We Hunted The Mammoth
Alaska’s state government has quietly changed a policy banning discrimination against LGBTQ+ people, making it perfectly legal to deny queer people housing, loans, and government accommodations. A new report by ProPublica and the Anchorage Daily News uncovers the gory details of this recent policy change.
The rhetoric of the anti-trans movement — and Republican politicians — is getting more apocalyptic and eliminationist by the day. And anti-trans violence is getting worse. Last week, a man in Tulsa, Oklahoma, firebombed a donut shop after it held a drag event.
By David Futrelle
It’s not just Men’s Rights Activists who’ve appropriated the language of the Civil Rights movement in order to further their reactionary cause. The incels do it too — though, incels being incels, they tend to be much weirder about it.
These are some actual Tweets posted yesterday by @FartToContinue, a fairly prominent #GamerGater.
https://twitter.com/FartToContinue/status/537391103100858368
https://twitter.com/FartToContinue/status/537402552892280832
https://twitter.com/FartToContinue/status/537396025284395009
A few minutes with Google image search reveals that two of the images are photoshopped versions of photos documenting or depicting racial segregation in the Jim Crow era in the United States; one of the signs was originally directed at … hippies.
The originals:
I don’t often write about Alison Tieman – the eccentric FeMRA videoblogger known better as Typhon Blue – in large part because, well, have you ever watched one of her videos? Her arguments and assertions bear so little relation to what the rest of us know as reality it’s as if she lives in some weird inverted world of her own making.
It’s rather difficult to address the arguments of someone when virtually everything she says is wrong – logically, historically, morally – in some fundamental way.
But I’m going to have a go at her latest video anyway, because, well, it’s only 4 minutes long, which will make unpacking its fractal wrongness a little less of a daunting task. Also, there’s a kitty in it.