642 - The Dinner Party (7/5/22)

"Idk, I’d say there are some very real women’s rights being lost when biologically male folks are... allowed to compete at high levels in women’s athletic competitions." You are, without a doubt, one of the dumbest people. Imagine the level of privilege you must have that you consider sports to be of relevance to anything or anybody's lives materially.

Alexandr

Reread your comment and just wanted to thank you. I'll add that this mapping ability to treat "women generally like shit" corresponds with a broad socio-political hatred of womanhood and femininity in aggregate. Again, thank you - yours is an important point to note.

CS

No likes, sad

Ben

Ya…

James

Transition medications change a person's biology.

david

Also trans women aren’t *actually* women, so your argument at the end there makes no sense? Women are the “universal category”?

James

Idk, I’d say there are some very real women’s rights being lost when biologically male folks are put into women’s prisons, allowed into women’s bathrooms, or allowed to compete at high levels in women’s athletic competitions. Add on top of that the fact that Planned Parenthood and many Democrats REFUSE to even say the word “women” now? I think the woman from the article is wrong to blame Roe overturning on the trans community, but there are some pretty serious gripes to have.

James

He audio cuts out part way through, anyone else?

Alex Schneider

Yeah on the TERF question it is, as usual, structurally the opposite of how the democrats are selling things. Attacking tanswomen was always an attack on women broadly, and it was always the case that the TERF position was a position not for defending women but rather for destroying women's rights. The fact that transwomen were thrown under the bus over the past four years is part of why this attack on women generally is now possible. Because a transwoman is a woman (because the category 'woman' is in some sense the universal category) the ability to treat transwomen like shit maps directly onto the ability to treat women generally like shit.

Thomas Jones

Felix has reached a level of Internet poisoned where’s he’s actually just the Dread Pirate Roberts. Killer riffs, laughed a lot. Needed that this week - thanks boys!

Ian Woods

I do appreciate you guys reading the NYT and various other oligarch rags. Just as Matt endures watching SNL and I personally watch CNN it's nice to see others you haven't cavorted with reach the same conclusions about these...people? by proof of their own medium. So you can at least hope you aren't an insane idiot that just isn't "getting it" because you didn't "study economics." I remember watching Fox News as a lad and feeling some catharsis when Jon Stewart covered a specific moment and people laughed so I knew it was as crazy to others as it seemed to me. Without watching these things I would have no idea the machinations of the ruling class since their pursuits are so divorced from human reality. For whatever reason they still use the vestigal propaganda organs to cajole a population they don't really respond to anyway. I've started to find the economic rags a little more interesting in that respect of telling you what's coming. In related news recessions are good actually and owning a house for ooold people eeewwwww.

K H

Hope they see this bro

Alexandr

Someone do a compilation of Will saying “gaping maw”

Goober

The trans person has an ongoing social existence and lives in the world interacting with others; the ectopic baby has no reality outside of the mother's head and is not affected in any way by what people call it

mrakobesiye

Yeah sure, except there is no ask that Trans people are making except "be polite and dont discriminate" whereas the catholic lady is demanding that other people lose their rights because of her beliefs.

yes but it is 'mentally ill socially disaffected "men*' who commit mass shootings. unfortunately the word does make a difference in how people understand violence and meaningfully resist

Finally caught up to the fact that Ukraine is getting absolutely waxed.

Sam

Ty for the misoprostol clarification but I do think it’s worth noting that a blood/urine sample of a recently pregnant woman will show for a while that she was recently pregnant so concerns abt a nurse or doctor asking how/why she’s no longer pregnant still stand.

Emily tatham harrington

Correction: In the Coinstar analogy, the abortion doctor would put coins in and get the bills out.

Gulb

Pregnancy+ Same old pregnancy, minus the baby!

Marcus

Can’t their critique of the pregnant women who lost her baby be like exactly applied to transgender acceptance? kowtowing to an extreme minority’s head cannon, etc..

james