I think the real thing with this is that caving affects far more people than just your members. I genuinely do get why trustees don't want to be made personally liable for legal losses or whatever, but also this is a hammer blow for a community both orgs recognise are already going through it.

I guess smaller charities are less likely to have the kind of very risk averse legal teams these bigger groups have? But still.

Unless, I suppose, a group of trans women take the Guides or the WI to court - which is better optics for the charities, probably, but means those women will inevitably have their lives destroyed by the press and the GC crowd.

You can't say 'it was fishing for a zero so shouldn't have got one' because that only makes sense now it's a viral news story.

But there was a 10 mark deduction for being underlength, which the paper deliberately was. Unless you think the essay as written is worth more than 10/25 (which is v hard to justify), it's a zero. The paper was written to receive a zero according to rubric and then start this debate to attack the TA

Yup

Plus if it /does/ go further it will for some reason generate front page news about cancel culture like when that anchor changed 'pregnant people' to 'women' in a direct quote.

I want to complain about this but also I'm not sure I have the mental fortitude to get another email saying 'thanks for your comments, we've reviewed this and we think it's fine, actually. We value your feedback and have shared it in reports to management' or whatever.

I've always been quite taken by the (rather unflattering) story of him gnawing off part of a relic of St. Mary Magdalene and then justifying it like 'if this morning I handled and chewed the body of our Lord, why should I not treat the bones of the Saints in the same way'.

The gender politics of 'What is Wrong with the World' are /wild/

I think there's something about valuing things like community in the abstract, so you end up with these romanticised ideas of what they might look like that inevitably coincide with nationalist myths rather than, like, actual material solidarity

Weirdly I got Hooker as a placeholder - apparently my spread of answers doesn't map onto anyone well enough?