Posts by mark taslov
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Hard News: The better place, in reply to Tom Semmens,
If that’s your only quibble with the article then it appears to have achieved what it set out to, but if we’re going there:
Inquiries have revealed the nomination carried the names of current National MP Jian Yang, former National MP Eric Roy and Auckland mayor Phil Goff.
Which is not so much to dispute your point as to unpack it.
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You’ve indicated you have some expertise in this area Neil, yet without qualifying that, your responses appear to be very much in keeping with the populist ableist Trump era pastime of armchair diagnosis, which experts maintain – beyond a clinical setting is an "amateur error" – in some posts you’ve claimed he’s categorically “not unwell” in others you’ve maintained he suffers from NPD – a diagnosis contingent on:
behaviors also must cause clinically significant distress or impairment.
Further to that I’m having difficulty consolidating the absolutist idea that there is no way a political party could influence these processes:
Secondly, there is no way a political party could influence that process. That allegation is a very nasty and ignorant smear against health professionals and does a great disservice to mental health.
while also maintaining that considerable thought has gone into (one might assume successfully) influencing this process:
There’s been considerable thought given to this strategy of misusing the mental health system to portray Ross as a victim and allow him to continue his odious behaviour.
While maintaining that Ross has full agency – which may or may not be the case – your contribuions to this thread have at almost ever point retained an uneven singular focus on Ross himself to the point of distraction from the role the National Party have (by their own admission) played at seemingly every step of the way in faciliating the current state of affairs. Could I ask you to expand on this a little further?
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to simon g,
I saw that, but you know i’m far too polite and mostly wrong so…
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Hard News: That escalated quickly ..., in reply to mark taslov,
As for banning unnecessary state sanctioned and funded genital mutilation on intersex infants – there is still no word as to whether the Government has or will ratify the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child’s recommendations
Never one to let facts get in the way of a good story:
Trump set to abolish intersex people
memo was recently leaked from the Department of Health and Human Services. In it, the HHS defines sex as a binary determined by chromosomes (presumed to come in only two forms, XX or XY), and states that sex cannot be changed.
versus science
Results: Evaluation of the Y chromosome in the daughter and both parents revealed that the daughter inherited her Y chromosome from her father. Molecular analysis of the genes SOX9, SF1, DMRT1, DMRT3, TSPYL, BPESC1, DHH, WNT4, SRY, and DAX1 revealed normal male coding sequences in both the mother and daughter. An extensive family pedigree across four generations revealed multiple other family members with ambiguous genitalia and infertility in both phenotypic males and females, and the mode of inheritance of the phenotype was strongly suggestive of X-linkage.
timing is everything.
First and foremost, we recommend avoidance of harmful or unnecessary genital surgery on infants and children. No surgery should be performed unless it is absolutely necessary for the physical health and comfort of the intersexual child. We believe any surgery that does not meet these criteria to be essentially elective cosmetic surgery which should be deferred until the intersexual child is able to understand the risks and benefits of the proposed surgery and is able to provide appropriately informed consent.
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Neil,
I’ve no idea whether you have a reliable source or whether what you’re dolling out here is unsubstantiated ableism but I’m deeply troubled at your efforts to erase Jami-Lee Matenga Ross’s whakapapa.
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Simon Lusk and right wing blogger Cameron Slater
Brings to mind "who needs enemies with friends like these".
I’m also very much troubled by:
A National Party spokesman said Ross’ mental health concerns had been “taken seriously” over the past several weeks and medical professionals had been involved.
“That has included seeking advice from medical professionals and involving police wherever necessary to ensure support is made available to Mr Ross."
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He claimed mental illness when he is not unwell
Ableist armchair diagnoses aside, I’m reluctant to categorically dismiss questions about anomalies in the management of our mental health system as being anything but abslutely vital, and neither is this Government, with good reason.
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Neil,
a great disservice to mental health.
Also this.
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Katharine Moody,
wasn’t party hierarchy
It’s all much of a muchness from where I sit, in a ‘the enemy of my enemy is my friend’ sense. Thank you for sharing. Certainly Simpson’s effort there was nothing to sneeze at:
Simpson: Yes, but it depends on when we – in the sense of the viewers – just get bored with it. Basically, what we’re hearing is that this man can’t be trusted. So that’s what’s coming through, versus, sort of, secret, recorded, hidden tape recordings, blah blah blah. It’s like, ‘Well, actually, we don’t trust you.’
and may turn out to be quite prescient:
So if you want to remove rot from within Parliament…Bit of a media circus over the next couple of weeks, and then it just slowly dies down, and he just goes into oblivion.
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Katharine Moody,
Over the past year
I was just thinking about that too, it’s any wonder how long these testimonies might have been kept under wraps had push not come to shove. I see Andrew Geddis’ piece has been updated.