Things that piss off British feminists

There are no “trans women”….only guys with fake tits

Prince Andrew

That Margaret Thatcher was the first female PM

Fish and chips

Charlatan Judith Butler

The sunrise. The sunset. The laughter of children. Men. Music. Anal sex. The fat asses of American lesbians. Are You Being Served?”, cocktails, S’mores, and joy.

The Garrick and other men only clubs.

Yet another stealth anti-trans post.

So transparent.

Gay men.

They usually deride us for not backing women 100% despite the fact they supposedly nursed us all through the AIDS crisis...

I think one aspect of gender and the British that is interesting and perhaps unique is how much sexier the rest of the world finds British maleness compared to British femaleness: James Bond, Lord Byron, Hugh Grant, Harry Styles, the cockney geezer, the school boy at Eton are all “hot” whereas you take something like the Spice Girls, who somehow managed to be great looking girls who pranced around while showing off their belly buttons, and yet nobody thinks of them as sexy in the way that peak career Britney Spears was.

As for female British sex appeal, you'd have to go back a generation (or two, or three) with the likes of Diana Rigg (Emma Peel from The Avengers), Julie Christie, Bond Girl Honor Blackman, and later Patsy Kensit, Samantha Fox (!), Elizabeth Hurley, and, well, fill in your own blank, really. It's true that alleged British beauties like Keira Knightley are not really talked about as "sexy."

Was the young Amanda Donohoe considered sexy, around the time she starred in L.A. Law? (sorry, my cultural references are badly outdated--I'm an elder-eldergay)

Keir Starmer

Bathing, shaving, and douching.

Queen Camila

Sex work

Razors, Deodorant.

Pussy

Fish fingers. And I’m not talking about food.

Benny Hill

Sterilising gay children

Say what you want about British feminists. I like them. "TERF" philosopher Kathleen Stock recently wrote a magnificent takedown of Judith Butler:

[quote]But there is also, I suspect, a deeper fear at work here, and an unconscious desire to sublimate guilt. (See how annoying this is, Professor Butler?) The level of projection in this book — by which I mean, attribution of unrecognised features of one’s own behaviour to others, in the Freudian and Jungian sense — is off the scale. Butler sees authoritarian cancellers and enemies of critical thought everywhere, though apparently not so much among those closest to home.

[quote]She tells us that in the anti-gender movement, there is a hatred of rational discussion. To say gender is an ideology is, in itself, “an ideological move par excellence”. Whereas gender studies — gender studies, for gods’ sake — is a “diverse field, marked by internal debate”, by contrast its enemies refuse to “read the texts they oppose — or to learn how best to read them” and they “do not hold themselves to standards of consistency or coherence”. It is impossible to convince members of the anti-gender movement “with good arguments because of the fear that the reading will introduce confusion into the reader’s mind or bring her into direct contact with the devil”. To anyone who has ever been no-platformed as a result of transactivist complaints, been put through a disciplinary or worse because of gender-critical views, or even just laboured through one of Butler’s previous sentences, this aspect of the book should come with a health warning.

[quote]Still, there is something correct in Butler’s observation that critics of transactivism are getting increasingly intolerant and illiberal. The dominant emotion she attributes to them is fear, but a more accurate description would be fury. It is obvious that many across the world have become angered by the grandiose, narcissistic overreach of academics like her: thinkers indifferent to the real-world havoc wrought by their barmy ideas and impenetrable speech codes, and who pillory all objectors as badly intentioned or deeply confused, no matter what the background reasoning. Butler is right to fear increasing threats towards LGBT people and women across the globe but fails to notice her own significant responsibility in the aetiology of the problem. Speaking personally, I’m not remotely afraid of gender, understood blandly as sexual and bodily expression; but I am very afraid of what Judith Butler has done with it.

Jane Seymour's "Guide to Romantic Living."

America’s total capitulation to right wing populist agitation. The only country to reverse abortion rights. Well done.

Vaginal moistness.

Who cares, OP?

A troll from any environ is still just a nuisance, pest, crank and troll.