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Hi Stephanie,
Using the first line of the quote from Jane Clare Jones to describe the SC/Single Sexed Toilet judgement is brilliant comedy. 'We just want to get on with the shit.'
November 9, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Hosting teenage beauty pageants????
October 23, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Hi Kirsti,
An interesting aspect is that the RFU (UK Rugby) allow case by case assessment for age group categories and players playing down. The gender critical arguments against case by case with trans athletes are inconsistent with rugby's own age group rules.
www.englandrugby.com/run/rules-go...
RFU Regulation 15 – Age Grade Rugby | Rugby Football Union
www.englandrugby.com
October 8, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Be more brutal- for most of the people in the world, sports are hobbies. And we take the results way too seriously.
September 26, 2025 at 10:36 PM
'When they win' was just shorthand. I was also going to put feminism in inverted commas. I agree with Ahmed and others- GC is not feminism.
September 20, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Always been a problem for me with their feminism. When they win their mini-battle against trans women, what comes next. Once trans women are all out of women's sports, what target is next in producing greater power for women athletes? What is next for prison reform? There is nothing.
September 18, 2025 at 7:23 AM
And it is a truly brilliant and eye-opening book.
June 18, 2025 at 4:19 AM
And 11) Coveting thy neighbour's wife is OK- it is a compliment
May 30, 2025 at 4:13 AM
The brilliant Nat Kon Yu and I (Nat's the brilliant one) discuss gender criticism as popular white feminism in our latest paper in Feminist Media Studies at www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
‘Get in the box, you Jezebel!’: Barbie, gender identity and coalitional feminism
Any movie about Barbie would seem antithetical to feminism—if not outright anti-feminist. The saturation of pink, the damaging beauty standards and the performance of a stereotypical and limited no...
www.tandfonline.com
March 22, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Have to also thank the reviewers and editors at @femmediastudies.bsky.social . Brilliant suggestions to use Crenshaw, Carastathis and Cohen to support a better understanding of coalitions borne 'of practical necessity'.
March 7, 2025 at 12:05 AM