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by unseenwork
Sun Jan 03, 2021 8:00 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 524553
Views: 28401751

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

Reid getting the yellow card for that final scrum was an utter nonsense when he well had the measure of Salanoa's power, and only collapsed when the Munster front row pulled backwards on that side. Forgetting that ridiculousness, gosh what a promising debut, I'm well chuffed for the guy and can't w...
by unseenwork
Sun Jan 03, 2021 5:00 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 524553
Views: 28401751

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

Reid getting the yellow card for that final scrum was an utter nonsense when he well had the measure of Salanoa's power, and only collapsed when the Munster front row pulled backwards on that side. Forgetting that ridiculousness, gosh what a promising debut, I'm well chuffed for the guy and can't wa...
by unseenwork
Fri Sep 11, 2020 11:22 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 524553
Views: 28401751

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

Ulster'll do the double, fudge the lot of you, bye.
by unseenwork
Thu Jul 23, 2020 6:16 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Why is JK Rowling suddenly evil?
Replies: 832
Views: 67983

Re: Why is JK Rowling suddenly evil?

my 2 cents wrote:Don’t try to erase my masculinity by referring to me as they. It’s he/him goddamn it

Who do I report this to?
I frankly didn't know and didn't want to presume.
by unseenwork
Thu Jul 23, 2020 6:07 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Why is JK Rowling suddenly evil?
Replies: 832
Views: 67983

Re: Why is JK Rowling suddenly evil?

And there's one. Even complete with the deliberately missing the point to overegg their point. Unseen seems to actually accept trans people as separate and this is the way forward towards inclusivity, IMO. Funny as that sounds. I don't view us as different, trans women are women, trans men are men,...
by unseenwork
Thu Jul 23, 2020 5:59 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Why is JK Rowling suddenly evil?
Replies: 832
Views: 67983

Re: Why is JK Rowling suddenly evil?

And there's one. Even complete with the deliberately missing the point to overegg their point. Unseen seems to actually accept trans people as separate and this is the way forward towards inclusivity, IMO. Funny as that sounds. I don't view us as different, trans women are women, trans men are men,...
by unseenwork
Thu Jul 23, 2020 5:55 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Why is JK Rowling suddenly evil?
Replies: 832
Views: 67983

Re: Why is JK Rowling suddenly evil?

And there's one. Even complete with the deliberately missing the point to overegg their point. Unseen seems to actually accept trans people as separate and this is the way forward towards inclusivity, IMO. Funny as that sounds. I don't view us as different, trans women are women, trans men are men,...
by unseenwork
Thu Jul 23, 2020 4:15 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Why is JK Rowling suddenly evil?
Replies: 832
Views: 67983

Re: Why is JK Rowling suddenly evil?

Based on my beliefs, that I have a right to have: Men are men Trans men are women identifying as men (pre or post op), or simply trans men (I support their male identity at face value, and feel they pose less of a risk to men given their natural physical comparative weaknesses). I would not have an...
by unseenwork
Thu Jul 23, 2020 3:52 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Why is JK Rowling suddenly evil?
Replies: 832
Views: 67983

Re: Why is JK Rowling suddenly evil?

Based on my beliefs, that I have a right to have: Men are men Trans men are women identifying as men (pre or post op), or simply trans men (I support their male identity at face value, and feel they pose less of a risk to men given their natural physical comparative weaknesses). I would not have an...
by unseenwork
Thu Jul 23, 2020 3:32 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Why is JK Rowling suddenly evil?
Replies: 832
Views: 67983

Re: Why is JK Rowling suddenly evil?

Famously female prisons are very safe places where sexual assaults do not happen I understand. Except for that one trans woman, that is it, nada mas. Way to completely miss the point. This is the bloody problem. Every time you point out an issue which can be exploited by an asshole it's met with 'w...
by unseenwork
Thu Jul 23, 2020 3:12 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Why is JK Rowling suddenly evil?
Replies: 832
Views: 67983

Re: Why is JK Rowling suddenly evil?

