Jameela Jamil comes out as queer

There is a bit of a backlash about ‘pan’ from the woke bis, so maybe the younger ones are distancing themselves from it for that reason. Apparently it’s also transphobic, as ‘if you need a different sexuality to include trans people, you’re saying you don’t really see them as their presenting gender’.

Probably safest to not be attracted to anyone - although then you’ll probably get cancelled as a gatekeeping exclusionary ace.

Sells out vulnerable women. Bullies others via name calling and cancel culture. Appropriates the struggles of actual lesbian and bisexuals.

It's called karma, Jameela.

Funny how she didn’t think Twitter was a “Hell site” when she was on the right side of Woke. Still, I’m sure she’ll be back soon, collecting those likes and retweets for validation once the backlash has died down...

Oh and an update from the back of beyond....the kids in my grandson's 6th form were all being pansexual about two years ago. Not sure what they are now, but I thought pan was old hat?

I really think there should be something like BBC weather to keep us all up to date. Tomorrow will be mostly gay, with a few drops of sense in sheltered areas

To the people who keep saying, she would have come out by now, we would know by now - some people spend a lifetime hiding their sexuality, many live in denial.

Yes, it's so brave of her to "come out" specifically for this TV opportunity.

Totally off-topic but if you want to know about the story of voguing, watch Pose on BBC iPlayer.

Or is she saying 'no one knew I was queer when they asked me to do this show, but it's OK because I happen queer anyway so nothing to see here'?

To the people who keep saying, she would have come out by now, we would know by now - some people spend a lifetime hiding their sexuality, many live in denial. So for some they never come out as openly LGBT+.

But the thing is, is JJ claiming that she was picked for this role because she is 'queer' then? So the producers knew she was always a 'legitimate' choice because of her queer status, and she was planning to keep her queer status secret, but hadn't anticipated a backlash (despite always being at the forefront of these sorts of backslashes herself) and has now been 'forced to come out'?

It doesn't make any sense?

She hasn’t exactly been a shrinking violet about the subject - and it’s not like she’s in 1950s America and admitting to having been a member of the community’s party...

Well she "came out" as daft some time ago.

To the people who keep saying, she would have come out by now, we would know by now - some people spend a lifetime hiding their sexuality, many live in denial. So for some they never come out as openly LGBT+.

If she were really bi, though, I’d understand why she’d pick ‘queer’ rather than being more specific. The woke scolds (love that term, btw) have always seemed deeply uncomfortable with bisexuality.

Bisexuality is over though, isn’t it? You can’t say you’re bisexual. It’s transphobic. Everyone is pan nowadays. You need to make it clear that you’re willing to fuck absolutely anyone (even if you really wouldn’t).

So lots of us (including me) are LGB but not queer, and people who are heterosexual can say they are queer. Another example of words not meaning anything.

Yeah I think if she was actually 'queer' we would know about it by now too. The timing of this is just too ridiculous. Obviously her private life and relationships are hers, but up until now she has never even given a hint that she is anything other than just a bog standard straight female. And if she means she is 'bisexual' because she has had some sort of sexual feelings towards another woman at some point, or did bits with another girl at school or something, then fuck it I'm bisexual too as are probably most women.

I'm officially coming out as queer!

And yes, maybe I'm not being very kind, but this is a woman who is happy to throw women's rights under the bus and enforce ridiculous damaging stereotypes because she thinks it makes her look good, so yes, I will call her out as I see fit.

The hypocrisy is breathtaking as well.

The people who are horrified that JJ (pre 'coming out' ) was taking the place of a LGBTQ+ person on a TV show are exactly the same people who think that it's absolutely fine for a man to claim he is a woman and then use women's vulnerable spaces, be given awards designed for women, take roles designed for women, and what's more they believe that if women dare to object to this they are bigots.

The whole thing makes no sense and will come crashing down pretty soon.

One of the replies to her tweet basically says 'being woke as hell doesn't put you anywhere on the LGBQT spectrum' which I think nails it.

If she is queer (not a fan of that term but I’m old) I’m sure she would have informed us by now. She just wanted to win one of her tiresome twitter arguments.

It is quite possibly that, ie just a meaningless in-group signal.

If she were really bi, though, I’d understand why she’d pick ‘queer’ rather than being more specific. The woke scolds (love that term, btw) have always seemed deeply uncomfortable with bisexuality.

Don't be so mean. She has a career to think about here. It's a competitive industry. How else does she make sure she has an edge when last weeks next big thing is this weeks talentless has been?

I think ‘queer’ and ‘pan’ and ‘non binary’ and all that means ‘I’m not boring like my mum’.

Tolerable from the mouths of daft teenagers who need to distance themselves from parental figures on their route to their own identity in adulthood. Ludicrous from actual adults.

It’s hard not to see her ‘coming out’ as an attempt at building a shield against the wokescolds. Not that ‘queer’ means anything in particular anyway.

It reminds me of that episode of Sex and the City when Charlotte meets a bunch of ‘power lesbians’

‘Before we all get on a plane together, there is something I think everyone wants to know... are you gay?’

‘No. No I’m not, but I do so enjoy the company of all these women. Everyone’s so smart and funny and I’ve been spending way too much time and attention on men. It feels like such a safe and warm environment, and while sexually, I feel like I am straight, there is a very powerful part of me that connects to the female spirit’

‘Sweetheart, that’s all very nice, but if you aren’t going to eat pussy, you’re not a dyke.’

m.youtube.com/watch?v=bHBjjIC9Eq0

I think it means she's maybe bisexual, though I'm not aware of her ever having a relationship with a woman and she probably never has and possibly never will. I think it is to make her woke and interesting and as a response to the criticism around this programme.

I see her a lot on Twitter and she definitely pushes the wokeness too far.

'formally'

Well done, dear.

Yes I agree ChattyLion. Doesn't mean some women aren't dicks though. But still, the misogyny is always there.

I dunno, the timing reminds me a bit of when Kevin Spacey came out as gay (except KS is an abhorrent person and JJ is not).

Like... why now? Just seems like deflection.