That obvious fact
Owen Jones has another correction for us.
Unrepresentative how? Well for one thing where are the yoof???! But he’s not ageist.
So anyway. For one thing most of the people in the photo are in shadow, so he can’t actually tell what they look like, so he can’t even judge how “representative” they are because he can’t see them. For a second thing why does he think he can tell how “representative” they are just by looking at a photo? For a third thing, of course they’re not “representative” of QT: they’re not trying to be. They don’t consider the Q and the T to be inextricably related to the LGB, in fact they consider it to be quite different.
I think all OJ really means is that what he can see of the people in that photo tells him they’re not as trendy and exciting and fun as he and his friends are.
He’s so in the tank for the transactivists, the “queer” cool kids, that he slurs LGB activists for looking “too straight.”
Are we sure he’s actually gay? (That’s a joke, or a rhetorical question.)
Perhaps OJ is lazily recycling the lie about LGBA’s membership being overwhelmingly straight (not true, about 20% are straight or prefer not to say as of August 2022). It’s just his style to hint at something he knows is a lie to strengthen the association in his fans’ minds.
No one’s dressed like it’s Carnivale? Gasp, shock, horror!
He’s disappointed that no one’s “dressed” like Jordan Gray.
Funny, his own twitter followers caught the ageism just fine.
Always amusing to see the “it’s shallow to care about trivial things like what kind of genitals the person wanting to have sex with you has” crowd turn to “these people’s opinions on public issues should be disregarded because OMG just look at them!”
ExACtly.
Owen Jones is in his late thirties. He’s not exactly the Voice of Youthful Dissent anymore.
Funny how Owen *never* talks about Mermaids’ disgraced doctor Helen Webberley or its paedophile-apologising trustee, Jacob Breslow. Instead it’s “Look at these middle-aged people who don’t read “Huck Magazine” ! Look how uncool they are!”
Jones, paraphrased: “Don’t look at how middle-aged I’m becoming, look at them over there!”
Let’s suppose for a moment that Jones is right (he isn’t), and the photograph only contains images of retired people.
Whose fault is that, Jones?
When your side has been hounding people out of their jobs for years, is it really surprising that those LGBA members who can’t afford to come to your attention are somewhat shy of being photographed? After all, you’re showing exactly what you are willing to happen to people who are willing to show their faces in public; vile, aggressive harassment in real life and online.
Might he be hinting that the group is ‘too white?’ I should think he’d be trumpeting that first, though that might invite surveys of Mermaid and Stonewall group pictures.
Besides a lot of them are promoting the idea of “muti-ethnic whiteness” to try to demonstrate that they themselves, thouh they are obviously white (and obviously privileged) are not, in fact, white. But the women of color who do not support the trans agenda are, in fact, white.
It’s the old “acting white” shit all over again, just given a fancy label that sounds sort of scientific, if you don’t understand anything about science.
Sure he might, he might be hinting everything and nothing, and perfectly happy to deny it all when called on it.