Famously female prisons are very safe places where sexual assaults do not happen I understand. Except for that one trans woman, that is it, nada mas.
by unseenwork
Thu Jul 23, 2020 3:09 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Why is JK Rowling suddenly evil?
Replies: 832
Views: 67983

Re: Why is JK Rowling suddenly evil?

CM11 wrote:Nor does a man arrested for sexual assault against a woman declaring himself a woman during the prosecution process and being sent to a woman's prison instead.
Did the shadowy cabal pull the strings on that one?
by unseenwork
Thu Jul 23, 2020 2:53 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Why is JK Rowling suddenly evil?
Replies: 832
Views: 67983

Re: Why is JK Rowling suddenly evil?

Here's a question. If we take 1 million people. How many out of those one million people are actually people who think they were born the wrong sex? Enough to form a shadowy cabal that can outweight JK Rowling's billionaire fortune if Stats is to be believed. Or hardly any and they're mostly just g...
by unseenwork
Thu Jul 23, 2020 2:44 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Why is JK Rowling suddenly evil?
Replies: 832
Views: 67983

Re: Why is JK Rowling suddenly evil?

It's laughable to suggest this is a money issue. There's enough money in the trans movement to fight this if it was something they thought they could win. Ha. Hahaha. Hahahahahahahahahahaha. Seriously? Seriously??? Where is this money? Where? I tell you it's not in f**king trans charities, it's not...
by unseenwork
Thu Jul 23, 2020 2:13 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: IRB first to call bullshit on Trans Sport
Replies: 326
Views: 22516

Re: IRB first to call bullshit on Trans Sport

And if you lot were serious about safety in rugby you'd be promoting division of the sport on the basis of weight/height categories, which is a much more meaningful way to distinguish between people's capacity to do harm than gender. So do you believe that women who will assigned male at birth went...
by unseenwork
Thu Jul 23, 2020 1:56 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Why is JK Rowling suddenly evil?
Replies: 832
Views: 67983

Re: Why is JK Rowling suddenly evil?

msp. wrote: So you can only quote other people??..
I've expended enough energy on this cut rate Mumsnet that this is what you're getting.
by unseenwork
Thu Jul 23, 2020 1:52 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: IRB first to call bullshit on Trans Sport
Replies: 326
Views: 22516

Re: IRB first to call bullshit on Trans Sport

And if you lot were serious about safety in rugby you'd be promoting division of the sport on the basis of weight/height categories, which is a much more meaningful way to distinguish between people's capacity to do harm than gender. so fundamentally change the way the game is structured to cater f...
by unseenwork
Thu Jul 23, 2020 1:51 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Why is JK Rowling suddenly evil?
Replies: 832
Views: 67983

Re: Why is JK Rowling suddenly evil?

It's laughable to suggest this is a money issue. There's enough money in the trans movement to fight this if it was something they thought they could win. Ha. Hahaha. Hahahahahahahahahahaha. Seriously? Seriously??? Where is this money? Where? I tell you it's not in f**king trans charities, it's not...
by unseenwork
Thu Jul 23, 2020 1:50 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Why is JK Rowling suddenly evil?
Replies: 832
Views: 67983

Re: Why is JK Rowling suddenly evil?

This part: "The article was critical of JK Rowling personally and suggested that our readers should boycott her work and shame her into changing her behaviour. Our intention was to provoke debate on a complex topic. We did not intend to suggest that JK Rowling was transphobic or that she should be ...
by unseenwork
Thu Jul 23, 2020 1:35 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: IRB first to call bullshit on Trans Sport
Replies: 326
Views: 22516

Re: IRB first to call bullshit on Trans Sport

And if you lot were serious about safety in rugby you'd be promoting division of the sport on the basis of weight/height categories, which is a much more meaningful way to distinguish between people's capacity to do harm than gender.
by unseenwork
Thu Jul 23, 2020 1:32 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: IRB first to call bullshit on Trans Sport
Replies: 326
Views: 22516

Re: IRB first to call bullshit on Trans Sport

This topic comes up regularly on a number of different platforms for me. And something I find peculiar about many who identify as transgender or non-binary etc. is that they evoke their feelings as their argument in favour of their way of life. Which is fine. But I cannot help but think this has mo...
by unseenwork
Thu Jul 23, 2020 1:27 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Why is JK Rowling suddenly evil?
Replies: 832
Views: 67983

Re: Why is JK Rowling suddenly evil?

