Bill Maher gets one thing very right
I can’t bear this kind of overwritten, stilted monologue—and the unironic use of “Karens” and putting the worst joke in the fucking headline— but I’m going to ask you to look past all that and watch Bill Maher here. Imperfect as it is, it’s a bit of an “at long last, have you no decency” moment.
Of course, gender ideology is but a part of The Left’s current descent into insanity, but I think it’s kind of chained to it by now. There’s no golden bridge for people like Owen Jones, Adrian Harrop and David Paisley. They’ve invested everything in this. Currently, Paisley is monitoring Twitter and taking down any account that tweets a link with a photograph of him in it. As a subscriber pointed out, is there another actor in the world who wants fewer photographs of himself out there?
This whole movement is being found out for what it is. Shocking stories are tumbling in by the day, the latest so extraordinary that I feel ignoring it would amount to something of a war crime against women.
I’m not even talking about Gwent, which we’ve barely had time to process. I’m talking about Nicola Murray’s visit from the police.
I don’t even know where to begin with this one. But I know where it ends. With that abusive man out of Rape Crisis Scotland. How dare he call the police on that woman?
To return to comedy and Bill Maher for a moment. He’s dead right about the audience response. The partisan hacks in comedy who have been quietly supporting cancel culture and the misogyny it enables better start making smart investments. Their dishonesty won’t be tolerated by audiences forever. Stewart Lee.
The man from Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre calls the police on almost everyone. In the piece about Nicola Murray they quote him saying how many times he reports 'hate crimes' but nothing happens. Well, just maybe that's because it's not worthy of action, Mridul. And what he's doing is inflating the 'hate crime' stats so he can then be shocked by the incredibly high number of 'hate' crimes against trans people. Castles in the air.
Took a look at Edinburgh Rape Crisis webpage. In the section titled “What is sexual violence”, it’s noted that violence can take many forms, including sexual harassment. Also, “sexual violence is any kind of unwanted sexual behaviour. It is an abuse of power and a form of control which causes humiliation, pain, fear and intimidation.” Hhhmmmm.
And … “you are not responsible for anyone else’s feelings”. Except — for his of course. Hence, his call for women to re-frame their antediluvian, and oh-so-un-woke rejection, of post-rape counselling with a male.
Also, from the website. “Sometimes it can be hard to name something as sexual violence. We may feel in our gut that it is wrong, or feel deeply unhappy, disturbed and worried by what has happened, but not want to name is as violence or use words associated with sexual violence.”
Another hhhmmmmm.
And sexual violence is further described: “In reality it can be far more subtle, however just because something was verbal, happened online, or was committed by someone you know, doesn’t mean it is any less frightening or violating – nor does it mean that you are any less deserving of support.”
Once again, hhhmmmmm.
If, one of the tenets of Gender Ideology states that “incorrect” pronoun use is literal violence, potentially leading to death, I don’t think it’s overstating the situation to say that a man, masquerading as a woman, heading up and making policy decisions for a woman’s rape crisis centre, gaslighting and attempting to control rape vicitims’ reality, calling police on women repeatedly (as he freely, and almost sighing at the tediousness of it all, admits), well, he just might need to take a good look at some of the key definitions on his website.