This week! Protest the University of Cork’s homophobia. Is Andrew Doyle the only broadcaster who cares about women? He’s certainly the only one speaking to certain key figures in this debate. The BBC, meanwhile, is still grooming its audience while pretending the conflicts don’t exist.
Jeremy Vine was discussing non crime hate incidents this week. He said he’d never heard of them before. Also the people phoning in (or allowed to air views) weren’t up to speed on this at all. Andrew Doyle is a hero. GB news gets so much stick
Yes, fully agree. I do so admire AD. Where would we be without him? People do have an unfortunate (but understandable) propensity to think that 'Everything on GB News is bad' - same as the Daily Mail, for example, or the Telegraph ('Everything is Tory'), but this is a somewhat blinkered and unhelpful way of looking at things. People tend to attack the reputation of a paper, not its actual content. Again, I get that.
The corollary of this is - Since I have been involved in all of this nonsense, I have never read so many Times articles! Before? - I would hardly even give it a thought... 'Dangerous, Right wing Tory propaganda! But the truth is they have been very good on this subject of gender ideology - generally speaking. We all need to open up a little, in my view. Things are now not as simple as 'Left and Right' any more, especially in terms of social and societal events.
I will NEVER forgive you on your stance on Charlie Hebdo. NEVER! So many articles that said, 'Yes the Charlie Hebdo attack was bad, BUT...' (No! There is no 'but' required here, you uber-liberal cretins)
I will never forgive you for your years of 'pro-hijab' articles describing how empowering it is for women wearing one - all from writers ensconced safely in California, where, last time I checked there were no Iranian religious police roaming the streets politely 'persuading' women to wear one. So empowering...
It closed down its OWN 'debates' when limiting the so-called 'Comment Is Free' (now called 'Opinion') sections to commenting on a very small selection of pieces. So, nothing was allowed on Islam, immigration (the sad Calais situation, for example) whatsoever. And there is a very clear reason why this became so. Because a majority of its own damn readers disagreed vehemently with the Gs stance on both of these issues. The readers (I was a daily visitor) demanded accurate, evidenced-based articles and even opinions, and were not getting this - and instead were met with 'This comment has been deleted' etc, etc. They turned into cowards. And all we were fed was opinion pieces by pious, biased, pure individuals like the evidence-free Nesrine Malik and the incessantly beating Owen Jones.
And I will never forgive your attitude on this ideology that we now see all around us. You have sold it and pushed it and promoted it. All uncritically. You are an ideological mess. You have chosen your side, and when this ideological drivel is finally beaten back into the pointless, time-wasting University 'Studies' courses that it arose from, I hope you flounder and struggle like all of the ideologues that you have influenced and also for the male transgender professors and drag 'artists' and fucking arrogant, nauseating seahorse 'dads' and 'writers' that you have pushed into the limelight, and emboldened and praised without any recourse.
It has been, generally speaking, a one-sided, proselytising, purity-laden echo-chamber on this issue.
So no, Guardian - Don't say. 'While you're here...'
Thank you - once again - for attending my TEDRant this afternoon...
(I will be signing copies of it in the foyer - if I can stop shaking long enough)
Hear Fucking Hear. That must feel Goooood! Can never forget my 'oh shit' moment, when they banned me from commenting about males in women's sport. Back then I was even oh-so-carefully moderating my 'tone' so as not to scare the horses.
Late arrival to your savage TEDrant, couldn't agree more.
I was also sickened from Charlie Hebdo onwards, but ESPECIALLY because of their vast numbers of student-age readers groomed BY the 'Guardian' into the self-maimings of trans (wrong-sex hormones, surgical removals, etc). Guardian of who/what, FFS? More like the Enabler.
And grooming others into being lemming-like enabling 'allies' – toward their own friends, their children, their students, patients, siblings... into cheering them on to the self-harmings and messed-up lives that chasing gender identity BS too typically leads to.
The Guardian's suppression of truths around this stuff is evil.
Freeloading Guardian reader here. I just skip all the woke twaddle. I go there for Crace & Hyde, good cartoons & good long reads. Oh, and the BTL take on "The Bridge" was more interesting than the series.
