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Purge the sickening Tory press.

Whereas that was the first moment I thought less of him.

That really depends how many things you've tried, doesn't it. I certainly can't remember the first thing 🙃

In abstract terms, there's no challenge, no, because trans people's gender can be as variable as any non-trans person. (More so usually - see another reply.) But the existence of trans does provide a challenge in one clear sense: another challenge to taken-for-granted normativities. In that...

All that, yes. But I was also being slightly disingenuous. While a trans person's gender in terms of masculinity, femininity, androgeny, etc can be as variable as any non-trans person's might be – the trans community is, in my experience, far more gender diverse, having by necessity had to...

Not just intersex conditions. Everybody. In that what sexed bodies mean is also socially constructed and cannot be taken in isolation as a supposedly neutral "biological fact". But now we're getting into Butlerian territory, which probably isn't what the OP wanted to discuss.

Our bodies are material things, but the "fact" of what they are and mean are isn't always so straightforward. To a considerable degree, sex is also a social construct.

It doesn't mean anything. Trans people live within social gender constructs, the same as cis (non-trans) people. The only difference is that trans people are likely to have thought about it a lot more. Thus... ;)

Masculinity and femininity are social constructs that change according to time and place. For anyone who doesn't fit any part of the current/local construct (which is probably everybody) it's certainly desirable just to disregard them. Not sure what annihilating them would mean exactly.

Josienne Clarke live-tweeting watching Robocop last night... https://twitter.com/hashtag/JCRoboCop?src=hashtag_click&f=live

If the real aim is to purge the front bench, it's working a treat. As for the rest: the endless parliamentary wrangling over Brexit means that there's very little sympathy left anywhere for "clever" parliamentary manoeuvring. Probably most people see Starmer abstaining on everything and just...

which is like reliving the past five years all over again in just two days 😶

Owen Jones - This Land: The Story of a Movement

Yeah, I've got a lot of time for John McDonnell. As regards not accepting we lost the election: we accept that all right. We're just still very angry and bitter about it. One set of people I personally especially hate is Guardian hacks.

Yeah, because for us on the left it was never about Corbyn himself. So calling us all cultists was both stupid and insulting – as well as a guaranteed troll hit if that's what you were after. It was everyone else who was obsessed with him: Tories because that was good political strategy...

Sorry, "Corbyn's fan club" made it seem as though my post was directed at you. It wasn't really. As to what happened... Some were disillusioned by our useless triangulating on Brexit. Others are disillusioned by Starmer's useless triangulating on everything. Dunno what the membership figures...

And that's why people are so fed up with Keir Starmer btw. Because it seems like we're just back to the same old same old again.

All this bullshit about Corbyn's fan club. You're talking about hundreds of thousands of people – a lot of them young people, who had never been involved in party politics before – who suddenly saw hope, a chance to change society, and joined the Labour party enthused that this might even be...

I want him to survive, at least long enough to see himself lose in all 50 states.

Nope, that review is a fail. Le Guin was never concerned about making points. Any "points" arose from her investigations in the process of writing; she never set out to make them in advance. Instead, she wrote social speculative "what if?" fiction: What if society was arranged like this? And...