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A useful summary. Thank you.

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I need some help remembering how the New atheist movement got so sexist and helped spawned the red pill movement? One if you lovely ladies help me identify the inflection points?

I think it's important to point out how even the diversity papers by Helen, Pete and James false-teamed liberal and radical feminism.

When future historians look back on this age, they will see the uniformed vilification of feminist thought as the destructive conceptual line that runs through current woke and conservative anti women movements.

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Hi please can I contact you about an issue of abuse suffered by women from the surgeons who use them whilst under anesthetic for teaching purposes, I was a victim of this whilst pregnant with my first child, need help in finding out if more women suffered this and like me the mental health conditions as consequence.

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In September a talk I'd planned to give (University) students under the title 'Changing "Sex", or can progressives disagree on transrights?' was cancelled by my Head of Department (pretty much her last act before leaving for a job at Oxford). She informed me of her decision by email (without explanation), but it turned out that many of my colleagues knew well before I did and that she'd acted after some of them had denounced me a "transphobe", apparently on the basis of the title of my paper alone. It seems that she came to agree with that judgement, since she described my philosophical writings on Substack to a colleague in the pub (!) as "transphobic". The irony is that the talk I'd planned would have attempted to give students a sense of what--philosophically and politically--might be at stake in the disagreement between those with gender-critical and those with gender-absolutist views with the aim of identifying common-ground . That of course will not now happen.

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I'm just struck by Akua Reindorf's beauty. I haven't yet read the article and have never heard of her before. I know it's impolitic to comment on people's looks and even taboo to comment on a woman's, but I defy that taboo and I love.

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