Yes "Hats off to Harry" - you are wonderful also (acknowledgements to Maceo Parker, for the musical accompanimen in my head). Every day I am encountering such superb new super-heros and suoer-heroines, who are all such powerful warriors defending truth against dangerous dogma
Loved Barry's video. Whittome should watch it and realise the LGB+ "community" is divided - between actual same-sex or bi attracted people and the fetishists and tourists who get fashion and personality mixed up with sexuality and reality.
In fairness to historical Jolyon Maugham, that genuinely was sex discrimination — men can be typists. To assume/require that a secretary must be a woman is very sexist.
I’m not going to defend his more recent misogynistic and fox-hostile antics, of course!
Not impressed with his 65 wpm! I used to type 120 wpm and proofread the text at the same time. My mother typed over 100 wpm in the days before electric typewriters.
Now for seriousness: Did the firm have a hiring quota? And he bypassed it by pretending to be female? I can't believe that a firm is so backward in the U.K. that they wouldn't hire a male for a typing job. ?????
Agreed. At my private technical college in California circa 1988, the accounting students only needed to prove a minimum speed of 40WPM. Secretarial students were required to prove at 60WPM minimum, and were told that was an absolute minimum requirement, as most of their graduates were at 80WPM+. Students who typed 100+ were always referred to court reporting courses, as the compensation and career advancement potential was greater, for those who were interested. His speed wasn’t actually very fast, but barely met U.S. industry standard. I find it difficult to believe that the U.K.’s standard was lower!
The latest Marc Maron WTF podcast with James Acaster just dropped and ends disappointingly.
Two white men going after Rowling and Chappelle for their lack of empathy with men's rights. Not a moments pause to consider the racism, sexism & violence they may have suffered that leads them to question how black lives and women's lives remain valued below men's lives.
They start with woke comedy at about 1h18m and it goes onto Rowling at 1h25m
Apparently Rowling said "go fuck yourself", deliberately antagonises the trans community, is comparable to Thanos as a character who is deluded about being good but actually being a villain and is mistaken in "thinking" she's a victim.
I’ve subscribed. Thank you Glinner for being in this with us.
Barry’s piece is outstanding- hanging on his every word I nearly stopped breathing.
We are all in hell and need to climb out
Yes "Hats off to Harry" - you are wonderful also (acknowledgements to Maceo Parker, for the musical accompanimen in my head). Every day I am encountering such superb new super-heros and suoer-heroines, who are all such powerful warriors defending truth against dangerous dogma
Loved Barry's video. Whittome should watch it and realise the LGB+ "community" is divided - between actual same-sex or bi attracted people and the fetishists and tourists who get fashion and personality mixed up with sexuality and reality.
Thank you Glinner xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Those cards...pure commercialism.
Nadia Whittome MP
Aidan Comerford
Jolyn Maughan
Oh lord none of them can change my mind!
Ideology will never override biology.
EDIJester is a treasure.
In fairness to historical Jolyon Maugham, that genuinely was sex discrimination — men can be typists. To assume/require that a secretary must be a woman is very sexist.
I’m not going to defend his more recent misogynistic and fox-hostile antics, of course!
Not impressed with his 65 wpm! I used to type 120 wpm and proofread the text at the same time. My mother typed over 100 wpm in the days before electric typewriters.
Now for seriousness: Did the firm have a hiring quota? And he bypassed it by pretending to be female? I can't believe that a firm is so backward in the U.K. that they wouldn't hire a male for a typing job. ?????
Agreed. At my private technical college in California circa 1988, the accounting students only needed to prove a minimum speed of 40WPM. Secretarial students were required to prove at 60WPM minimum, and were told that was an absolute minimum requirement, as most of their graduates were at 80WPM+. Students who typed 100+ were always referred to court reporting courses, as the compensation and career advancement potential was greater, for those who were interested. His speed wasn’t actually very fast, but barely met U.S. industry standard. I find it difficult to believe that the U.K.’s standard was lower!
The latest Marc Maron WTF podcast with James Acaster just dropped and ends disappointingly.
Two white men going after Rowling and Chappelle for their lack of empathy with men's rights. Not a moments pause to consider the racism, sexism & violence they may have suffered that leads them to question how black lives and women's lives remain valued below men's lives.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-1353-james-acaster/id329875043?i=1000574972986
They start with woke comedy at about 1h18m and it goes onto Rowling at 1h25m
Apparently Rowling said "go fuck yourself", deliberately antagonises the trans community, is comparable to Thanos as a character who is deluded about being good but actually being a villain and is mistaken in "thinking" she's a victim.