This part: "The article was critical of JK Rowling personally and suggested that our readers should boycott her work and shame her into changing her behaviour. Our intention was to provoke debate on a complex topic. We did not intend to suggest that JK Rowling was transphobic or that she should be ...
by unseenwork
Sun Jun 28, 2020 4:07 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Why is JK Rowling suddenly evil?
Replies: 832
Views: 67983

Re: Why is JK Rowling suddenly evil?

I thought that the pronoun thing was entirely up to the individual's preference, and was not decided by such outdated dualistic precepts such as sex or gender? Thus we must assume that my hypothetical man that I described was being referred to with him, his etc because that was HIS choice today. On...
by unseenwork
Sun Jun 28, 2020 3:12 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Why is JK Rowling suddenly evil?
Replies: 832
Views: 67983

Re: Why is JK Rowling suddenly evil?

I thought that the pronoun thing was entirely up to the individual's preference, and was not decided by such outdated dualistic precepts such as sex or gender? Thus we must assume that my hypothetical man that I described was being referred to with him, his etc because that was HIS choice today. On...
by unseenwork
Sun Jun 28, 2020 3:11 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Why is JK Rowling suddenly evil?
Replies: 832
Views: 67983

Re: Why is JK Rowling suddenly evil?

fudge it while I'm here, Linehan was a toxic twisted bully who by the end was coordinating campaigns of harassment using puppet accounts, accusing trans academics of grooming their students, and all round just dehumanising trans people. His is a story of online radicalisation where upon his reacting...
by unseenwork
Sun Jun 28, 2020 3:02 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Why is JK Rowling suddenly evil?
Replies: 832
Views: 67983

Re: Why is JK Rowling suddenly evil?

Help me out here Duff. Where has he used a male pronoun at all? Also (I may be wrong here) but wasn't transsexual the term widely adopted by that group themselves? Castrating a man , amputating most of his penis, putting the glans inside out into a hole in his perineum, and giving him breast implan...
by unseenwork
Sun Jun 28, 2020 2:40 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Why is JK Rowling suddenly evil?
Replies: 832
Views: 67983

Re: Why is JK Rowling suddenly evil?

I do feel that this subject is overdue an emperor’s new clothes debunking. Castrating a man, amputating most of his penis, putting the glans inside out into a hole in his perineum, and giving him breast implants does not make him female. You can say he is in the eyes of the law, but that doesn’t ma...
by unseenwork
Wed Jun 24, 2020 8:39 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Why is JK Rowling suddenly evil?
Replies: 832
Views: 67983

Re: Why is JK Rowling suddenly evil?

I've been trying to understand it all. I think JK R is overall worried about the misogyny that the very loud but small number of TRA that are Trans women or gay men are perpetuating. They are looking to silence,exclude and dictate to women. Lesbian groups being excluded from pride events etc. So I'...
by unseenwork
Thu Jun 11, 2020 2:13 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Why is JK Rowling suddenly evil?
Replies: 832
Views: 67983

Re: Why is JK Rowling suddenly evil?

There's a lot of trans literature, epistemology, philosophy, etc. especially starting in the 70s. The intricacy of that stuff couldn't be summed up in any twitter debate, and there's only a few people talking about it anywhere. A lot of trans people, a few gender studies groups at universities, but...
by unseenwork
Mon Apr 06, 2020 12:43 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Scummings going by Xmas..... Boris next year.
Replies: 9918
Views: 832212

Re: Boris goooooone or going?

