Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading.
The Sacred Androgen: The Transgender Debate. A long read – but well worth the effort, beautifully written – by Daniel Harris.
Transvestite Vicar Ghost in Interwar England. By coincidence, Beachcomber explores the Victorian version!
Disadvantaged defendants and torn prosecutors: the impact of falling legal aid eligibility in the magistrates court by Fiona Bowden.
“Now everybody knows about your life because it goes in the press for everyone. You don’t feel good.” Cabral – on having his ‘reasonable expectation of privacy for his sex life’ torn apart by a false accusation of rape.
‘The EU Directive – tabled by prejudiced self-serving lunatics three years ago…’ Dick Puddlecote holds back from saying what he really thinks…
‘Social worker praised for evidence in case of false sexual abuse allegations‘ by Luke Stevenson.
- Dick Puddlecote
May 7, 2016 at 3:25 pm -
Thx for the link Anna, I’m honoured.
- Bandini
May 7, 2016 at 4:19 pm -
The first link is indeed “beautifully written”… but it’s also dreadfully formatted for such an epic read. God, my eyes need a lie down after that!
On the subject of pronouns I spotted ‘ze / hir / hirs’ in a government report of some sort, but it seems not to have taken off (thank God).- The Blocked Dwarf
May 7, 2016 at 7:06 pm -
Oh Christ, you wer
en’t
joking about th
e formatti
ng were you?
- The Blocked Dwarf
- The Blocked Dwarf
May 7, 2016 at 4:39 pm -
Re:Disadvantaged defendants and torn prosecutors
The old adage “he who defends himself in court has a fool for a lawyer” remains true. If one doesn’t qualify for legal aid (the cuts to which are both disgusting and scary) then any sane person should be looking for a bona bona …oh sorry mr Horn I meant a ‘pro bonio’…no..no… still not right… brief.
- Wigner’s Friend
May 7, 2016 at 6:31 pm -
Yes, I agree that this is desperately wrong but I lay much of the blame at the door of the lawyers themselves. When people like Azil Nadir get legal aid while spending £K100s on accommodation and Dux and PIL are putting innocent people through hell on the public purse with blatantly fraudulent cases, there is no hope for the system as it stands. I despair.
- Wigner’s Friend
May 7, 2016 at 6:32 pm -
Should have been in reply to BD.
- Wigner’s Friend
- Fat Steve
May 7, 2016 at 10:44 pm -
The Sacred Androgen: The Transgender Debate.
A very literate (though in my opinon at times a little too florid) critique of what one thinks on first reading is about TG but I came to read as a scathing attack on shallow modern day ‘laissez faire’ liberal values that, though seemingly well intentioned, appear to help no one least of all those who need help rather than carefully measured (at no cost but with a feel good payback) ‘tolerance’. - richard
May 8, 2016 at 9:07 am -
Dear Anna,
I’ve felt since childhood that I was a pirate and so I recently had an eye put out and a leg amputated. My friends dislike my eyepatch and peg leg. They think I’m mentally ill because I didn’t cut my dick and balls off, dress in skirts and wear a wig.
Should I buy a parrot?
Your friend,
B. Bones.- Mudplugger
May 8, 2016 at 9:13 am -
The Norwegian Blue comes highly recommended, if not necessarily long-lived – coincidentally by the some folk who did ‘The Lumberjack Song’ (“I put on women’s clothing and hang around in bars”). Fusion-humour.
- Major Bonkers
May 8, 2016 at 6:01 pm -
That reminds me of a stupid joke:
There’s a man in a bar, when a pirate comes in. He has the obligatory missing bits, and the man, thinking that it would be interesting to talk to him, offers to buy him a drink.
‘Aaaargh – that’d be vurra kind, thank ‘ee!’
And so the chap starts asking how he lost his leg.
‘Aaaargh – that’d be when we wiz fighting the ‘Bellerophon’ – a bloody great cannonball hits me in the chest, bowls me off me feet an’ overboard, where a bloody great shark bites off me leg!’
Suitably impressed, the chap asks how he lost his hand.
‘Aaaargh – that wiz that mulatto dog, Black Jake, who wiz cheating’ at cards. I called him out, an’ we fought with cutlasses – I ran him through, but with his dying’ breath he chopped off me right hand!’
Really impressed now, the chap asks how he lost his eye.
At this point the pirate looks a bit sheepish.
‘Well, the day after I had me hook fitted, a seagull shat in my eye, so I reached up to wipe it off… .’
- Duncan Disorderly
May 8, 2016 at 9:00 pm -
Would you be surprised if I said that there are some people that actually have a fixation on getting a limb amputated? Sometimes it is as a result of a neurological disorder where the person doesn’t feel the limb actually belongs to them. And there are other people who have a sexual fetish about getting a limb removed.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apotemnophilia- Fat Steve
May 9, 2016 at 10:10 am -
@Duncan
Matthew 5:30 “And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.”
Matthew 19:12 “For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother’s womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men: and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven’s sake. He that is able to receive it, let him RECEIVE It.”
Sometimes I get a little queasy about literal interpretation of some Biblical Authorities- Fat Steve
May 9, 2016 at 10:43 am -
Eusebius wrote that He committed an act characteristic of an immature and youthful mind, yet, notwithstanding, including abundant proof of faith and self-control. For he took the words, “There are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of Heaven,” in too literal and extreme a sense, thinking … to fulfill the words of the Savior.
Thankfully not all Christians favour a literal interpretation though charachteristically are judgemental as to reason (immature and youthful)
- Fat Steve
- Fat Steve
- Mudplugger
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