equationgirl
Respect my existence or expect my resistance
lauriepenny : great blog article on the whole furore, laurie. Hope to see more of your work like this piece
Julie Burchill's attack on transsexuals...
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equationgirl
Respect my existence or expect my resistance
The fact is, people HAVE been insulted though. Whether it's a rant or not, it's no excuse.
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
It was really nasty. If it had been a rant directed at fat grannies with the same level of hatred, I would have been upset.
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
That's the thing about her. She knows how to really wound and enrage in as hateful a way as she can muster, it's her main schtick.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
people who capitulate and don't defend their freedom of speech don't deserve freedom of speech.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
doing her knees and elbows would show other people can wound just as much as she can
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
She'd still be able to type though.....
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
She won't if she's reminded that there's another 200 bones in her body, with something like 20 in each hand to which force can be applied
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
Who is this little shitstain?
Except all of her bones are made up solely of fat cells. Same as her brain.
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
I don't think the Observer should have closed the stable door after the horse had shat all over the yard though. Pointless. I do think Burchill should get the brunt of a fuck of a lot of free speech though, and not just from the target of her bile, but from everyone else too.
elbows
Well-Known Member
He hasnt got all that much stick on twitter about his shit article, just a few angry tweets, possibly because hardly anyone noticed his existence. And he hasnt said anything on twitter itself that was quite as disgraceful as the first part of his article, although a few tweets made it obvious where his idiotic opinion was going to go.
After a weekend spent in the real world, only just acquainting myself with the Burchill column. Bit disappointing. Was braced for far worse.
So the Obs has "withdrawn" the Burchill piece, providing crucial encouragement to manufacturers of confected outrage everywhere. Pathetic.
Tom Peckerwood.
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
Tbh he sounds like some nobody trying to get a Spiked column. Probably somebody's kid if he got the indie piece, but it's really not worth the effort.
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
I strongly disagree. I think she's useless as a wind up merchant these days. She's just needy, vulnerable and tame. This article was virtually a sob story. She hasn't been right since she discovered religion, who'd have thought it ten years ago - Julie Burchill wanting to be pitied because she's a woman and from a working class background and everything! What's troubling is that the attitudes towards transgendered women reflect a certain ideology amongst certain feminists and wider prejudice. Too many people harumphing along with this. It's an easy prejudice.
Random
Ethnic nalgocrat
Yes, someone hoping to waterski a bit in Burchill's wake.
teuchter
je suis teuchter
Balbi
Hey, Dean Yager!
Critics, critique thyself.
I don't see it being unchallenged in that link.
looks to me like you did challenge it?
teuchter
je suis teuchter
So, you both see transphobia, being challenged?
8ball
Maximum Facepalm
Bizarre - there's nothing in principle I disagree with there except that he seems to be talking about some accidental offhand offense that some people took out of perversity, rather than a deliberate attack on a well-defined minority.
Steel Icarus
we move
that'd been up for a while before the burchill fiasco..
Steel Icarus
we move
the lulz continue, Moore's now threatening to sue Pink News on twitter
suzanne moore @suzanne_moore
Read this piece of shit and Pink News will hear from my lawyers in the morning http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2013/01/16/reports-brazilian-transwoman-shot-dead/ …
suzanne moore Read this piece of shit and Pink News will hear from my lawyers in the morning http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2013/01/16/reports-brazilian-transwoman-shot-dead/ …
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