Yes, I had noticed that my attention span has been reduced, not least because I need the constant dopamine of another podcast from Jimmy Dore or Tim Pool or Steve Turley or The Hill etc. As such my reading right now is a very lightweight collection of Jim Walsh’s journalism on Minneapolis and its music scene, and the somewhat more heavyweight collected prose of Zbigniew Herbert. Good job I finally got around to, and finished, Dostoevsky’s ‘Devils’ just before this whole thing really kicked off.

Every time I read the expression ‘Muslim feminist’ I’m amazed that it is accepted in mainstream articles and news reports.
Muslim ideology is based on the Quran, anyone who reads that will find that the expression ‘Muslim feminist’ is a contraction in terms, an oxymoron. It’s as if the term ‘ ‘feminist’ has lost all meaning.

What’s happening? It’s like the term ‘woman’ is now no longer a sufficient descriptor; it now needs to be qualified: cis-woman or trans-woman. Or, for cis-women, we can happily now also use ‘people with a cervix’. On the road to lucidity and sanity we are not.

Perhaps One rational position about the Muslim movement, I’m quite sure they still recognise ‘woman’ as a word that is sufficient on its own. How fantastically ironic!