Jameela Jamil being iconic

She was awful on the Radio 1 chart show, which we used to listen to as a family because we liked Reggie and Fern. She always struck me as a fairly typical product of small central London girls private schools, in her case Queens College. Lots of confidence and entitlement without that much to justify it.

I love The Good Place but I realised after joining Twitter she is pretty much playing herself.

I enjoyed her in The Good Place, then found out about her work for "body neutrality" - I think that's the term she used, and I support that and think it's great. I discovered that we share a medical condition, so I was quite a fan of hers. Then I read her tweets. "We don't say "blind spot" anymore darlings. It's ableist" was the nail in the coffin for my love affair with Jameela.

She's an idiot.

Feminism is for biological females only. The clue is in the name FEMinism.

Dear Jameela

Feminism is not a brand you can use to promote your social media profile.

HTH

Lang

(Sick to the back teeth of virtue signalling twits whose analysis is a mile wide and an inch deep.)

I think there's a typo. You did mean 'ironic'? She's become a real disappointment hasn't she? She was doing some great things on body positivity and then went off the rails on the trans stuff. I think Los Angeles has got to her & now it's all about followers and being an influencer and jumping on whatever seems to get attention. There's nothing like attacking other people to get that. Hence her going for Kardashian, Piers Morgan, etc, both of whom I have no time for but I've got better things to do than bother tweeting them. All the woke points building up for the next career move but it's got nothing to do with feminism.

Wonder if being a full-time feminist activist out trumps the 'Uber feminist' that Baroness Featherstone claims to be, while throwing women under the bus, something Jamelia does rather well too.

The self-styled 'Full-time feminist activist' equals the new 'does a lotta work for charidee' Smashy and Nicey tokenism.

I am a full time feminist activist.

How does one get a job like this? I'd like to apply.

JJ has absolutely no idea.

I see Jameela has been misgendering people on twitter by calling them "cis". She needs to denounce herself and report for re-education, stat, as we all know that's the Worst Crime In The Universe.

She comes across as being awfully similar to her Good Place character - Tahani raises lots of cash for right-on causes motivated by jealousy and hatred of her more talented sister.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=jtK0oH2B6aI

Who is she?
Is she American?

I really like her but don’t agree with everything she says. I love the shit she gives the Kardashian clan. As though they need the bloody cash and yet they still peddle laxative coffee.

Also OP I think your thread title has a typo, you should contact MNHQ and ask them to change "iconic" to "a tedious wokescold."

I started off liking her body positive stance. Then I saw the TWAW stuff and thought she was possibly sweet but just a bit dim.

And now she's gone full on hectoring handmaiden. It's a shame.

It's fucking fascinating IMO. After she started doing the body positivity stuff (which I liked too) she got jumped on by TRAs again and again for very minor, possibly invented on the spot infractions of wokeness.

And every time she issued a grovelling "I will learn and do better" type apology.

Someone who studies cult indoctrination should download her whole Twitter, because I think it could be an invaluable real-time record of brainwashing.

She started off caring about women and standing up for women, and that made her a target. She kept getting piled on and publically shamed, and now she doesn't care if she hurts and offends women (as the cervical cancer stuff shows) and is very careful at all times to prioritise transwomen's egos over women's wellbeing and safety.

I think this process has happened to a lot of women who are publically feminist - the Sady Doyle thread started me thinking about it. It's really sad.

Oh, you're totally right it is Ash Sakar

That's not her with the Marx t-shirt, I'm pretty sure it's Ash Sarkar (she wore it on Newsnight or similar this week).

Ash is cut from similar cloth though - she is the one who 'proved' that Julie Bindel did not care about women in prison by typing certain words into twitter. Yep, that's the Julie Bindel who set up Justice for Women the year before Ash was even born! 😂

We will get to a stage pretty soon where companies will prefer to hire trans women rather than born women (or pre-op trans men) to fulfil gender quotas because they are sterile and so can’t take up expensive maternity leave etc.

scratch the surface and all you get is more surface.

Brilliant. And also, is making me itch.

Yes, and selling t-shirts saying Marx makes her a Marxist, obvs.

Meh, had to google, found she’s about to present some comedy quiz show here (USA). Meh, just another woke celeb who thinks mouthing a few snappy soundbites makes her an activist and absolves her of the need to think. Much of celeb activism is like the ideologies they espouse: skin deep, scratch the surface and all you get is more surface.

"Interrupt" and "iconic" both seem to have had the Alanis Morissette what do words mean "ironic" overhaul.

What does "interrupting our cause" mean? Is this some new meaning of the word "interrupt" that no one's told me about?