Category: Bullshit

  • Words have consequences

    The Daily Mail:   Elsewhere in an American high school, members of staff attempt to break into a locked toilet stall because a trans  teenager is in it. In a different school, a lesbian student is beaten up because of her boyish presentation. In October a lesbian woman was kicked out of a bowling alley…

  • God, save me from your idiot followers

    SNP MSP John Mason is outraged by plans to reform the Gender Recognition Act. In a letter to Glasgow’s Herald newspaper, Mr Mason says he is deeply concerned that Scotland is “trying to override science” by recognising that trans people exist. I’ll save you the scientific evidence, which I’ve linked to endlessly, and simply post…

  • How advertising regulation doesn’t work

    Last month, the extremely dodgy anti-trans group Fair Play For Women dropped a five-figure sum on a full page advert in the Metro claiming that reforms to the Gender Recognition Act would threaten women’s safety. It was cynical. It was designed to whip up hatred. And it was absolute bullshit. Some of us complained to…

  • Twitter’s cowardice is all about one man

    No, not its boss, Jack Dorsey. This guy. Twitter doesn’t want to move against hatemongers such as Alex Jones because if they do, it begs the question: why not Trump? The short answer is: $2 billion. That’s how much the Trump account is believed to be worth to Twitter, which is why it hasn’t blocked…

  • Can you trust tabloid “video game addiction” stories?

    Two days ago, the Daily Mirror ran a horrifying story of video game addiction. “Fortnite Made Me A Suicidal Drug Addict”, the headline screamed. It was harrowing stuff describing “video game hell” that led to an abortive suicide attempt. Was it exaggerated? It certainly looks that way. Eurogamer is on the case. There’s no evidence to…

  • Mobile phones still don’t cause cancer

    When it comes to conspiracy theories, there are two kinds of theorists: the batshit insane, and the people who genuinely believe they’ve stumbled on a conspiracy. There was a good example of what I assume is the latter last week in The Observer, which published an astonishing piece about the link between mobile phones and…

  • And you wonder why we’re cranky

    This is from Sky News. It’d be funny if it weren’t serious. Trans activists aren’t campaigning for this, because IT’S THE LAW. The relevant law is the Equality Act 2010, which formalised something that’s been common practice for decades. What’s actually happening is that bigots are telling blatant lies about the law and trans people,…

  • Cannon fodder

    I wrote this song about angry young men being groomed by right-wingers, and I think of it any time Jordan Peterson is mentioned: the stupid man’s idea of an intellectual has managed to build a very lucrative career by persuading angry young men that he’s some kind of guru. Peterson spoke at an event in…

  • One of these things is not like the other

    Much of the media – including people such as Brendan O’Neill, who you may recall has bad opinions for money; he was defending anti-semitic dog puppeteer Count Dankula a few weeks back – is exercising itself over whether it’s okay to call angry white men “gammon”, which of course it is. Guardian cartoonist Martin Rowson…

  • A bunch of mindless jerks who’ll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes

    The New York Times has published a glowing profile of “the renegades of the intellectual dark web”, an “alliance of heretics” that is “making an end run around the mainstream conversation” to an audience “thirsty to discuss subjects that have become taboo.” In other words, they’re controversialists, a bunch of white people with bad opinions…