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Channel 4 appoints a new advisor on inclusion

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BarrackerBarmer · 09/08/2018 13:20

www.channel4.com/info/press/news/channel-4-appoints-sue-pascoe-as-advisor-on-inclusion-x

Sue Pascoe, who 4 years ago was Graham, and who said "that while a man, he was the embodiment of the all-action, red-bloodied alpha male."
Of course, by 2015, this evolved to "'It's funny, I'm 55, I am very hormonal, I am going through puberty again which means that I am just getting to my teenage girl years - so watch out world."

Perhaps those teenage girl years have been outgrown now that Pascoe is 58. Here's hoping.

I'm not convinced this will result in a better proportion of those of us who are female being represented though.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3163747/Master-Hunt-woman-age-54-marks-day-man-going-bowling-enjoying-burger-sons.html

Wouldn't it be nice if some of the recent 'inclusivity' appointments actually included women? By which I mean, the old fashioned ACTUALLY underrepresented, female type human.

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SlothSlothSloth · 09/08/2018 16:06

Wonder if Pascoe is still into guns and foxhunting now they're a woman. Some pomo liberal handmaidens' heads are about to explode.

You would hope, but no, most will excuse literally anything if a TW does it.

JuneOsbourne · 09/08/2018 16:04

Wonder if Pascoe is still into guns and foxhunting now they're a woman. Some pomo liberal handmaidens' heads are about to explode.

SlothSlothSloth · 09/08/2018 16:03

Sue Pascoe, a middle-aged white man from a wealthy background, a highly-paid career, a former Master of Foxhounds and an active member of the Conservative Party, has been appointed by Channel 4 as an inclusion adviser.

Honestly how can ANYONE not see what cases like this really are? It’s baffling. Almost no one I know in real life would ever acknowledge that this person is anything other than stunning and brave and a great person for the job of inclusion advisor. Could it be that we are the crazy ones?

placemats · 09/08/2018 16:03

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Datun · 09/08/2018 16:02

So, just to recap: Sue Pascoe, a middle-aged white man from a wealthy background, a highly-paid career, a former Master of Foxhounds and an active member of the Conservative Party, has been appointed by Channel 4 as an inclusion adviser.

They are seriously taking the piss, aren't they?

It's fucking unbelievable, isn't it!!!!

And don't forget, they now feel like a giddy teenage girl.

Datun · 09/08/2018 16:01

Why is this thread turning to Swiss cheese?

Threads about AGP are being pounced on by TRAs.

Wasn't Jess Bradley's organisation, ATH, also meeting at MESMAC? And wasn't that the place where the coathooks in the foyer were in the shape of penises? And where young men who had been sexually abused were offered therapy? ( I believe that was all reported at the time).

Isn't that just what you'd want to see as you hung up your coat?

Ffs.

TheMostBeautifulDogInTheWorld · 09/08/2018 16:00

I was a bit puzzled by Channel 4's description of Mesmac as a charity in the North East, when it's in Yorkshire.

The conspiracy theorist in me says it's because the inclusion people at Channel 4 thought they could get away with hiding it because mumsnet posters would be too thick to use Google or Twitter ….

SlothSlothSloth · 09/08/2018 16:00

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IDontEatFriedTurtle · 09/08/2018 15:54

Do they get to check two boxes on their diversity checklist when they hire a TW, is that what this is about?

We've hired a woman, yep, ooh and LGBT.. oh and look she ain't taking maternity is she!

hackmum · 09/08/2018 15:54

When I asked the question, I was guessing it was Mesmac but wasn't sure.

Melamin: from a Times article:

A charity dealing with abuse survivors and promoting gay sexual health faces claims of sexual misconduct in the first recent charity sex scandal where the alleged victims are in the UK.

Leeds city council said it has referred two complaints about the Yorkshire-based organisation Men who Enjoy Sex With Men — Action in the Community (Yorkshire Mesmac) to police.

The Charity Commission also said it was in “ongoing engagement” with Mesmac, which has received more than £5m from councils, government and the police. The commission said it had “serious concern” after one of Mesmac’s former trustees was jailed for child sex offences committed during his time in post, including paying a boy, 15, for sex.

Brian Mynott, a Yorkshire-based therapist who works with abused young…

(That's as much as I can read without a subscription.)

R0wantrees · 09/08/2018 15:54

cross posts!

Yorkshire MESMAC twitter describes itself, "Yorkshire's largest LGBT+ Sexual and Mental Health charity" so it came up in my search.

placemats · 09/08/2018 15:53

Trans women are by definition male then, according to this.

It can't be denied that this person was by their own definition, an alpha male. Now this person has transitioned into a trans woman.

IDontEatFriedTurtle · 09/08/2018 15:52

'It's funny, I'm 55, I am very hormonal, I am going through puberty again which means that I am just getting to my teenage girl years - so watch out world."

Eww it's always about acting like a teen girl isnt

TheMostBeautifulDogInTheWorld · 09/08/2018 15:52

Melamin there's a short thread here www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3184557-UK-childrens-charity-investigated-for-child-abuse but with quite a lot of information about the scandals.

LangCleg · 09/08/2018 15:49

Why is this thread turning to Swiss cheese?

Melamin · 09/08/2018 15:47

Is there a thread anywhere about MESMAC - it keeps coming up in the conversation.

SlothSlothSloth · 09/08/2018 15:46

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placemats · 09/08/2018 15:45

This from the Times.

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/abuse-survivors-charity-yorkshire-mesmac-hit-by-sex-scandal-xbqb3hqbv

I don't have a share token but the introduction is fairly explanatory.

SlothSlothSloth · 09/08/2018 15:44

"But in my 50s, once my children had grown up, I felt I had to explore my feminine side again“

It’s so obviously a classic mid-life crisis in these older transbian cases. On an individual level that’s fine, do what you need to do to be happy, provided harm to others is minimised. But we should not as a society be celebrating totally bog-standard male mid-life crises.

Pythagonal · 09/08/2018 15:43

Beautiful Dog even if she hasn't found her way here, I really hope that she has plenty of support.

TheMostBeautifulDogInTheWorld · 09/08/2018 15:41

MESMAC? Again??

Uncanny, isn't it.