Ida Clemens
@idaclemens.bsky.social
a nice person. leftist liberal & liberal leftist. follow me for my correct political takes and then get disappointed when i just shitpost about gender. pseudonym b/c I work at a law firm
yeah. (1) TNG was still syndicated and easy to find on cable in the 00s, and (2) i was the only "dude" i knew who liked it.
December 4, 2025 at 11:23 PM
yeah. (1) TNG was still syndicated and easy to find on cable in the 00s, and (2) i was the only "dude" i knew who liked it.
i'm really looking forward to Peter losing his shit as you make him read excerpt after excerpt of this
December 4, 2025 at 9:49 PM
i'm really looking forward to Peter losing his shit as you make him read excerpt after excerpt of this
Reposted by Ida Clemens
I’ve said this for many years and I’ll keep saying it: for all that I believe trans women are women, we would matter even if we weren’t. We would belong in feminism even if we weren’t. We would deserve to have others stand with us even if we weren’t.
December 4, 2025 at 1:17 AM
I’ve said this for many years and I’ll keep saying it: for all that I believe trans women are women, we would matter even if we weren’t. We would belong in feminism even if we weren’t. We would deserve to have others stand with us even if we weren’t.
that would literally require running the table, winning every single Senate race. a girl can dream but yeah
December 3, 2025 at 4:39 PM
that would literally require running the table, winning every single Senate race. a girl can dream but yeah
The way the system is supposed to work is improving access to employment equality justice by having the govt prosecute complaints; your right to bring a private lawsuit is meant to be a last resort if the EEOC proceeding doesn't bear fruit. Finding (and paying) a lawyer to bring a claim is hard!
December 3, 2025 at 3:44 PM
The way the system is supposed to work is improving access to employment equality justice by having the govt prosecute complaints; your right to bring a private lawsuit is meant to be a last resort if the EEOC proceeding doesn't bear fruit. Finding (and paying) a lawyer to bring a claim is hard!
it is literally the same thing. Respecting the democratic will of the population requires who that population is, and in this case the only reasonable answer is "the first settlers of a previously uninhabited island" over "the nationalists hundreds of miles away with proximity-based imperial claim"
December 2, 2025 at 8:19 PM
it is literally the same thing. Respecting the democratic will of the population requires who that population is, and in this case the only reasonable answer is "the first settlers of a previously uninhabited island" over "the nationalists hundreds of miles away with proximity-based imperial claim"
True. Looking forward to your amicus brief that says that the federal government can't discipline employee A for making a sexual comment about employee B to employee C, because as a one-off event not intended for her to hear, it wasn't sexual harassment.
December 1, 2025 at 11:18 PM
True. Looking forward to your amicus brief that says that the federal government can't discipline employee A for making a sexual comment about employee B to employee C, because as a one-off event not intended for her to hear, it wasn't sexual harassment.
I don't think this addresses your critics, because the question then becomes: where is the mass of litigation attacking school discipline and anti-bullying programs writ large?
It is obvious school have some authority to impose civility beyond preventing direct bullying, so why the straightjacket?
It is obvious school have some authority to impose civility beyond preventing direct bullying, so why the straightjacket?
December 1, 2025 at 10:49 PM
I don't think this addresses your critics, because the question then becomes: where is the mass of litigation attacking school discipline and anti-bullying programs writ large?
It is obvious school have some authority to impose civility beyond preventing direct bullying, so why the straightjacket?
It is obvious school have some authority to impose civility beyond preventing direct bullying, so why the straightjacket?
So in essence, you're saying there is no hostile workplace equivalent when it comes to bullying. Students can say whatever they want about other students as long as it's not directed at them and "intended" to directly hurt them.
December 1, 2025 at 10:48 PM
So in essence, you're saying there is no hostile workplace equivalent when it comes to bullying. Students can say whatever they want about other students as long as it's not directed at them and "intended" to directly hurt them.
If we replace the misgendering in your hypos with racial slurs, is that bullying?
December 1, 2025 at 9:49 PM
If we replace the misgendering in your hypos with racial slurs, is that bullying?
sorry, I'm mostly triggered from my years in the Terrible Essay Grading Trenches and I will also be viciously on the side of any teacher who wants to give a crappy paper a 0
December 1, 2025 at 6:50 PM
sorry, I'm mostly triggered from my years in the Terrible Essay Grading Trenches and I will also be viciously on the side of any teacher who wants to give a crappy paper a 0
While I do not agree, perhaps a compromise would be to have someone who is not the Unreasonable Thing Who Cannot Be Objective About Their Very Existence grade the paper.
Which happened here, and the second grader agreed with the zero.
Which happened here, and the second grader agreed with the zero.
