In the States ‘Sophie Fever’ rolls on while over here, on Terf Island, Jason Arday rolls on. Aside from those matters, there are still a lot of other things going on so let’s get on with it!
Are you ready, Puss?
Let’s ruuuuuuumble, Dusty!
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Onwards with the Dusty,Nicola, Moodie and Rex Film Series 😀 Please keep the suggestions for films coming in but please check the list first which I am updating as we go along. Please send suggestions in the comments here at this link:
https://dustymasterson.substack.com/p/empire-of-light-dustys-film-series
Mrs. Doubtfire is a 1993 American film directed by Chris Columbus.
The film involves a man dressing up as a woman but, of course, in the film he is doing that as a subterfuge and not because he thinks he is a woman ( see also Some Like It Hot ). Additionally this is a comedy!
Freelance voice actor Daniel Hillard (Robin Williams) lives in San Francisco and is a devoted father to three children - 14-year-old Lydia, 12-year-old Chris, and 5-year-old Natalie - though his workaholic wife Miranda (Sally Field) considers him immature and unreliable. After quitting a job following a disagreement over a morally questionable script, Daniel returns home to throw Chris a chaotic birthday party, despite Miranda’s objections due to Chris’ declining grades. Miranda arrives home early to break up the party and, in the ensuing argument, tells Daniel that she wants a divorce. Due to Daniel’s unemployed and homeless status, Miranda is granted sole custody of the children, with Daniel having visitation rights every Saturday; shared custody is contingent on Daniel finding a steady job and suitable residence within three months.
Daniel secures an apartment and a job as a shipping clerk at a television station. After learning that Miranda is looking to hire a housekeeper, Daniel secretly alters her classified ad form, then calls her using his voice acting skills to pose as a series of undesirable applicants before calling as “Euphegenia Doubtfire” (a surname he derives from a newspaper headline), an elderly British nanny with strong credentials. Impressed, Miranda invites Mrs. Doubtfire for an interview. Daniel’s brother, Frank, a makeup artist, and Frank’s partner, Jack, help Daniel appear as an old woman through the use of makeup and prosthetics.
In the clip, Anne Haney is the court appointed social worker, Mrs Wellner who has arrived unexpectedly for an apartment inspection.
Thanks to two wonderful readers for suggested pieces.
Some of the linked pieces below may be behind a paywall.
New Zealand was the first country to introduce the vote for women. We have been reporting on Katrina Biggs’ campaign to get the Suffrage Flag flown over the New Zealand Parliament on Suffrage Day. She has won!!! Many congratulations, Katrina. She reports on this on her substack, A B’Old Woman and I trust she doesn’t mind me quoting the whole thing including an image of the very particular NZ Suffrage Flag:
Aug 21, 2026
Success! After a year of me (metaphorically) tussling with the Speaker of the House, and lawyering-up to get a women’s suffrage flag flown at NZ Parliament, the Speaker has recently granted permission for this. The flag will be hoisted for the first time on Thursday 17 Sept this year, at 8.30am, on Parliament’s forecourt.
New Zealand was the first self-governing country in the world where women won the right to vote – i.e. suffrage - irrespective of circumstances. It kind of seems worth recognising that with more than just paying a bit of lip service to it each year. Winning that right was no easy ride – it took three attempts, and then finally the women’s suffrage bill passed by just two votes on 19th September 1893.
There are some blokes still bitter about that to this day – lol.
This year, the 19th September falls on a Saturday, so the Women’s Suffrage flag will have its inaugural hoisting on Thursday 17th, being the closest House sitting day to the 19th. I intend to be in Wellington for it, of course, and, if allowed, may even do the hoisting myself. Or, perhaps my sister’s granddaughters, who’ll be there with me and my sister, might be allowed to do it, instead.
I know others will be there, too - the more the merrier. The flags get raised at 8.30am, so those who are working may not be able to attend, but with any luck an MP or two might be able to spare fifteen minutes to come outside Parliament and have a gander. The media will be informed, but I have no idea if this will interest any of them or not.
Whatever happens, it will still be a day to remember.
There is a caveat on flying the Women’s Suffrage flag, and that is the Speaker cannot guarantee it to be an ongoing event each year, so it may be a case of making an application for each occasion. I’ll have to find out more about that. However, now that it’s been done once, perhaps it will create a precedent that’s easier to follow.
As well as the inevitable bitter blokes who feel emasculated by women being treated as human beings with their own agency, grinches will come out of their caves to grumble and growl about ‘more important things’. I agree that more important things do exist - and as long as we humans walk the earth, that won’t change. As one important thing gets resolved, another arises. Some never get resolved, try as we might, which is why we’re never given a timeframe for when the grand resolution of the ‘more important things’ might occur.
