Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Update 472. Child Catcher Special. #BeMorePorcupine
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Next in the British Heroes season is Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968). I stumbled on the ‘child catcher scene’ from this film recently ( see further below) and thought ‘wow, that has some relevance for us Terfs!!’
Dick Van Dyke as Caractacus Potts
Sally Ann Howes as Truly Scrumptious
Robert Helpmann as The Child Catcher
Heather Ripley as Jemima Potts
Adrian Hall as Jeremy Potts
OK, ok, I know what you want! Altogether now…one, two, three…
Thanks as ever to two wonderful readers for suggested pieces.
Some of the pieces linked to below may be behind a paywall.
German Self ID
I reported on the wonderful demonstration at the Germany Embassy in London here:
https://dustymasterson.substack.com/p/lasst-frauen-sprechen
Mr Menno has put up his video of the day. There are some excellent interviews.
My mate Sue gets her few seconds of fame at 2.15 with her Gender Self ID sign ( which is based on the words of Laoise de Brún, CEO of The Countess in Ireland) and I get my few seconds at 5.40 as I get a lovely lady to translate her sign for me ( which is based on a German song that Menno then plays an extract from).
Trump - The Reckoning
Sam Harris dissects the election result and, from about 4.59 , makes the case that the main reason swing voters went for Trump was because of the Democrats’ backing for trans activism.
Left Meltdown Post Trump Victory
Libs of Tik Tok charts the left’s meltdown in entertaining fashion:
TRUMP VICTORY CAUSES EPIC LIBERAL MELTDOWN
The liberal tears have begun to flow...
Nov 11, 2024
BIG WIN FOR AMERICA!
Donald Trump has claimed not only a landslide victory in the electoral college, but he also dominated in popular vote as well! While American patriots celebrate, far-left radicals are quite literally breaking down into tears across the internet.
From late-night show hosts and news anchors to the left-wing nutjobs on TikTok, no one seems to be safe from Trump Derangement Syndrome.
To further celebrate, I’ll share some of the biggest leftist meltdowns I exposed from the past week. Some were even held accountable for their extremist rhetoric!
First up, we have Leonard Sorrato, the Assistant Director for Fraternity and Sorority Life at the University of Oregon. Leonard thought it would be a good idea to tell Trump supporters to kill themselves on camera and then post it online for all to see.
Leonard was then swiftly placed on [ leave?] while they opened up an investigation.
Trump’s victory has also sparked new social media trends for mentally unstable feminists over on TikTok.
In order to “fight the patriarchy” liberal women are now shaving their heads to protest Trump’s win. I’m sure Trump is regretting his entire campaign for President after such a display of resilience.
But don’t worry, they get worse.
Other TikTokers, such as this lady pictured below, are taking their resilience one step further and are now threatening to shoot white men on sight because Trump was elected.
They are definitely showing us how they are the party of inclusion, love, and tolerance… However, it’s not just random losers on TikTok making threats but school teachers as well.
Meet Annie Dunleavy, a special education teacher at Chapman School in CT who came up with the genius idea of posting a video online threatening to kill and hurt Trump supporters.
To no one’s surprise, Annie was removed from the school and the superintendent announced that they were opening up an investigation into her comments.
The full piece is here:
https://www.libsoftiktok.com/p/trump-victory-causes-epic-liberal?r=7ogxh&triedRedirect=true
Genital Surgery
Some trans identified women are threatening legal action against the NHS because their genital surgeries have been delayed. EDI Jester addresses this. What really springs out from this for me is that the NHS should not be carrying out such surgeries at all!! All thoughts gratefully received.
La Leche
Thanks as ever to Feminist Legal Clinic via Milli Hill regarding La Leche, the ‘gone with the woo’ breastfeeding support charity.
Founder of La Leche League resigns over ‘breastfeeding men’| Milli Hill (12 November)
Today a letter from one of the founders of LLL, Marian Tompson, was circulated to members of the organisation, some of whom have passed it to me. Seven women founded La Leche League in 1954, and Marian Tompson was one of them.
As far as I know, only two of them are still alive, and Marian is the only one of those two who have remained actively involved in LLL. Now she has resigned, stating that the organisation has become ‘a travesty of her original intent’, by ‘subtly shifting to include men who…want to have the experience of breastfeeding’.
