4 Responses to “Foucault redux”

• #1

  Mostly Cloudy

  October 4, 2022 at 1:03 pm

  This quote from one of my least favourite writers, Roz Kaveney, aged well:

  Part of the reason trans-hostile people are trying so hard to destroy #Mermaids is that their worst nightmare is a generation of undetectable young trans people not damaged by self-loathing who will not be kind to them.

  https://twitter.com/RozKaveney/status/1074782378063740930

  We also need to list all the prominent people who supported Mermaids throughout the last decade, after the organisation began receiving numerous instances of public criticism.

  Prince Harry, Jameela Jamil, the band Little Mix, Emma Watson,Josie Long, Mara Wilson, Jameela Jamil, Frankie Boyle and Katherine Ryan. Also writers like Jeannette Ng, Meg-John Barker, Farah Mendlesohn, and Charlie Stross.
• #2

  Anna

  October 4, 2022 at 2:30 pm

  What does Foucault have to do with it though?
• #3

  Lady Mondegreen

  October 4, 2022 at 2:55 pm

  Good god, that 4W piece makes clear exactly what this man is. And Breslow was on their secret list of trustees. They knew.

  (Direct link, if you have the stomach for it: https://4w.pub/lecturer-claims-children-perverse/)

  Way to go, Mermaids.
• #4

  Lady Mondegreen

  October 4, 2022 at 3:01 pm

  Anna @2 –Michel Foucault. He was a child molester * who thought adults having sex with children was no big deal (“inconsequential bucolic pleasures”).

  * https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/french-philosopher-michel-foucault-abused-boys-in-tunisia-6t5sj7jvw