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Academics working in the field of gender identity have warned that hostility and threats from student activists are affecting their ability to research the possible effects of proposed reforms to the law.
Rosa Freedman, a law professor at Reading University, revealed last week that one student had called her “a transphobic Nazi who should get raped” because of her work on the legal implications of reforms that would make it easier for people to change their gender.
Selina Todd, a history professor at St Hilda’s College, Oxford, said yesterday that she feared a “witch-hunt” would target anyone who dared to challenge proposals to open female-only spaces — such as changing rooms and refuges — to men who identify as women.
Other leading lecturers have called on universities to defend their freedom after protests against academics who signed an open letter two weeks ago complaining they were being “harassed over research…
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Because nothing says “holy” like a billion dollar weapons sale to s murderous regime.
In 1965, Piazzolla began writing Cuatro Estraciones Porteñas, a homage to both the tango and Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, and completed the work in 1970.
The Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas, also known as the Estaciones Porteñas or The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires, are a set of four tango compositions written by Ástor Piazzolla, which were originally conceived and treated as different compositions rather than one suite, although Piazzolla performed them together from time to time. The pieces were scored for his quintet of violin (viola), piano, electric guitar, double bass and bandoneón. By giving the adjective porteño, referring to those born in Buenos Aires, the Argentine capital city, Piazzolla gives an impression of the four seasons in Buenos Aires.
The Seasons
Verano Porteño (Buenos Aires Summer)
written in 1965[1], originally as incidental music for the play ‘Melenita de Oro’ by Alberto Rodríguez Muñoz.[2]
Invierno Porteño (Buenos Aires Winter)
written in 1969.
Primavera Porteña (Buenos Aires Spring)
written in 1970, contains counterpoint.
Otoño Porteño (Buenos Aires Autumn)
written in 1970.
In 1996-1998, the Russian composer Leonid Desyatnikov made a new arrangement of the above four pieces with more obvious link between Vivaldi and Piazzolla, by converting each of pieces into three-section pieces, and re-arranging for solo violin and string orchestra. In each piece he included several quotations from original Vivaldi’s work but due to seasons being inverted between northern and southern hemispheres, thus, for example, Verano Porteño had added elements of L’inverno (Winter) of Vivaldi.
— Why we can’t just let them have the word woman —
——————- Part 1: General thoughts ——————-
Every time a woman asserts a boundary, the echoes start rolling in…
Can’t you just be nice?
Can’t you just take pity on the poor fella?
Can’t you just lie to make him feel better?
Can’t you just sacrifice yourself, again?
… isn’t that what women are supposed to do?
It should be obvious that this is an extremely sexist insistence on women’s obligation to put everyone else first, and also highly revealing of just how entitled people feel towards everything to do with women – our resources, our bodies, our time, our empathy, and now even the very words that define us.
Yet the trans takeover of popular feminism has been so gradual and so manipulative that many have found themselves groomed into something that acts very much like a misogynistic cult.
Unlike any other civil rights movement, the one for women’s liberation is expected to solve everyone else’s issues before we might – hypothetically – be allowed to stand up for our own rights and needs.
Rather than fight against male supremacy, male violence and male exploitation of women, we are told, once again, that we need to not only include men, but center them, defer to them, shrink ourselves for their benefit.
These days “inclusion” always means inclusion of males. The women and girls who don’t want to be around men and boys, who want to be safe, have privacy and maybe even dare talk about women’s issues? We aren’t included. We aren’t deemed important.
Boys must be included in girls’ locker rooms and wherever else they want to go. The girls? Well they’re bigots if they say anything about it.
This is called progressive.
That is not only madness, it is saying in no uncertain terms that the whims of males matter more than the safety, rights and very definition of females.
Women are not your fucking giving trees. We are not resources to be harvested by men, used, abused, consumed and thrown away.
And here’s the thing. The thing that means the trans activists will never be satisfied, that the moving of the goal posts will never ever end:
A man cannot become a woman.
No matter how much you wish, how much you threaten, how much you throw yourself on the ground and demand, demand, demand.
These entitled, misogynistic, rage-filled men are so used to getting their way that they fancy themselves the rulers of material reality.
They cannot accept or even fathom that this delusional desire is out of reach of their grabby, male hands.
Their demands will never end, because they are impossible to satisfy.
Even if they burn every witch, even if they call the truth hate speech, even if they pick our bones clean…
Those bones will still be female.
And theirs never will be.
Even with all the power and male aggression in the world, you cannot force a lie to become true.
Men cannot have the word woman, because the truth fucking matters.
And so do women and girls.
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