We juggle big and little things in life all the time, because that is life. How happy would it make us to grimly focus only on the ‘more important things’ to the exclusion of anything else? Of course, grinches aren’t unknown to refrain from grinching when a less important thing is something they approve of. Funny, that.
I would argue that something which inspires and uplifts us does have an important place in our lives. The Women’s Suffrage flag is symbolic of achievement through great perseverance, and that speaks to us all, no matter what we’re pursuing.
The vote is a great equaliser, as it does not give one hoot about what beliefs or opinions we have, or whereabouts on the political spectrum we may be. In a polarised world, the white camellia on the NZ Women’s Suffrage flag pictured below - which is the flower that was given to the MPs who supported the women’s suffrage bill to wear in their lapels, when they went into Parliament to vote on it - shows no favouritism. Whatever kind of woman you are, the vote was won for you.
I will confirm and update on matters as we get closer to Thursday 17 September, but if you can be there, do come 😊
Thanks to all those who have supported this initiative, and me, to get here, and to the Secret T Society (e: SecretTSociety@proton.me) for designing the flag.
https://aboldwoman.substack.com/p/for-the-first-time-ever-a-womens
Glinner may have won his case following his arrest by five armed officers at Heathrow Airport but never fear, the British Thought Police are still in action using a different technique - detain a man for 4 hours, cause his girlfriend untold worry and cause them both to miss their ferry - and then release him without charges! Glinner reports further:
Aug 20, 2026
Jake Munro spent eight days in the south of Ireland with his girlfriend and their 6 year-old son. On the way home, four Welsh police officers pulled him out of the ferry queue at Pembroke Dock and took his fingerprints. [ Dusty - for those who know the geography of the UK, logically this must be on the way out not on the way home]
Munro streams under the name Goth Daddy, is based in Northern Ireland, and has appeared on Tim Pool’s Culture War Podcast. He talks about wokeism and migration as much as he does goth and metal subculture. He worries about the future of the UK, for the same reason a lot of ordinary people are worried, which is the strain a sudden influx of military-age men is putting on European countries, represented most recently by these terrifying government pamphlets produced for them.
Munro arrived at Pembroke Dock with his family at half one in the afternoon, booked on the 2:45pm ferry to Rosslare. He showed his ticket, got waved to a new lane, and then, in his own words, noticed “a growing amount of police officers, security, congregating outside my car.” A mountainous policeman knocked on his window and suggested they take a stroll. Inside the security hut, four officers told him he was being detained for “suspected right-wing ideologies” and would be questioned. After the questioning, he was told, depending on how it went, he might be arrested.
He wasn’t questioned about a specific crime, or a specific threat, or a plot. This was a survey. Was he affiliated with any right-wing nationalist or patriot groups? Was he agitating the British public to take things into their own hands? What did he think about Muslims? What did he think about migration? What did he think about trans people, and did he consider himself an active threat to them? What did he think was the biggest problem revolving around Jews?
He was fingerprinted. Photographed. Held for four hours. At the end of it, an officer told him they had no grounds to hold him for terrorism, incitement, or anything else, and drove him back to an empty car. His phone had been cloned, which is presumably where the four hours went. He missed his ferry and paid for a hotel he hadn’t planned on, finally rejoining his girlfriend who had been ‘beside herself’, not knowing if the father of her son had been arrested. Back home and about to go live on the stream he’d been away from for a week, he found a second strike waiting on his YouTube channel, for a clip that was months old. Whatever the machinations were behind the ban, it landed the moment he had an audience again.
The full piece is here:
https://grahamlinehan.substack.com/p/uk-introduces-catch-and-release-for
Talking of freedom of speech…. We have been following Sarah Phillimore’s action for defamation against Jolyon Maugham and the Good Laugh…sorry, Law Project throughout. Sarah discusses the letter from the Bar Standards Board dismissing the GLP Complaint against her and looks at the implications for free speech:
Aug 21, 2026
I was very pleased to discover in my email inbox on 19 August 2026 confirmation that the BSB independent reviewer had decided to uphold in full the BSB’s initial rejection of the Good Law Complaint about my conduct. If you want a reminder of what went down in August 2025, I have written about it here and my response to the GLP request for a review in May 2026 is here.
The letter was too long to include in this post so I have set it out in a separate post here.
I want to consider the letter in more detail going beyond my initial pleasure at its conclusion, and then consider the wider implications of Maugham’s continued activities in showcasing individuals for his particular ideological crusades.
