Ethel Weapon
@lousadzak.bsky.social
Exhilarated absurdist. Against nature. Music fiend. Physical media appreciator. Trans and trapped in England. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Glad for those who managed to escape and hopeful that others will hear their warnings
Why tradwives are fleeing the movement: ‘I can’t undo my past – but I can warn other women’
In recent years, some of the most vocal tradwives have left their husbands, renounced their religious faith and promoted financial independence. What is behind this sudden and seismic shift?
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One thing I think got lost in the edit was that this was actually a reply to *two* word-for-word identical letters I got sent in response to two different attempts to engage my MP. I got boilerplated.
Ethel Weapon@lousadzak.bsky.social · yesterdayI've now published this as a single article on Medium
Wooooof Proton employees are now admitting they monitor and delete posts that are too negative about the company. Users figured out that embattled CEO Andy Yen has moderator privileges over the subreddit that’s criticizing him, and they’re monitoring the suppression to track effectiveness.
From the ProtonPublic community on Reddit: ICYMI: Proton Community Manager admitted Proton is measuring and reporting internally how successful their damage control campaign is by gauging engagement o...
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“I’m just like the guy addicted to cheeseburgers who died on the toilet”
Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted)@tylerfromtheinternet.com · yesterdaythe rest of the republicans are losing their shit and trump is like yeah I'm elvis
'The pair claimed they had tried to save the lamb - named after Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar - from a "dangerous position" on the middle of the road.'
…important one to help teachers understand how @lucympowell.bsky.social is harming trans children by imposing this on schools. In the end it was felt that it needed a specific section on these harms as well as some guidance to mitigate some of the harm & distress she is causing. In my opinion it…
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The question in the FWS ruling was basically “is it fair for positive action for women to apply to trans women” and they acted on an imaginary situation in which a trans woman was parachuted in without having experienced barriers to advancement. But they couldn’t imagine a symmetrical cis example?
Ethel Weapon@lousadzak.bsky.social · 2y agoWhy would it be any more difficult to rule them out than nepobabies or other cis women that didn't follow that kind of career trajectory? Does specifically the fact that such a trans woman might exist justify shutting out all trans women?
Oh yes, the famous crucial qualitative step change in ratiocinative power that occurs on your 25th birthday, before which you may exercise no personal choices
Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 3d ago"Helen Joyce...said: “Given that we know the vast majority of elective mastectomies relating to gender identity are performed on girls who haven’t reached the crucial age of brain maturity at 25, the sharp rise in the number of these surgeries in recent years is a tragedy."
The phrase “Stonewall’s less combatative early years” is a fairly pithy, bleak summation of our pudding-headed nation’s omnipresent piss-uselessness
They say everything is on streaming now but the fuck it is
Need a Flann O'Brien style "Catechism Of Cliche" thing on all the weasel phrases that are used to avoid confronting the plain-as-the-nose-on-your-face facts of straight-up prejudice
Hello @stonewalluk.bsky.social
Ethel Weapon@lousadzak.bsky.social · 5d agoWhenever we hear that it is time to “lower the temperature”, it is never in service of investigating and addressing the extremism of bigotry, of examining and discrediting evangelical rhetoric that demands subjugation or elimination.
What if the people at Stonewall turned down the heat instead of throwing bricks?
I see that “every space I use is plastered with rousing flags that I continually stare at” Labour is being Very Normal again
“you should smile more” but with curvier incisal lines
Spacey Kacey@kaceyisspacey.bsky.social · 4d agoI am going to explode
I’ve got an island in the Pacific And everything about it is terrific
Anita O'Day - An Occasional Man
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I'm delighted to see someone who knows what they're talking about discuss B v France.
“I'm here to kick ass and chew bubblegum and I'm all out of bubblegum”
The Independent@the-independent.com · 6d agoNetflix’s Pride and Prejudice hands Jane Austen’s iconic line to one of its characters for the first time
An article titled, "Life's Been Grand Since I Changed Sex", written by Delisa Newton and published in The National Insider on July 11, 1965. For more information about this item, please visit the DTA via the link in our bio. Image courtesy of ONE Archives. #TransHistory #TransIsBeautiful #DTA
When you're fighting hard by making your resistance imperceptible Utterly pathetic
It sure is starting to look like a religious crank bombed the Welsh Gender Service with complaints, leading to the entire surgical path being arbitrarily shut down
Sophie Molly@sophiemolly.co.uk · 6d agoUpdated article. sophie-molly-reports.beehiiv.com/p/gender-cri...
Tabasco is a sauce that’s HOT You add it to a thing that’s NOT
Amru Sani - Tabasco
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