Pissphoria feat. Abigail Thorn
It's the free one!
For this week’s free episode, Riley, Milo, Hussein, and November join special guest Abigail Thorn (@PhilosophyTube) to discuss three disparate incidents in the UK that expose the relentless march of the War on Being Normal. That’s right—three incidents in British politics that show the implacably deranged tenor of anti-trans politics in Britain, a position fully accepted by both major parties and the entirety of the media. And yet its proponents are miserable and convinced there’s a grand conspiracy where every single organisation on earth that doesn’t share 100 percent of their views has been infiltrated by their enemies. This sounds weirdly familiar, but if you say that out loud then Rosie Duffield gets to call an airstrike on you (we don’t make the rules).
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Coming back to this and remembering Abi's trans missile gap take
The piss guy in the Berghain bathroom being made to blind taste urine from an assortment of both cis and trans people of varying gender: The Judgement of Berlin
Abi Thorne always brings her A-game to the pod, in a way that elevates the rest of the cast. The vegetables tasted so good today
They can't make the field editable or your sex will spontaneously become "4"
A trans woman that's too cold? Who could've predicted this?
Abby, did you get your idea for that movie from the Van Helsing episode of Kill James Bond?
When hussein said he lost a debate with a child I was holding a cup of tea and I had to set it down because I was laughing so hard I was sloshing it all over my hand and the floor.
I won't get turned on during winter unless you pump me full of oil and start a fire under my gearbox
Gotta say, I was not expecting November to actually pull the trigger and go through with the name change. Good for her.
Cracking up in the office at the Soviet neovagina bit
The thing about the sports desk at the guardian not getting the same transphobia memo as the rest of the paper. The chief sports reporter sean ingle is v transphobic and does a lot of protect women's sports stuff. Pleasantly surprised the Liewe article actually got published
oh, and this is the first post I see after finally subscribing. Abby is my imperatrix <3
Long time listener first time caller. I'm an artist and here are some of my savoury energy drinks (from previous art projects) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5b0d1837cef37282be611230/t/5fada06e162257496b2f125a/1605214378149/RACE_ThermacanPosterScrmnt4U_wb.jpg https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5b0d1837cef37282be611230/t/5fada11803633f064689ea9b/1605214551354/RACE_ThermacanPosterFOWL_wb.jpg
Why can't the AI That Turns You Into A Paperclip do double duty and pilot the mecha?
Love the well known british tech company ay are em
Her video essay are fantastic, but It's always a remarkable just how razor sharp Abby is on politics unscripted
I love Hussein being (literal) dollar-store Ben Shapiro, debating a child and losing.
Cis woman finishing 12th place in the park run and accusing the stout woman in 11th place of pussy doping
Hussain lives an incredible life
Hussein is so adorable
i LOVE how passionate and thorough Riley is about informing the public about the fees increasing the Patreon payment. genuinely.
Nova “Spitfire” Kelly sounds good as hell 🫡
Considering what I heard in the Havilland Comet episode I think she prefers Nova "Mosquito" Kelly. But spitfire would be fine too. At least it's not a Lancaster.
As someone who has been getting my shirt off and hitting my fellow sportsmen with a fold away argos chair for many a year, I welcome the trans men to the patio and offer them the disgarded fag that Jezz dropped with honours 🎖
No one tell the transphobes that I came first in women 30-35 at my local parkrun last weekend
With the sports bans, lots of sports are saying that we are banned unless we "completed transition before age 12", which means even Kim Petras wouldn't be eligible to compete.
As someone who had multiple hip surgeries, I regret those way more than coming out, the concept of pushy doctors is nonexist in the gender clinics, but it’s alive and well in the orthopaedics department…
Abbey is on? Its a mega episode
Abi it's been raining here. Hope this doesn't impact the shoot. (Like nuclear reactors and bullets, we don't react well to rain.)
LA native - had to speak up to say it’s no joy driving here - just the frustration of traffic. It’s why we measure distance in time.
I can’t wait until poly thinkpieces make it to the UK. It will be terrible in a new way. As a former tutor and someone who is now dealing with my friends’ small children, I deeply sympathize with “No, I failed to convince the child”.
Also Nova's "red wine energy drink" bit reminded me of my university study mix of choice being literally red wine and Dr Pepper. I got a 2:2
Congrats on independently reinventing kalimotxo.
I worked at a gas station in a shitty American commuter town for a bit and it was fucking depressing how many Juul pods I had to sell to clearly *just* overage high schoolers for them to flog them to freshmen
"I once again lost a debate to a child." warrants a laugh crying emoji, but our humble hosts have robbed the self-conscious hogs of indulging in such simple pleasures.
Imagine the future as Keir Starmer throwing a fig at a teenager drinking an energy drink, forever EDIT: A trans teenager on their phone.
It's so funny hearing Abi say that she doesn't know who ARM is, when she voice acted in a low-spec gamer video about ARM a year ago.
Abigail is always a treat when she’s on