I am loathe to add yet more words to the teetering mountain of commentary about the tragedy of Jason Arday but I find it worrying that we now have two clear examples of the Good Law Project weaponizing individuals who appear to be a good fit for both its own ideological and fund raising objectives, but with little or no thought as to whether that person is psychologically robust enough to engage.
I note with unease para 16 which refers to the discussion between ‘the two women’ para 52 referring to ‘both women’, para 60 ‘the relationship between the two women’, para 63 again ‘the relationship between the two women’.
Mr Weddell is not a woman. That is the entire point of our dispute. I can grit my teeth and live with the female pronouns that litter the review, but would have preferred the reviewer to identify us by our names rather than show an unquestioning support for Mr Weddell’s assertion that he is in fact a woman. That position is not supported by material reality and it is not supported by law.
It may well be a view the reviewer holds but it should not be casually buttressed as an uncontroversial fact, for it is neither. It is instead either a quasi religious belief or a specific ideological position. Of course people are entitled to both and I am not entitled to prevent them just because I find either offensive. But it is troubling to see Mr Weddell’s ‘womanhood’ presented as uncontroversial fact by the umpire of this particular dispute.
I am unclear why para 17 refers to an ‘exchange’ between me and Mr Weddell. As far as I recall, I had blocked Mr Weddell’s X account by March 2024 and I was commenting on screenshots posted by others.
To comment on my commentary he would therefore have had to seek me out. As the Judge commented at para 73 in Hayden v Dickenson 02 Dec 2020 [2020] EWHC 3291 (QB), QBD
“The Court can reasonably expect a person who is the subject of unwanted communications to engage in a degree of self-help before seeking to obtain a harassment injunction from the Court. The first step is self-resilience: the ability to ignore or shrug off unpleasant messages or comments, a quality that is perhaps all the more important if a person intends to engage in public debate. The Claimant herself has acknowledged this and accepted that “when you put yourself in the public eye you expect a certain extent… of criticism and you have to be robust and you have to have thick skin” …. Even outside the arena of debate, most people, during their lives, will encounter occasional online comments that are critical and unpleasant, even offensive and upsetting. Sometimes that offence is intended, on other occasions the capacity for the remarks to hurt and upset is not fully appreciated by the critic. But everyone is expected to show a degree of tolerance and resilience in the face of this sort of occasional unpleasantness. These are part of the day-to-day irritations, annoyances and upset that are a fact of modern life ……..”
The court went on to say that people were also expected to use the tools of the platform they were using to protect themselves, such as blocking or muting.
The full piece is here:
https://sarahphillimore.substack.com/p/some-more-thoughts-on-freedom-of
We have been following the cancellation of an event organised by WRN NI by the Féile an Phobail Festival. For example here:
WRN NI managed to find an alternative venue outside the auspices of the Festival. The Sex Matters team report further:
https://www.sex-matters-news.org/p/women-in-northern-ireland-speak-up
We have been reporting on the case of the Texas Children’s Hospital which the US Department of Justice found to be defrauding the Government and who then agreed to, amongst other things , set up a service for detransitioners. The nurse, Vanessa Sivadge, who blew the whistle has now spoken publicly. As reported by Feminist Legal Clinic via Blaze Media. What a hero!!
The Former Texas Children’s Hospital nurse exposed illegal transgender treatments for minors — and won.
While Sivadge initially remained anonymous, she publicly came forward with her story in June 2024.
“You can imagine, my life changed overnight. I blew the whistle. One day I was a nurse, the next day the hospital had put me on leave. The story made national news when the video of the FBI was posted, and it was viewed millions of times in just a couple days,” she explains.
When firing her, the hospital claimed that she had “accessed records inappropriately.”
“Of course, the very same records that proved that they were committing fraud,” she adds.
Now, after two years of litigation that began over the fraud under the Biden DOJ, the hospital’s settlement with her and the Justice Department was finalized last week — and her name has been cleared.
“A couple of months ago, in May, it was initially announced that a $10 million settlement had been reached, including the establishment of America’s first detransition clinic, the firing of five physicians that had … been a party to these procedures,” Sivadge tells Stuckey.
“So for the first time I was able to reveal that I was … the whistleblower that forced Texas Children’s Hospital, that compelled them to pay $10 million back to the government because the government was defrauded,” she adds.
Source: Children’s hospital transing kids? FBI targets the nurse who exposed it | Blaze Media
Jonah Wheeler is probably the first ever ( latter day) Democrat representative who has come out batting for the Terfs! As reported by Kat Highsmith:
Aug 19, 2026
If you received an email a bit earlier with video problems, please excuse the technical error. The following video will work.
