Jameela and Josie backing away

I think Jameela's background does matter. She went to an extremely exclusive girls private school in central London. (Posh exclusive, rather than academically selective.)

There is something about the privileged lecturing us ordinary plebs about acceptance etc, when we know full well they are never to end up sharing a prison cell or a women's refuge with a self identifying transwoman.

So she’s not an actual feminist then?

Deborah Frances-White is a comedian who runs the guilty feminist podcast, which has been running for a good few years and has many notable and/or famous women speakers, and also some men who think they have lady brains, which was totally acceptable to her. The cognitive dissonance is shocking. She has trans friends and so can't even think about the likelihood of being wrong. However... she is.

I've mentioned before, I used to be big fan of Josie Long (she was a sort of scrappy indie comedian but has had lots of success in London etc), had supported her (going to all her shows etc) since very early on. Friends of friends are in her 'circle' etc. She had a great mix of childish humour with trying to genuinely be nice, promote mental health etc. Kids came along so I lost touch. Last time I went to one of her gigs Grace Petrie was supporting and no offence to Grace as a person but I find her music absolutely dire and I felt claustrophobic having to listen to it when I'd come to watch a comedy gig.

Anyway I was obviously disappointed to see how anti-women she'd become, or at least very uncritical with her trying to 'include' everyone. Surely any org such as Mermaids set up to work with extremely vulnerable children needs to be held to the highest standards so it's a bit gross to dismiss all criticism of how they operate (may I remind you, one of Mermaids took a trans woman to court to sue them, and it was thrown out, and the Mermaids person did not come off as particularly kind, inclusive or supportive with her comments) as bigoted.

So, now, I'm very interested as to whether she's changed her stance on Mermaids, and if so, why.

Jameela's on another level though!
I found it hilarious in that tweet in Kantastic's post she responds to Danielle Muscato's assertion that "If you think I am less of a woman because I don't fit your mental picture of what a woman "should" looks like you're a bigot"(paraphrased) with "Danielle is a woman, and this is a very old photo of her by the way... she looks nothing like this."

Facepalm because Danielle's whole point is it doesn't matter what Danielle looks like, yet Jameela's desperate to focus on exactly that!

Suicide hyperbole ahoy.

I tried to archive the Mermaids feature on iweigh, but it's covered up by that pop-up note you get when you first visit the site. Here are some screenshots

Who is she (too hot and lazy to duckduckgo her).

Deborah Frances-White has definitely lived up to her "Guilty Feminist" name. I couldn't listen to that podcast after they went all TWAW, it negated anything good or funny that they said.

I always for the impression she was more ‘girls need to not be bullied by the beauty industry - take ME for example, I’m gorgeous, tall, fabulous...’.

However she backs people changing their bodies with medication and surgery though doesn’t she - if they feel that they are in the ‘wrong’ body - so how does she square that particular circle?

oh Shortcuts thats currently running second after The Listening Project in my most hated radio programme category. Third is You and Yours legazised moaning....

Yes, Jameela created iweigh. She's done a lot to fight the unhealthy diet drinks industry and the harm they do to women and girls. Despite her concerns however, she tore shreds out of Abigail Shrier for using her 'privilege' in such a bigoted way when she spoke to Joe Rogan and published Irreversible Damage. She has no qualms at all about the damage being done by an affirmation only approach that can involve drugs which cause lifelong problems I guess she's just selecting which girls to worry about- and ignoring any that compromise her gender ideologies.

I got annoyed with Josie Long when she 'presented' a radio programme called 'Shortcuts' in her breathy, be kind voice. The programme absolutely epitomised 'Woke' - all style over substance and very few of the contributors had anythng real to say. There was also rather an over representation of trans voices.

Jameela Jamil created and runs iweigh, @SerenityNowwwww!

I feel a bit sorry for Josie Long.

I used to listen to Book Shambles with her and Robin Ince, but it grates on me as for all she likes to aspire to being a vocal feminist and he likes to make himself out to be such a supporter of women there was a clear difference when he spoke to (or over) JL than when he chatted with male guests. And JL seemed to accept this as if this was the natural order of things. It all felt a bit like “run, Josie! Get away while you can!”

Is have loved her to say “just shut up Robin and let me tell it”.

Who runs Iweigh?

Oooh you can have it! Never been quoted before (in a good way!)

Full page on her iweigh website detailing Mermaids "great work". She's going to have to try harder to erase this stuff! Quick Google and it's all there. I'm not saying "be nice" I'm just saying we don't have to say a lot, just air the facts, as she's hung herself out to dry.

ooh that mermaids link is handy to identify the cimminal!

I conclude I AM a mean girl... Josie Long's voice is enough to make me want her cancelled beathy little girlish I'm a lovely nice kind person voice no Feffin not! No forgiveness. And please if the Fringe comes back stay away from Edinburgh.

Did I imagine it or have Harry and Meghan backed away from Mermaids too ?