces sticks in my throat. It is the absolute definition of elitism. There they sit, smugly proclaiming, facing none of the consequences of their dangerous words. “For thee, peasant, not for me.”’
This comes after Amnesty stripped Alexei Navalny of his “prisoner of conscience” status after they were "bombarded" with complaints highlighting xenophobic comments that he'd made in the past, even though an Amnesty spokesman admitted that the wave of requests to "de-list" Navalny seemed to be part of an "orchestrated campaign" to discredit Vladimir Putin's most vocal critic and "impede" Amnesty's calls for his release from custody.
They seem to have rather lost their way.
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Los Cubos, 1974, the only building in the series designed by a non-Spanish architecture team
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l is actually “chest reconstruction.” Similarly, a study entitled “Age Is Just a Number,” published in 2017 in the Journal of Sexual Medicine, reveals that eleven out of the 20 surgeons interviewed admitted to having performed vaginoplasty — that is, castration followed by the inversion of the penis to form a pseudo-vaginal canal — “1 to 20” times on males under the age of 18.
If the British judges think that minors can’t consent to taking drugs and hormones to halt puberty, how likely is it that a minor can consent to having his or her sexual organs removed or mutilated?
Here’s another question worth pondering: If the Democratic nominee for assistant health secretary won’t answer basic questions related to child welfare — and the liberal media and political class won’t hold that nominee to account — how likely is it that this dangerous ideological agenda is about to get worse?
An Enco gas station in Navajo County, Arizona, 1971. Just by Baby Rocks.
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More from David Hirsh at the JC:
Miller is reminiscent of antisemitic “experts in the Jews” from bygone eras. He produces highly complex diagrams which purport to uncover the hidden unity of ostensibly distinct Jews and Jewish organisations. He tells Muslims that interfaith efforts function as a ‘Trojan Horse’ to smuggle Zionism, and therefore Islamophobia and racism, into mosques. It is dangerous to make chicken soup with Jews, he warns.
Miller likes to articulate his worldview clearly. Like Ken Livingstone, he enjoys chasing the logic of his fantasies all the way down the rabbit hole. But his defenders are a little more careful. They, describe Miller’s output, for example as an “honest” response to a query on “Israel-Palestine”. They say the Board of Deputies want him fired because he is “critical of Zionism”. They hope people don’t read Miller’s work but rely on their own description of it. You can assume that many of the signatories themselves have not read his work.
The Macpherson Principle states that when somebody says they have experienced racism, you should assume that they are telling the truth, and that should be the starting point of any investigation. The Miller Principle would seem to be that when Jews say they have experienced antisemitism, that is evidence that they are agents of Israel secretly trying to sow racism and Islamophobia in Britain. […]
Miller, and his defenders, are not just playing clever word games, they are forging an intellectual system which has the potential to be dangerous to Jews. It looks plausible but it portrays the overwhelming majority of Jews and their community as a cunning, hidden, racist threat to the rest of society. It positions Jews as a formidable block in the way of any movement which hopes to change Britain for the better.
Miller is not just an eccentric individual. He has been promoted to Professor, he brings in research money, he is published in the journals, he speaks at conferences and he teaches students. And a long list of academics is jumping to his defence. Miller is part of an antisemitic culture and he is protected by academic institutions and by the academic union.
Antisemitism is being driven out of the structures of the Labour Party but it is still present in significant layers of left wing and academic thinking. It is present emotionally, offering an object onto which people can project their own fury, fear and fantasies. Antisemitism is re-grouping in academia, not least around the campaign against the IHRA definition of antisemitism, which it finds threatening because it suggests that hostility to Israel may, in certain contexts, be antisemitic. This campaign employs the language of free speech and academic freedom, but it aims to strip people who have the courage to speak out against antisemitism of their confidence and of any hope of institutional protection.
ie as these great boundaries are crossed and celebrated as “diversity”. It is an insult to women to talk of “empowerment” whilst replacing them as spokeswomen. pic.twitter.com/6jB2vGXKVc
— Jean Hatchet (@JeanHatchet) February 26, 2021
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Perfect. What better way of showing how strongly they feel about empowering women than having a man as chair of their national women’s committee.
.noconflicttheysaid.org/”>No Conflict, They Said, as a place for women to tell their stories about "the impacts on women of men using women-only spaces, including but not limited to: changing rooms, fitting rooms, bathrooms, shelters, rape and domestic violence refuges, gyms, spas, sports, schools, accommodations, shortlists, prizes, quotas, political groups, prisons, clubs, events, festivals, dating apps, and language. If we can't collect data, we can at least collect stories. Please tell us how your use of women-only spaces has been impacted. All stories will be published anonymously." This is in response to Australian legislation designed to be inclusive to transgender people, but which, she claims, replaces sex with gender identity – with potentially disastrous consequences for women.
The result? Some 100 academics have written demanding that the University of Melbourne take "swift and decisive action" against what they claim to be a transphobic site, in breach of the university's guidelines on research integrity and inclusion.
There's a good eight-minute interview with Lawford-Smith here, where she expresses her bafflement at how so many modern feminists are now trying to be maximally inclusive, "making feminism this thing that’s really about not hurting men’s feelings than actually protecting women”. All that's needed is for men to state that they're now women, that trans liberation is the next progressive thing, and claim that as trans women they're being uniquely oppressed, and these new feminists just roll over – undoing all the brave work by previous generations of feminists.
