Stop This PC Madness

From Sunday times : Yet in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office submission, Britain opposes the term “pregnant woman” because it may “exclude transgender people who have given birth”. The suggested term is “pregnant people”. And for a response, see the excellent article by Brendan O'Neill in The Spectator: if you are pregnant, you are a woman. Biologically, physically, factually. Your pregnancy is proof of your womanhood. (Of course women do not need to get pregnant to prove they are women.) You can identify as a man, of course. People should have the right to identify as anything they like. But in reality, in the world of flesh and hormones and common understanding, you are a woman. Men cannot get pregnant. The spat over ‘pregnant people’ cuts to the heart of a discussion very few people want to have: about how self-identification is all well and good but it does not, and cannot, override physical and cultural reality.

Mayim Bialik, in an article reacting to the Harvey Weinstein storm, said her "sexual self is best reserved for private situations with those I am most intimate with" and "I dress modestly" and so on, and unsurprisingly triggered feminists into their usual accusations of "blaming the victim". https://twitter.com/i/moments/919281858055213057 Ironically (1) she is also a feminist (could the two camps of feminists fight themselves out first?), and (2) she flashed in front of Piers Morgan.

BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-41609861 No, segregation does NOT imply discrimination. People use the word "discrimination" so loosely these days it has lost all meaning. If one group is not disadvantaged over another group, it is not discrimination. You are free to be of the opinion that segregation is wrong, but then it is wrong in itself, not because it is discriminatory. (As for me, well, the answer is simple: if I have a son I would put him in a mixed school, but if I have a daughter then I would seriously consider going for girls-only. Especially given the state of the country we find ourselves in...) But there is something wrong here, and that is what they teach to kids. The sexually discriminative content of their religion.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-41590082/racist-dove-ad-model-lola-ogunyemi-speaks-out

Spiked: Now they’re banning Christians at Oxford Evening Standard: Oxford University students reprimanded after banning Christian Union from freshers' fair Their "justification" for the ban: “Christianity’s influence on many marginalised communities has been damaging in its methods of conversion and rules of practice, and is still used in many places as an excuse for homophobia and certain forms of neo-colonialism.” As if Islam isn't homophobic or has no dark history. (Wait, actually it hasn't, since it is still ongoing...) (and yes, I'm calling it freshmen, not freshers)

Some UC Berkeley students protest and disrupt an exam, demand take-home essay instead of exam, but somehow relate this to "white privilege" and even accuse students who stayed there to take the exam: http://www.dailywire.com/news/22073/berkeley-students-protest-exam-demand-take-home-frank-camp