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Kill The Mother

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  Kill The Mother The new Oedipus Complex Mary Harrington In Ireland this week, an  obviously highly disturbed and dangerous male , who now identifies as a woman, was jailed for five and a half years - in a women’s prison - for threatening to rape and murder his own mother. At one point he  told  care workers “If I got into (my mother’s) house I would run towards her and put the knife into her body and into her genitalia...prolong my mum’s suffering for as long as possible...I would stab her, but not in her heart or neck, I’d want to put her through lots of torture, fear and humiliation. […] I would bring a screwdriver to insert inside her genitalia because I am a woman and women rape using objects.”  Lawyers for the defence argued that this was fantasy rather than a serious threat. Gender-critical feminists, meanwhile, argue that Ireland’s gender ideologues are ignoring the obvious severe danger this individual poses to the women who will now be locked up ...

Dutch farmers’ party secures landslide victory The BBB's huge election win is a direct challenge to Mark Rutte's coalition

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  Dutch farmers’ party secures landslide victory The BBB's huge election win is a direct challenge to Mark Rutte's coalition Dutch farmers protest against the Government’s farming policy this month. Credit: Getty. SENAY BOZTAS With the highest turnout in 30 years, Dutch voters gave an extraordinary signal to their four-party Government on Wednesday: the Farmer Citizen Movement (BoerBurgerBeweging, or BBB) is set to come first in regional elections, which decide the make-up of the Dutch Senate.  In a long voting day, with locations from repurposed drive-through testing centres to ancient churches, an estimated 61% of Dutch people turned out. The result was astonishing, even though the party has been   creeping up  the polls,   feeding on anti-establishment  feeling after unpopular Covid   lockdowns . Some analysts saw the election as a fight between two ‘moods’ in the Netherlands: a mood of (Right-wing) discontent, echoed also across other countries, ve...