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To say "I oppose teaching gender ideology in schools" rather than "gender ideology isn't taught in schools, shut up" is a failing but I think it's less a political failing or even a moral failing and more a failure of human substance. You are a man with the backbone of a bowl of Angel Delight, mate
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It’s so depressing how a single-issue crank billionaire can shape coverage of an entire general election campaign for days, basically just by confirming she’s a single issue crank. Longing for someone to stand up and say “your vote’s no better than anyone else’s, jog on”
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I mean, my demands are that someone reprints the J.M. DeMatteis/Liam Sharp Man-Thing run, where's my one-on-one meeting with the Shadow Chancellor
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It is also a failing of the press, who fail to ask the question: "how is gender ideology taught in schools then?", to which, no doubt, a woolly convoluted political answer would follows, saying in 8 sentences and 38 seconds what all of us could in far less: "It isn't".
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Even the question about teaching gender ideology implicitly accepts that "gender ideology" is some weird cult thing.
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I mean, we could have a great discussion about what ideology is and what kind of ideology is involved in *anything* you teach. But me thinks this is not the conversation they want.
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I could teach this subject. 101: Quit worrying about it, you are who you are, to hell anyone who says otherwise, the whole thing is a spectrum, self expression is how we express our feelings about our place on the spectrum. We aren't a monocultured hive mind so express how ya like. Class Dismissed.
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The fucked up part is gender ideology IS being taught in schools, it's just the conservative, cis-based gender ideology of "boys wear pants and have short hair, girls wear dresses and have long hair"
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Of course. Context clues are there.
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Plus side, at least Swinney's actually criticised him for saying this.
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We've certainly moved a long way from when a Tory minister was quietly getting Self-ID through parliament without a significant fuss, haven't we.