December 1, 2025 at 6:46 PM
While I do not agree, perhaps a compromise would be to have someone who is not the Unreasonable Thing Who Cannot Be Objective About Their Very Existence grade the paper.
Which happened here, and the second grader agreed with the zero.
Which happened here, and the second grader agreed with the zero.
I am always on the side of teachers who give out harsh grades to meritless work, actually. Teaching English in China did not make me sympathetic to lazy students, let me tell you
December 1, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I am always on the side of teachers who give out harsh grades to meritless work, actually. Teaching English in China did not make me sympathetic to lazy students, let me tell you
tweet 1: "how dare you imply transphobia is involved"
tweet 3: "of course it's reasonable to assume that a trans person would be unable to grade an offensive paper objectively"
jesus christ.
tweet 3: "of course it's reasonable to assume that a trans person would be unable to grade an offensive paper objectively"
jesus christ.
December 1, 2025 at 6:38 PM
tweet 1: "how dare you imply transphobia is involved"
tweet 3: "of course it's reasonable to assume that a trans person would be unable to grade an offensive paper objectively"
jesus christ.
tweet 3: "of course it's reasonable to assume that a trans person would be unable to grade an offensive paper objectively"
jesus christ.
You are not using it as the injury! You are using it as evidence! You are saying overly zealous and harsh grading is evidence of viewpoint discrimination!
As someone who has taught English and graded large quantities of low quality student work, this is stupid.
As someone who has taught English and graded large quantities of low quality student work, this is stupid.
December 1, 2025 at 6:28 PM
You are not using it as the injury! You are using it as evidence! You are saying overly zealous and harsh grading is evidence of viewpoint discrimination!
As someone who has taught English and graded large quantities of low quality student work, this is stupid.
As someone who has taught English and graded large quantities of low quality student work, this is stupid.
It is not, actually.
What's completely ridiculous is arguing that a subjectively graded paper receiving 0 points out of 35, instead of 1 to 5 points out of 30, makes a constitutional violation. If it is, then such constitutional violations are omnipresent in our system and never prosecuted.
What's completely ridiculous is arguing that a subjectively graded paper receiving 0 points out of 35, instead of 1 to 5 points out of 30, makes a constitutional violation. If it is, then such constitutional violations are omnipresent in our system and never prosecuted.
December 1, 2025 at 6:21 PM
It is not, actually.
What's completely ridiculous is arguing that a subjectively graded paper receiving 0 points out of 35, instead of 1 to 5 points out of 30, makes a constitutional violation. If it is, then such constitutional violations are omnipresent in our system and never prosecuted.
What's completely ridiculous is arguing that a subjectively graded paper receiving 0 points out of 35, instead of 1 to 5 points out of 30, makes a constitutional violation. If it is, then such constitutional violations are omnipresent in our system and never prosecuted.
The reflexive "how dare you imply I might be bigoted" from cis men who grew up in a time when it was common for media to openly mock trans women as freakish monsters is a huge tell that they have not even begun to reckon with their subconscious prejudices, fyi
December 1, 2025 at 6:15 PM
The reflexive "how dare you imply I might be bigoted" from cis men who grew up in a time when it was common for media to openly mock trans women as freakish monsters is a huge tell that they have not even begun to reckon with their subconscious prejudices, fyi
she didn't say he is "anti-trans."
If you don't think the involvement of trans people or trans issues does not have the ability to cloud the judgment of people who are not open bigots ... you are wrong. Our society is transphobic! It was even worse 20+ years ago! Of course it affects everyone!
If you don't think the involvement of trans people or trans issues does not have the ability to cloud the judgment of people who are not open bigots ... you are wrong. Our society is transphobic! It was even worse 20+ years ago! Of course it affects everyone!
December 1, 2025 at 6:13 PM
she didn't say he is "anti-trans."
If you don't think the involvement of trans people or trans issues does not have the ability to cloud the judgment of people who are not open bigots ... you are wrong. Our society is transphobic! It was even worse 20+ years ago! Of course it affects everyone!
If you don't think the involvement of trans people or trans issues does not have the ability to cloud the judgment of people who are not open bigots ... you are wrong. Our society is transphobic! It was even worse 20+ years ago! Of course it affects everyone!
Prof. Kreis does not seem to understand that teachers are not normally expected to hunt for points to give to a pile of obviously wrong off-topic bullshit; his viewpoint is skewed by being a professor at a law school with lax admissions requirements
December 1, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Prof. Kreis does not seem to understand that teachers are not normally expected to hunt for points to give to a pile of obviously wrong off-topic bullshit; his viewpoint is skewed by being a professor at a law school with lax admissions requirements