The Guardian... Blind Date 23 November

I read that item this weekend and had a good stare at the photos - it was obvious to me that one of the participants was a transwoman but as the article didn't make any mention of it I assumed the woman was aware. That is shocking that she wasn't told.

Jesus fucking Christ this is an absolutely horrible thing to do! Every day I think surely there can’t be any more fuckery to come but there always is. Poor anna - to be put in a situation of a date with a bio Male knowing the moment you arrived the guardian had fucked you over and then having to make nice all the while knowing it would appear in the paper. The absolute cunts!!!

Common or garden variety homophobia, innit.

Next up should be a straight bloke and a transwoman.

The Guardian sent a lesbian on a blind date with a male

It smacks of enforced homosexual conversion. Do they not know what a lesbian is?

Also, fell down a bit of a rabbit hole reading the twitter feed from one of the people calling the OP a TERF: @indianblondy. It’s just.. I can’t.. even..

@NotBadConsidering The twitter thread seems like Anna was clearly not okay with it.

This reply to someone’s comment from the OP of the twitter thread, Lara Adams Miller made me

If a major publication thinks that this is okay then we are absolutely in the grip of a major mass delusion. The stunt has a sever lack of decorum and sanity. It won’t be soon enough when these publications die off.
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It’s a damn shame because The Guardian has been relatively reasonable about the gender stuff prior to now. They’re one of the few outlets that actually publishes writing about women’s concerns on this.

What else does she read that she thinks the Guardian is anywhere NEAR leading on writing stuff or reasonable about this?

Without sifting through the whole thread, has Anna expressed any opinion on it? When you sign up for it, do you specify your preferences? Does she have any concern about whether her preferences were ignored?

Maybe when you sign up for it you can tick all the gender boxes you’re interested in and maybe Anna describes themselves in a different way to lesbian, one of those new woke terms 23 year olds are prone to.

Just want to be sure what we are dealing with.

Reading the Twitter comments, several asking why they chose a woman for this and how despicable The Guardian is.

Incidentally, I know of a single mother who was raped and strangled on a blind date. Chilling.

How utterly deceitful and disrespectful towards Anna.

Horrific. Unbelievably disrespectful to play games with that woman.

Like a tweeter says, only women are expected to react nicely to being treated that way.