To the chorus of women's voices accusing him of selling them out. By patronising them, reiterating the message that they need to #BeKind, and to admonish them to be quiet and listen whilst the men are talking.
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Tweet #5 is particularly tone deaf:
To the cis women who feel betrayed by the Guardian's coverage of trans issues: I'm genuinely saddened to have lost you as everyone working here wants to fight misogyny, sexism and patriarchal power/bullshit. (5/10)
The responses to that one are golden. I liked that Jane Clare Jones points out the distinction he's missing: biology is the basis of women's oppression and gender is the system through which they are oppressed. No woman 'identifies' with her own oppression. Ergo no woman is 'cis'.
Even more entertaining is the fact that he's seemingly missed the bullseye with his target readership. Comments from trans women on that thread suggest that even when a publication is toeing their party line more or less to the letter, when a political potato is as hot as this they'll leap for the jugular if they perceive so much as one letter out of place. You'd think that would tell them something ...
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MarieIVanArkleStinks · 17/07/2020 10:39
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