How not to change minds
Someone called Kirstie Allsop has been doing a lot of clueless uninformed social media lecturing on How To Be Kind to our trans siblings blah blah blah, so I finally got exasperated enough to find out who she is to be lecturing from such a great height.
She’s a tv personality.
Gareth Roberts at Spiked almost exactly a year ago:
We all know people who are totally unaware of the complexities of a situation, but who are still totally confident in opening their big gob to pronounce on it…For much of the past week, I’ve been watching with a mixture of amusement and horror at the Twitter travails of TV presenter Kirstie Allsopp, who has now entered the trans debate.
The amiable host of Channel 4’s Location, Location, Location first piped up to defend American performance artist and TikTok influencer Dylan Mulvaney. Mulvaney has documented every day of his imaginary transformation to the female sex. He has been rewarded handsomely for this, with corporate sponsorships…
After US conservatives started to boycott Bud Light, following its partnership with Mulvaney, up piped Allsopp to ask what all the fuss was about. She said of his TikToks: ‘Childish perhaps, a bit silly arguably, but they don’t threaten me or any women I know. There are issues to debate, but Dylan isn’t the problem and targeting her is bullying’ (sic).
Mulvaney isn’t the problem, but he’s certainly a conspicuous beneficiary of the problem, and he’s certainly a problem.
To say that we should laugh off Mulvaney is pretty much like expecting black people to accept that a white person covered in boot polish is merely ‘childish and a bit silly’. But this was only the start. Over the days that followed, Kirstie dropped a series of ever bigger, ever more staggeringly uninformed clangers. ‘Using preferred pronouns is simply good manners’, said Rip van Allsopp, just waking up from 2012. When Olympic athlete and tireless campaigner for women’s sports Sharron Davies had a polite word, Kirstie demanded of her: ‘Who is telling children they can change biological sex?’ Where has she been?
And now a year later she’s popped up to do the same thing all over again.
Yes it’s always best to have “debates” with people who know nothing about the topic of debate.
She’s a martyr! It’s tragic!
She’s like a saint, you know?
““Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them…well, I have others.”
Attributed to Groucho Marx.
How silly of me. I, of course, ought to calm right down about a eugenics program that sterilizes mentally ill, autistic, and homosexual children en masse with the support of taxpayer monies. Such a foolish mistake.
But some abuse is acceptable?
I’m sure she had a very good idea of what she was in for when she posted her “This is not a drill” message in support of Maya Forestater. And, she’s received abuse over saying facts, not over “feelings.”
Tell that to those who continue to smear her and heap abuse on her. Tell us why Rowling is not entitled to use all the anger, sarcasm, and disdain at her disposal when dealing with the liars, cheats, and frauds that constitute so much of the trans “rights” brigade? That’s your side. That’s what you’re defending. If you feel upset or targeted by her righteous fury that’s too fucking bad. Stop defending the indefensible. Stop pretending that the trans lobby is innocent and powerless when it is neither. Stop letting them use children as human shields to destroy women’s rights. Stop defending the destruction of children’s lives. Stop making mealy-mouthed, bullshit “both sides” arguments that fail to address the abusiveness of trans activism. Just stop.
Rowling’s “insulating wealth and enormous influence” have allowed her to champion the rights of women in a way that many others are unable to because of the viciousness and vindictiveness of this same trans “rights” movement you’re defending, which targets any woman who says “no” to their agenda, or any woman who stands against them with truth and facts that destroy their claims. Why aren’t you standing with those women too?
I think there’s a whole lot of “disturbing bigotry” (misogyny, homophobia, ageism just for starters) on the trans “rights” side that you’re missing, or giving a pass to. You probably believe that calling a man a man is “disturbing bigotry”; this is odd, because being triggered by simple biological truths would indicate that your “disturbing” meter is set to such an extremely high level of sensitivity that I find it difficult to believe that it could possibly miss all the shit coming from “your” side.
I can’t even imagine the contortions you must put yourself through in order to stick your head above the parapet when, clearly, it’s still firmly stuck up your ass.
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Victoria Smith’s reaction to Allsop’s tweets is both hilarious and scathing.
https://glosswitch.substack.com/p/ok-karen-return-100-toxicity-free
Allsopp is wonderfully genteel. I can imagine her on the Titanic complaining that the steward was very insolent when shouting at her to run for the lifeboats.
Hahahahaha