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Women vs. Wokeness: It's Time to Pick a Side
I recently wrote an article where I mentioned that police in the UK allowed Pakistani Muslim men to rape white and Sikh girls and women for roughly 15 years rather than arrest them, lest the police be seen as “racist.” PJ Media’s own Robert Spencer, our in-house specialist on all things Islam, wrote that there were an estimated one million victims. Many were raped over 100 times. One young victim was gang-raped for several years and was forced by the rapists to have six abortions. Cops all over the UK remained silent and allowed the Muslim reprobates to rape with near impunity. Wokeness won; women lost, horrifically.
Women have been fighting wokeness here in the states too and many, especially the shrill, left-leaning, pink-haired harpies with so many face piercings that they look like they fell into a tackle box, are perpetuating the problem.
“Believe all women” makes for a great bumper-sticker, but when it comes to Democrats sexually assaulting women, the rules change.
The message is clear when it comes to sexual assault: the left will “believe all women” as long as those women accuse conservatives. If a woman is attacked by a Democrat, she can just shush like a good girl. How’s that for “woke”?
So when DOES “woke” work for women? When it helps the left’s Marxist movement. Remember, wokeness is just a weapon used by the left to bring Marxism to the United States.
Feminists are happy to jump, jive, and wail for women’s rights until those rights clash with the left’s favorite victim, the trans dudes.
Real women are losing athletic accolades, opportunities, paydays, and scholarships to men in pigtails. The left’s athletic darling du jour, swimmer Lia Thomas, is killing it as a “female” swimmer after years of losing as a man. Thomas is allowed to share the locker room with his female teammates, some of whom are uncomfy having to see Thomas’ twig and berries. Also, they are naked in front of Thomas, who is attracted to women. The women complained, but in the world of the woke, women don’t matter, even when it’s almost three dozen women vs one mentally ill chick with a d***.
More at: https://pjmedia.com/columns/kevindowneyjr/2022/04/28/women-vs-wokeness-its-time-to-pick-a-side-n1593571
Sex matters in biomedical research: Many conditions affect men and women differently
Biomedical research—a broad term covering studies on subjects ranging from cells to experimental animal models—is the starting point for understanding how diseases develop and how we might prevent or treat them. Once such studies have been performed successfully, similar tests can be carried out in humans. These clinical trials form the highest branch of biomedical research.
Biomedical studies have traditionally used male animals and men as research subjects, and the knowledge we have obtained from this research has been applied to both sexes on the assumption that what works for males must also work for females.
Until recently, these studies hardly ever considered sex—the biological attributes of humans and animals—or gender, the socially constructed characteristics of men, women and gender-diverse people.
That is a problem for everyone, because there are sex differences in how many diseases affect people.
Sex differences in health conditions
Pre-menopausal women are less likely to develop diabetes than men or post-menopausal women. Differences like these are critical, given that the elevated levels of blood glucose that define diabetes can lead to life-threatening stroke and heart attacks.
Another significant difference is that women don't necessarily experience the symptoms of a heart attack that are typical in men—like chest pain—but could instead feel nauseated, light-headed or unusually tired. Without studying women and men, we wouldn't know about these differences and understand what to look for when diagnosing patients.
Researchers still haven't figured out exactly how pre-menopausal women are protected from diabetes and how this illness increases the risk of stroke and heart attacks. This is the main focus of research carried out in our lab, where we actively study the mechanisms of this protection and how these diseases develop and progress using male and female animal models.
On average, women live longer than men. That seems to suggest women have some kind of health advantage, which is not necessarily accurate.
More at: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-04-sex-biomedical-conditions-affect-men.html
From now on, Disney will remain quiet about politics, report says
By Laurel Duggan
Daily Caller News Foundation
Disney plans to keep quiet about politics after publicly sparring with Florida’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis over legislation related to LGBT content in education, according to The Wall Street Journal.
DeSantis signed a law eliminating Disney’s Reedy Creek Improvement District Friday, ending special administrative and tax privileges the company had enjoyed since 1967 after the company came out against Florida’s Parental Rights in Education bill. Disney’s political allies in the Florida legislature said the company’s best bet at finding a resolution with DeSantis now is to stay out of politics, according to the WSJ.
“This was shock and awe from the governor,” Republican Florida state Sen. Jeff Brandes, who voted against the Disney bill told the WSJ. “It just shows how big a challenge Disney faced in saying anything at all in the legislative process.”
Republican lawmakers reportedly told Adam Babington, Disney’s top government affairs official in Florida, that the company may be able to salvage their special district if they stepped out of the public fight, according to the WSJ.
“Cool it off. Let’s not make a big deal about this,” said Babington, according to the WSJ.
“Waging culture wars against common-sense legislation – on parental rights and child safeguarding – is bad for business, particularly for a company that has built a successful brand over the decades by marketing wholesome entertainment to families,” DeSantis spokeswoman Christina Pushaw told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
More at: https://www.wnd.com/2022/04/now-disney-will-remain-quiet-politics-report-says/