Equality? Inclusion? Are you sure?
Another target selected.
Just like that. One inquisitor tells the Royal Academy that an artist is (or has been) “expressing transphobic views” and bam, the Royal Academy goes belly-up and says please don’t hurt us – and throws the artist to the wolves and stops selling her work. Just like that.
And what are these “transphobic views”? What is their content? Just that women are women, and no one else is. That’s all. It’s simple, it’s basic, we all used to know it perfectly well. We used to know it and now we’re subject to abrupt firing and banishing and boycotting for continuing to know it – all so that men can continue to pretend to be women and get lavish praise for doing so. The lies are rewarded and the truth is punished.
Also it’s not “their work won’t be stocked in future.” Miserable cowards. It’s her work. Hers. It’s a woman you’re doing this public harm to.
Hey, wolves are nice and cuddly!! (I know, just an expression.)
Given Jess De Wahls wrongthink, you definitely don’t want to go shopping on her website.
Until they tear you apart.
Thanks for that link, WaM. I think I’ll have to support her. My husband has a birthday coming up.
The writing in that apology is painful; the one in the next post, the Labour Nexus, is worse. Can’t anyone write anymore?
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Holy shit, now that I look again that writing is abysmal. Just look at the object of the sentence: “…item in the RA shop by an artist expressing transphobic views.”
It’s as shameful for the RA to ban someone for wrongthink as it would be to ban them for being disabled or the wrong colour. As a Friend of the RA I want them to reverse this decision and apologise for it, and if they won’t do that I want my money back.