Swinson isn’t the brightest spark
Julie Bindel is not impressed by Jo Swinson.
On the Today programme this morning, Jo Swinson, in her bumbling, inarticulate and irritating fashion suggested that biological sex does not exist. Yes, that’s right. A woman who has said, on many an occasion, that her female sex has given an unfair advantage to the male party leaders during the election campaign due to sexism, has effectively undermined her own argument. Because, for sexism to exist, so too must biological sex.
Indeed, and for male party leaders to have an unfair advantage over female candidates, there have to be male and female – real male and female, not subjective feelings of having a male or female essence or soul or idenniny.
The Today presenter, Justin Webb, then pointed out to Swinson that male-bodied people (also known as “men”) could do “enormous damage” to women. This is why, he pointed out, women need safe spaces to escape male violence. Swinson responded by arguing that refuges constantly carry out risk assessments, such as when a female victim of domestic violence is put in the same refuge as her violent lesbian partner.
Now, Swinson isn’t the brightest spark, but how dare she suggest that lesbians are as violent as trans-identified men?
By swallowing The New Dogma whole without so much as checking the ingredients first, that’s how.
But this is typical of Swinson, who is playing to the woke class and virtue-signalling like crazy – as she does during every interview on women’s sex-based rights, where she also uses the deeply offensive term “cis women”, as if women are a sub-category of our own sex…
It appears she is happy to sell 51 per cent of the population to the wolves in order to please men. Because that is what is happening with the extreme trans activism today. It is gaining traction because this belief system is a way to attempt to destroy women’s rights, and plenty of men are happy to see that happen.
Plenty of men but also, tragically and mystifyingly, plenty of women.
I grew up with domestic violence, where my mother was the main perpetrator while my father just sat and took it. Now, that doesn’t mean all domestic violence is female-led, but it did show me how violent a woman can be. maybe this is why I was bullied at school, my father’s example was “:don’t fight back”.
My step daughter was in an abusive Lesbian relationship, 5 years later the physical scars have healed, but the psychological ones remain. As do the effects on her daughter who was 6 at the time. I can still hear her desperation on the phone as she begged us for help, even though we lived 2000 miles away.
Yes, these are anecdotes, they are not data, but in the real world, let’s not be concerned about who is likely to inflict the most violence, but find a way to protect all the victims of violence, regardless of sex, gender, or “assigned at birth”. And yes, that means we will mostly be looking for ways to protect women, whether from men or other women.
If sexism is really the result of discrimination against the female ‘gender’ instead of the female sex, then “masculine” women in traditionally male professions would have little cause to worry about discrimination — it’s nothing but cultural privilege for them, along with respect from men-genders who only scorn what’s woman-like. So we need someone to do a careful study and discover if this is indeed true. A testable claim!
In the interview, I was struck by how often questions were deflected by referring to how “vulnerable” and “marginalized” the trans population is. It made me think of those fundraising commercials with whipped puppies, or Sally Struthers weeping over big-eyed, poverty-stricken children. Button pushed; motherly instinct engaged.
Roz, I was raised in an abusive family where almost all the abuse was perpetrated by my mother and my older sister, with a lot of help from my older brother; my father was not abused or abusive, he was largely absent. But…statistics are statistics, and no matter how intense or powerful our personal experience, the statistics demonstrate very clearly that the vast majority of domestic violence is perpetrated by men. Of course there are women who are extremely violent and successful at it, just as there are women who are larger than most men. That still doesn’t change the equation, which is that men are the perpetrators of most of the violence against women, and are also the perpetrators of most of the violence against men.
By all means, deal with the outliers like your family, and mine. Don’t ignore the reality of females who are abusers. But at the same time, that should not be used in any way, shape, or form as an argument for allowing men access to women’s shelters. Which I suspect is the point Bindel was trying to make.
Unless said lesbian is a classic Brawn Hilda I don’t think she’d represent the same threat as your average TIM.
Jo Swinson had an outing on Radio 5 Live yesterday as well. And that didn’t go well either, as she was unable to explain what she thinks a woman is. I don’t know how to embed it here but the clip’s easily to locate on Twitter @bbc5live.
Here’s a write-up by Sarah Vine (Mrs Michael Gove that is) from the Daily Mail. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-7778611/SARAH-VINE-Jo-Swinson-woman-betraying-women-swapping-principles-populism.html
https://twitter.com/bbc5live/status/1204013455356788741
How have we come to live in a world where the voice of reason is someone married to MICHAEL GOVE writing in THE DAILY MAIL?
It’s Opposite Land! Cats identifying as dogs!
Swinson is, in all honesty, a thoroughly unpleasant piece of work, complicit in the last coalition government (with the Tories) in forcing on the nation the damaging austerity policies that in large measure resulted in the vote in the referendum for Brexit, She is not only not the ‘brightest spark’, she is thoroughly unprincipled and sways with every breeze that looks as though it might bring her closer to power, and never mind who gets hurt. I only hope that too many people will not be persuaded to vote for her party at the expense of Labour – I have small time for Corbyn, but they are the only party that might govern for the best interests of the nation.
P>S> I hope that Blood Knight was not including me in his reference to ‘your average TIM’!
So depressing. I once had such high hopes in the Lib Dems. They once seemed to have real potential to claim the empty space in the centre of UK politics, and offer a principled stand against Brexit. But now it seems all three major parties are run by lunatics.
Jo Swinson has lost her seat to the SNP candidate…
@ Rob
To be fair, a lot of LibDems are losing their seats.
True Colin. A lot of Labour MPs as well. You have to be truly incompetent to loose to one of the most shambolic Conservative governments in the last 100 years by a landslide like this. SNP have had a stonking result. Be interesting to see if separatism raises it’s head again.