Me too. what is almost as bad as the propagandist human interest crap they serve up regularly, is the swathes of stuff that impacts upon women and children, that they simply fail to report on. It's unforgiveable. It's not just bias. it's neglect. The Sunday paper, The Observer, which has a different Editor, is a different matter
The stance the guardian has taken regarding everything connected with gender identity has been predictably compliant. It's focused on transphobia and the experiences and opinions of trans identified people, but has ignored the misogyny and homophobia that is present in gender ideology and activism.
It was doing a series called Living in a woman's body, and obviously that had to include a transwoman. If none has been forthcoming the Guardian would have had to make on up. In the even it didn't, Juno Dawson was featured, another narcissist saturated with male privilege and male entitlement. Someone living in a chemically and surgically modified male body but, naturally, occupying women's spaces at will.
The Guardian is finished in so many ways, as it desperately panders to its hugely privileged psuedo liberal British and American readership.
Checked out the Talk Radio/ India Willo interview. Julia HB 🙌 “I introduced you correctly - you’re a trans woman, not a woman!”
Got to hand it to her, making a stand for reality and not backing down. Why can’t the likes of Jeremy vine try to do the same - or even nearly the same would be good. It isn’t rude. When did all our journalists decide they have to tip toe round the person being interviewed. Polite is ok - but not appeasing people and being led on what the “right” position to take is.
That Tweet about the osprey and the shark could do with a comma. Apart from that, excellent update as usual. Wow; these people really hate us women, eh?
That young lady Donovan! Kudos for her attempt at a low voice. Reminds me of me disciplining my children when they were little with an 'authoritative' tone - as Supernanny advised.
She reminded me of the dude at the counter screaming, "Ma'am! It's ma'am!" And that's what we get with so-called equality, the further demeaning of actual women and the exaltation of masculinist behavior and values. No more attractive in females than males.
Highly typical and appalling that the keynote speaker on Lesbian Lives is a a transwoman, someone who has enjoyed male privilege for however many years and is still enjoying it. Something no women, whatever their sexual identity experiences. What a load of utter shit.
I notice that below this, Rachel Dolezal is going to be talking at a conference where she gives an account on how she identifies as being black, irrespective that she's white. When the truth of her heritage emerged she was destroyed and rightly lost the job she had obtained by deception. At the time, people pointed out that she had deprived a black woman of opportunity. She had, and few held back in expressing their outrage over this. Yet I'm sure some of the same people people took an entirely different view when it became known that Mridul Wadhwa got the position he still holds through similar lies and deception.
People can identify as whatever the fuck they like, as elves or ghosts if they want, but no one else should be obliged to to treat it as a literal truth.
I have some sympathy with Dolezal; her family sounded like a total horror show and she wanted to be as different to them as possible. I have ZERO sympathy for men who were obviously breastfed and diapered until they were 40 or is it my delusion that they were ever weaned and potty-trained?
I always look forward to the good news. It keeps my optimism going. Watching Coach Blade on the recent Mess We're In also gave me optimism. She mentioned a group called Women Sport International and on googling them and looking at what they had done in the past I could see that the were signatories to a letter sent in 2019 to World Athletics concerning athletes with DSD's participating in the female category. I found the response letter from World Athletics so full of common sense. World Athletics said "It is legitimate for all sport in general, and for the IAAF in particular, to create a protected category for females and to base eligibility for this category on biology not identity. Any other definition would be category defeating and would deter girls the world over from choosing competitive and elite sport after puberty." Later that same year World Athletics published their Trans inclusion policy allowing males into the female category if they identify as female and suppress testosterone. This whole gender ideology thing is like Schrodinger's cat. It's easy to believe two contradictory things at the same time as long as you don't open the box. The more boxes we open the better. Moley keep opening those boxes.
When this sh1t is going around in your head all the time it's funny the connections you make. Showing my age. "Open the box or take the money". Graham, I feel for you but I'm glad you opened that box.
AFAIK Joanne Harris lost her hair after treatment for her cancer last year. Putting aside the misogyny of attacking a woman for their looks, don’t you think characterising what’s likely a wig as a desperate attempt to stay relevant a bit cunty?
