Professor of Philosophy @OU_Philosophy. Political philosophy and the ethics and metaphysics of sport. @OU_GCRN (RT ≠ endorsement, all views personal, obvs.)

Hove UK
Joined May 2011
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Jon Pike retweeted
Replying to @UOzkirimli
For once I agree with you!
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Replying to @UOzkirimli
I would not use such language and am disappointed when people I admire choose to do so
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OK, I think Umut is right. "deluded freaks" crosses the line.
This is openly, and I guess unabashedly, transphobic. Objecting to the excesses of transactivism does not license one to call trans people, even those who don't suffer from gender dysphoria, "deluded freaks". Those who call themselves gender critical or sex realist should be the first ones to condemn this despicable language.
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What an amazing event. Thank you to all of the feminists who joined us and who took the time afterwards to tell us their own stories. A special thank you to @KhadijaKhan__ , @bindelj, and @sleeepysandy for our discussion and to @nicolelampert and @realzoestrimpel, who I did my very first presentation with on this topic—even before the book was published—and to @FAAntisemitism for bringing us together. And thank you, always, to the team at @centre_as.
Feminist @bindelj on @karajesella book: ‘It tells some extremely hard, quite unpalatable truths about the way that many, many middle-class masquerading white women threw some of their sisters to the wolves, whilst also at the same time not really understanding anti-racism at all. So thank you.’ @FAAntisemitism @centre_as
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Jon Pike retweeted
Here is the full apology from Scope - which will remain on their website for 7 days. Link below 👇
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Enjoyed the London launch of this tonight. Thanks to @FAAntisemitism, @bindelj, @sleeepysandy @centre_as @DavidHirsh and others. Couple of thoughts on the train...
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... If this pattern is right, then there's at least three sorts of explanation invited 1) what's the sociological/empirical explanation? Why does it fall like this? 2) what's the normative explanation? Who's right? 3) what about the anomalies?..
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... There's a bit more going on here than shared fandom of/antipathy towards Judith Butler. (Though that accounts for quite a lot, I'm sure)
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This post was in reaction to the article below, which was posted by one of the authors on @LinkedIn. So you can check the reference. In response to a polite but dissenting comment, that author (Dr Pape) has now blocked me there. sextestinginsport.org/articl…
Some of those arguing against SRY screening have latched on to the idea of 'a right not to know'. Can't see this being a promising line of argument. If you don't want to take the test, don't take the test. Hth.
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I’ll be moderating a panel with Kara, @bindelj and @KhadijaKhan__ on Thursday evening in central London to look at the long history of excusing violence against Jewish women within feminism. Link to tix in replies.
The feminist view of rape applied to Jewish women in the aftermath of 10/7 comes for the West. It is not a surprise, and it’s not about #MeToo: a strand of feminism has been developing the idea that rape is the collateral damage of racism and imperialism, and that we must accept violent revolution in order to end these oppressions, for years. Angela Davis, “Violence Against Women and the Ongoing Challenge to Racism,” 1985: “The very same social conditions which spawn racist violence…are the same forces which encourage sexual violence. Thus, sexual violence can never be completely eradicated until we have succeeded in effecting a whole range of radical social transformations in our country.” Same essay: “If we are militant activists challenging violence against women, we must also see ourselves as fearless fighters against police violence, and in passionate solidarity with the racially and nationally oppressed people who are its main targets.” Etc. This vision of feminism always said women’s concerns would be addressed in the aftermath of anti-state revolution, not before. In fact, the liberal version of feminism associated with Jewish feminist Betty Friedan was developed in part to counter this very idea.
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Some of those arguing against SRY screening have latched on to the idea of 'a right not to know'. Can't see this being a promising line of argument. If you don't want to take the test, don't take the test. Hth.
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Perhaps I should make the implication clear, though it's fairly obvious. If you don't wish to know whether you are female or not, that's fine, refuse the test. But you will be unable to demonstrate eligibility for the female category. Them's the breaks.
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As activists in the Labour and trade union movement we stand firmly with our FWS sisters. We are stalwarts of trade unions - among us are current and former workplace reps, committee members, branch officers, builders of picket lines, you name it. We want unions to support women.
Joy! Now @SeanCMBell, who boasts of bylines in @bellacaledonia & @ScotNational joins in the @NASUWT pile-on. No we are "wildly hostile" to a failure to support women in the workplace. That's not being hostile to Unions, it's objecting to a failure to fulfil their obligations. At least deal with what we actually say rather than invent malign intent.
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Jon Pike retweeted
"Nobody is coming to hand these institutions back. We will have to take them back, one member, one vote, one refusal to stay quiet at a time. The fight is hard, but it is winnable. Every member who joins it makes the next fight easier to win. And the next member could be you." Rousing piece by @hollowood_zoe of @LibVoice4Women terftimes.com/p/five-years-i…
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NEW: Sandeep Kaushik, a consultant who has been paid $64,750 to work AGAINST the initiatives, admits, "somebody who is born biologically male, now playing on a female sports team...they're going to have a competitive advantage." He also said the initiative to protect girls' sports is "likely to pass and maybe even overwhelmingly" because polls show it's a "70/30, even maybe an 80/20 issue." "In this case, there is a fairness issue" Don't take this for granted. Let's make it happen. VOTE YES ON I-638
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