Baroness Nicholson 'cancelled' by Booker board

Sorry .. I did skim RTFT but I couldn't see it.

What would be the best way to contact the Booker prize?

So can we make a list for DB of prominent and currently serving MPs, Lords and people in public life that DB wants to retrospectively punish and have censured for voting against same sex marriage seven years ago? or for their actions over section 28 and its reforms?
I suspect it will be a fair list for him to get through, and wonder whether he will attack the task with the same zeal as he showed in his enthusiasm for having the Baroness smeared and 'cancelled

Oh my gosh, Amar's story.
A scarred war orphan, who was rescued as far as any human can rescue another, and who finally got to meet his mother and brother again.

My God. The world is full of unimaginable suffering. And people who actually help. Some people do make the world a better place.

Both DB and Munroe Bergdorf will have semis from the drama, and will be secretly or outwardly titillated by the fact that they had enough friends in high places to rally around for this woman to be ousted. This is about them and their power, profile and careers, not about the issue itself.

This. 99% of the TA/Genderist stuff is a power play.

RoseOfDawn has an interesting youtube vid about MB and their modus operandi...

I'm sure stonewall were opposed to, or ambivalent, towards gay marriage 10 years ago. So was Barack Obama. And so was
Hillary Clinton initially.

Douglas Murray writes about this in the Madness of Crowds and Nicky Morgan's
U - turn on it

You can take a screenshot, Lamahaha, and then upload it like a photo. How you do that depends what device you're on.

Take a screenshot and attach it into a post?

How does one get the image of a tweet from twitter, to post here? Sorry, I'm a tech dinosaur but always willing to learn.

Rogdmum. Another sniveller.

Or have a mother or mother in law (or even aunties or granny). Or female friends or acquaintances...

I had never heard of the Baroness before she said things about gender. Now I follow her on Twitter.

The same may apply to many people like me, especially since her “sacking” made the papers.

I say it again but this whole thing is about power not about change.

Both DB and Munroe Bergdorf will have semis from the drama, and will be secretly or outwardly titillated by the fact that they had enough friends in high places to rally around for this woman to be ousted. This is about them and their power, profile and careers, not about the issue itself.

[quote rogdmum]Has anyone posted this? Not directly relevant but someone on Twitter dug it up and I remember the story when it happened- just hadn’t connected the Baroness of today to it!

www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/WkiLgbPpdd/boy-in-the-photo[/quote]
So very moving! Thanks for posting this.

I see Disgusted of Manchester got the memo about claiming "nobody has ever said sex isn't real".

(The Times article, I mean)

I can see Fox is going nuts about this on twitter. Apparently The Times got the pronouns wrong. Jolyon is upset too (natch)

Well thank you rogdmum, I’m sat here snivelling like a right idiot. 😢

with no regard for distress caused to individuals or disrepute brought on an institution

And there you go. That view from Sarah P summarises all that is wrong with current culture. It is not what you say that matters, but how it makes people feel. It doesn't matter how your express your view, what reasons you have for your view, what evidence you have for your view, what dictates whether you should speak is how it may make someone feel.
(unless the person with feelings is a woman, in which case carry on saying what you like).

Has anyone posted this? Not directly relevant but someone on Twitter dug it up and I remember the story when it happened- just hadn’t connected the Baroness of today to it!

www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/WkiLgbPpdd/boy-in-the-photo

Dawkins probably wouldn't care too much about the women's rights angle, but he's a free speech proponent, isn't he?

Some of the "hate speech" / "no crime hate crime" stuff is dangerously close to heresy and blasphemy laws of old.

Also I would've thought he would care about children being told they were born in the wrong body, just because they play with the wrong toys, or have a feeling in their head, and need life long medication and surgery to "fix" it.

Twitter thread by author Jane Harris, one of the few non-big-name writers speaking up, about Booker trustees who have NOT been cancelled in spite of "problematic" opinions.

twitter.com/blablafishcakes/status/1276123610101538816

(Interestingly, the TRAs don't seem to have edited the wikipedia page on anisogamy yet... still give it time. The day is young.)

I wasnt sure if he's already dipped his toe in, why one earth would he not say something.

I'm steadily get more and more pissed off by scientist who have a strong platform not saying anything - if he came out in support of biological reality then he would give shelter for 100's of scientists to be able to publish and critically think publicly.

The Times article is very good. I also saw a sympathetic tweet from David Aaronovitch this morning - Times writers seem generally to be more switched on than those of other newspapers.

Dawkins knows gender ideology is nonsense. I think he's probably been wary of speaking out in the past. It's probably bad enough receiving hate mail for expressing atheist views, without receiving hate for not subscribing to gender ideology.