Mine is an "ass hatchet" as well, but tbh I don't actually sit down on it much while riding, I'm standing on the pedals nearly all the time.
Recumbent sounds very leisurely, but also less in control and worse visibility, so I'm not tempted!
Should I start a TERF bicycling club? It could be international and people could create local chapters. It doesn't have to be TERF-only, or even women-only; I'd happily include everyone, even trannies. What I don't want is the bullshit walking-on-eggshells experience I have in my local bike club.
For example, this morning I went on a club ride and did chit-chat and mentioned I’m going to the ICONS of sport conference in Denver, because I want men out of women’s sports, and the guy adjacent to me said, “you mean transwomen??” and I said, “they’re men” and he said, “well I have no opinion, except it sounds an awful lot like when they kept black players out of the National Baseball League.”
Here's a blog post I wrote last year which should give an idea of my local bike club's social environment: https://blog.ninapaley.com/2022/03/21/cycling-and-gender-intersect-in-meaningful-ways/
I cycle for fitness and personal transport, and love it.
Also because I don't shave, I felt hugely validated by this: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2016/aug/15/team-gb-cycling-saddle-sore-medals
A tiny portion of the first shipment of GENDER WARS cards has arrived! And I've been working on a new web store in hopes of managing this enterprise better, but I haven't tested it yet. You can try to order them at https://store.ninapaley.com/product/gender-wars-playing-cards/ and see what happens!
Superb
Sworn testimony of a trans-identified female in a California prison about the consequences of gender self-ID in women's prisons.
#transgender #GenderIdentity #TransPredators #misogyny #SexOffenders
What Anunglkwe said, sometimes we have to just go out and touch grass.
#LizFongJones #transgender #rapist
Elliot William "Liz" Fong is an admitted rapist with an admitted rape fetish. On his social media he calls his rapes "consent accidents".
Nothing accidental about him trying to suppress the evidence by intimidating ISPs and threatening the families of datacenter employees.
It's not up to them how other people call them.
Just because I identify as a queen or as president does not mean that it is "the decent thing to do" to call me Your Majesty or Madam President.
The decent thing to do is not to pander to people's delusions but to help them to overcome them.
#misogyny #transgender
A guide to the trans activism movement, how it is increasingly in conflict with normal people, the tactics used to discredit any criticism of it, and the people who are funding it
https://peaked.substack.com/p/astro-terfed-the-workshopping-of
#GenderCritical #transgender
Biden surrounded by "straight up Marxists" - not really. A lot of progressives and so-called liberals have been captured by *some* Marxist/postmodern/poststructuralist ideals such as equality of outcome, but not all of them.
Attempts to get them out seen as "violent attack" - definitely not. They would not resist a democratic mandate.
There is plenty of ground on which conservatives and progressives can agree. Use that as a basis to clear out extremists and extreme ideologies rather than trying to draw a line down the middle and provoke culture wars more.
People should just work out how to be happier with what their genes gave them, it's who they are after all.
Cheers! 🍻
Well, apart from the nuclear weapons of course. Russia has been living off that aspect of the Soviet Union legacy. That and food queues, total absence of democracy, and constant propaganda.
Quick Buck for Your Arms: Why West and Kiev Uninterested in Weapons Oversight
From Sputnik
There is no reliable oversight body that would give a clear answer as to what actually happens to Western weapons after they enter Ukraine, Earl Rasmussen, a retired lieutenant colonel with over 20 years in the US Army and international consultant, told Sputnik, adding that apparently, neither Kiev nor Washington is interested in transparency.
May 5th 2023 2:43pm EDT
Internet Archive Link: https://web.archive.org/web/20230505184824/https://sputnikglobe.com/20230505/quick-buck-for-your-arms-why-west-and-kiev-uninterested-in-weapons-oversight-1110127691.html
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Russia broke the UN, so yes independent supranational authority is in a bad state.
Crocodile tears from the Kremlin about this state of affairs.
From banning abortion to criminalizing gender-affirming care for trans youth, the Republican agenda centers on taking AWAY freedom. Know the truth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPzlR_mGQIM
Children are inherently incapable of providing consent for "gender-affirming care", which results in genital mutilation, sterilization, serious mental illness leading to suicide, and other medical complications such as bone brittleness that drastically reduces longevity.
"Gender-affirming care" sounds lovely and fluffy but it is massively damaging to perfectly normal homosexual kids who just need support while they work out their feelings. Nobody is "born in the wrong body", this is medieval dualism. True liberals and progressives would not be pushing this anti-science, regressive agenda.
