I remember when this mailing came to the farm where I was working, and we workers talked about it.

Funny to think it's a "rare manuscript" now, though the copy that we were reading must have got thrown out

People like analogies, such as "transwomen are to women as adoptive parents are to parents."

If they think, parent or woman, either one is a job or role, maybe that itself is a result of patriarchy.

I learned from HLS here that activists think differently!

hollylawford-smith.org/patriarchy-m...

It seems to me, by using activists' new definition of "woman," your interlocutor would seem to be "describing the wished-for world as if it already existed" - as Helen Joyce put it in *Trans.*

I think it is like Trumpists' denial of reality, even if the two parties here claim to be opposed

I'm afraid for me (and my wife), popularity alone would be reason not to book, though maybe not when younger (we did stay in pensions in places like Bodrum then)

I was thinking also of academics who don't seem to enjoy writing down (or writing up!) their research

Well then, I'll just note here my impression that people who write for their careers are suspicious of those who do it for pleasure

I'm sorry. Did you experience this yourself?

My wife offers herself as a counterexample Nick's assertion though.

I'm also glad you can't just buy antibiotics here anymore (or is there a black market in them?)