Source: (5) Founder of La Leche League resigns over ‘breastfeeding men’.
Irish SPHE Scandal
As readers will know I have been following this on a regular basis recently ( see last update, for example).
In the first of a series by the Natural Women’s Council ( I will leave readers to follow the rest if you want to), Jana Lunden and Eugene Garvin host parents discussing the inappropriate materials being used in schools and the indoctrination being pushed on children. It was during this discussion that someone mentioned ‘The Child Catcher’ 😊
New Zealand - ‘Man Gives Birth’
Katrina Biggs on her substack, A B’Old Woman reports:
‘Man gives birth’ doco requires major denial of reality - by Graham Adams.
Nov 13, 2024
New Zealand journo Graham Adams has produced a sharply pertinent critique of the recently aired NZ On Air documentary called “Trans and Pregnant”. The documentary features a woman who says she’s a man and her partner who is an actual man, whereby the woman becomes pregnant and gives birth. A heterosexual couple, in other words. All the promotional gobbledygook beforehand, though, claimed it was “two men on their journey to parenthood as they navigate societal roadblocks”. Possibly, those “societal roadblocks” were that very few others bought into their delusion.
In reality, the couple did what heterosexual couples often do, and co-created a zygote from the woman’s egg and the man’s sperm. This zygote worked its way up the woman’s fallopian tube into her uterus, and attached itself to the uterine walls. It became an embryo, and then developed into a foetus. She gestated this foetus for several months, and eventually gave birth to it as a baby male human, whose sex was determined way back at the time of conception.
Only women have the biological machinery to turn zygotes into eventual humans. No man can do this. NZ On Air, however, are amongst the organisations and institutions which have chosen to believe that if a woman says she’s a man, she is, ergo men can also do all of the above. As Graham writes in his article below, they are becoming increasingly out of touch with the public.
The full piece is here:
Western Australia
If you live in Western Australia, please sign this declaration:
https://x.com/dye_phil/status/1856241830989361359
The Gender Identity Re-Write
Rebecca Says No writes on the Glinner Update about the widely discredited DSM-5 which retains, nevertheless, vast influence around the world:
The Gender Identity Rewrite of Mental Illness
WPATH and the DSM-5
Nov 13, 2024
History of the DSM
Many people will not realise the history of ‘gender identity’ in terms of how psychology has approached this in both the US and the UK. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (the DSM) is the key resource used to classify mental disorders in the US. There have now been 5 editions of this manual and the changes made between DSM-3 and DSM-5 with regards to approaching ‘gender identity’ have proved highly controversial among many psychologists.
According to the American Psychiatric Association, ‘It was not until 1980 with the publication of DSM–3 that the diagnosis ‘transsexualism’ first appeared. In 1990, the World Health Organisation followed suit and included this diagnosis in ICD-10 [the International Classification of Diseases manual used in the UK]. With the release of DSM–4 in 1994, ‘transsexualism’ was replaced with ‘gender identity disorder in adults and adolescence’.
Further to this, when the DSM-5 was released in 2013, this classification changed from ‘gender identity disorder’ to simply ‘gender dysphoria’. This meant that feeling estranged from one’s sex was no longer described as a disorder, but simply a type of body dysmorphia that—unlike other body dysmorphias—should, for some reason, be validated and affirmed by the clinician. Considering that the rise of gender identity has been predominately a language-based takeover, it is unsurprising that the meanings of words have been adapted in this way to try to shape reality. However, it is shocking that senior leaders in mental health have allowed this to happen without any evidence supporting the belief that one could be born in the wrong sex. In the current DSM - the 2013 DSM-5 - ‘gender dysphoria’ has been explicitly described as needing to be affirmed in patients with ‘psychiatric, medical and surgical treatments’. Rather than being grounded in evidence of beneficial outcomes for patients, this approach seems driven by some contributors’ political will to affirm ‘gender identities’ that differ from patients’ biological sex, despite the potential for future harm and regret.
The full piece is here:
Glinner
In a very frank and forceful video, Graham calls out those involved in Hat Trick Productions who have blocked the production of Father Ted, The Musical solely because of Graham’s support for the gender critical cause. Shame on them!
