Dr. Jane Clare Jones

 

20 September 2021

 

Dr. Jane Clare Jones

43 posts today

This is actually far better than any kind of 'essentialist' 'list of essential defining characteristics' type of approach. Carrots exist bc they are a particular type of evolved species. As are humans. And male and female are the two reproductive ...

September 20th @ 11:20 am |

Dr. Jane Clare Jones

43 posts today

No, that is precisely the point. Humans can recognise all kind of things and categorise them to a high degree of precision. So, actually, can AI, while having no fucking idea what it is categorising. We actually don't understand how we do this. We ...

September 20th @ 11:18 am |

Dr. Jane Clare Jones

43 posts today

RT @MForstater: @PennyRed @grace_hawthorn @d_uxbal @CaroleVivienne @Alex37731 @Warren_Whitmore @DanThaddeus @HermionePankhu2 @janeclarejones @SamBarber1910 @Docstockk Here is the relevant section of the Equality Act. Single sex services are justified ...

September 20th @ 11:08 am |

Dr. Jane Clare Jones

43 posts today

You win what? The ability to demonstrate that carrots are actually turnips? How many times. Things exist. They do not exist by virtue of essence. No games you want to play with definitions change the existence of things. https://t.co/ABGn0h...

September 20th @ 10:57 am |

Dr. Jane Clare Jones

43 posts today

RT @boodleoops: It is absolutely maddening watching people patiently explain to Ash why this tweet is absolute bollocks, and her ignoring all of them. The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is many orders of magnitude more than to produce it. ...

September 20th @ 7:38 am |

Dr. Jane Clare Jones

43 posts today

We have single sex exemptions in the EA2010 Ash. The trans rights movement has specifically petitioned to have those removed. When the LP pledged to uphold those exemptions in the manifesto, TRAs and their allies lost their minds. Stonewall has been ...

September 20th @ 7:31 am |

Dr. Jane Clare Jones

43 posts today

No, we are saying that in cases where women do not consent to having male bodied people in their intimate space we're going to have to find another solution, and we need to start talking about what that solution is rather than trying to batter down ...

September 20th @ 6:34 am |

Dr. Jane Clare Jones

43 posts today

RT @grace_hawthorn: @PennyRed @tinselangel_ @d_uxbal @CaroleVivienne @Alex37731 @Warren_Whitmore @DanThaddeus @HermionePankhu2 @janeclarejones @SamBarber1910 @Docstockk What you're absolutely refusing to do is acknowledge that women, as a sex-class, ...

September 20th @ 6:31 am |

Dr. Jane Clare Jones

43 posts today

RT @grace_hawthorn: @PennyRed @AlbaPartyTime @d_uxbal @CaroleVivienne @Alex37731 @Warren_Whitmore @DanThaddeus @HermionePankhu2 @janeclarejones @SamBarber1910 @Docstockk Laurie, what you said is that if women don't consent to mixed-sex spaces, we can ...

September 20th @ 6:29 am |

Dr. Jane Clare Jones

43 posts today

1. Why are you protesting the largest feminist gathering in Europe, unless you are trying to underline that you have a problem with women having their own politics? 2. You can feel unsafe. It's a large bunch of feminist women. That's your projection. ...

September 20th @ 5:40 am |

Dr. Jane Clare Jones

43 posts today

RT @helenstaniland: The problems with the WiSpa incident are myriad, but very much revolving around the determination to ignore the correlation between people with a penis entering women's spaces and people behaving in a predatory manner in women's ...

September 20th @ 5:38 am |

Dr. Jane Clare Jones

43 posts today

It's not because they're trans. It's because they're male. And if you refuse to grasp that female ppl's discomfort with sharing intimate space with male ppl in this society is not illegitimate prejudice, then your claims to understand the oppression ...

September 20th @ 5:36 am |

Dr. Jane Clare Jones

43 posts today

RT @MForstater: Christine Jardine emoting on R4 Women's Hour ... using clear terms is "toxic". Suicide threats Should males be allowed in women's refuges and prisons? Domestic abuse is a huge issue. We want to protect women. But trans women are women ...

September 20th @ 5:29 am |

Dr. Jane Clare Jones

43 posts today

a) has the physical morphology of having differentiated along one of two developmental pathways that - barring accident, illness and anomaly - enables fulfilment of one of two reproductive functions when sexually mature b) doesn't need to, anomalies ...

September 20th @ 5:19 am |

Dr. Jane Clare Jones

43 posts today

'Holding her to account' sounds like a phrase a man would use to justify beating a woman b/c she did something he disapproved of. This whole movement is run on entitled misogynist abuser logic. You do not get to punish women b/c you don't like what ...

September 20th @ 4:12 am |

Dr. Jane Clare Jones

43 posts today

RT @joe90kane: @SpiritOfEna @janeclarejones Most recent opinion poll in Scotland, where Sturgeon is ramming through her GRA after saying absolutely nothing about it in the recent Scottish Parliament election, puts gender reform as a priority at 13% ...

September 20th @ 3:31 am |