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The kid involved at Loudon was found guilty today.

https://open.spotify.com/track/30aRriqqaUbDN1mkTwMRhB?si=64609b87d1434e53

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....and just like that the BBC is transphobic!

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Wow, a bunch of men and their female lackeys automatically and without examination of any kind disbelieve and refute multiple women’s accounts of abuse and rape. Glad to see things never change.

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Brilliant, Graham. The BBC wakes up and does some journalism. Finally.

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I'm upset to realise that I am absolutely, unrepentantly homophobic! I'm a straight male who refuses to have sex with other men, simply because they are men!!!

How dare I exclude half the population based on my regressive genital prejudices??

That is the logic here! When did staying in a coercive relationship start being a womans obligation?

To misquote the wonderful Rex Landy: "They can Fuck Off. They can Fuck Off until they can't fuck off any more, then they can fuck off some more..."

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It’s *so* interesting that a change of policy at the BBC (presumably from high up?) has such rapid and wide-reaching effects. We all know how craven and captured most big tech is (Twitter, Google, … er the online-only Independent) but all that ranting is just ripples in a small pond of stale piss. Now that the BBC is catching up with some newspapers (Times, Telegraph, even the Daily Mail) in covering this in a *clear* way, the public won’t have it. The BBC article actually spelled out what the “cotton ceiling” refers to. And any sane person will be completely repelled by it.

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The reaction of TRAs is straight from the eternal patriarchal script of questioning women making allegations of rape/sexual assault.

Gaslight, ridicule and accuse them of lying.

Too many lefties signed up without reading the smallprint. Now locked in unless willing to pay price of cancelling contract.

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This is carbon copy of reaction to women who reported rape and sexual assault back in the 50s. They were asking for it, they were too ugly for anyone to want to rape them, it didn't happen, it was wishful thinking, they were man-haters, they deserved it, they were lesbian and needed to be raped. They're screaming their woman-hatred from the rooftops.

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Oh, Rachel...transwomen are men and statistically they're the ones doing all the raping.

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Wouldn't it have been nice if just one of those people had said something thoughtful? Something that suggests that, just maybe, what they support gives some men camouflage to assault and rape women who dare to make themselves unavailable to men. Something that suggests a little bit of humility. I know that some of them will be backpedaling like fury in a few weeks time, but it would have been good to see some neurons engaging now.

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Hopefully this is the first of a whole load of chickens coming home to roost at the BBC - they have had a huge amount of influence with their various broadcast pieces.

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Oct 26, 2021Liked by mole at the counter

I’ve just left positive feedback at the BBC for the article- I’m worried the only people they going to hear from are TRAs.

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"... the institutionally transphobic BBC..."

If you pander to a cult (as the BBC has been doing), then you raise an issue about that cult, the cult is not going to appreciate your support and factor that into a measured and reasonable response to your concern. It's going to think you were once on the side of good and now you're on the side of evil (and that you always were). It's binary; there are no grey areas and raising issues and asking questions threatens the whole belief system.

Anyway, we are where we are and thankfully the BBC seems to be (slowly, finally) figuring it out.

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When are trans people going to figure out that 99.9% of the population is not interested in sex with raging narcissists?

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Now “believe all women” means all women have to be claiming men are doing something.

80 victims just can’t be believed.

What court of law would accept a mere 80 witnesses?

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How odd that now the BBC is twansphobic seeing that for the last 5-6 years they have been pushing the T agenda including getting behind the transing of kids willynilly - seems that now the cognitive dissonance has reached epic narc proportions.

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