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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 5th April 2021, 12:02 PM
Replies: 3,879
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Posted By Strawberry
Is there a reason why you're limiting your...

Is there a reason why you're limiting your question to public bathrooms? The implications of allowing men to self identify as women are far more chilling and wide ranging than who pees in which...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 5th April 2021, 11:17 AM
Replies: 3,879
Views: 164,057
Posted By Strawberry
Thanks for the welcome. 🤠 I don't think the...

Thanks for the welcome. 🤠

I don't think the number of incidents is the key issue here. The fact that it has happened at all is a good enough reason to keep some spaces female only for safety...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 5th April 2021, 11:11 AM
Replies: 3,879
Views: 164,057
Posted By Strawberry
Yes, of course. It's the rat that's important...

Yes, of course. It's the rat that's important here not the traumatized rape victims inside.
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 5th April 2021, 10:36 AM
Replies: 3,879
Views: 164,057
Posted By Strawberry
I can post as many examples as you like, but...

I can post as many examples as you like, but stats are hard to come by, partly because many places have begun recording crime stats by self declared gender rather than sex.

Here's one, just let me...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 5th April 2021, 10:20 AM
Replies: 3,879
Views: 164,057
Posted By Strawberry
And yet trans activists have a track record of...

And yet trans activists have a track record of using political power to strip funding from Vancouver Rape Refuge because it offers female only shelter space, and when that didn't succeed in closing...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 5th April 2021, 08:18 AM
Replies: 3,879
Views: 164,057
Posted By Strawberry
Given that women and girls have already been...

Given that women and girls have already been raped and sexually assaulted by self declared transwomen in female spaces, we do already know that women's fears are well founded.

Whether the rapists...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 5th April 2021, 07:52 AM
Replies: 3,879
Views: 164,057
Posted By Strawberry
No, I just believe that women who have been raped...

No, I just believe that women who have been raped are entitled to a female only support group. Males, no matter how they identify, have no right to be in the room.
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 5th April 2021, 07:48 AM
Replies: 3,879
Views: 164,057
Posted By Strawberry
Correct. Although your post has made me...

Correct.

Although your post has made me curious about something - how do we define "really trans" ? How am I, as a woman, supposed to know the difference between a man in a dress coming into the...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 5th April 2021, 07:44 AM
Replies: 3,879
Views: 164,057
Posted By Strawberry
I know that. I'm pointing out that spaces...

I know that. I'm pointing out that spaces segregated by gender are mixed sex, and therefore deny the female sex the rights to privacy and safety that single sex spaces were invented for in the...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 4th April 2021, 09:19 PM
Replies: 3,879
Views: 164,057
Posted By Strawberry
"Reefer madness"is such a new and exciting way to...

"Reefer madness"is such a new and exciting way to dismiss women's fear of being raped. It's so much more fun than accusing us of hysteria.


When I say new and exciting, I actually meant boring...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 4th April 2021, 05:10 AM
Replies: 3,879
Views: 164,057
Posted By Strawberry
What he is arguing for is the destruction of any...

What he is arguing for is the destruction of any right to privacy and safety for the female sex in places where we have to change our clothes or pull our underwear down.

Let's not be coy here, we...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 25th June 2020, 10:03 AM
Replies: 3,460
Views: 92,348
Posted By Strawberry
Sex segregated spaces don't exist to prevent...

Sex segregated spaces don't exist to prevent women from catching a glimpse of a penis. They exist for reasons of safety and privacy.
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 19th June 2020, 03:25 PM
Replies: 1,780
Views: 100,483
Posted By Strawberry
The video evidence showed that Walter Scott...

The video evidence showed that Walter Scott hadn't taken the officer's tazer. That was a lie the officer told to justify the shooting.

In this case the video evidence shows that the police...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 24th April 2020, 08:58 AM
Replies: 258
Views: 14,323
Posted By Strawberry
The solution is to categorize sports on the...

The solution is to categorize sports on the grounds of physical sex and not gender identity. That should be obvious, and if there's anyone wasting the government's time here it's the selfish...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 8th January 2020, 06:18 AM
Replies: 111
Views: 7,979
Posted By Strawberry
Sorry to be the one who points out this not very...

Sorry to be the one who points out this not very polite truth, but it's also especially possible where the rapist is not well endowed.
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 27th December 2019, 06:50 AM
Replies: 319
Views: 14,089
Posted By Strawberry
It may blow over legally, but I don't think...

