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James O’Brien - ‘I categorically wouldn’t fancy a woman with a penis' **title edited by MNHQ**

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EweSurname · 08/06/2019 08:12

Brave listener Juliet went on James’ show and talked about the cotton ceiling, the pressure on lesbians to give up their boundaries and the male violence that accompanies all of this.

During the discussion, James said he wouldn’t fancy a woman with a penis and thought it was unbelievable (though he believed her) that women would get shit for feeling the same.

Worth a listen here:

soundcloud.com/user-133591815/james-obrien-lbc-juliet

(courtesy of Jack Appleby mobile.twitter.com/jackappleby/status/1137033071222493184 )

Interestingly, James has yet to be inundated with accusations of being a terf, nazi or literal killer of trans people Hmm

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MiffysMissingSock · 08/06/2019 08:34

Lol though this was about some sort of 1900's misogynistic thing about men not fancying clever women!

Good for Juliet!

Trousering · 08/06/2019 08:33

He's not talking about a woman with a penis though is he? He's talking about not fancying a man with breasts. Which is not really surprising for a hetero man. Is it expected that a pair of breasts is all it takes for a straight man to become bisexual?

Bluestitch · 08/06/2019 08:30

I saw a great quote on twitter about TRAs a while ago- 'You only gave me the shirt off your back. I wanted the skin'.

For me this sums it up. Most people start out as sympathetic allies but the demands and behaviour gets more and more ridiculous and frankly unhinged that eventually they alienate them. There has been such a change in responses to articles/ tweets in recent months too, the overwhelming majority are GC now. Hopefully James has been 'peaked'.

JessicaWakefieldSV · 08/06/2019 08:22

That woman is brave for ringing in. I’m shocked James is even addressing it as his responses to women with concerns before hasn’t been great.

NewarkShark · 08/06/2019 08:20

Gosh, fair play James

Bluestitch · 08/06/2019 08:20

Interesting. He was awful on this issue last year, but I've seen he's also retweeted Helen Lewis criticism of Pink News re JB so maybe he's finally starting to get it. I did see one tweet calling him a transphobe simply for the retweet which shows just how meaningless that term has become.

Ameanstreakamilewide · 08/06/2019 08:19

And it's alright for him to say that, I've noticed.

If that was a woman who'd said it, the TRA would be calling her every name under the sun, trying to get her sacked and readying the lynch mob.

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EweSurname · 08/06/2019 08:13

FFS!!

It should say PENIS not PEN

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