Now that the “trans” lie is coming apart at the seams, some politicians and media figures are doubling down out of embarrassment while others have the courage to speak honestly.
One such politician is Jonah Wheeler, a 23-year-old state representative from New Hampshire.
A previous post (linked below) discusses his handling of cross-dressers and their shenanigans in his state, and he is notable because he is a rare Democrat with the backbone to confront this cult.
He went viral on X recently for posting a nearly 8-minute video with this caption:
Gender ideology is an illiberal, backwards way of thinking that I make no apologies for opposing.
Some people loved it, including JK Rowling who reposted it, while others…not so much. You’ll see why.
Some critics found his cadence and style to be an obvious impersonation of Barack Obama, but others found him completely cogent and convincing.
Here are Jonah Wheeler’s top five points, which cut directly to the heart of this fraud.
The full piece is here:
https://kathighsmith.substack.com/p/top-five-points-from-jonah-wheeler
Kara Dansky on The Terf Report also discusses Jonah Wheeler ( who quoted Kara):
https://karadansky.substack.com/p/listen-to-womans-hour-the-terf-report-5cc
Kat Highsmith also looks at a larping man who is backtracking a bit on his claims to be a woman. Kat feels that the Gender Borg are losing. Over here, in the UK, I think they are planning a flanking manoeuvre via the puberty blocker trial and the Conversion Practices Bill. We will revert to this question!
Aug 20, 2026
This was previously sent out to some subscribers, but there were technical difficulties specifically with links and video. Those should work now, and please send me a message if there are any additional issues.
As the wheels continue to fly off the careening “trans” cart, we will begin to see a retreat on previously asserted no debate positions alongside sheepishly feeble demands from cross-dressers and fetishists that the world still owes them submission.
It’s important we remember that to tolerate any of it is to allow all of it. The only solution is total rejection, no matter how much these men, in particular, whine and cajole as a way to appeal to our sympathy.
The most salient example of this currently unfolding phenomenon recently occurred at a Substack named The Argument, which published a fairly widely read article hilariously entitled “I don’t need you to believe I’m a woman” by a man calling himself “Cassie” Pritchard.
The full piece is here:
https://kathighsmith.substack.com/p/they-know-they-are-losing
Meanwhile, Kara Dansky reports on a journalist from a leftie leaning journal, The Seattle Times who resigned after he was prevented from publishing a piece about two teenage girls turning up at a basketball game to support Sophie Cunningham:
https://karadansky.substack.com/p/have-journalists-had-enough-of-the
On Reality’s Last Stand Robert Deaner and Mike Lombardo look at the greater throwing ability of men as opposed to women:
Aug 19, 2026
Robert Deaner, PhD, is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Grand Valley State University. His research uses an evolutionary perspective to illuminate sex differences and their portrayal.
Mike Lombardo, PhD, is a Professor Emeritus of Biology at Grand Valley State University. His research interests include the evolution of sports and throwing in humans and cooperation and behavioral ecology in birds.
The phrase “throw like a girl” is a crude stereotype, but, like many stereotypes, it contains more than a grain of truth. In fact, the sex difference in overhand throwing is one of the largest behavioral sex differences ever measured.
Psychologists typically express group differences in standard deviations. Among young children, boys outperform girls in throwing distance and velocity by about 1.5 standard deviations. The gap widens across childhood and adolescence. By late adolescence and adulthood, estimates are generally around two standard deviations or greater. Thomas and French’s classic meta-analysis remains a useful starting point for examining this sex difference.
A difference of two standard deviations is roughly the same magnitude as the familiar adult sex difference in height. It means that the average man throws as well as or better than about 98 percent of women.
The raw numbers make the point just as clearly. In one study of young adults, men threw a tennis ball at an average velocity of 29.4 meters per second, compared with 18.6 meters per second for women. In other words, the women averaged about 63 percent of the men’s throwing velocity. At elite levels, the sex difference remains large. In modern track and field competition, men throw the javelin about 30 percent farther than women despite using a heavier javelin. The sex difference in javelin performance is therefore substantially larger than the familiar male advantages in running and jumping events.
These are group averages, not rules about individuals. The distributions overlap, some girls and women throw extremely well, and training matters. Nonetheless, the sex difference is large, appears well before puberty, and generally increases with age.
The full piece is here:
https://www.realityslaststand.com/p/throwing-like-a-girl-is-biology-allowed
From Petal
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