Interesting Links for 18-02-2022

[andrewducker]

Weird symbols in your Twitter user name make life harder for people with screen readers

(tags:sight disability Twitter )

Legal challenge to Scottish census sex question thrown out

(tags:census lgbt scotland transgender law )

Occasionally, Dark Souls gets ridiculously epic

(tags:video fighting animation games )

Scotland paid less for its PPE and sourced much of it in country, unlike England

(tags:Scotland Pandemic manufacturing )

Elon Musk tweets, then deletes, Hitler joke

(tags:Holocaust Hitler ElonMusk OhForFucksSake )

Comments

[cmcmck]

Those people really do want biology to be destiny don't they, which find baffling if they claim to be any sort of feminist!

[channelpenguin]

As I've mentioned before, I find it conceptually all of a one with nationalism, racism, sexism, aristiocracy, religiousity. Some largish % of people really want / need there to be something you can only be born# with, that can never be taken away - *and that makes you special*. It's insecurity / non-acceptance in the face of an uncertain / unpredictable world. I tend to call it "Essentialist Exceptionalism". I dunno what the real term might be. The ultimate conservativism, I suppose.

# or, perhaps, in the case of religion, born again with!

[cmcmck]

I suspect you are right although as I've so often said, if I'm not saying, how do they suppose they'll know and that's maybe what really terrifies them.

[calimac]

And then they tell you that if you disagree, you're "denying the existence of biology." I count phrases like that as a shibboleth: a person who uses them has no interest in understanding the facts, just in spewing abuse.

[cmcmck]

And would also have no interest if I told them I'd been born with an intersex condition.........

[wildeabandon]

The "denying biology" claim is particularly special when these same people will insist that despite my beard, body hair, penis, and absence of breasts, uterus, ovaries or vagina, I am in fact a woman...

[cmcmck]

And that with my back length hair vagina and breasts, even before you add the intersex condition PAIS which makes me not very tall and gives me fine features, I'm a man.

They must use some really interesting public facilities, these people!

Scotland paid less for its PPE and sourced much of it in country, unlike England

[anef]

I am happy for you (sigh!)