It is. I just saw on twitter that her hair has recently grown back, hence the shortness, and the colouring is an instagram filter. Honestly, it’s completely fair to disagree with someone but these Glinner’s Twitter posts? They’re rife with childish insults
I understand that's not to your taste.Nonetheless what's more important (IMO) is the fact that women's rights are being eroded, freedom of speech suppressed, women threatened, and women like Harris, in a position of responsibility, are reciting mantras and enabling all this, in lieu of proper debate.
That doesn't bother me so much, but I have certainly come to realize that ripped jeans, tattoos, those weird earrings (you know, the ones that stretch your earlobes until they hang to your knees), and suchlike are sure signs of being a suburbanite.
Yeah ,Andrew Doyle's a real champion of free speech and women's and children's rights and safety. His book " Free speech and why it matters is great. Definitely worth reading 👏👏👏
Is Helen Lewis dim or wilfully lying about the spread of gender identity?
She should read detransitioner Helena's new substack piece, partly about the role of Tumblr in turning girls trans. Best evocation of Tumblr's effect on girls that I've seen.
Jeremy Vine was discussing non crime hate incidents this week. He said he’d never heard of them before. Also the people phoning in (or allowed to air views) weren’t up to speed on this at all. Andrew Doyle is a hero. GB news gets so much stick
Yes, fully agree. I do so admire AD. Where would we be without him? People do have an unfortunate (but understandable) propensity to think that 'Everything on GB News is bad' - same as the Daily Mail, for example, or the Telegraph ('Everything is Tory'), but this is a somewhat blinkered and unhelpful way of looking at things. People tend to attack the reputation of a paper, not its actual content. Again, I get that.
The corollary of this is - Since I have been involved in all of this nonsense, I have never read so many Times articles! Before? - I would hardly even give it a thought... 'Dangerous, Right wing Tory propaganda! But the truth is they have been very good on this subject of gender ideology - generally speaking. We all need to open up a little, in my view. Things are now not as simple as 'Left and Right' any more, especially in terms of social and societal events.
I stopped my Guardian subscription and went to The Times because of their stance. I never thought I'd see the day.
Just like you, I've come round to appreciating GB News, Andrew Doyle is brilliant but Nana Akua is pretty good too on the same channel.
Same here Catherine. I despise the Guardian now after decades of reading it.
Me too.
Dear Guardian.
I will NEVER forgive you on your stance on Charlie Hebdo. NEVER! So many articles that said, 'Yes the Charlie Hebdo attack was bad, BUT...' (No! There is no 'but' required here, you uber-liberal cretins)
I will never forgive you for your years of 'pro-hijab' articles describing how empowering it is for women wearing one - all from writers ensconced safely in California, where, last time I checked there were no Iranian religious police roaming the streets politely 'persuading' women to wear one. So empowering...
It closed down its OWN 'debates' when limiting the so-called 'Comment Is Free' (now called 'Opinion') sections to commenting on a very small selection of pieces. So, nothing was allowed on Islam, immigration (the sad Calais situation, for example) whatsoever. And there is a very clear reason why this became so. Because a majority of its own damn readers disagreed vehemently with the Gs stance on both of these issues. The readers (I was a daily visitor) demanded accurate, evidenced-based articles and even opinions, and were not getting this - and instead were met with 'This comment has been deleted' etc, etc. They turned into cowards. And all we were fed was opinion pieces by pious, biased, pure individuals like the evidence-free Nesrine Malik and the incessantly beating Owen Jones.
And I will never forgive your attitude on this ideology that we now see all around us. You have sold it and pushed it and promoted it. All uncritically. You are an ideological mess. You have chosen your side, and when this ideological drivel is finally beaten back into the pointless, time-wasting University 'Studies' courses that it arose from, I hope you flounder and struggle like all of the ideologues that you have influenced and also for the male transgender professors and drag 'artists' and fucking arrogant, nauseating seahorse 'dads' and 'writers' that you have pushed into the limelight, and emboldened and praised without any recourse.
It has been, generally speaking, a one-sided, proselytising, purity-laden echo-chamber on this issue.