Winnie wrote:
unseenwork wrote:Christ what a hilarious situation.
How can you expect people to respect your decisions in life and then come out with this sh1t
Thats a disgrace
Oh do forgive me Winnie for not grieving over someone I view as a monster.

I doubt it is Winnie you need to worry about just now really.
by unseenwork
Mon Apr 06, 2020 12:41 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Scummings going by Xmas..... Boris next year.
Replies: 9918
Views: 832212

Re: Boris goooooone or going?

If this were a more narrative world while in hospital he'd be visited by three ghosts of those killed by austerity and give up politics. Boris Johnson to be visited in hospital by three ghosts of people who died unnecessarily because of his cuts to NHS funding The version you plagiarised from twitt...
by unseenwork
Mon Apr 06, 2020 11:13 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Scummings going by Xmas..... Boris next year.
Replies: 9918
Views: 832212

Re: Boris goooooone or going?

A5D5E5 wrote:
unseenwork wrote:If this were a more narrative world while in hospital he'd be visited by three ghosts of those killed by austerity and give up politics.
Why does everyone forget the ghost of Marley?
Marley was a bit superfluous afterall. Who would be his Marley then? Gove though he's still kicking around?
by unseenwork
Mon Apr 06, 2020 11:09 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Scummings going by Xmas..... Boris next year.
Replies: 9918
Views: 832212

Re: Boris goooooone or going?

If this were a more narrative world while in hospital he'd be visited by three ghosts of those killed by austerity and give up politics.
by unseenwork
Mon Apr 06, 2020 11:04 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Scummings going by Xmas..... Boris next year.
Replies: 9918
Views: 832212

Re: Boris goooooone or going?

Now now unseen, lets be nice. In a worrying development I hear there are cases of covid causing neurological signs and symptoms. Boris will be exhausted after this and will probably need a period of prolonged convalescence. To that prick? He's never earned an ounce of civility from me. That may be ...
by unseenwork
Mon Apr 06, 2020 11:00 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Scummings going by Xmas..... Boris next year.
Replies: 9918
Views: 832212

Re: Boris goooooone or going?

c69 wrote:Now now unseen, lets be nice.
In a worrying development I hear there are cases of covid causing neurological signs and symptoms.
Boris will be exhausted after this and will probably need a period of prolonged convalescence.
To that prick? He's never earned an ounce of civility from me.
by unseenwork
Mon Apr 06, 2020 10:56 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Scummings going by Xmas..... Boris next year.
Replies: 9918
Views: 832212

Re: Boris goooooone or going?

Christ what a hilarious situation.
by unseenwork
Tue Mar 31, 2020 1:57 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans
Replies: 61014
Views: 3323550

Re: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans

Not only that, business sections of bookstores are heaving with books on smart small disrupters doing things lumbering incumbents could not in a zillion years. It's certain that Medtronic knows how to build a respirator. It's probable that they know how to produce many of them quite quickly. It's v...
by unseenwork
Tue Mar 31, 2020 1:49 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 524553
Views: 28401751

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

McCall was only contracted for the first half of the season but got injured afaik so they extended his deal. Doubt he is going to be in the senior squad next year. Aye took it as a given that he'd be off and essentially Stewart would fill up his number in the squad, but this additional one leaves u...
by unseenwork
Tue Mar 31, 2020 12:47 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 524553
Views: 28401751

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

I don't really know what the point of the extra hooker in the academy is unless maybe say John Andrew's away off with Zac McCall.
by unseenwork
Mon Mar 30, 2020 9:31 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Which Rugby Players Are Going To Do A Weepu?
Replies: 37
Views: 4523

Re: Which Rugby Players Are Going To Do A Weepu?

With the spread of Covid-19kg, Easter Eggs and drinking consumption on the rise, which players are going to go the way of Piri Weepu and Ricky Januarie once this crisis passes and play resumes? I fear for Marty Moore and Luke Marshall at Ulster. Immediately thought of Marshall. They best keeping a ...