AIBU to find the comedian Katherine Ryan's turn to the right surprising?

People making these comments about Andrew T or other manosphere "personalities" don't understand something very basic about extremism which is that they always pad out their total bigotry with reasonable plausible points which most people would agree with. It's deliberate and helps them gain followers and be more palatable to a wider audience. It doesn't mean their main arguments are any less abhorrent. You could think of it like how abusive men are often charming and have good points early on before they start exposing their hatred and violence, no-one would ever get into a relationship with them in the first place if they led with the horrendous behaviour.
Re. KR and childcare. I think Bobby does a lot, it's not fair to say that she does the vast majority although I'm sure she does far more than your average male comedian with a stay at home partner.

She’s a comedian/celebrity nothing she says should be taken seriously.

I have no idea who the man is, but do conspiracy theorists ever actually refer to themselves as "conspiracy theorists"? To me, that suggests he may be saying this stuff for publicity.

OP what is so bad about Jordan Peterson?

Why do you think she has to like all the same things you do in order to be acceptable to you?

I couldn’t agree with this more. I personally don’t have to be completely aligned with someone to like them. I find this approach baffling.

She's not remotely right wing!

She's famous for jumping on every far left bandwagon - she once did a video talking about trans rights against the far right

Having never heard Ryan or Tate, I cannot comment. But - everyone makes some good points right?

You don’t need to have listened to the podcast, the op states she “does the vast majority of the childcare” but your post said it was ok for her to do a bit whilst he did a hobby.

I used to love her, saw lots of her shows and enjoyed her podcast but she did seem to change her attitude / personality at some point. I remember her ranting about the NHS and her local gp, and I thought ooh this isn’t hitting right. Maybe a bit tone deaf to complain about the NHS when you’re a rich celeb born in Canada? She’s grated on me ever since and watching her slide more to the right hasn’t been a big surprise.

I agree with MyFunSloth

I think often she is being provocative and she holds back as pp mentioned and when she doesn't she is at her funniest

I am so bored with the mainly white male middle class comedians who love nothing better than to mock those who do not share the same political beliefs especially when directed at working class people, the mocking is far more rooted in class snobbery than their political beliefs. Its just tiresome

Anyway I liked her until she slagged off bread a few years ago. Not on.

I agree on the whole but going from self-proclaimed feminist to saying Andrew Tate makes some good points is really something else.

Got it. I was going on the information in the OP and hadn't realised I needed to listen to a podcast to comment on the OP! I will not make that mistake again.

This. She's one of those people a colleague of mine describes as "all confidence and no capacity".

I used to really enjoy her podcasts and liked her content about birth and pregnancy but I've found lately a lot of her stuff gets my back up. Quite a lot of complaining about things on luxury holidays not being quite right, even that a trip was going to be cancelled because of the situation in the Middle East. She does often acknowledge her privilege and that there are people really suffering and her complaints don't really matter but it still grates. She still seems to believe she's pretty grounded and remembers what it's like to struggle financially etc but I think she's getting more and more out of touch. Perhaps that's inevitable when you live that kind of lifestyle.
I also find her attitude towards beauty and aging and cosmetic surgery is at odds with my own values. She talks about the pressures on women and girls to look a certain way and is in theory critical of this but I don't understand how she can fail to see that she's at least complicit in this system. I would say she's actually actively contributing to such pressures, as an influential figure.
Her husband does chat some absolute shit but she often disagrees with him. I suppose you could say she's giving a platform to his conspiracy theory bollocks.
In the end she's free to do and say whatever she likes and she does and goes ahead and she's things which might be seen as controversial. I haven't minded that in the past but I can feel myself just turning off now.
Wouldn't announce this on any of her channels as I think she's just not for me anymore but it's interesting to talk about it here as no-one in my life cares!

She is just not funny like lots of other alleged "comedians" who have now taken up other occupations

Ive found from interviews I’ve seen that she’s judgemental of anyone who parents in a different way to her, and she puts it in such language that makes it sound like everyone else is unreasonable. The elimination communication is one thing, but she was talking about bed sharing with babies and kept putting it in direct contrast with putting a baby in a different room down the hall. I was thinking that’s a lazy straw man argument.

I think what's unreasonable is to reduce the entirety of political opinion to the notion of which door pre revolutionary France politicians walked through.

It's more omnicause nonsense, the idea that if I know your opinion on say assisted dying, I know your opinion on Israel, it's bizarre and unhelpful and the worst part about tribalism.

If we agreed with one person everything, it would be pretty boring, embrace nuance, great teas, and differences of opinion. It's people not talking in the open that lead, post Brexit, to people saying "I didn't know anyone who voted stay/leave".

I get very bad vibes about Bobby. When they reconnected she was doing well in her career and he saw a meal ticket.

I think she's twisting herself inside out to keep hold of the husband. She's had a recent facelift and is wearing underwear in public and aligning her views with his. He's absolutely no prize, so I've no idea why she's doing it but she's in a trad-wife journey sadly.

Exactly this.

I am not a fan of holding others to such extreme expectations that must align with someone’s version of being perfectly “left or a far right extremist”.

Do you actually listen to the podcasts?

She didn't wholly defend the manosphere, largely stating that some of them had a point, they just conveyed it in a really bad way (that men have lost the ability to provide for their women, as one example)
I was a bit shocked that she didnt completely condemn it though.

Equally her husband is not necessarily a conspiracy theorist, the convo was around if we managed to land on the moon 50+ years ago with old technology, why is so much fuss being made about us flying passed it now, in the modern day, and that it will play in to the fact that we never actually landed...

I'm really bad at putting things in to words 😂

I love her era of comedians, but then i am fairly right wing anyway

I used to find her very funny, very aware and astute.

Since she’s got married and had more children I find her a bit of a bore.

I also think she talks (now) from a place of privilege. It’s very easy to say women should leave their husbands if they cheat or are not in the best relationships. But that’s easy to say when you’re rich, can afford childcare on tap and have a huge house. We’re not all that strong or can afford it.