Owen Inquisitor Jones
So Owen Jones decides to bully her some more.
What is the story?
A girl who argued that biological sex is real after a talk about transphobia felt forced to leave her school after pupils hounded her for challenging the views of a visiting speaker.
She was treated like a heretic for questioning a politician’s assertions about sex, a teacher at the school said. The female member of the House of Lords visited the private girls’ school, a Stonewall diversity champion, to talk about transphobia in parliament.
They went back and forth a bit; after the lecture the student spoke to the guest and said she was sorry if she came across as rude; they parted amicably.
But on returning to the sixth form she was surrounded by up to 60 girls who shouted, screamed, swore and spat at her. She escaped and said she collapsed, unable to breathe properly.
Teachers were initially supportive but withdrew their backing after the other sixth formers accused the girl of transphobia. The teenager returned to school a few times but was told she would have to work in the library if she said anything provocative in lessons, and faced bullying and accusations of transphobia from pupils throughout the school. She also spent breaktimes and lunchtimes in the library. The girl left in December and is studying at home.
Great that Owen Jones is getting busy making her life even worse.
It doesn’t tell their side…because? Because their side is the accepted narrative. Because their side has entrenched itself. Because telling their side would make them look bad.
OJ needs “the other side” in regard to bullying behavior described this way, rather than simply finding out if this description of what happened is accurate. As if it’s a “side”. As if surrounding, screaming, swearing, and spitting at a fellow student are somehow acceptable so long as the “correct” people are doing it.
It’s infuriating that, despite mountains of evidence, people like OJ cannot imagine that people on “their side” could possibly be abusive bullies, and their behavior worthy of condemnation.
The spitting part strains my credulity, I have to say. It doesn’t sound plausible. I can believe shouting and screaming and swearing with zero effort, but spitting, I can’t. I wonder if what she meant was that they shouted at her with such passion and rage that spit flew.
Not that I think it’s a moral line, just that spitting…well, it’s spitting.
From my experience of bullying in high school, I find the spitting very believable. Spitting at me was common when I was younger, because I was “different”. (Not trans, not gay, just poor.) I don’t know, maybe that’s changed, but I just don’t see that as a problem.
Of course, it could also be what you say, shouting so much the spit flew.
Girls though?
Oh, yes, girls. The tough kind, but still girls. I actually never had boys spit at me; they mostly shoved or grabbed.
Since we’re talking about schoolgirls, I came across this on a twitter feed:
Post and thread here: https://twitter.com/CenderGrit/status/1526882567408222209
Oh goddddd.