Things that make you go hmm
More of my bookmarks released into the wild.
Rosie Duffield is under attack again, this time for ‘liking’ a tweet by a gay man objecting to the slur ‘queer’. Any chance Keir Starmer will start standing up for MPs receiving this kind of misogynistic/homophobic abuse? You can write to support Rosie via Davids Evans at Labour Central, Kings Manor, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 6PA. use the hashtag #IstandwithRosieDuffield on Twitter.
This is not a niche view. Here is another gay man who objects to being called a ‘queer’.
It’s left to a (lesbian) Conservative MP to defend her instead. The Labour Party’s misogyny will not be forgotten.
The only thread you need on Laurel Hubbard
This was my favourite fact: he’s twenty years older than the other competitors!
And lo, the power of the head tilt!
Indeed
Another comment rejected at the Times
Laying it out in somewhat stark terms
Very important action
Back into a closet made of his own body
The sacred caste
Vice is perhaps too small a word for this
Everything after LGB = ‘Straight’
Kara gets her rage on
This is it
Even the fearless Julie Bindel has to use female pronouns for rapists because of IPSO.
Another comment deleted at The Times
I commented as follows under this excellent Alex Massie piece.
And deleted it was. I received this today.
I’ve complained and they’re getting back to me within 14 days. So that’s 14 days during which people will think I said something offensive.
(UPDATE: It has been reinstated. Thank you for your support and my thanks to the Times for sorting it out so quickly.)
Non-gender related underated tweet
Just two ladies talking about lady things
Just two dudes talking about Hadley Freeman
“Hey fellow dude, watch the language or people will know we’re scumbags.”
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I’m a gay man, a man who likes men, you know, that antiquated thing.
I can’t stand all of this.
It was bad enough with all the bitchy me-me-me right-on types, especially in the last few years (thanks, social media) but all of this narcissistic nonsense has really opened the floodgates. How do they have so much time twat about on Twitter anyway?
Who do we blame? Do we blame?
Or do we, as man loving gay men and women loving lesbians leave them to cannibalise everything and wear ludicrous-looking curtains as dresses and make our own spaces again?
It was all becoming horribly commercialised anyway. I don't want your corporate pride flags, you were never there when pride actually meant something.
We need to take it back underground and rebuild a LGB subculture. Nothing important happens on social media.
It could be fun. You never know!
Thanks for opening my eyes Graham. This month I subscribed to your newsletter and have watched about 40 hours of your videos on YouTube. I’d previously stayed away from the topic as I don’t have children and am a straight female. I am also a Guardian reader and of the “liberal left” and follow a lot of the people you mention from time to time on your videos. I do agree with them on most topics. EXCEPT this. You’ve opened my eyes to the unpleasant misogynists from Stonewall influencing the wider agenda. I can see how decades of hard work from feminists are being rapidly eroded. Those who genuinely have gender dysphoria should be helped and you seem to say that consistently in your videos. However autogynephilia is something else. I used to report a lot of hate speech on Twitter (neo Nazis). Not all of it was taken down and many of the accounts were allowed to continue to operate. Yet your Twitter account was taken down. I wish more celebrities would speak out with you.