Posts by mark taslov
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Up Front: Walk This Way, in reply to TracyMac,
My apologies for the typos.
And also for my tone. It’s not you at all, it’s systemic and I’m sick of the slurs from every direction, it’s just overwhelming.
Sarah Grey puts things more coherently.
My apologies to you also Emma for being an over-aggressive arsehole once again.
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Up Front: Walk This Way, in reply to Rosemary McDonald,
That link was a depressing read. In case there is need for me to clarify Rosemary, I’m not calling Steinem a transmisogynist because she won’t sleep with me, I’ve no idea about her sexuality. That 1.2% or so of the population – leading rape and suicide stats – pose a threat to someone’s sexuality is quite an allegation.
misunderstanding and bitterness ensues until the component parts begin to split
Which is exactly what we don’t want.
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Well that’s an image..
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Access: National Standards and the…, in reply to Hilary Stace,
yeah. A little disco mightn't do any harm.
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Up Front: Walk This Way, in reply to TracyMac,
My apologies for the typos.
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Up Front: Walk This Way, in reply to TracyMac,
Perhaps if you had such an interest in Ms Steinem’s career and views as you purported to, you’d know these things.
Why would you assume I don’t? How could I not? I understand that the kind objectification that Steinem participates in in the interview is deemed acceptable behaviour on these threads:
If it was for a transgender participant, it could be “A flock on a frock, on a cock”?
680 transgender New Zealand teens attempted suicide last year. Been there done that. Perhaps rather than mansplaining about how someone apologised and trans people should just be ok with that despite her not exhibiting a meaningful change in behaviour you could take some time to consider the level of erasure the transgender community routinely face and perhaps also consider whether that’s something you wish to contribute to. I’m not sure what comes next, perhaps someone calls me a twatcock or some other similarly dyadist pejorative, and the LGBTQIA skips off towards the rainbow.
"Forty per cent of high school students reported significant depressive symptoms, and nearly half of them had self-harmed in the last twelve months,"
Been there done that also. I’m didn’t tell anyone not to attend the march, I said I support the cause, I live nowhere near close to anywhere there’s a march on, so why not leave it there. I mean you’re quite welcome to defend Steinem or any transmisogynist for that matter, drawing the trans person back into that conversation doesn’t magically validate it.
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Up Front: Walk This Way, in reply to Russell Brown,
Same, that's why I'm commenting on it here now.
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Up Front: Walk This Way, in reply to Emma Hart,
I had hoped I could leave my objection here without the requirement to reread the wikipedia page. As I said I support the cause. I’m ok disagreeing on the benefits of the publicity Steinem and her views may derive from her being positioned front and centre.
With that in mind I’m more interested in how our own franchisees might be willing to localise and distance themselves from that in order to send a more inclusive message.
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Up Front: Walk This Way, in reply to Emma Hart,
For me with Steinem, it’s not so much that she’s problematic but more that she is a seasoned bigot against women – promoted as a leading figurehead of the marches. That’s what the photographs will show and the headline news will read.
Supporting the cause is rather easier than supporting her cause in this instance.