It may blow over legally, but I don't think Maugham will ever live that one down in the court of public opinion. It will be thrown in his face at every opportunity.
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 26th December 2019, 09:51 AM
Replies: 319
Views: 14,089
Posted By Strawberry
Red face Those of us assuming the most brutal scenario are...

Those of us assuming the most brutal scenario are probably the same people who read Maugham's sickeningly smug tweets this morning. I think he expected congratulations for being such a manly man.
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 26th December 2019, 09:49 AM
Replies: 319
Views: 14,089
Posted By Strawberry
How many times? It. Is. Illegal. A...

How many times?

It. Is. Illegal.

A senior politician and QC broke the law and bragged about it on twitter.
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 26th December 2019, 09:08 AM
Replies: 319
Views: 14,089
Posted By Strawberry
It's illegal is the context you're missing. ...

It's illegal is the context you're missing. Shooting a fox that gets near the henhouse is one thing, bludgeoning it to death when it's entangled in netting and no threat to either hens or people is...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 26th December 2019, 06:59 AM
Replies: 319
Views: 14,089
Posted By Strawberry
Clubbing a fox to death can get you up to six...

Clubbing a fox to death can get you up to six months in prison. I hope they throw the book at him.
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 19th December 2019, 04:42 PM
Replies: 3,207
Views: 152,311
Posted By Strawberry
It's about time Rowling stood up for what is...

It's about time Rowling stood up for what is right, since she's one of the few women in a position to do so without being sacked or no platformed, which is the usual reaction of the increasingly...
Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 18th December 2019, 03:31 PM
Replies: 192
Views: 13,508
Posted By Strawberry
Of course Scotland could use the euro without...

Of course Scotland could use the euro without joining the EU. Montenegro and Kosovo already use it, they're not EU members.
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 4th December 2019, 07:28 PM
Replies: 3,207
Views: 152,311
Posted By Strawberry
You must have taken a look at reddit's trans...

You must have taken a look at reddit's trans section, did you? A right bunch of freaks on there.

There's been a massive rise in the diagnosis of gender dysphoria among teenage girls recently, so...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 4th December 2019, 05:31 PM
Replies: 3,207
Views: 152,311
Posted By Strawberry
To answer your question, it's because sexual...

To answer your question, it's because sexual fetishism is more common among men than women, and transwomen are a type of man.
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 25th November 2019, 06:59 AM
Replies: 3,207
Views: 152,311
Posted By Strawberry
A butch woman is a woman because she's female,...

A butch woman is a woman because she's female, regardless of what she says.
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 24th November 2019, 01:43 PM
Replies: 3,207
Views: 152,311
Posted By Strawberry
I can see why it suits abusive men to push the...

I can see why it suits abusive men to push the notion that transwomen are women and should have an absolute right to enter female only spaces like changing rooms, domestic violence shelters, female...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 22nd November 2019, 04:05 PM
Replies: 3,207
Views: 152,311
Posted By Strawberry
Talking Maybe women want a break from the creepy when...

Maybe women want a break from the creepy when we're getting undressed or having a wee. Go and try "scoring"somewhere else.
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 21st November 2019, 05:42 PM
Replies: 3,207
Views: 152,311
Posted By Strawberry
What's really interesting about that is if I...

What's really interesting about that is if I caught her at it I could, with a reasonable chance of winning, challenge her physicaly without having to call for a male to help.

If, however, she was...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 21st November 2019, 11:32 AM
Replies: 3,207
Views: 152,311
Posted By Strawberry
Why this seems like the easiest question in the...

Why this seems like the easiest question in the world. Places where nudity is to be expected and ok, like changing rooms, should be sex segregated and places where nudity is not to be expected and...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 20th November 2019, 03:00 PM
Replies: 3,207
Views: 152,311
Posted By Strawberry
The reasoning used is not the same either. Your...

The reasoning used is not the same either. Your reasoning, however, seems to be that opening up female safe spaces to males is a good thing to do because it is being demanded by a small subset of...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 20th November 2019, 02:42 PM
Replies: 3,207
Views: 152,311
Posted By Strawberry
An even better analogy would be a society where...

An even better analogy would be a society where racial segregation was in force for schools etc, but white people could identify into black places whenever they felt like it whereas black people...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 20th November 2019, 02:25 PM
Replies: 3,207
Views: 152,311
Posted By Strawberry
Yes, and that's why your comparison with racial...

