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Aug 9, 2022Liked by Arty Morty

Just the fact that the opposite issue - is the man's tent big enough to accommodate trans men - is not a topic on the table at all should send up massive red flags.

You know without a doubt that we live in a misogynist patriarchal culture when the vast majority of the population understands what's wrong with letting any male access female spaces. Yet men's feelings STILL get prioritized over the safety of women and children. I'm frankly terrified for my daughter and especially 16 year old granddaughter. I HATE this culture.

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Aug 9, 2022Liked by Arty Morty

You write so well been fuming about Val McDermid give me Agatha Christie any day and she would be a massive TERF

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Aug 10, 2022Liked by Arty Morty

I wholly agree with everything you’ve said here. I am also loving your idea of doing videos of you reading what you have written, that’s so clever! It makes your pieces really accessible and today I listened/ watched on the go. Fab 👍🏻

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Aug 10, 2022Liked by Arty Morty

Glad to see you have your own Substack now Arty Morty, I’ve enjoyed reading your (very) occasional posts on Graham Linehan.

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Aug 11, 2022Liked by Arty Morty

Great essay, Arty. Another visitor from Ophelia.

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Arty, look up the Okipa manhood ritual and read as much as you can stand. There's a reason why the most violent, patriarchal cultures have produced "third genders." So-called "gender nonconformity" includes incapacity or unwillingness to do violence or suffer violence, so there is a cohort of straight males. We used to call them "sissies" when I was a kid. Now, we like to talk about how kids don't play outside anymore, but I am old enough to remember when latchkeys and video games were a godsend to sissy boys who didn't like sports or climbing trees or riding their bikes as fast as they could pedal down the steepest hill with the sharpest curve in the neighborhood.

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Thanks for this AM -yes it doesnt make much sense .... maybe it seemed a bright idea at the time? But come on, Val - a butch lesbian has exactly what of womanhood in common with a 'trans' woman? I mean Val McDermid's new mystery thriller where Gender Ideology is Murdered by Logic and a Hangover? ..... Hope it was the whisky wot dunnit. I usually like what VMcD has to say so I can only hope.

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