by liberal japonicus
Some may have noted that two threads were temporarily closed. This was done in part because of some private knowledge that GftNC was going through, and will be going through for the whole month of September, a particularly difficult time. She's told me that she will almost certainly not be replying to any comments until that is over, but she has asked me to post the following:
As far as I can tell I have not said anything either to McKinney or on the trans issue that I would not have said at another time. On the other hand, being spared the necessity of prolonged response, and argumentation which includes personal defensiveness (on the trans issue that I am either a) a shill [unwittingly] for RWNJs or b) a lone, brave feminist on a blog full of woke dictators) is welcome. It goes without saying, as far as I am concerned, that neither of these theories is anywhere even vaguely adjacent to reality.
I say "in part" because there was most certainly an element of self-interest involved. I was going to bed as all this loomed on the horizon and I didn't relish a Monday morning of picking thru the wreckage of not one, but two smoldering threads. I also felt that, having had GftNC's post go into the spam folder three times, she might also feel pressure to reply. At any rate, the two threads have been reopened, and McT's response to the closing of the threads, which was posted in another thread and was placed in spam, has been restored. I won't be responding to any of them, but the commentariat is welcome to do with those what they want. I realize that the trans issue is a very contentious issue, and I'll try and post something about it in the next week or two rather than have it as a sidecar to an open thread. As for questions about Larry Summers' speech, given that it occurred in 2005, I don't think I'll be revisiting that. As this is a service announcement, this is not open for comments.
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