She’s a product of her time
A reporter for NewsAnglia talked to Margaret Nelson about her encounter with the police.
Police have apologised to a blogger for their handling of a complaint about her online comments which had offended some members of the transgender community.
Margaret Nelson, who’s in her seventies and from near Needham Market in Suffolk, was asked to tone down her web posts and tweets about the sensitive issue
That’s such shit writing, and shit reporting. “Their handling” “was asked” – be specific. Be specific and tell the truth. A police person called her on the phone early in the morning, which would be at least startling and intrusive even if the call were about buying tickets to a fundraiser.
What a way to start the day! 2 early cold callers, one saying they're from the "call-blocking department", and a policewoman to tell me my online activity has caused offense to "transgenders", though she agreed a blog post wasn't untrue. Whoever's been offended tracked me down!
— Margaret Nelson (@Flashmaggie) February 4, 2019
Some of the things the reporter said to Nelson:
Do you accept then that your comments might be seen as hurtful or offensive to some people?
Your views are very old-fashioned.
To us, the listeners:
It won’t stop her saying what she feels.
It’s more to do with what she thinks than what she feels. Feeling as a replacement for thinking is how we get into these stupid messes.
In short the reporter was way out of her depth, which didn’t stop her patronizing Nelson throughout.
After the interview there’s a chat with two “trans rights campaigners,” who say some very gormless things.
She’s a product of her time.
Unfortunately a lot of people aren’t aware of how transgenderism works or gender neutral works.
There’s a profound difference between biological sex and gender. Biological sex is just a label that doctors give you when you’re born.
Ah yes, biological sex is just a label, gender is the real thing.
If Charles Mackay were witing his 1841 book Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds today, I feel certain that trans ideology would get its own chapter.
Yes, doctors give you that label. Why, back in the days before doctors, we had no idea what “boys” and “girls” were. Then, once doctors had invented those concepts, but most people were still born at home without the help of doctors, we would just flip a coin to “assign” a sex. That’s why the population grew so much more slowly back then — many couples were married for decades and never figured out why they weren’t getting pregnant!
“There’s a profound difference between biological sex and gender.”
Sure, in some cases.
“Biological sex is just a label that doctors give you when you’re born.”
Do they realize how ridiculous they sound?
And somehow the speakers are not? I see (meaning I don’t).
Well, yes, please explain how it does work without a) spinning off into logical contradictions that deny physical reality or b) using Pop Tart wrappers as an analogy.
Yes, for the vast majority of people, biological sex is easily observed at birth, whereas gender is closer to a load of rubbish.
So if the doctors had chosen differently when I was born, I could have been a father instead of a mother. Interesting. I guess I’d better go back to school; even with a Ph.D. in Biology, that doesn’t make sense. (Of course, I really mean because of a Ph.D. in Biology, that doesn’t make sense).
iknklast, but you’re an Ecologist, you’re a qualified trans-expert.
“Your views are very old-fashioned.”
“She is a product of her time.”
It’s funny how the intersectional kind of feminism also carves out exceptions. Here for example we see that ageism is fine when it is a woman who disagrees with the trendy tribalists.
AoS, I’m also a playwright, so I used my trans-expertise (from my Ecology degree) to write a play (with my MFA degree) about trans-women and bathrooms and bullying of a young woman with emotional problems because she had been abused by men her whole life.
Too bad I won’t ever be able to see it produced. The theatre community is woker than the wokest of the woke. They are so woke that they apologize if they are women who are white, cis, hetero, and not disabled, as if they have no right to be involved at all (never mind that white women appear to be the single most underrepresented group in theatre – black theatres appear to have done a better job of putting women in the hopper when producing plays, at least from the most recent numbers I’ve seen…white women, not so much. Because when they want to make room for diversity, they make sure the white women are 86’d, not the white men. You can never have too many white men).