On being transethnic
One of the circles to be yet squared by the transgender theory and practice is that if gender is, as we are told, a social construct, then being transgender means …
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Sometimes you’re just a dick
Nick Kyrgios is a dick. I don’t know Nick, so I apologise to him if I’m wronging him – not that he particularly cares what I think of him – …
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The stupidity of (all) identity politics
Actress Rosanna Arquette is in the news for tweeting the other day “I’m sorry I was born white and privileged. It disgusts me. And I feel so much shame.” No, I …
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Politics versus Biology
You can transform a lot, but you can’t transform biological realities – at least not yet. First this, from a year ago: Women who identify as male are not being …
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From Israel to Poland, the folaut continues
The Israel Folau case is big because Israel Folau is big – literally, but more importantly metaphorically speaking. Folau, however, is just a tip of an iceberg if that analogy …
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Worst homophobe ever
Not satisfied to have personally tied a noose around Jussie Smollett’s neck and poured some MAGA bleach on the gay “Empire” sort-of-a -star, Donald Trump now goes and does this: …
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Men are so good they even make better women
Miss Universe might soon go where no men (ahem) has gone before: Miss Universe is breaking new ground at this year’s pageant with the first transgender contestant to ever compete for …
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Fifty Shades of Red
Normally socialism buggers you through high taxes, over-regulation and social control. A growing wave of sex-positive feminists are working to usher in what they describe as a “pleasure revolution” in which …
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Caution: gay people crossing
First we’ve had skirts put on pedestrian crossing lights’ little people, because apparently, unlike children, some adults think that stick figures represent men only and not all human beings (until …
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No sex, please, we’re Millennials
Social and religious conservatives rejoice: teenagers and young people today are having far less sex than a generation ago; teenage pregnancy rates are down to only a third of what …
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But is it any good?
Paul Tassi at “Forbes” notes an important pop-culture milestone being reached: This week we got a look six years into the future of The Walking Dead, a timeline after the death (well, disappearance) …
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The Flags Of Our Non-Binary Non-Gender Specific Parents
Flag enthusiasts (I’m sure there are such people around the world, apart from the fictional Dr Sheldon Cooper and his YouTube flag channel in “The Big Bang Theory”) would have …
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Dating discrimination
I am being told that gender is a social construct but that sexuality and sexual attraction are inborn, and therefore not open to questioning. But then there is this: Considering …
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