Interesting Links for 24-05-2025

[andrewducker]

1. Hockey star kicked out of women's restroom by 'gender police' who thought she was a man

(tags:gender bigotry LGBT transgender women USA toilets )

2. There's an Elden Ring film on the way from Alex Garland and George R. R. Martin

(tags:movies games GeorgeRRMartin )

3. The British government is putting disabled people out of work by cutting the support they need to do it

(tags:disability UK welfare OhForFucksSake )

4. Finally, with the help of an AI generated girl band, we have discovered what women want

(tags:drugs ai women music video viaSwampers EpicWTF )

Comments

[cmcmck]

1. 'They' want to tell me I'm a man then they want to police my body as a woman.

It's called having you coming and going.

[conuly]

Hm. I suppose some cocaine might make it easier to deal with our dystopian reality.

[rmc28]

Or at least care less about it

[nancylebov]

4. I wonder what they used for a prompt.

[andrewducker]

"Generate the music for a girl band who wants to tell us what they want, what they really really want."

(For the avoidance of doubt, this is a joke about the Spice Girls)

[greenwoodside]

1. That reminds me that about 6 years ago, I went into a train station (women's) toilets at about 9pm after having been visiting my boyfriend who'd just lost his father. Anyway, I was washing my hands, when a male station guard appeared at the door and told me that I was in the wrong bathroom. I had the impression that someone had reported me.

I defaulted to a sort of hyper English Sergeant Wilson mode. 'Oh, I'm awfully sorry,' *earnest stare* 'but you see I am a woman. I could take my top off if that would help?'

Anyway, he turned red and muttered apologies and almost ran away. It was humiliating at the time. I often go for the gender neuter or disabled toilets these days to avoid anything similar. Or inadvertently terrifying any short femme women in the area, I guess.

OTOH, I did successfully destroy someone with politeness, so in retrospect, that seems like a small victory.

Bugger the toilet police.

2. GRRM seems to have completely lost interest in finishing his book series.

[andrewducker]

I'm sorry someone was a dick.

And yes, he rather does.

[cmcmck]

Sadly it seems this lunacy could end up happening here too.

What is bonkers is that so much of this is based on 'what everyone knows' that trans women are all large and tall with deep voices.

I was born with an intersex condition and am small and slight and my voice never 'broke' so no one notices me because I fit the preconceptions of how a woman is 'supposed' to look and a lot of this is body policing for ALL women both cis and trans!

[greenwoodside]

It's mad, and it's getting madder :(

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[zz]

...and in typical patriarchy fashion, what women want has been made illegal