Did anyone see the ITV News piece about of water bills on customers?

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https://twitter.com/PaulEmbery/status/1674332639921045505

Yes this is the feminism board. Paul Embery clipped it but I wonder if anyone saw it in full? He says the piece was about the impact of soaring water bills on an everyday mother. The voiceover calls the person a customer but the customer calls themself a mum. On the Twitter thread someone points out that the customer works for the TUC and is an economist who has been published in the Guardian. I think it’s fair to say the customer is neither a mother nor an ‘everyday’ one.

Thread title is missing the word impact 😳

Here's the whole thing:

www.itv.com/news/2023-06-28/thames-water-customers-reassured-they-wont-lose-supply-if-company-collapses

Completely neutral report with talking heads, politicians etc. and then suddenly Mika is on at 2.40.

Mika is smiling while describing how difficult things are. Is also washing up a breast pump. Gaslighting a child and a woman

Bloody disgraceful. I'm absolutely sick of the gaslighting.

I didn't read that individual as a female.

The stereotypical washing up & loading the dish washer is insulting if anyone thinks that's what being a woman is....

Exuding “trans joy” though, which is an odd thing to exude when talking about the impact of water bills on the household.

The Gender Recognition Act says;

''12 Parenthood
The fact that a person’s gender has become the acquired gender under this Act does not affect the status of the person as the father or mother of a child.''
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2004/7/section/12

Is also washing up a breast pump.

I missed that 😡

In plain sight

The breast pump isn't in the wide shot but appears in close up so put there very deliberately

I couldn't believe what I was seeing. Describing self as 'mum'? Works for the TUC on 'climate and industry'? Surely, there ought to have been some detail about the latter's job even if we weren't supposed to notice that the person wasn't a 'mum'? How are we supposed to give credence to news reports like this?

They also seem to have been an interviewee/talking head on energy and rising costs in the past. Not just a random person.

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Weird, it's smallened the link to one wee 's'. It's a youtube clip of Mika talking about 'ladies and gentlemen' and how sometimes he's offended by being called a 'lady' and sometimes not.

Good responce by Rosie Duffield

https://twitter.com/RosieDuffield1/status/1674349733484150784

Also how is 'Climate & Industry Lead TUC', presumably on a decent wage,

'struggling to get the things my kid needs'?

https://uk.linkedin.com/in/mika-minio-paluello-76041b21b

Not only cosplaying women ... cosplaying poverty fucking hell

There's a thread on AIBU!

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4838112-to-think-men-can-never-be-mothers

MN had a look at it and, presumably, it passed.....unlike.....

Thanks for this thread.

I walked back into the room as this bit of the news report was playing and wondered wtf was going on!

I wonder how many people watching the report in full stopped listening to what was being said as they started wondering if the channel had spliced in a bit of film from some comedy.

Funny - NOT funny.

@TeaKlaxon I get what you’re saying. I think the anger is that ‘Mum’ is not a neutral term. Women all know the emotional load that comes with being a mother. We know that reducing water used in domestic chores will usually be a woman’s issue. So it’s quite insulting to have a person with a totally different lived experience being given a chance to talk on behalf of mothers.

Or you could stop policing how other families refer to themselves?

No man can be a mother.