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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: ...!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!feeds.news.ox.ac.uk!news.ox.ac.uk!nntp-feed.chiark.greenend.org.uk!ewrotcd!.POSTED.chiark.greenend.org.uk!not-for-mail From: Jethro_uk Newsgroups: uk.legal.moderated Subject: Re: Meaning of "a woman" in the Equality Act Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2025 16:46:02 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Approved: uk.legal.moderated approval key Message-ID: References: <9745341570.726a2863@uninhabited.net> <0888421877.d04facc7@uninhabited.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2025 18:46:18 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: chiark.greenend.org.uk; posting-host="chiark.greenend.org.uk:93.93.131.173"; logging-data="7480"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@chiark.greenend.org.uk" User-Agent: Pan/0.146 (Hic habitat felicitas; 8107378 git@gitlab.gnome.org:GNOME/pan.git) Cancel-Lock: sha1:1TeFoPBx9Fv9GFOizvPwVLLoz4k= X-Moderation: [174499479827783] See https://uklegal.weebly.com/ Received-SPF: pass (mailhub-cam-d.mythic-beasts.com: domain of eternal-september.org designates 2a01:4f9:c010:ad8c::1 as permitted sender) client-ip=2a01:4f9:c010:ad8c::1; envelope-from=news@eternal-september.org; helo=smtp.eternal-september.org; Authentication-Results: name/ADCA4609D9; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=hotmailbin.com X-No-Archive: Yes X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX19jRoU72XTVE/vD/pdqqnmLDEoOGFSGbsHz+1RmtP7Olw== X-Mythic-Source-External: YES X-BlackCat-Spam-Score: 0 X-BlackCat-To: usenet-uk-legal-moderated@usenet.org.uk X-Mythic-Originator: uid-1081-on-lynx.mythic-beasts.com X-STUMP-Warning-0: Unfolded headers Received: Received: Received: Received: Received: Received: Received: User-Agent: X-Spam-Checker-Version: X-Auth: PGPMoose V2.0 PGP uk.legal.moderated iQEzBAEBCgAdFiEEfWu6wfyjzX88oocanSrwpvmn4x4FAmgCmnYACgkQnSrwpvmn 4x7CLgf+KOJkSwaVaWK1800HP3yb1Q5E3yJnhV8pfIq2h77kx2Fxx4pjClsWeWmO HNCiewRmiBA7QDkQ22xAyq37+N2gP5yemyFSC6KaDC/sRa5E8BbRyJjpKkYgRln2 qIdL6gGQxVgOjoxkMvkUSzRkRdHXSb6GGpdfeBh2N1OOZE2DdLKaf6XmP/V3sYoC YwH6nTOn4UfEm+CqHRCY1oJHsEa/zKxC5pCwbnsBIotnr7VbRvW7puxkKFVh6nhx bAu6Tkxe36WI/u5iUjqD07wWWnrSqGWf2Dm8ynQJC67gKAz43VNFvGduurtckL1B vMwh5Kgxbz729+uH5A7S7E+GHlC7jw== =Jf9A Originator: webstump@chiark.greenend.org.uk ([93.93.131.173]) Bytes: 4104 Lines: 32 On Fri, 18 Apr 2025 12:20:43 +0100, Max Demian wrote: > On 17/04/2025 16:57, GB wrote: >> On 17/04/2025 11:12, Jethro_uk wrote: > >>> Plenty of online forms make it impossible to evade the question by not >>> providing an option to say "I do not believe in all this bollocks" - >>> which "prefer not to say" doesn't allow for. >>> >>> I strongly resent being gerrymandered into a position where it >>> *appears* >>> I have tacitly agreed to a philosophy that I do not recognise. >> >> You are "against pronouns", yet virtually every sentence in your posts >> contains pronouns. I challenge you to post for a day without using any >> pronouns! > > Clearly the pp is objecting to the requirement to use the pronouns that > his interlocutor specifies, with refusal perhaps leading to loss of job > or even arrest (both of which appear to have occurred in the recent > past). > > Like someone insisting on being addressed a "His Majesty" (which I don't > think our King can do). If I were ever to meet the King, he'd be plain Mr. Windsor to me. I have a vague memory that he's known to be quite unstuffy over such things. (I'd be less fastidious over calling someone "Sir firstname" - I have no problem with *an* honours system. Just the current one is shit.)