Yes, and that's why your comparison with racial segregation doesn't stand up to scrutiny.
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 20th November 2019, 02:01 PM
Replies: 339
Views: 15,669
Posted By Strawberry
Good point actually, a lot of the people pushing...

Good point actually, a lot of the people pushing this particular form of biology denial are very right wing, eg Bruce Jenner.
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 20th November 2019, 01:51 PM
Replies: 3,207
Views: 152,311
Posted By Strawberry
Then why do you not see the difference between...

Then why do you not see the difference between racial segregation and women wanting to get changed in female only spaces, be searched only by female police officers etc?
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 20th November 2019, 01:48 PM
Replies: 339
Views: 15,669
Posted By Strawberry
Why, you think there's no such thing as...

Why, you think there's no such thing as internalised misogyny?

Not that I am saying transmen necessarily have it, I'm just asking about your "lol, wtf" reaction to my post.
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 20th November 2019, 01:44 PM
Replies: 3,207
Views: 152,311
Posted By Strawberry
That there's no difference between female only...

That there's no difference between female only spaces and whites only spaces.
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 20th November 2019, 12:46 PM
Replies: 3,207
Views: 152,311
Posted By Strawberry
I can see someone using your reasoning to allow...

I can see someone using your reasoning to allow white people to self ID as black and take up scholarships, political positions,etc that were created for black people.
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 20th November 2019, 12:43 PM
Replies: 339
Views: 15,669
Posted By Strawberry
Yes, I said that right at the start - there are...

Yes, I said that right at the start - there are two sexes and no genders because sex is a biological reality and gender is just made up. And as we can see clearly much of the ideology surrounding...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 20th November 2019, 09:36 AM
Replies: 339
Views: 15,669
Posted By Strawberry
And the reality is that transwomen are not women....

And the reality is that transwomen are not women. Transwomen are a type of man.

This nonsense really is the creationism of the left.
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 20th November 2019, 09:28 AM
Replies: 339
Views: 15,669
Posted By Strawberry
Transwomen are biological males, and if that is...

Transwomen are biological males, and if that is transphobia then reality is transphobia.
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 20th November 2019, 09:26 AM
Replies: 339
Views: 15,669
Posted By Strawberry
It seems odd to you because you don't respect the...

It seems odd to you because you don't respect the notion of women having the right to set their own boundaries. Again, misogyny.
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 20th November 2019, 09:15 AM
Replies: 339
Views: 15,669
Posted By Strawberry
So you seriously think it's transphobia for women...

So you seriously think it's transphobia for women not to want to take their clothes off in front of men.

This is a Handmaid's Tale level of misogyny, and its not coming from the religious right...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 20th November 2019, 09:04 AM
Replies: 339
Views: 15,669
Posted By Strawberry
So because some men are homophobic women have no...

So because some men are homophobic women have no right to privacy when they're changing their clothes?
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 19th November 2019, 09:20 PM
Replies: 339
Views: 15,669
Posted By Strawberry
There's plenty of evidence that homosexuality has...

There's plenty of evidence that homosexuality has existed for millennia, transgenderism not so much.
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 19th November 2019, 08:52 PM
Replies: 339
Views: 15,669
Posted By Strawberry
Edited for breach of rule 12

Edited for breach of rule 12
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 19th November 2019, 08:05 PM
Replies: 339
Views: 15,669
Posted By Strawberry
It's a badly worded question. There are no...

It's a badly worded question. There are no genders and two sexes woul be the only sensible answer.
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 19th November 2019, 07:22 AM
Replies: 3,207
Views: 152,311
Posted By Strawberry
Not half as risible as a person claiming to be...

Not half as risible as a person claiming to be skeptical posting "ok boomer." Edited for breach of rule 0 and rule 12
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 12th November 2019, 01:03 PM
Replies: 3,207
Views: 152,311
Posted By Strawberry
That being a woman is a feeling, or a set of...

That being a woman is a feeling, or a set of feelings, inside a man's head.
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 12th November 2019, 12:37 PM
Replies: 3,207
Views: 152,311
Posted By Strawberry
The harmless men are all in the men's room. ...

The harmless men are all in the men's room. Pretty soon the safest option for women will be the men's room because all the pervs will be in the women's.
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 12th November 2019, 12:33 PM
Replies: 3,207
Views: 152,311
Posted By Strawberry
What makes you think I haven't? And the more I...

What makes you think I haven't? And the more I understand the less I want to share female spaces with anyone who isn't female.
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