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It's not that historic. It's only been used as a PM's home since 1951. And unlike the White House it is not an office or a place for entertaining.

It's only relatively rare in that it crossed the border from conservative news. Most such attacks are ignored by the mainstream media, and so yes, go unnoticed. Just like most violence, incl racial violence perpetrated by racial minorities is ignored.

Dude, if I can say "I'm a woman" and just for the hell of it go explore womens changing rooms and join a women's sports league it's not hard won. Who says it's social progress that we have 250lb men beating up 150lb women in sports leagues? Many would call that social regression. Who says it's progress that a hairy, bearded man can stand in a women's change room with an erection and ogle the women because he SAYS he's a woman? Many would call that perversion.

You can call 'gender' a societal or cultural construct all you want. There are separate women's spaces and sports leagues not because of their gender but because of their biological sex.

There's only an 'open debate' where mobs go at each other, as in the mobs of parent screaming at school boards vs the mobs of trans supporters screaming at them. As we saw with the OP (and another story I posted today) an individual who tries to speak on the issue doesn't get very far. And notably, in the UK and US there are opposition parties that push back against it. Canada's Conservatives are, I think, far too desperately fighting against the idea they might be conservative to dare oppose trans rights.

Why people are being silent. Hint: It's not agreement and 'disdain'. https://nationalpost.com/opinion/the-rise-of-the-mob-and-the-new-woke-crusades

Hard-won identity? How hard is it to win an identity when all you have to do is say "I'm a woman now" as you barge into the ladies room?

It is both. And always has been.

It harms a much greater segment and there's a lot of weight pushing back at it. World Athletics has banned transgender women from competing in elite female competitions if they have gone through male puberty, the sport's governing body said on Thursday. World Athletics votes to exclude transgender women athletes Following extensive stakeholder engagement and a systematic review of evidence, England’s National Health Service (NHS) has issued new draft guidance for the treatment of gender dysphoria in minors, which sharply deviates from the “gender-affirming” approach. The previous presumption that gender dysphoric youth <18 need specialty “transgender healthcare” has been supplanted by the developmentally-informed position that most need psychoeducation and psychotherapy. https://segm.org/England-ends-gender-affirming-care After months of debate and scrutiny, the bill was met warmly, passing through parliament 86 to 39, and called “a big step forward” by LGBTQ+ advocacy groups.That was until earlier this month, when the U.K. government vetoed the bill. https://time.com/6250646/united-kingdom-scotland-transgender-bill/

If you are going to accept one definition of that word you need to also accept the other. either of the two main categories (male and female) into which humans and most other living things are divided on the basis of their reproductive functions.

Another example of cancel culture. This one the determination of what I can only guess is some kind of spurned 'friendzone' guy to get revenge against an attractive woman who rejected him by smearing her as a white supremacist. https://nationalpost.com/opinion/jamie-sarkonak-the-revenge-of-caylan-ford-after-hit-job-ended-her-political-career

Your understanding of what it costs to make and then distribute and advertise these movies needs more... knowledge. The worldwide gross for Black Widow across all markets is some $375,474,179. That’s just short of its two-times production budget for starters. In relative terms, Black Widow had the highest domestic monthly earnings (including the biggest Fri-Sun debut) since Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker ($173 million) in December 2019. Granted these are reasonable numbers for a film limping through the Autumn of a global pandemic – but they still don’t stack up. With second-weekend earnings seeing a 69% plunge – almost unheard of for a Marvel film. https://bombreport.com/black-widow/

The Avengers is not merely the title of a few movies. It's a whole franchise containing everything from Superman to Spiderman to Thor. https://www.wionews.com/entertainment/hollywood/news-mcu-had-a-terrible-2022-what-went-wrong-540467

Female superheroes have bombed at the box office. Be it a female Captain America, Catwoman, Supergirl, or Black Widow. Not because they're female, per se, but because the woke iliberals pushing them have the subtlety of a rhino and turn people off when they insist on shoving stuff into peoples faces. Disney created a female superhero whose main power seems to be she's Muslim and its ratings suck.

The Avengers are dying as a franchise, and all the wokeness Disney is pushing is one of the major causes.

I'm pretty su re it costs more to have them in regular classes when they have to have their own TA with them and where their presence and behavior winds up distracting and slowing down the class.

Give them time. They will. Frozen was their first effort. Those girls were not originally written to be sisters.

When things were good, you mean? The less government interference and involvement in the economy the healthier that economy is. Unfortunately, Canadian governments at all levels have been pushing their control, regulations and requirements like tentacles into every nook and cranny of private life. It's not just Trudeau, though he has been more enthusiastic about government growth than any of those who preceded him. Doug Ford's government is spending more money per person than Kathleen Wynne or Dalton McGuinty did - or Bob Rae, for that matter. Why? And government itself, as it has bloated, has not exactly gotten more efficient and effective. Quite the contrary. In the case of the federal government the senior people I know are exhausted and on the verge of burnout. Micromanaging every single aspect of every single thing the public service does in order to cover their asses from any accusation of wrongdoing or error has become the core of their institutional culture. And that mentality flows into the need to micromanage industry and the economy. And so it takes years and years to get anything done in Canada. Why? Because no one in the bureacracy who has to say yes dares to say yes without 'consulting stakeholders' and filing away copious amounts of documents and voluminous reports saying that decision is the right one, and getting 'buy in' from other departments and agencies, and then fobbing the final decision off on political appointees or the politicians. And so business is drowning in the paperwork needed to satisfy the government, entrepreneurship is strangled at birth, and trying something new is frowned upon.

How absurd can cancel culture get? Well, the UK is becoming the home of cancel culture, which includes canceling ones own native culture and sneering at its values and heritage in favor of a groveling and fawning attitude toward others. And no one, I think, does this better than the British. https://catholicherald.co.uk/oxford-college-ditches-st-georges-day-dinner-and-will-celebrate-eid-instead/

You realize that to the trans activist community you are a transphobic guilty of hate speech, right?

How 'few' are these loonies? Because I see this kind of shrill mob attacking opponents of 'trans rights' everywhere those opponents try to speak anywhere across the Anglosphere. I read many enraged condemnations of anyone, especially any woman who denies that biological men are women just because they 'feel' like they are. Or who believe in separate sports leagues and changing rooms. And in most internet forums you'll be permanently banned for questioning almost any aspect of trans-affirmative beliefs. In some countries, like the UK, you can actually be jailed for questioning it. If there are just a few loonies they seem to have an awful lot of influence.

All the rules about 'gender' that the transgender community want to break are actually rules on 'sex'. We have separate sports leagues for females not because they're women but because they are biologically weaker, more fragile, slower, with less stamina than males. We have different changing rooms for females not because they're women but because as females they have entirely different physical bodies than males and because males tend to get excitable around naked females. Saying you 'feel' like you're a woman does not make you a female if you're a biological male.

Sex is whether you are a biological male or a biological female. There are vast differences between the two, if you haven't yet noticed.

Uhm, I actually posted this story before you. I just didn't think it was important enough to have its own topic.