Talia "'Brown/Trans/Les' OUT NOW!" Bhatt ⚢

Why would women be apprehensive about tying their lives to Gen Z men with something as significant and permanent as a shared child? We may never know for sure

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Does the Patriarchy Transition Women? …what if they’re butch? What about feminine men? And what does it mean to be non-binary? In March 2026, The Atlantic published an article by Ben Appel titled In Defense of Effeminate Boys. Subtitle: “If anyone had suggested that I might really be a girl, I don’t know how I would have responded.” As one might surmise, Ben Appel (clearly and brazenly plagiarising my latest essay’s title format, for which I will be suing him presently) makes the case that the advancement in trans care is pushing feminine boys and men to identify as transgender women instead, because it denaturalises feminine expressions of manhood. In other words, the elevation of the trans woman to the status of normalcy makes the feminine man more aberrant. Ben says, “But I didn’t know to feel this type of shame [for being mistaken for a girl]. I was raised in a fundamentalist Christian community called the Lamb of God, and—perhaps surprising—no one seemed to care about my flamboyance. What mattered was that my heart was on fire for the Lord.” “Perhaps surprising,” indeed.

i regret to inform everybody i'm writing another essay

In rcbg chapter 30, we'll be showing you something you've all been asking for: the characters sitting down and actually talking about their problems openly

I both want to have children and appreciate the magnitude of commitment and responsibility it takes. That’s precisely why I aim to never have them with a man if I can help it, especially a whatever-pilled gen z raised on manosphere toxic sludge and retvrn fantasies.
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They know who's going to end up putting in most of the effort.

This makes sense as the angle of attack after the Greens' recent performance, and the legal landscape of the UK is rather rigged to force discriminatory outcomes against trans people.

Given that taking an actual stance on trans rights is a part of the Greens' appeal, this could end up... weird.

Patricia Highsmith is referenced all over this novel, so probably!

it's so funny how #5 is a more progressive position than the atlantic's

how would a teen even get trans surgery without parental consent. do they think this is happening

My father admitted this exact thing to me YESTERDAY. He didn't know why he wanted kids, it was just "a thing you were supposed to do". I can't fathom treating such a life altering decision as a rite of passage rather than individual choice.

And as someone who closely monitors both websites I can assure you that X is a right wing radicalization pipeline, including for people who consider themselves smart and progressive, while Bluesky is just an overwhelming left leaning platform. Those are very different things.

If a bunch of people who agree who hang out together is an echo chamber then sure, we’re all in echo chambers all the time. But what’s actually bad is a platform that the world’s richest man has weaponized to make people including “elites” who still use it bigoted and hateful and conservative

I’m so tired of seeing people bash Bluesky for being an echo chamber when X is an actual intentionally constructed echo chamber that is demonstrably radicalizing people across the political spectrum who still use it

I’m often struck when hearing men (and, women) in their teens and 20s express views about reproduction that absolutely would have been anachronistic when I was in my teens and 20s

One Year On: 13 people on the ruling that changed their lives On 16 April 2025, the UK’s Supreme Court ruled that the legal definition of a woman is based on their biological sex assigned at birth. Forget the rage-bait headlines and attempts to divide us through...

my first piece (cowritten with Catriona Innes) in a print magazine comes out today: we interviewed 13 people, mostly trans women, about how the Supreme Court ruling has affected them for Cosmo UK

www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/reports/a...

I ran a project with over 2,000 new mums. I can tell you, the core experience of heterosexual motherhood is being being absolutely knackered all the time, and incandescently pissed off at your husband/boyfriend about the unequal distribution of parental labour.

When I was in my early 20s, a good friend got pregnant (unplanned). She was almost done with academic upgrading, as she'd prev dropped out of HS. Her reason for continuing the pregnancy? "He really wants to be a dad, like his friends!" Said friends were all deadbeats more interested in creation than

Given that I've grown up dealing with millennial men, let me just say: holy shit. Fuck. That's... wow.

see: “The Girls Who Went Away”

see: human history

see: period tax

see: overturning of Roe v. Wade

see: fucking everything

Cutting edge of gender right here

I think a lot of women also know that they are going to end up, you know, contributing economically at least 50%, if not more than 50%. So, I think there is a worry that they’re going to be doing more than half on the home front. They’re going to be doing at least half, if not more than half, career-wise. And so, I think that can start to seem like a bad deal too. Maybe the thing that surprised me the most is that it would appear with Gen Z men, in particular, the trend is towards more of a preference for traditional division of labor — this idea that to be a man means to be the breadwinner. I do think it’s of a piece with some polling and data that we see from Gen Z men just like expressing a variety of traditionalist gender ideas. I talked to a guy who does a lot of polling with Gen Z, and he did say that when he polls young men, they really associate masculinity with being a provider, more so than any other characteristics. But, I also think that we’re seeing other moves in the opposite direction. “If you’re worried about all these men who really want kids and women are not so sure, a great way to address that worry is to support the women.”

It's funny, though, that even in times of backlash to the erosion of patriarchal gender roles, in practice women end up doing most of the child-rearing, domestic labour, AND also economically contribute to the household.

Let's keep that part of progress, eh?

Do you reckon the burden of child rearing disproportionately falls on women, and this might affect their willingness to have kids? What a novel insight.

I'm pretty sure the lack of any human pushback is what causes many of the issues associated with an extended engagement with AI obsequiousness!

'Concern that their partners are not going to pull their weight'

Ah so they've been paying attention then.

Is there no depth Starmer is unwilling to sink to!?

I've said this elsewhere, but women don't need to literally stop having sex with men en masse for us to be treated like we're on a collective sex strike. The potential for us to keep being more autonomous and exercise alternative options is being treated just like one, and invites backlash.

Not to be THAT feminist, but I knew this was the case before opening the article. Men see fatherhood as an abstract milestone that's a proof of their virility, women see the associated costs.

Not to mention that women not being locked into domesticity is the core of the antifeminist backlash today.

I was participating in a louder form of lesbian erasure that day when I looked the sycophantic gay man (Tyler? Kyler?) in the eye and said I “don’t vibe with dykes” and “identify as a female faggot.” I was expecting raucous laughter, hoots and hollers, wild applause. But instead, there was silence. Dorn, Anna. Perfume and Pain: A Novel (p. 47).

This remains the part of "Perfume and Pain" I have to suspend the most disbelief for. The (lesbian) protagonist says that this statement during an interview got her 'cancelled', and... I frankly don't think it would, lol.

"...it might be argued that a strength of the US system is that it openly acknowledges and confronts the ideological and political aspects of adjudication that inevitably arise, whereas in the UK there is an unwillingness directly to acknowledge and address such matters."