The overuse of “epidemic” began long before Covid-19, often to describe a claimed injustice. In Unherd, the mother of a trans young-adult dives into the statistics on the “epidemic of trans murders.” Tish Still instead finds a story perpetuated from largely isolated incidents not explicitly connected to transphobia.
The Frigid Isle
Íris Erlingsdóttir shines a light on the world’s first wholly feminized state. Women, she writes in The European Conservative, run everything in Iceland: “the presidency, the prime minister’s office…[the] national state church…schools, municipalities, police…newsrooms and [the] ever-expanding public bureaucracy.” As for the men, Erlingsdóttir observes, they describe themselves ruefully as (bad-taste alert) “pussy-whipped.”