So no, Guardian - Don't say. 'While you're here...'
Thank you - once again - for attending my TEDRant this afternoon...
(I will be signing copies of it in the foyer - if I can stop shaking long enough)
Hear Fucking Hear. That must feel Goooood! Can never forget my 'oh shit' moment, when they banned me from commenting about males in women's sport. Back then I was even oh-so-carefully moderating my 'tone' so as not to scare the horses.
Should read 'banned me FOR commenting'. Banned from the Guardian for saying true facts. "The Guarniad, where facts are scared".
Well said 👏👍
Pro hijab? 😱
100%, yes. Several of them. Oe culprit was Remona Aly.
Late arrival to your savage TEDrant, couldn't agree more.
I was also sickened from Charlie Hebdo onwards, but ESPECIALLY because of their vast numbers of student-age readers groomed BY the 'Guardian' into the self-maimings of trans (wrong-sex hormones, surgical removals, etc). Guardian of who/what, FFS? More like the Enabler.
And grooming others into being lemming-like enabling 'allies' – toward their own friends, their children, their students, patients, siblings... into cheering them on to the self-harmings and messed-up lives that chasing gender identity BS too typically leads to.
The Guardian's suppression of truths around this stuff is evil.
Freeloading Guardian reader here. I just skip all the woke twaddle. I go there for Crace & Hyde, good cartoons & good long reads. Oh, and the BTL take on "The Bridge" was more interesting than the series.
Me too. what is almost as bad as the propagandist human interest crap they serve up regularly, is the swathes of stuff that impacts upon women and children, that they simply fail to report on. It's unforgiveable. It's not just bias. it's neglect. The Sunday paper, The Observer, which has a different Editor, is a different matter
And of course, how they allowed Suzanne Moore to be treated
That piece of turd owen jones was behind that one. In fact, this is what made me leave.
The stance the guardian has taken regarding everything connected with gender identity has been predictably compliant. It's focused on transphobia and the experiences and opinions of trans identified people, but has ignored the misogyny and homophobia that is present in gender ideology and activism.
It was doing a series called Living in a woman's body, and obviously that had to include a transwoman. If none has been forthcoming the Guardian would have had to make on up. In the even it didn't, Juno Dawson was featured, another narcissist saturated with male privilege and male entitlement. Someone living in a chemically and surgically modified male body but, naturally, occupying women's spaces at will.
The Guardian is finished in so many ways, as it desperately panders to its hugely privileged psuedo liberal British and American readership.
Checked out the Talk Radio/ India Willo interview. Julia HB 🙌 “I introduced you correctly - you’re a trans woman, not a woman!”
Got to hand it to her, making a stand for reality and not backing down. Why can’t the likes of Jeremy vine try to do the same - or even nearly the same would be good. It isn’t rude. When did all our journalists decide they have to tip toe round the person being interviewed. Polite is ok - but not appeasing people and being led on what the “right” position to take is.
Julia Hartley Brewer is great
That Tweet about the osprey and the shark could do with a comma. Apart from that, excellent update as usual. Wow; these people really hate us women, eh?
That young lady Donovan! Kudos for her attempt at a low voice. Reminds me of me disciplining my children when they were little with an 'authoritative' tone - as Supernanny advised.
She reminded me of the dude at the counter screaming, "Ma'am! It's ma'am!" And that's what we get with so-called equality, the further demeaning of actual women and the exaltation of masculinist behavior and values. No more attractive in females than males.
Oh they like us fine when we look pretty and keep our mouths shut!
Highly typical and appalling that the keynote speaker on Lesbian Lives is a a transwoman, someone who has enjoyed male privilege for however many years and is still enjoying it. Something no women, whatever their sexual identity experiences. What a load of utter shit.
I notice that below this, Rachel Dolezal is going to be talking at a conference where she gives an account on how she identifies as being black, irrespective that she's white. When the truth of her heritage emerged she was destroyed and rightly lost the job she had obtained by deception. At the time, people pointed out that she had deprived a black woman of opportunity. She had, and few held back in expressing their outrage over this. Yet I'm sure some of the same people people took an entirely different view when it became known that Mridul Wadhwa got the position he still holds through similar lies and deception.