The Failure of ‘Gender Medicine’
Excellent piece by a parent on the Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans site:
Gender Medicine Failure
Gender Affirmation Care Is Not Comprehensive Healthcare
Nov 12, 2024
The support group for parents of gender questioning youths which I attend or participate in believes everyone deserves respect. We focus our concern on the ideology and the medicalization model of drugs and surgeries, which promises young people a quick-fix solution to complex issues. We direct our worry at the lack of protection for children and vulnerable young adults before drugs are prescribed or surgeries are performed aimed at changing the exterior appearance of the chest and genitals.
The lack of safeguards increases the possibility of regret and long-term damage to the young person’s body and health. Kids may dress and style themselves in expressive ways and call themselves what they like, but when they believe their bodies are the problem, this troubles most parents. Cross-sex hormones and radical and invasive surgical procedures rarely solve mental health or nuanced underlying issues. Medicalizing gender identities is currently pushed as the first treatment option instead of the last-resort option for distress. [ Dusty - I don’t think it should be the last resort option or any option!] Parents and many others do not find merit in an activist- and profit-driven care model that is a non-scientific, experimental approach to fast-track elective cosmetic sex-trait modifications. Ignoring the underlying reasons and motivations for altering one’s natural body and health isn’t a comprehensive medical healthcare model.
Gender affirming care sounds nice to the ears, but it does not address complex co-morbidities. Puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and genital surgery harm kids, and the ideology behind this “care” seems cultist and dystopian. When asking questions has been deemed intolerable, bigoted, and transphobic, we have lost the ability to engage in a differential diagnosis, critical thinking, and respectful conversation that may include differing viewpoints and perspectives. In the current social justice culture, parents are often viewed as uninformed for their views that medicalizing gender identities may not be in the long-term best interest of the child or young adult.
It is time to question the assumption that parents are wrong when they advocate for preserving their child’s natural body. When parents are canceled and vilified for wanting a holistic assessment and the root cause of distress addressed, the cancellation often represents a trans-activist agenda or an ideological capture. Gaslighting gender-critical parents is a tactic to cut the tether to a reality-based life. If someone can remove parents as a grounding compass in our child’s life, the child can be manipulated to do the activist’s bidding and become a drug customer for life.
There seems to be a great deception going on: kids are told that they can be born in the wrong body and that sex is an arbitrary guess and temporary assignment at birth. They are told that they can change their sex for any reason and at any time in the future by their thoughts, feelings, and wishes. Due to the sensitivity of past discrimination against homosexual individuals, people have been misled to view “trans” as “the new gay,” and therefore, they say a “trans” self-ID cannot be questioned. Transgenderism should not be teamed with or conflated with same-sex attraction, as many organizations advocate for same-sex rights and spaces. LGB Alliance is one such organization.
Activists propagate the idea that we can help members of the younger generation who have come to believe they are trapped in the wrong body by allowing, upon demand and at any age, unlimited and full access to drugs and bodily procedures. Self-diagnosis, often coming from the internet or social media and peer influence, is not a standard of quality medicine used in any other category. The Cass Review indicates there is insufficient evidence to justify the use of medical interventions for the treatment of gender dysphoria. So why is a substandard care model endorsing self-harm still being promoted and accepted by the public?
The full piece is here:
https://www.pittparents.com/p/gender-medicine-failure?r=7ogxh&triedRedirect=true
Endpieces by JL, Dusty and Liz
In the comments on JL’s Week in the War on Women on the Glinner Update, JL told of her hockey teacher who would have chased any boy away who tried to play with the girls. This led to references to Cheltenham Ladies College and St Trinians. Liz, of course, upstages us both by calling in The Devil.
#BeMorePorcupine
#LetWomenSpeak
#Grassroots Army
Just sent the press office and organisers at Southbank a piece of my mind about this idiocy https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/judith-butler-whos-afraid-of-gender/
This one update alone, let alone all the others, has enough information to stop any ‘ally’ from thinking that they are the kind and compassionate ones if they’d only listen and step out of their comfortable bubbles for half a second. It’s not just insanity all around us, “It is evil”. That Graham Linehan piece had me in tears and Liz’s endpiece certainly rings true.
Thanks Dusty, stunning pieces and thanks for the ear worms! 😁