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Write or Call In CampaignNew Yorkers: Stand up for female prisoners and contact your senators to oppose SB1049
Excerpt from WOLF email below:
We're also reaching out regarding a bad bill coming through the New York Senate: SB1049. The bill is deceptively named, and is almost a copy of a terrible bill California passed in 2020. Here's some of the language from the New York bill:
"establishes that incarcerated individuals shall be presumptively placed in a correctional facility with persons of the gender that most closely aligns with such person's self-attested gender identity unless the person opts out of such placement."
This language allows a man to identify as a woman, and be housed in the women's facility. California did the same thing, and transferred Tremaine Carroll, a convicted sex offender, into the women's facility. He raped two incarcerated women, and is now standing trial. He also has been remanded back to the men's facility. You can read more about his case here, including how the DA is now being forced to refer to Carrol as 'she / her' by the presiding judge.
Don't let this happen in your state. Contact your state senator here, and let them know to vote against SB1049. Men can never be women, and certainly shouldn't be incarcerated with them.
Kind regards,
Sharon Byrne
Executive Director, Women's Liberation Front
(202) 573-9026
The land of cartoon child pornography wants to say something about harm?
"Uh, ACTUALLY, Miyumi is a 500 year old vampire! She just LOOKS like a 5 year old!!"
"Since we can't refute the author's findings and conclusions without resorting to circular reasoning and logical fallacies, we'll just silence her. Problem solved." Rinse and repeat. Ugh.
I saw some of the Twitter usual suspects starting a fuss about this earlier this week - extremely disappointed to hear that they capitulated to pressure that largely seemed non-Japanese and extremely online in origin.
I shouldn't feel so disappointed in Japan, but since Japan is still patriarchal, it doesn't surprise me.
I do wonder what the impact of the plummeting birthrate timebomb is going to be. The same with South Korea. Both countries are also extremely resistant to migration.
Well, misogyny is still quite rampant in Japan, so they probably just needed any excuse to limit the spreading of the knowledge about women's oppression.
The first person murdered by those pushing the 1989 fatwa against Salman Rushdie was a man named Hitoshi Igarashi.
He had been hired to translate Rushdie's Satanic Verses into Japanese.
But Japan keeps Tick Tacky under a tight leash. Are they expecting head pats from WEY or gaslighting western countries.
This is surprising to me. Japan is pretty “behind” on LGBTQ issues, being the only G7 country to not have legalized gay marriage, among other things.
Although, come to think of it, when it comes to porn, feminization, and things like pedophilia Japan has always had a looser grip on things like that… so I imagine that trans porn and the like can get a grip there in a way that TRAs can’t, at least not publicly. I mean it’s the birthplace of the “futanari” porn. Still Japan is kind of well known for not “catering” to western tastes and ideals, so I’m still surprised.
The insane power of the crazies on Twitter continues.
ETA: Japan also seems to have more of an emphasis on company reputation from what I understand, so I guess it’s not that surprisingly a publisher wouldn’t want to associate with a controversial book, regardless of the topic. Still infuriating
Considering what happened to the Japanese translator of The Satanic Verses, this isn't surprising. They have genuine reason to fear that a TIM might harm any Japanese people who work on localizing that book
If they caved due to pressure, we need to put the pressure back on to publish. They think they’re doing what the public wants, but when they’re actually capitulating to an extremist minority. Anyone here speak Japanese that can email them? Or know people who speak Japanese?
You can write an email in English and then run it through DeepL, it’s probably sufficient.
Edit: if you actually do this, be very careful with your wording, and very gentle
Such a good book too. It was my introduction into the mad world of transgenderism and it really opened my eyes to the harm it was doing.