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Jose posted:One of the biggest UK forums was for mums and teh American far right have paid for transphobes to be extremely successful here because nobody expected it or gave a poo poo before and this was their main target oh my god thanks for explaining this, I noticed it a couple years ago and have been totally bewildered about why the UK is the terf capital of the world I would say it seems like a moral panic over there, but then in the US we're so paranoid about the possibility of gender contamination that we've put cis women into mens' prisons over it, so
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Jose posted:One of the biggest UK forums was for mums and teh American far right have paid for transphobes to be extremely successful here because nobody expected it or gave a poo poo before and this was their main target Yeah, I feel like that's probably the truth of it. Evangelicals here love exporting their bullshit because it can't win here. But why are they all so online? Like, Jesus, you figure if they were such good mums they'd not loving post so much and spend time with their kids, but they are online 24/7 getting mad at trans people.
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SunAndSpring posted:if they were such good mums . They aren't 
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Was it Tony Blair that did a Q&A with mumsnet?
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bessantj posted:Was it Tony Blair that did a Q&A with mumsnet? They all do it. Also British feminism has been terfier since the 1970s which is why the US Guardian sent a letter to the UK Guardian to tell them all to stop being lovely transphobes
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From the outside, the transphobia of the mainstream UK press is weird as hell.
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I don't think anywhere is particularly Trans friendly.
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silvergoose posted:Cornwall will always and forever be linked to the dark is rising series for me. I will always remember the welsh pronunciation guide that popped up mid-book after what must have been several confused letters from the editor.
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Dikkfor posted:I will always remember the welsh pronunciation guide that popped up mid-book after what must have been several confused letters from the editor. Oh yeah that cracked me up too. Hey I'm in Wales to recuperate, wait now a kid is correcting my pronunciation, what's going on
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Zeroisanumber posted:From the outside, the transphobia of the mainstream UK press is weird as hell. Especially since men crossdressing has been a mainstay of British theatre and performance from as recently as Monty Python to as far back as Shakespeare and earlier. You would think that centuries of exposure to crossdressing would maybe loosen hetero-norms but apparently not at all, no
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Ive been to wales it was weiiiird.
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silvergoose posted:Oh yeah that cracked me up too. Hey I'm in Wales to recuperate, wait now a kid is correcting my pronunciation, what's going on I'm also surprised that invaders didn't just turn around after trying to read those town names. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZPhPf-0pYM
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twoday posted:Especially since men crossdressing has been a mainstay of British theatre and performance from as recently as Monty Python to as far back as Shakespeare and earlier. You would think that centuries of exposure to crossdressing would maybe loosen hetero-norms but apparently not at all, no it's not like the comedy crossdressing tradition in British theater was built on respect for variant gender presentations. It was built on the idea that a man wearing a dress is extremely inherently funny
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bessantj posted:Was it Tony Blair that did a Q&A with mumsnet? Loads of politicians do mumsnet interviews, and they're always great. When Andy Burnham was running against Corbyn they asked him what his favourite biscuit was and he said beer, chips and gravy.
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Gripweed posted:it's not like the comedy crossdressing tradition in British theater was built on respect for variant gender presentations. It was built on the idea that a man wearing a dress is extremely inherently funny I mean, I don't think so, but I have been proven wrong by history
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Gripweed posted:it's not like the comedy crossdressing tradition in British theater was built on respect for variant gender presentations. It was built on the idea that a man wearing a dress is extremely inherently funny
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Jose posted:One of the biggest UK forums was for mums and teh American far right have paid for transphobes to be extremely successful here because nobody expected it or gave a poo poo before and this was their main target It's not an American import. TLDR the two biggest sources are the 'skeptic' movement of the 2000s and mumsnet, which basically became freep for pearl-clutchy middle aged british women. e: i'd also guess that it's because compared to american politics, british politics is less polarized over 'social' issues as opposed to class, so weird (to north americans) stuff like the transphobia and less prominently the anti-semitism can persist. in conclusion: https://twitter.com/GossiTheDog/status/1079527890063106049 Fallen Hamprince has issued a correction as of 09:30 on Dec 31, 2018 |
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Protect the UK from illegal immigrants leaving us!
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Fallen Hamprince posted:It's not an American import. Huh, so it wasn't astroterfed after all
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Fallen Hamprince posted:It's not an American import. I'm just going to start a fund to build a time machine that takes anyone who jumps into it to the year 1950. If joke funds have become a legitimate grift then I better start grifting.
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Zeroisanumber posted:From the outside, the transphobia of the mainstream UK press is weird as hell. Compared to? A friend of my Mum's was interviewed for a very trans friendly piece on the local news recently.
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Bryter posted:Loads of politicians do mumsnet interviews, and they're always great. When Andy Burnham was running against Corbyn they asked him what his favourite biscuit was and he said beer, chips and gravy. Aww, we really missed out on his leadership.
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https://twitter.com/BBCNews/status/1079677426207199232quote:"All of the reporting looks back and it looks at a very static future, rather than an active British future - about solving problems, entrepreneurialism and taking advantage of opportunities and being very innovative," said Mr Johnson. Gonna need shades for this extremely bright future Also lol that my dead gay country is trying to torpedo the UK into no deal
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The us trade deal would be absolutely heinous for everything but particularly workers rights and the NHS so of course some Tories love the idea
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come on uk, you know you want closer trade ties by way of a stacked trade deal with the us that's gonna gently caress over both our workers.  you guys will really enjoy being 51
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basic hitler posted:come on uk, you know you want closer trade ties by way of a stacked trade deal with the us that's gonna gently caress over both our workers.
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It would be sort of poetic justice for the UK to end up as a US holding though
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Gaukler posted:It would be sort of poetic justice for the UK to end up as a US holding though *thinks really hard* No?
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It would be poetic justice for the UK to be split into eternally warring states so that the rest of the world can sell arms to every faction.
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Regarde Aduck posted:*thinks really hard* You’re right, India should have it
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Jose posted:The us trade deal would be absolutely heinous for everything but particularly workers rights and the NHS so of course some Tories love the idea The Leave branch of the Tory party have gulped down the Kool-Aid on this. They've been bombarded with endless 'research' from Koch-funded think-tanks, channelled through shady funding of the DUP and UKIP, that Brexit will result in England becoming the new shining city on the hill - a libertarian paradise freed from the shackles of socialist Europe. And since most Tory MPs are large adult fail-sons who went into politics because they weren't entrusted to manage daddy's millions, of course they're happy to sell the country to the highest bidder if it boosts daddy's shareholdings,
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https://twitter.com/ozkaterji/status/1079767150120919041?s=21 pouring out a lukewarm glass of muscle milk for my homie Bastani, murdered by tweets
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shut the gently caress up hamprince
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Hello sir, may I ask if your taint is running? It is!? Well then you better go catch it!!
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Regarde Aduck posted:*thinks really hard* the US, india, and china rock-paper-scissors for who gets the swamp rejects
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Fallen Hamprince posted:Hello sir, may I ask if your taint is running? It is!? Well then you better go catch it!! *gently tugs the hamcord*
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Happy new years british! 2019 you can turn it all around
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hakimashou posted:Happy new years british! 2019 you can turn it all around midnight march 29, they'll turn it around into the ocean
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Willie Tomg posted:the US, india, and china rock-paper-scissors for who gets the swamp rejects These weird revenge fan-fictions are all well and good but lol if you think there is going to be anything resembling order in which these countries will be able to do anything with our hosed up little Island. It's more likely no one ever hears from us again because we all go back to living in caves.
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Sorry i mean the irish are going to poison our potatoes and sell us the antidote lol can you imagine? So ironic. I love it.
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