Julie XIVMore on Stonewall's Bindelgate.
As the night of Stonewall's 'champagne gay' beanfeast at the V&A approaches, preparations continue for the protest against the nomination of Julie Bindel (whose opinions on transsexuality continue to be at variance with transsexual people and, apparently, anyone else who knows much, or indeed anything, about the subject), for their 'prestigious' Journalist of the Year award.
Over on Facebook, the group formed to discuss the protest has been periodically visited by Julie, who threw around a few accusations of anti-feminism and anti-lesbianism, her reasoning presumably being that she is the living embodiment of these qualities, a bit like Louis XIV, who may (and may not) have pronounced "L'État, c'est moi!"
But as she hasn't said anything either new or interesting, we shall pass on to Roz Kaveney's response to her recent statement, because that is worth reading.
And now let's ignore Julie, as the main interest here is the indifference of Stonewall, a supposed equalities group, to equality for transsexual people. Some, evidently, are more equal than others.
Very good- Dru!
ReplyDeleteShe's just like a royal- continues to believe she's right and refuses to see the truth.
I expect you're too busy but you're creative skills could be put to good use at the demo.
I couldn't agree more. The issue is with Stonewall. Sadly, there are those who don't seem to understand that. By focussing their fire on Bindel they are marginalising and simply personalising a much larger and more important issue. Thus allowing Bindel to retreat behind accusations of personal attacks on her, with repetitions of her position on this issue (wrapped up as a willingness to 'talk'...but actually a willingness by her to 'restate'), whilst Stonewall can walk away saying it's really about us and her...
ReplyDeleteAh, the "mighty" just fell here, let's hope they fall there too.
ReplyDeleteIgnoring her is the right thing to do. People like that always seem to want the air-space. Don't give her any.
Equal rights for ALL women. Anything less than that is purely ignorant and against the interests of all of us.