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Colin Wight (not Colin Wright)
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Colin Wight (not Colin Wright)
@colwight
Prof Emeritus (International Relations); Guitar fanatic; NUFC Supporter. Views mine. Yes, I pay for things I value.
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Joined July 2011
- I don’t know how many times I can keep making this point, but if after over 1000 Israeli’s citizens are slaughtered, after families are killed in their homes, after hundreds of young people are massacred at a rave, after hundreds are kidnapped, after reports of rape are rife, if
- Can we all agree that trans women are a subset of men, not a subset of women.
- Why is everyone calling for a ceasefire rather than for Hamas to surrender? When did supporting barbaric medieval terrorism become acceptable?
- So what are we going to call the sport of men physically beating women at the Olympics?
- I genuinely don’t understand how anyone thinks it’s ok for men to take part in women’s sports, to be housed in women’s prisons, or to take scholarships or win awards that are specifically in place for women. I’ll never understand it.
- People often ask me why I’m so invested/interested in the trans issue? My response is always the same; given the attack on women’s rights, the rejection of the science around biological sex, the idea that people can change sex, the ludicrous notion of the female penis, the
- I will say something that may get me in trouble with some. But Roxy Tickle has every right to dress as a woman (according to prevailing gender norms), to act as he believes women act (again, that’s going to be based on prevailing gender norms), and even to believe he is a woman.
- Bookmarking this for all the “assigned at birth” people, and all the “my child discovered she/he was born in the wrong body merchants. The irony of Pink News running this story should be lost on no one.
- You have to love Twitter. Three eminent biologists (Dawkins, Winston, and Nüsslein Volhard ) say there are only two sexes and that humans can’t change Sex, and Twitter randoms, and Katy Montgomery (as always)) say they’re wrong. We need a term for this madness. Dunning Kruger
- My wife did her PhD on the subject of mass rape in war, so it’s a subject I know something about. Even without this report, it ludicrous that anyone would deny it. And shocking that many feminists (and some GC feminists in particular) have ignored it, or downplayed it. Doubtless
- If you are a bloke in lipstick and someone describes you as a bloke in lipstick, why is that discrimination? And why should everyone have to pretend to blokes in lipstick that they’re not blokes in lipstick?
- Nobody actually believes men can become women and vice versa. Nobody. So WTF is going on?
- Replying to @GrahamScamblerThe truth always matters. But the truth of the beheading isn’t necessary for the moral judgment. The truth of the barbarity is clear.
