Essay for today

@SW-User Why is that funny to you? In an era when men (penis-bearers) can use restrooms originally made for women (vagina-containers), should you be shocked or offended or obliged to bring out your "racist-QAnon- white supremacist-far right, etc" list of adjectives when a penis-bearer writes an article in the daily magazine called TCW Defending Freedom?

@WalterF There’s only very specific “freedoms” it defends. @ArishMell has already very eloquently said all that needs to be said about them

@SW-User Ok, that's clear. Your colours are transparently displayed. We don’t really have anything more to say to each other. I'll post stuff, you are welcome to comment. But I probably won't engage in discussion.

@WalterF

What a reductive way to view and categorize people.

@WalterF Agreed. I think along the same lines as ArishMell, and it’s also clear that you are not interested in engaging in “discussion” with anyone whose views do not coincide with your own.

@SW-User Following a more careful study, I seem to have been wrong about its origins. Despite appearances the edition above is British, or a British branch of a US publication, but it certainly looks like inspiration for a Margaret Attwood dystopia. It has a real postal address, too, in London.

I don't think it odd that this publication invites male contributors if they follow its rigidly hard-right line (while attacking others for being left-wing or neutral). For if we examine The Conservative Woman home page:

Editorial Board: Alan Ashworth, Margaret Ashworth, David Keighley. Two men and one woman!

Writers: 26 listed for this edition. One is a "Chris" and I am not sure if Christopher or Christine, but of the remaining 25 "Conservative Women", 16 are men.

It says:

NB: It does not tell us that "considered" may not mean "accepted"!

Headline areas in this edition; each divided into very many, individual topic essays. From the sub-headlines and a few samples:

Covid: Virulently, resolutely anti-vaccination, pro the "Covid Creationists". Pro-disease???
Brexit: Hard to tell on first look, but apparently very anti-EU. Possibly very isolationist.
The BBC: Hatred. Pure and simple. Maybe because it dares allow Labour, as well as Tory, politicians their say.
"Culture Wars": Whatever they are. Basically, whatever it is.... attack anyway.
Stateside: Essentially Republican, but while these Britons take sides in the USA's business, they still find a way to hurl stones at the BBC.


And Walter wonders why I don't take TCW too seriously? It is basically a very hard-line right-wing magazine whose claim to be campaigning to protect our freedoms is not very convincing at all. Nor does it even pretend to be at all balanced.

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It reminds me a bit of the so-called "Alternative" or "Counter" -Culture magazines Oz and IT, circulating in the 1960s school-playground samizdat, though they were strongly left-wing. These grew out of America's contemporary anti-Vietnam War feeling and "hippy movement"; but were far less "sophisticated" and far more childish than TCW in presentation.

@FragileHeart Exactly. My satirical use of these ridiculous terms reflects their use in the mainstream media. Or at least in the many that I read, to keep abreast of trends

@WalterF but the "trends" go against these reductive ways to view sex/gender. Also you exaggerate the amount of coverage it gets