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The Guardian... Blind Date 23 November

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Backinthecloset123 · 26/11/2019 04:10

I post this aware that I might get a warning.

However!

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/nov/23/blind-date-jen-anna-glasses-fog-up

The woman, a lesbian, Anna (and the Guardian readership) did not reveal that Jen is a trans woman.

The whole thing is gaslighting.
And I may be deleted for that sentence.
There is a good thread on Twitter which I'll link.

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Needmoresleep · 29/11/2019 11:41

Blush have reported

LordProfFekkoThePenguinPhD · 29/11/2019 11:39

I did wonder about the connection there!

Needmoresleep · 29/11/2019 11:38

Sorry, meant to post on the Nicola Sturgeon thread.

Needmoresleep · 29/11/2019 11:36

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Needmoresleep · 29/11/2019 11:24

With lots of research money to look into important things like male pregnancy.

Needmoresleep · 29/11/2019 11:23

No a Professor...Sheffield.

TheNameGames · 29/11/2019 11:15

Erm... I always thought this Sally Hines was just someone semi famous amongst MNers for tweeting about MN. You mean to tell me she is a university lecturer??

youllhavehadyourtea · 28/11/2019 21:16

I think her ridiculous tweets being excused as drunken haverings is actually quite a kind response, considering.

LordProfFekkoThePenguinPhD · 28/11/2019 21:14

Yes she would.

GeordieTerf · 28/11/2019 20:52

I’m no fan of Sally, but I don’t like the constant “drunk” allegations. She wouldn’t get accused of being drunk if she wasn’t a middle age British woman.

EmpressLesbianInChair · 28/11/2019 18:07

I expect ‘fuck pig’ is another funny joke she’s sharing with her friends.

LordProfFekkoThePenguinPhD · 28/11/2019 18:06

She doesn’t seem well. Has she got no one in her life that cares enough to hide her keyboard?

Ereshkigal · 28/11/2019 18:05

Maybe "fuck pig" is a typo, and we're so bonkers she intended to type "fucking" twice?

That was my assumption.

TheCountessofFitzdotterel · 28/11/2019 18:02

Oh yes, I see it was posted at 7 past midnight so probably a typo and she was too drunk to notice.

Michelleoftheresistance · 28/11/2019 18:02

Bloody hell. Between this and Aviva I'm honestly wondering today what has happened in the places these people work, is this a city thing? Because every work place I've been in would be horrified and grabbing for disciplinary policies at high speed to try and prevent their reputation and integrity being shattered and/or trying to prevent potential legal cases against them.

I'm very grateful for it, as it reassures me that the real world is run by grown ups and standards of acceptable behaviour, professionality, customer service, that kind of thing, and that this idiocy really is limited to the very young and not properly supervised, and the completely out of touch. Society isn't changing; it's just another buzzphrase from a few who have reached a point of Ground Control to Major Tom.

RealityNotEssentialism · 28/11/2019 17:46

Leeds has got rid and she is now gracing Sheffield. Just what you’d want from a new staff member. I don’t know what is meant my fuck pig either but who knows her state of mind when she wrote it.

She didn’t inherit her dad’s talent for writing, that’s for sure.

TinselAngel · 28/11/2019 17:46

Good to see Hines bringing her usual academic gravitas to the situation.

Maybe "fuck pig" is a typo, and we're so bonkers she intended to type "fucking" twice?

TheCountessofFitzdotterel · 28/11/2019 17:28

What does Sally Hines mean by 'fuck pig'?

LordProfFekkoThePenguinPhD · 28/11/2019 17:27

Her dad wrote books you know...

ResistSexism · 28/11/2019 17:12

What a credit to Leeds University Sally Hines is Shock

Needmoresleep · 28/11/2019 14:55

Lining up Jan with another trans woman lesbian would have been interesting. Except I assume thatJan is one of those stubborn trans exclusive lesbians.

(AKA as ‘phobes perhaps?)

ArnoldWhatshisknickers · 28/11/2019 14:39

I agree with a PP, I don't want particularly want to be mentioning the blind daters by name, but this is an important precedent by The Guardian, and I don't know how else to discuss it clearly

It would, right from the start, have been easy for the Guardian to clarify their position without mentioning individuals.

All they had to do was say 'we always ensure prospective daters are free to decline all trans identifying individuals, and we make clear that trans identifying individuals can only use our service if they are honest about their sex as determined at conception and observed at birth.'

As the vast majority of the population, including trans people themselves, do not wish to date trans people, ever, this would remove any possibility of putting people in difficult situations.

ScapaFlo · 28/11/2019 14:38

Wow who is that aimed at? Late night tweeting again, I see Grin

Sexnotgender · 28/11/2019 14:24

Sally Hines has weighed in very eloquently as per usual.

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