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    Thus, our decline continues. Nowhere more apparent than in Academia.

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    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post
    Rowling seems to think she is qualified to offer a medical opinion yet she is not a doctor. Why does she have a chip on her shoulder about the transgender community? How do their rights affect her exactly?
    That about sums it up

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    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post

    As far as the letter is concerned, it seems those who signed are peeved because they can no longer run around having a pop for no reason at whoever they dislike.
    Should they not be allowed to? Is having s differing opinion now forbidden? It seems you enjoy the right to run around having a pop for no reason (just because you disagree with someones position is not a reason) at people you dislike, but you would deny others the same right

    Why is it wrong to criticise people who are not qualified to give medical opinions when they do so? Is it because they have a lot of twatter followers that gives them some kind of magic credibility?
    It's not wrong at all butl I don't think she gave a medical opinion, and we're talking about the letter aren't we?
    And why/how are you in any way qualified to criticise ANYONE?
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    Quote Originally Posted by armstrong View Post
    I'm not a doctor either but pretty sure men don't have periods.
    Some posters on here may be the exception... But yeah, wokesters want to refer to women as 'people who menstrate' rather than women, to do otherwise is anti trans.

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    Quote Originally Posted by armstrong View Post
    I'm not a doctor either but pretty sure men don't have periods.
    Dunno, I'm pretty sure hairy does.

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    so i guess this will be this week's "white grievance" thread.


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    Quote Originally Posted by raycarey View Post
    so i guess this will be this week's "white grievance" thread.

    How do you figure this a colour issue ?????

    Oh yeah, because to you EVERYTHING is a colour issue. Fuck off you toerag.

    (Is toerag a racial epithet, I forget)

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    Quote Originally Posted by raycarey View Post
    so i guess this will be this week's "white grievance" thread.
    Looks like it. They seem to always find something to whinge about.

    Quote Originally Posted by Cujo View Post
    How do you figure this a colour issue ?????
    Once again your utter stupidity is on display. Why must you time and time again put your stupidity on display Sheriff Cujo?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cujo View Post
    And why/how are you in any way qualified to criticise ANYONE?
    If I wasn't and you weren't there would be no point in being here.

    Anyone is qualified to have an opinion.

    And anyone is qualified to criticise it.

    The degrees thereof vary.

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    ^^Quite right this is Wokedoor

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    Quote Originally Posted by armstrong View Post
    I'm not a doctor either but pretty sure men don't have periods.
    I'm pretty sure that's isn't the issue.

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    Quote Originally Posted by raycarey View Post
    so i guess this will be this week's "white grievance" thread.

    Some people just can't handle change.

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    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post
    That's still a woman.

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    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post
    If I wasn't and you weren't there would be no point in being here.

    Anyone is qualified to have an opinion.

    And anyone is qualified to criticise it.

    The degrees thereof vary.
    So you agree Rowling is qualified (to a dergree) to criticise the LGBTQ community. She is entitled to her opinion and to state it just as you are.

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    Quote Originally Posted by armstrong View Post
    That's still a woman.
    If it has a vagina , a uterus and has periods its a woman.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bsnub View Post
    Once again your utter stupidity is on display. Why must you time and time again put your stupidity on display Sheriff Cujo?
    So how is this about skin colour? Just explain...

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    Quote Originally Posted by NamPikToot View Post
    Quite right this is Wokedoor
    Umm, I think Whingedoor is more appropriate and it is no surprise you show up in this thread like you do all of these geriatric whinge threads and you are always one of the top posters.

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    Quote Originally Posted by English Noodles View Post
    So how is this about skin colour? Just explain...
    All of this is derived from the same root source. The hate has a root that it feeds off of and let's be honest you lot are really angry.

    All of you right wing lemmings are the same and you all spew the same supplied talking points. There is not a pure independent thought amongst any of you.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bsnub View Post
    All of this is derived from the same root source. The hate has a root that it feeds off of and let's be honest you lot are really angry.

    All of you right wing lemmings are the same and you all spew the same supplied talking points. There is not a pure independent thought amongst any of you.
    So prominent historians of race and slavery, including Nell Irvin Painter, who wrote The History of White People and David Blight, who heads Yale University's Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition are Right wing lemmings that lack independent thought?

    It's lucky we are blessed with free thinkers such as you and Ray.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bsnub View Post
    Umm, I think Whingedoor is more appropriate and it is no surprise you show up in this thread like you do all of these geriatric whinge threads and you are always one of the top posters.
    Princess, who's whinging i find you lot beating your PC chests hilarious. If you and your chums also want to have periods its your choice, you all already have PMT, more frequently than the real thing. Its all about creating the right atmosphere on TD to encourage the hoards of millennials just waiting for the Boomers to move on.

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    Quote Originally Posted by NamPikToot View Post
    who's whinging
    You are as usual.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cujo View Post
    If it has a vagina , a uterus and has periods its a woman.
    That is the whole point. It excludes all transgendered "women" as being considered as "women", and that is very against current PC thinking.

    It is a hugely complex issue, way above my pay grade. While i understand transgendered womens point, i have also seen, lets say biological women, have real problems in things like shared bathing facilities and bathrooms.

    Like i said, above my pay grade.

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    ^^ trouble with you women is us blokes can never be right.

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    ezra klein summed it up quite succinctly...

    "A lot of debates that sell themselves as being about free speech are actually about power."

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    Quote Originally Posted by nidhogg View Post
    That is the whole point. It excludes all transgendered "women" as being considered as "women", and that is very against current PC thinking.

    It is a hugely complex issue, way above my pay grade. While i understand transgendered womens point, i have also seen, lets say biological women, have real problems in things like shared bathing facilities and bathrooms.

    Like i said, above my pay grade.
    Do you remember that American TV series Ally McBeal, also popular in the UK about 20 years ago? One of their big ideas was a unisex bathroom. Here we are two decades later and the idea never got any traction. Presumably because it wasn't popular amongst 'people who menstruate'. Does that make them all wrong?
    JK Rowling said somewhere that she was abused when younger and that was part of the reason why she wanted safe spaces. Which seems in most contexts to be a reasonable opinion. Anyway it is her opinion and I have no trouble with it. I also have no trouble with different opinions. I do have a problem with vociferous minorities trying to 'cancel' her for having an opinion they don't share. Which I think was the OP's core point.

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