People can identify as whatever the fuck they like, as elves or ghosts if they want, but no one else should be obliged to to treat it as a literal truth.
Fully agree...
Now, when I am emperor...
I have some sympathy with Dolezal; her family sounded like a total horror show and she wanted to be as different to them as possible. I have ZERO sympathy for men who were obviously breastfed and diapered until they were 40 or is it my delusion that they were ever weaned and potty-trained?
I always look forward to the good news. It keeps my optimism going. Watching Coach Blade on the recent Mess We're In also gave me optimism. She mentioned a group called Women Sport International and on googling them and looking at what they had done in the past I could see that the were signatories to a letter sent in 2019 to World Athletics concerning athletes with DSD's participating in the female category. I found the response letter from World Athletics so full of common sense. World Athletics said "It is legitimate for all sport in general, and for the IAAF in particular, to create a protected category for females and to base eligibility for this category on biology not identity. Any other definition would be category defeating and would deter girls the world over from choosing competitive and elite sport after puberty." Later that same year World Athletics published their Trans inclusion policy allowing males into the female category if they identify as female and suppress testosterone. This whole gender ideology thing is like Schrodinger's cat. It's easy to believe two contradictory things at the same time as long as you don't open the box. The more boxes we open the better. Moley keep opening those boxes.
When this sh1t is going around in your head all the time it's funny the connections you make. Showing my age. "Open the box or take the money". Graham, I feel for you but I'm glad you opened that box.
Nothing wrong with purple hair at 57. Plenty wrong with being a TRA though.
Oh no I feel sad for the Shark 😢
Lucky for us we look less tasty than the shark. The horror story title's changed from 'Jaws' to 'Claws' I think.
Moley! 👏🏻
YOU RANG?!
I did, you magnificent bastard!
AFAIK Joanne Harris lost her hair after treatment for her cancer last year. Putting aside the misogyny of attacking a woman for their looks, don’t you think characterising what’s likely a wig as a desperate attempt to stay relevant a bit cunty?
That's a great shame, about her cancer and hair loss.
It is. I just saw on twitter that her hair has recently grown back, hence the shortness, and the colouring is an instagram filter. Honestly, it’s completely fair to disagree with someone but these Glinner’s Twitter posts? They’re rife with childish insults
I understand that's not to your taste.Nonetheless what's more important (IMO) is the fact that women's rights are being eroded, freedom of speech suppressed, women threatened, and women like Harris, in a position of responsibility, are reciting mantras and enabling all this, in lieu of proper debate.
Then challenge the mantras, not their haircut
Yes. We're all doing that. And some like to make jokes about hair, which are not to your taste. No-one's forcing you to read this blog
No one’s forcing you to read and respond to my comments
Doesn't take away the fact that she's an absolute bitch
Oh grow up!
How would you view a couple in their sixth decade dressing up like students? https://imgur.com/a/Ry7U3Zk
I still wear jeans at 62 because I've always worn jeans. I think students nowadays have a different look from the couple on the picture.
Me too and I'm 75. Nothing wrong with wearing jeans
That doesn't bother me so much, but I have certainly come to realize that ripped jeans, tattoos, those weird earrings (you know, the ones that stretch your earlobes until they hang to your knees), and suchlike are sure signs of being a suburbanite.
Asian Lives
Oli London
tehe
Larpers Lives Conference …that would be one to see hehe!
(Though maybe we are already half way there.)
"Please undo their work or throatpunch them."
Of course; the old tolerant and inclusive throatpunch.
Yeah ,Andrew Doyle's a real champion of free speech and women's and children's rights and safety. His book " Free speech and why it matters is great. Definitely worth reading 👏👏👏
He just had a great piece on UnHerd, 'The liberal case against pronouns'
https://unherd.com/2022/03/the-liberal-case-against-pronouns/
Great for those tired of being idioticallly accused of being 'right-wing' for being gender critical.
Is Helen Lewis dim or wilfully lying about the spread of gender identity?
She should read detransitioner Helena's new substack piece, partly about the role of Tumblr in turning girls trans. Best evocation of Tumblr's effect on girls that I've seen.